PORTLAND’S OWN FERNANDO VICICONTE PERFORMS HIS FIRST SHOW IN SIX YEARS TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF FRIENDS & FAMILIA, A DOCUMENTARY LOOKING BACK AT HIS SEMINAL PACOIMA ALBUM, OCTOBER 6TH AT THE MISSION THEATER, INCLUDING A SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY AND A Q&A SESSION
on October 6th at The Mission Theater. The event celebrates the release of the compelling new documentary, Friends & Familia: Looking Back at Fernando Viciconte’s Pacoima Album, and features an intimate performance by Fernando Viciconte, his first show in six years.
The event is October 6th at The Mission Theater. Doors are at 6pm and the show starts at 7pm. Tickets are $15 advance and $20 at the door. The show is all-ages. It also doubles as a benefit for the Oregon Music Hall of Fame’s scholarship fund.
The evening will commence with the screening of the 49-minute documentary, which delves into the origins and impact of Fernando Viciconte’s 1998 album Pacoima, and features footage from the 1998 20th Anniversary performance at the Star Theater. Following the film, attendees will enjoy a Q&A session with Fernando Viciconte, director Loren Leed, and Luther Russell, a key contributor to the Pacoima album. The night will conclude with a live performance by Fernando Viciconte, accompanied by Luther Russell, Dan Eccles and Paul Brainard.
Ticket Link: Tickets are available via The Mission Theater website.
We hope this post finds you all in high spirits and good health! 🙌 We have some exciting news to share with you today regarding our talented artist, Fernando Viciconte. 🎶
Due to various reasons, Fernando has been unable to perform live since 2018. 😔 However, this doesn’t mean we can’t continue to support him and his incredible music! 💪 At Domingo Records, we are determined to find alternative avenues to promote Fernando and his soulful tunes.
While live performances may be limited for now, we have found solace in the power of streaming services and the good old-fashioned word of mouth. 🎧🗣️ That’s where YOU come in, our amazing community! 🌟
We kindly ask for your support by following Fernando Viciconte on your favorite streaming platform. 🎵 By doing so, you’ll not only be helping us spread the word about his music but also showing your love and appreciation for his talent. 🎉
Let’s come together as a united force and make sure Fernando’s music reaches as many ears as possible! 🎶💙 Your support means the world to us and to Fernando himself. Together, we can create a ripple effect that will bring his music to new heights!
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Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your unwavering support. We couldn’t do this without you! 🙏✨
To celebrate Fernando’s birthday on March 15th, Domingo Records will be releasing a previously unreleased song Intimate Enemy! The song was recorded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon at Type Foundry Studios and features Scott Mcpherson (Elliott Smith, Neil Finn, M.Ward), Dan Eccles ( Richmond Fontaine), Luther Russell ( Freewheelers, Those Pretty Wrongs and Joe Chiusano ( Old Yellers, Patsy’s Void). The song will be available on digital stores and streaming platforms on March 15th so give it a listen!
Fernando getting inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2016 by Dan Eccles, Willy Vlautin ( Richmond Fontaine) and Terry Currier (Music Millenium).
Fernando’s long lost rock en Español album Justicia will be released on all digital stores ( iTunes, Amazon, etc..) and streaming services ( Spotify, Tidal, Deezer etc.) on 1/21/22 via Domingo Records. Justicia features performances by members of Richmond Fontaine, Delines and the Freewheelers and was produced and mixed by Fernando ‘s long time partner in crime Luther Russell.
The new Fernando Viciconte record is not so new…it comes to the world fully realized for the first time: his second full-length album entirely in Spanish, the intended follow-up to the groundbreaking Pacoima. Once again, like Pacoima, it is the brainchild of Viciconte and long-time co-conspirator Luther Russell and a love-letter to the Argentine rock of the early Seventies—or rock nacional—that influenced them then and ever since. The greatest export of rock nacional was the late genius Luis Spinetta or El Flaco, as his people lovingly nicknamed him. After a long, colorful trip together to visit Fernando’s family in Argentina for Dos Mil, or “Y2K” to us ugly Americans, the pair sat on Viciconte’s porch on Belmont & 48th and dreamed it up: songs shaped out of Spinetta-like chords and stories told from la tierra abajo: The Pigman of Cañuelas–a poor, slow, deformed soul who was endlessly picked on by gauchos on the dark trails of the farm town where Fernando’s father and grandfather were raised. Songs about the savage human cost of the unholy alliance between fascism and greed (glad that’s not a thing anymore!). Songs about feeling like a rat in a cage and the existential screams of one simple statement: ‘¡Solamente la vida me da!’ or ‘It’s only my life you’re giving me!’ The record would encompass two sides: earthy and acoustic like the campesino folk-rock of vintage León Gieco, then molten and electric like the blistering rock psicodélico of Spinetta and his ilk. The conduit would be their most ambitious piece of music: “Cielo Sin Color”, the nearly 9-minute tale of a woman slowly going insane and her denial of the encroaching storm in her mind’s skies. The record would be called Justicia, and they knocked the “soft” side out in Fern’s basement and the “loud” side at the old Jackpot! Studios with a hand-picked cadre of favorite musicians: Fred Trujillo on bass, Sean Oldham on drums and Paul Brianard on guitar. Now that the pieces have finally been assembled it resembles nothing less than what was imagined nigh on 20 years ago: a fever dream split in two, looking back on the age trapped in amber that was hearty, proud Argentina…and what become the modern world: a funhouse ride on a slippery slide to hell, full of hypocrisy, callousness and corruption. But what remained, as ever with Fernando, was hope. And a little high-powered marijuana butter.
Big thank you to our friends from the Netherlands at AltCountry NL for the 4/5 star review of Traitors Table! Read review here…http://www.altcountry.nl/blog/2019/08/fernando-viciconte/#more-24971
“Recorded by Viciconte and his long time buddy, Luther Russell in a shack on a four-track recorder in a week long burst of activity, Traitors Table is an audacious album. An iron glove in a velvet fist, it draws you in as it daintily displays its melodies and then hits you with some fearsome realities. Definitely an album to have.”
To celebrate Fernando’s birthday on March 15th, Domingo Records will be releasing a previously unreleased song Intimate Enemy! The song was recorded in 2000 in Portland, Oregon at Type Foundry Studios and features Scott Mcpherson (Elliott Smith, Neil Finn, M.Ward), Dan Eccles ( Richmond Fontaine), Luther Russell ( Freewheelers, Those Pretty Wrongs and Joe Chiusano ( Old Yellers, Patsy’s Void). The song will be available on digital stores and streaming platforms on March 15th so give it a listen!
Fernando recently sat down with Victor Zapata from Mexico City’s