el guincho + ruby suns

Photos by Daniel Cantó

The two dudes behind two of my favorite releases of 2008, El Guincho and The Ruby Suns are actually buddies. They've played shows together, rep each others albums and even, as I posted about earlier, cover each other. The two share many musical similarities in that they orchestrate mesmerizing songs from behind a setup of a snare, floor tom and knobs galore. But, El Guincho's Spanish heritage makes him a little more consistently upbeat, while The Ruby Suns take time to bask in the perennial sun of Auckland, New Zealand in psyched-out bliss.  

Both have been keeping busy, as El Guincho's video for "Palmitos Park" debuted yesterday on Pitchfork.TV, his stellar Alegranza! is set to be released stateside by Beggars Group on October 7th (that should be a good day for them) and he is supposedly working on another album. The Ruby Suns have recently released a cover of The Beatles "Holiday" with indie's current king shit Esau Mwamwaya and are about to go on tour with The Dodos in Europe. I just realized that there is a lone show at Seattle's very own Mars Bar on September 24th!

All appropriate mp3s and the video below:

mp3: the ruby suns ft. esau mwamwaya - "holiday" (the beatles cover)

thanks to gvb for finally getting an mp3 of this!

mp3: the ruby suns - "palmitos park" (el guincho cover)

video: el guincho - "palmitos park"