Mario: Yeah, when we collaborate with someone they bring a lot more ideas to the table so we don’t have to work as hard on it. We’ve been writing like five days a week going six-hour days. To talk a bit about your latest album then, there are quite a few collaborations in it, and I know you’ve also recently released a song with Polyphia called “ Yas ,” so I was wondering about the difference you encountered between writing a song in collaboration and just writing it on your own, and how you found that experience? It seems like you guys enjoyed it, since you did quite a few.Įrick: It’s definitely faster when you’re collaborating, writing back at home right now it takes a while. We were like, ‘Ok, we’re going to play the songs exactly how they are, you figure it out.’ Mario: We basically just left it all up to her. So how did you figure out the arrangement for the songs? How was the process different from recording normal songs to figuring out how to play alongside a string quartet? They worked with her for a couple songs on the tour, we saw what she did with them and we thought it was cool, so we when were thinking about doing a tour to close out this album cycle we wanted to do something different, and just figured this would be something cool to do, since we already knew her. Mario: We met Summer – who is the girl who is writing all the parts for the strings section, basically organising the whole thing - through this tour we did with a band called Circa Survive. My first question is about this tour, how the idea for it came, why, and what someone that is coming to see a show for this tour should expect to see? The three brothers, Mario Camarena, Nathan Camarena and Esiah Camarena, – respectively guitar, drums and bass players – settled down on the couch, Erick Hansel, guitar and occasional vocals, on a stool by my side. Their photographer snapped a few shots of the scene, immortalizing the charm of the untidy room. In the backstage room we were greeted by a large couch, some unstable stools, an old piano, scattered instruments and a tub of salsa open on the coffee table. They attempted to introduce themselves while still holding their instruments, but shaking hands revealed itself to be a bigger challenge than expected with guitars cluttering the small corridor. Their current tour is holiday-themed: their classic palm tree symbol is now adorned with some Christmas lights for this series of shows they are accompanied by a string quartet and play Homey in its entirety. With all-black outfits and the nonchalance of skilled musicians, they played a few songs on stage off their latest album, Homey (2017), before putting down their instruments and joining me in the backstage room. I got there a little earlier than planned, so I caught a glimpse of their soundcheck – no one was around except for their tour manager and merch guy, but the room did not feel empty, the sound filled it whole. ![]() On a rainy Friday afternoon (alas, welcome to Berkeley), I walked into a quieter-than-usual Cornerstone to interview CHON.
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