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  • 22 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Slovak
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Sociologist & Musician
  • FCS/UDELAR
  • From Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay
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About Me

A musician that is into sociology
A sociologist that is into music.

I been playing in many bands, but main project is call los Mostachos (https://losmostachos.bandcamp.com) a Rock duo that I ´ ve with my sister.

And Sara it's my experimental/ambient music: https://sara123.bandcamp.com/

As a sociologist I'm into culture

Currently I'm travelling with Vico ( https://couchsurfing.page.link/UqxAvCQVAVa8raiv6) around Asia.

We started our trip one year ago in Australia, but hopefully right now we are in Asia.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

As host is like to have a bit of the world into your home.

As guest is the best ways to get into the place that you are.

Interests

  • arts
  • culture
  • traveling
  • music
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I like music in general, I believe that any kind of music has something to say and show. My preferences are rock, particularly noise rock, kraut, experimental. I enjoy klezmer, balkan music and cumbia to move my body. I enjoy any music that comes from heart.

I enjoy searching music from different countries, with different rhythms and different textures.
If you enjoy the more or less the same and you would like to have a look from some urguayan music you can look for: Jaime Roos, Eduardo Mateo, Eduardo Darnauchans, El Kinto, Buenos Muchachos.

Some of my favourites musicians are: Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, King Gizzard, Velvet Underground, Rolling Stones, Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Juan Peirano, Neil Young, Sigur Ros, Marc Ribot, Jhon Zorn, Jim O' rourke, Joy Division, Nick Cave.

Books: I enjoy reading a lot.
I dont know if are my favourite ones, but I enjoy Roberto Bolaño, Milan Kundera, Raymond Carver, Alessandro Baricco, J.L. Borges, Jack Keoruac, Franz Kafka, Cesat Vallejo, Nick Cave.

If you would like to look for some urguayan writers you can look for: Juan Carlos Onetti, Daniel Mella, Dario Caraballo, Mario Levrero.
I´m not sure that you can find in other language that isnt spanish, but you can try.

Movies: Surrealistic images are kind of my favorite ones.
If iI have to say something I may say Twin Peaks, The Cristal Zoo, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, El abrazo de la serpiente, Frank, Grave of the Fireflies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Maybe is not that amazing, but without this I don't know what to do.

I´m part of a independent record label, Estampita Records: www.estampitarecords.com
There you can find a some music from Uruguay.

Some of the bands that I play and you can fin there are: Los Mostachos, Sara, Drypenes, Nini Rojas, La Ira Violeta.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Slovakia, Uruguay

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