ODG167 : The Sad Bandits / Nobody Believes in Happiness Anymore

 

Cover art by Silas Plum

ODG167 : The Sad Bandits / Nobody Believes in Happiness Anymore 

The Sad Bandits is a Mexican duo formed by two ex Zapatistas brothers: Emiliano and Pancho Ribero. 

'Bandits' because that's what they were for a while in their search of revolutionising their place and politics. 'Sad' because they never really succeeded and lost their faith in the today's society. 

They send a demo with 17 ideas of songs to another revolutionary American friend John Americus Witt (see particularly his political gesture in his fabulous Pangloss album - OUW012) who added some textures. 
John then emailed the files to Alinovsky who was at the time recording streets noises in Mexico and who added some spices and noises. 

Nobody Believes in Happiness Anymore is indeed a sad soundtrack of a drifting world...

Emiliano Ribero: everything 
Pancho Ribero: anything 
John Americus Witt: forever 
Alinovsky: whatever

Emiliano and Pancho

Digital release on the 10th of March 2023.

Track listing:

1: Emergence From The Sea

2: First Tentative Steps Upon The New Land

3: Build Build Build Build Grow Grow Grow Grow

4: The Sun Is God. The Tree Is God, The Sky Is God

5: Industry Tears Through The Land

6: The Golden Age Rises

7: Machines Begin to Speak

8: Progressing Ever Onward, Towards A Small Moment Of Peace

9: The First Great Schism

10: Revolution!

11: An Empire Of Cold And Darkness

12: Different Trains - People Become What They Are Told They Are

13: Propaganda - Poison The Well

14: After Many Years, A Quiet Peace

15: The Edges Fray, We Decay

16: Collapse, Deconstruction, A Splintering of Will

17: A Wake At The End Of The World

Itunes, Spotify, etc.:

https://bfan.link/nobody-believes-in-happiness-anymore

And on Bandcamp: