{"id":87,"date":"2024-04-21T13:13:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T13:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ylabamba.com\/?page_id=87"},"modified":"2024-04-21T13:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T13:19:09","slug":"info","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ylabamba.com\/info\/","title":{"rendered":"info"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"87\" class=\"elementor elementor-87\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cfab0f7 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cfab0f7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78e2703 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"78e2703\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f09df4a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f09df4a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 18-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h1 data-shrink-original-size=\"41\">CONTACT<\/h1><p><strong>BOOKING:<\/strong> jorge@atomicmusicgroup.com<\/p><p><strong>PR:<\/strong> jeff@thesyn.com<\/p><p><strong>LABEL:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0aaron@tenderlovingempire.com<\/p><p><strong>MANAGEMENT:<\/strong>\u00a0aliofthec@gmail.com<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-be15652 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no e-con e-child\" data-id=\"be15652\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-58ef3a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"58ef3a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Y La Bamba has been many things, but at the heart of it is singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza\u2019s inquisitive sense of self. Their fifth record, <em>Mujeres, <\/em>carries on the Portland-based band\u2019s affinity for spiritual contemplation, but goes a step further in telling a story with a full emotional spectrum. Coming off <em>Ojos Del Sol<\/em>, one of NPR\u2019s Top 50 Albums of 2016, <em>Mujeres<\/em> exhibits the scope of Mendoza\u2019s artistic voice like never before. \u201cSoy como soy,\u201d Mendoza says, and that declaration is the bold\u2014 even political\u2014 statement that positions <em>Mujeres <\/em>to be Y La Bamba\u2019s most unbridled offering yet.<\/p><p>The record exists in the post-2016 landscape of a national identity crisis, and Mendoza explores what it means to be a Mexican American woman by leading us through places we are afraid to go. <em>Mujeres<\/em> ventures in to the discomfort of the stories we tell ourselves. Those of our past, our futures. We all have these stories somewhere inside of us, but with Y La Bamba<em>, <\/em>Mendoza forges new narratives from old stories of heritage and family, tracing history while forging modern chicana feminism.<\/p><p>\u201cMusic is an extension of everything I have inside. It\u2019s how I emote,\u201d Mendoza says. The raw honesty of <em>Mujeres<\/em> is in fact the raw honesty of Mendoza. Armed with the emotionality of traditional m\u00fasica mexicana and the storytelling of American folk, Y La Bamba\u2019s artistry is not just their musical ability but Mendoza\u2019s search for unadulterated truth. It is in an ancestral, spiritual journey in which Mendoza comes to terms with the influence and limitations of her upbringing. Mendoza\u2019s experience of childhood summers in the San Joaquin Valley listening to mariachi, of being raised strict Catholic by immigrant parents, of being a woman having to prove herself to the boys, paints strokes of both melancholy and healing on the tracks. \u201cFrom the way that my family struggles, to the way they shoot the shit\u2026 it\u2019s so different from whiteness,\u201d Mendoza says. \u201cIt\u2019s a different dimension.\u201d<\/p><p>Y La Bamba exists in the dimension of the Mexican American imagination: somewhere cynical and optimistic at the same time. While there is a celebration of the Mexican creativity that has informed Mendoza\u2019s life, there is a darker side to reconcile with. Where do mujeres fit in to the American story? What are the sins for which we are all guilty? How do different generations interact with the world? How can a culture become visible without tokenization? It is no surprise that in <em>Mujeres<\/em>, Y La Bamba\u2019s first record with Mendoza at the helm of production, Mendoza contemplates these questions to tell her story. But it is not just Mendoza\u2019s story. Challenging a narrative and dealing with the emotionality of that effort\u2014 that is everyone\u2019s story.<\/p><p>Mujeres<em> was recorded by Luz Elena Mendoza and Ryan Oxford at Color Therapy Studios and Besitos Fritos Studios in Portland, Oregon. Mixed by Jeff Bond, with Grace Bugbee on bass, John Niekrasz on drums, Margaret Wher Gibson on keys, and Ed Rodriguez and Ryan Oxford on electric guitar. <\/em><\/p><p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1605137588063_179\"><em>Bio written by Eliza Cossio<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTACT BOOKING: jorge@atomicmusicgroup.com PR: jeff@thesyn.com LABEL:\u00a0\u00a0aaron@tenderlovingempire.com MANAGEMENT:\u00a0aliofthec@gmail.com Y La Bamba has been many things, but at the heart of it is singer-songwriter Luz Elena Mendoza\u2019s inquisitive sense of self. 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