Here’s the first video from Calexico’s upcoming album Edge of the Sun, which drops April 14. “Falling From the Sky” is another great Calexico song but you also get a peek inside downtown Tucson’s legendary Wavelab Studios, where the band recorded the new album with engineers Craig Schumacher and Chris Schultz. The video was directed by Aaron Schock, who also directed the astonishing documentary Circo (for which Calexico provided the soundtrack).
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2015.
Almost 40 years ago, I used to give this old guy from work a ride home, he lived downtown someplace. I would drop him off at the bar at the old Congress Hotel. Occasionally I’d go in and have a drink with him. These guy’s music on the jukebox would have sounded great and resonated well in there. Even though the place was really run down, this music would have meshed in there.