Making Movies “La Marcha”, A Riffy Psychedelic Cumbia Mixed by Jim Eno of Spoon Out Now
On Friday May 21 Making Movies released their newest single “La Marcha,” produced by Ben Yonas and mixed by Jim Eno (of Spoon). "The song is about how life is accelerating at an unsustainable pace,” says Making Movies guitarist and singer Enrique Chi. “I felt it 10 years ago when I wrote the song and I'm inclined to think that more of us are feeling it now."
The song carries a long history with the band, and is one of the formative songs to their distinctive sound. Enrique continues, "When Juan-Carlos, Diego and I jammed on it we had an ‘aha’ moment. Like whoa this can be our sound. It feels full circle for it to be the first tune recorded with our new drummer Duncan Burnett laying down the groove.”
The track ends on a washed-out psychedelic note, which was the band's initial vision. “We wanted it to feel like something had gone terribly wrong,” Enrique notes about the outro.
Jim Eno met the band two years earlier. "I wanted to work with Making Movies since April 2019, when I saw their spectacular live show at the Mohawk in Austin," wrote Eno in a statement. “Their songs blur multiple genres and use an element of surprise to keep the listener wanting more. I'm very excited to be able to mix this latest track of theirs."
The video for the song follows Chi as he gets into the driver's seat of a 1966 Mustang and cruises through nostalgic scenes of palm trees, highways, and Hollywood. “We collaborated with longtime friend of the band and visual director, William J. Stribling and shot the piece in Los Angeles,” Enrique comments. “Just before writing this a fan just sent us a message via social media this morning saying that La Marcha was the song that had defined our sound previously. I think he is right, and now it leaves an open door for what's to come."
Making Movies is an American band with a sound Rolling Stone describes as “an eclectic blend of rumbero percussions, delicate organs and grungy fuzz rock.” Formed by Panamanian brothers Enrique and Diego Chi, on electric guitar and bass, Mexican percussionist and keyboardist Juan-Carlos Chaurand, the band rose to acclaim through a decade of touring in the US and Latin America.
The band released their third album ameri’kana May 2019, and its apparent why Rolling Stone says, “this band is breaking down walls in the United States.” Collaborations with legends Los Lobos & Rubén Blades, Latin Grammy Winners Flor de Toloache, and a never-before heard Lou Reed song has NPR Music placing ameri'kana on its Best Music of 2019
The band grew when Salsa icon Rubén Blades joined forces with them to release three singles on ameri’kana: No Te Calles, Cómo Perdonar (ft. Flor De Toloache) and Delilah, a song co-written by Blades and Lou Reed. Grammy.com called Delilah an “epic musical collaboration brought together by the topic of immigration” and NPR Music placed “No Te Calles: on its Best Music of 2019 (so far).
Making Movies collaborated with nonprofit Art As Mentorship to produce AMERIKANA TV, an hour-long documentary exploring the BIPOC and immigrant DNA within American music that will air on Kansas City PBS in summer of 2021.
The band just finished recording its fourth album to be released spring 2022.
