What an appealing idea to free a place from its attributions, to see it as a source of inspiration, to reconcile its present with its past and to bring it into tension – to create music from it, to reveal the pure magic. The US band Calexico, at home in the Mexican border region, has been emitting kaleidoscopic beacons with its art for almost three decades now, creating atmospherically dense songs that serve as a monument to the landscapes of the Southwest. Wind-blown, glistening, veiled in fata morganas: Calexico plays a trio show of Tucson desert rock on Sunneggaa, just in time for sunset. – we can hardly wait.
