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Fobia
TO HAVE FOBIA (Phobia - Aversion)....
Is to have Paco’s musical proposal on the guitar, Iñaki on the keyboards, Leonardo’s voice, Cha! on bass and Jay on drums, al of whom 18 years ago (1987) decided to form FOBIA.
As good friends and schoolmates, they extended their friendship to the point of forming this musical project, which today has become a way of life.
A series of fantasies, nerves and fears were their source of inspiration from which the group’s name was born, as well as the first songs that family and friends enjoyed during their rehearsals in one of their garages.
FOBIA is a band of five members, each one with completely different personal obsessions, with the exception of the sense of humor which runs through all of them. Neither one of them dares to perform the commonly narcissist rock without at the same time hanging on to an internal laughter. And we know that he who laughs at himself can make fun of everything else, including, of course, the things he loves, and even his most intimate pains – generally the heroic bull’s eye of his most poisonous arrows. He who can separate love from laughter can very well begin to forget FOBIA. And laughter. And also, of course, love.
Emptied of dreams and nightmares, characters, forms, colors and ideas were combined which, among melodic bases and harmonic clashes, began to be sung in tiny bars and fiestas where FOBIA had their first shows. And thus were born works like "El Microbito" (The Tiny Microbe), "La Iguana" and "El Crucifijo" (The Crucifix), which are now classics of Mexican rock.
FOBIA was not born as a plan, but as an enthusiasm without predetermined objectives. Their first public explosions, whose main virtues had more to do with stamina than with a defined musical concept, were not very even demonstrations of such an enviable happy work that anyone of the five would have paid to perform them.
In 1990 after quite a while of playing in small joints, the group began recording their first disk: "FOBIA". They went to New York where they recorded and mixed under Marteen’s direction, with whom they began what would be a long history. The record turned out to be like those films that everybody talks about before their opening and are anxiously awaited; it was a record that a numerous public played full blast on their loudspeakers.
In 1991 the quintet again went to New York to record in the Power Station studios their second work: "MUNDO FELIZ" (Happy World) again produced by Marteen. "Camila", "Caminando Hacia El Cosmos" (Ambling Toward Cosmos) and "El Diablo" (The Devil) personify charismatic pieces that soon became indispensable cuts from the record and in their concerts.
Two years later FOBIA filled themselves with lactic germs and basic products in order to release "LECHE" (Milk), their third production recorded at the "Magic Shop" and at "Bonsai Productions" in the same city where their prior disks were born, with their old friend Marteen, but this time it was a co-production work. The album contains a fresh sound that incorporates consistent elements that fortify the group’s musical concept, from which come works like "Perra Policía" (Damn Police), "Los Cibernoides" (The Cibernoids). "Maten Al D..J." (Kill The DJ), and "La Miel Del Escorpión" (The Scorpion’s Honey).
In 1995. embraced by music, they release "AMOR CHIQUITO", the band’s fourth disk which not only has an uninterrupted work, but is also the result of the aging of concepts and musical ideas that spill out in each track. Recorded in Los Angeles, now as a co-production with Gustavo Santaolalla and mixed by Rick Kerr and Tony Peluso, "AMOR CHIQUITO" is a sample of FOBIA’S growth. The first sigh emanating from this new production is the cut "Revolución Sin Manos" (Revolution Without Hands), which advocates introspection in these moments of change, with a strong and melodic sound.
The best way to feel FOBIA is to participate in one of their concerts. Since the group began they have played all over Mexico, but it is in cities like Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City where they have the majority of their shows.
It is in U.S. cities like Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose, where they are undoubtedly always very welcome, besides Chicago and New York. While in South America they played to 4,000 people, in Bogotá, Colombia they were the only Mexican group in the festival "Rock al Parque ‘95".
Some of the important festivals for FOBIA are: Nuestro Rock ’95 (Our Rock) Mexico City; Revolucikón ’95 – five U.S. cities and three in Mexico.
By 1996 FOBIA took "AMOR CHIQUITO" to many other countries. like Colombia, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Argentina, Chile and the U.S.
In 1997, on the apex of their career, the band decided to say goodbye to their audience and played a memorable concert in the Metropolitan Theatre in Mexico City. The event was recorded live and that became "FOBIA ON ICE" which seemed to be the last record of the band, however FOBIA still had much to contribute toward rock en español.
After several years of absence, FOBIA returns with the same impetus and enthusiasm that made them one of the best bands in Mexico. There are two things that have not changed in each one of the members: the pleasure in playing and the rebellion against restrictive concepts.
2004 marked FOBIA’S return with "WOW 1987-2004", which contains 16 of the band’s great hits, plus two new works by Paco Huidobro.
In 2005 FOBIA presents "ROSA VENUS" (Pink Venus), their first new studio album since 1995, when "Amor Chiquito" was released. The record has 10 cuts plus two bonus tracks. It was co-produced by Gordon Raphael ("The Strokes") and Paco Huidobro, under the co-direction and realization of Jay de la Cueva.
"Rosa Venus" (Pink Venus) was born with the desire to do something new and give something more to their public. That’s why they titled it thus, they wanted the disk to be "totally pink", something very special and at the same time amusing, a bit gaudy and touching on kitsch, including folklore, but not the one we commonly know, but a more urban folklore that goes beyond modernity and is closer to the Mexico we know and live in day to day.
"ROSA VENUS" was released in Mexico on July 26, and "No Eres Yo" (You Are Not Me) is already receiving wide airplay.
FOBIA MEMBERS…
INAKI - Keyboards
PACO - Guitar (main songwriter)
CHA! - Bass
LEONARDO - Singer
DISCOGRAPHY
Fobia (1990)
Mundo Feliz (1991)
Leche (1993)
Amor Chiquito (1995)
Fobia On Ice (1997)
Wow 1987-2004 (2004)
Rosa Venus (2005)
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Mas Caliente Que El Sol
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Hoy Tengo Miedo
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Hipnotízame
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Veneno Vil
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