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Selected Bike Tracks

by Molloy and his Bike

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Kids, Birds and Whatnot 04:28
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Michio 04:52
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Hiking 02:21
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Camille Came to Town 02:55
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Draw Me a Horsey 03:12
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Fabulous Race Track of Death 06:48
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Picnic 03:26
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Fall 06:19
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Fish Pond 03:30
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Tigers at Empty Beach 05:44
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Molloy and his Bike — Selected Bike Tracks

Eduardo Padilla is a Mexican artist born in Vancouver and currently living in Guanajuato; of all the possible sentences for the beginning of this review, I may have picked the cruelest, but at least it captures the nature of his music (Eduardo is also a poet).

I met Eduardo during the MySpace years: back then it was a groundbreaking platform for dreaming up a band, uploading some songs and pestering your friends. In those days we were all into power electronics, with some of us still clinging to laptop music while others made dubious attempts at aping a shoegaze or krautrock aesthetic.

Eduardo, however, explored other frontiers with his guitar, avoiding clichés and leaving behind an almost invisible trace underneath the shade of a tall tree, a nearly unclassifiable path on the map of modern Mexican music (if such a thing exists) that was as uncompromising as it was asynchronous. This is the track followed by Molloy and his bike. What kind of animal is this?

Selected Bike Tracks is a collection of works that best represent that void: random MySpace sketches, ashes found in a recovered hard drive, forgotten Soundcloud pieces: melodies floating on ether without aim or goal, sonatas lost in a foggy forest in fabled Guanajuato. Any attempt to separate these tracks from their provincial and dreamy mystery is futile, even if their English titles try to dissuade us: is it weird folk, is it colonial park blues, is it Terry Riley with a cheap guitar from Paracho? All descriptions refer to the past and Molloy and his bike inhabits only the present— internet time.

It’s best to consider this music in the same way one thinks about the great non sequitur that lies behind all creation: that which is fortuitous, that which can’t be seen, and the many hours of tedium that fill the tiny space and time allotted to us, before our return to great Nothing.

-José Ángel Balmori

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released March 21, 2020

Written, Produced and Recorded by Eduardo Padilla.
Mastered by Eduardo Padilla & Carlo Olmos Carrillo
Photography by Pamela Castillo.
Txt. José Angel Balmori.
Guanajuato, Mexico. 2006- 2019.

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