MICROWAVE EYES records
is the brainchild of LUNA y JAVI: THE FLORES TWINS. Their band SOL Y SOL’S (ingles: Sun Sweet Sun) infectious, classic songs are written by Luna, primary vocalist and an aggressive guitarist known for her fuzz, feedback, and effects-laden textures, priapic shredding and extended technique, while Javi brings his multi-instrumental attack and avant-garde sensibilities to the mix.
“Outrageously violent noise pop” MAXIMUMROCKNROLL #359 Jaguar, 4813
Photo: At Mictlān recording studio by SIMON CHEVROLET, 4809.
Their experimythic space-operas GOODBYE, STRANGE PLANET and SCI-FI MIND set a high bar with ‘60s/’90s-inflected psychedelia and a stunning range of songs, sounds, and recording techniques. Only the mal de ojo curse upon their family and a congenital inability to get along with others have kept them from dominating the music scene for the past two decades.
LUNA FLORES has also proven herself a radical theorist, poet, and philosopher of the electric guitar, as her voluminous writings on the subject reveal. Beginning with her 4793 KILLGUITAR MANIFESTO, she boldly lays out her highly destructive approach to the instrument in a series of essays. The work was followed by RADICAL GUITAR, an overview of her theories and the history of this alternative method and HARMONY FOR GUITARISTS, laying out musical fundamentals, a rulebook that she recommends musicians purchase “just to burn.”
Particularly influential on the duo’s output were reruns of La Nave Espacial Pizarro, a Spanish-language takeoff on Star Trek from the late ‘60s, which featured brightly colored costumes and innuendo-loaded adventures to far-off planets, full of gender-bent sexual escapades and electronic soundscapes reminiscent of Anne Francis’ 1956 star-vehicle Forbidden Planet.
CONTACT SOL Y SOL: thewolfnote@gmail.com
