{"id":30,"date":"2018-03-26T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2018-08-24T11:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:03:55","slug":"project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/?page_id=30","title":{"rendered":"PROJECT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mi nombre es Benjam\u00edn Villegas. En diciembre de 2013 publiqu\u00e9 un libro con la editorial cordobesa Banda\u00e0parte Editores. Durante las presentaciones de este libro en 2014, la gente de la editorial me present\u00f3 a Daniel \u00c1lvarez y me propusieron ser el bi\u00f3grafo de su historia. Daniel \u00c1lvarez naci\u00f3 en Oxnard (California) y creci\u00f3 en El Paso (Texas). Estudi\u00f3 arte en la UTEP y en 1985 form\u00f3 un grupo de punk rock con su mejor amigo. La banda se llam\u00f3 ELPASO y Daniel pas\u00f3 a ser el manager, dise\u00f1ador gr\u00e1fico, fot\u00f3grafo y conductor de la furgoneta de la banda. El grupo, formado por m\u00fasicos chicanos, mexicanos y americanos ten\u00eda la peculiaridad de cantar en castellano. Grabaron su primer y \u00fanico disco en 1990. Ese mismo a\u00f1o Daniel viajar\u00eda a Europa, afinc\u00e1ndose definitivamente en C\u00f3rdoba (Espa\u00f1a). Daniel dej\u00f3 atr\u00e1s aquella etapa hasta que recibi\u00f3 la visita de su hermana en Espa\u00f1a. Hab\u00edan vendido la casa familiar y Rosa le trajo una maleta con sus pertenencias. Dentro, permanec\u00eda intacto al completo todo el material relacionado con ELPASO, la banda. Flyers, camisetas, casetes, material gr\u00e1fico de todo tipo y la cinta con el disco que el grupo grab\u00f3 en 1990 y que nunca vio la luz.<\/p>\n

Daniel y un servidor decidimos escribir un libro con la (anti)biograf\u00eda de esta banda de punk chicano. Para ello implicamos a la gente del sello discogr\u00e1fico NAVAJA SUIZA y a la productora audiovisual LA PERRERA. Hicimos algunas entrevistas online con Daniel para preparar el libro y vimos que la historia de la escena punk de la ciudad ten\u00eda que convertirse en un documental. En LA PERRERA nos pusimos manos a la obra y en marzo de 2015 y mayo de 2016 viajamos a Estados Unidos a investigar y entrevistar sobre dicha escena. El proyecto estaba en marcha.<\/p>\n

My name is Benjamin Villegas. In December 2013 I published a book with Bandaaparte,\u00a0 <\/span>a publishing house from Cordova, Spain. During the presentation of this book in 2014, the people from Banda\u00e0parte introduced me to Daniel Alvarez and I was asked to be the biographer of his own story. Daniel Alvarez was born in Oxnard (California) and raised in El Paso (Texas). He studied Fine Arts at UTEP and in 1985 formed a punk rock band with his best friend Ricardo. They called the band Elpaso and Daniel became the manager, graphic designer, photographer and drove the old van they toured in. The group, formed by chicano, mexican and ‘white’ musicians standed out from other bands of the time by singing in Spanish. They finally recorded their first and only album in 1990. That same year Daniel traveled to Europe, finally settling in Cordova (Spain). Daniel left that part of his life behind until he received a visit in Spain from his sister Rosa. They had sold the family home and she brought a suitcase with some old things that belonged to him. Inside it was all the material from his old band, just as he had left it: flyers, shirts, cassettes, all sorts of graphic material and the tape they had recorded in 1990 and that never saw the light.<\/em><\/p>\n

Daniel and myself decided to publish the (anti)biography of this chicano-punk band. To do this we are working with the record label Navaja Suiza and my audiovisual production studio La Perrera. I had some interviews online with Daniel to prepare the book and saw that the story of the El Paso’s punk scene was well worth a full-length documentary. In La Perrera we got down to work and in March of 2015 and May of 2016 traveled to the United States to do some ground work. Soon after that, the project was underway.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mi nombre es Benjam\u00edn Villegas. En diciembre de 2013 publiqu\u00e9 un libro con la editorial cordobesa Banda\u00e0parte Editores. Durante las presentaciones de este libro en 2014, la gente de la editorial me present\u00f3 a Daniel \u00c1lvarez y me… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elpasoapunkstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}