Cantinero

You try to try, and when you quit, everything falls into place. That is the tale behind Cantinero, the left-of-center pop group that’s actually just multi-instrumentalist Chris Hicken. Created and elevated in Birmingham, Britain, Hicken fell deeply in love with America — specifically the American target audience — when he brought his music group Bigmouth towards the Claims in 1993. It had been just a two-week tour however the positive reaction to his music group produced Hicken itchy to come back. He got his opportunity when Bigmouth was provided a support slot machine on UB40’s tour from the Claims, a support slot machine which UB40 was unaware. No one ever determined if it had been the promoter or tour managers who have been responsible, but following the “we’re right here”s and “who are you currently?”s had been over with, UB40 allow Bigmouth play a display and had been impressed enough to consider the music group together for another six times. The shows proceeded to go well and energized Hicken, but four years later on the music group broke up without record offer. Hicken tended pub within the East Town and basically quit on a profession in music until he began listening to Planks of Canada and so on. When his roommate — Spacehog drummer Johnny Cragg — bought a couple of synths, sequencers, and digital whatnot, Hicken spent the evenings poking on the devices and experimenting. Hicken sensed his cyber music was the ideal solution until he captured Ken Uses up’ Jazz series on PBS and appreciated just how much he enjoyed the warm audio of acoustic equipment. He wasn’t likely to lose the innovative heart he within electronica, therefore recordings of acoustic equipment were chopped, combined, and folded with consumer electronics in Hicken’s house studio room. The Artemis label enjoyed what it noticed and released Cantinero’s debut, Tournament Boxing, in 2004.