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Nico Antuna: progressive house and melodic techno for rooftops and lounges; techno, trip hop and industrial-tinged sound for the underground. Founder of Xenoglossy Records.
Abstract paintings and mixed media rooted in Mexican American border identity: post-Informalist and abstract expressionist, drawing on roadside shrines, milagros and Catholic iconography.
The Studio holds the paintings from your Drive, the MIJ series, murals and the studio nights; the book's paintings float in the Book region.
Wine came to this valley for the Mass. Franciscan missionaries needed sacramental wine, the blood of Christ in every service, and the nearest supply was months away; so they brought vines north from the missions of Mexico. The vine they planted became known as the Mission grape.
By the 1680s vineyards surrounded the missions of Ysleta and Socorro. In 1744 a Franciscan wrote that the El Paso vines "yield abundantly and produce fruit of good flavor and a rich wine in no way inferior to that of our Spain." For more than a century, the wine and brandy of El Paso del Norte were known across New Spain.
In this world, the Cellar keeps that line unbroken: Vines & Vinyl nights, wine-and-DJ evenings, and a door to Nico Vino.
The plain layer: everything in the world, readable and searchable.
Booking, collaboration, licensing, press, or just a message.
Nico Antuna Cooper · poems, paintings and photographs · Duende Nuevo Press, 2019
A small tin heart, pinned in a wall niche. In the full world, hidden objects like this open pieces of the archive: a track, a poem, a flyer from a past night.
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