:: Smoking Room

I’ve been discovering quite a few bands thanks to David Chalé’s Youtube channel. The latest is one from Spain, his homecountry, so that is definitely more exciting. The name of the band is Smoking Room and it was active between 2002-2004, the years when I got into indiepop. I notice that they had released during those years a few CDRs and a tape on a label called Afeite el Perro. I remember this label. I had bought a Bicicross mini CD back then, which actually inspired Cloudberry Records. How cool. The band was formed by Javi, María and Pablo. Pablo and Javi continue making music under the guise of Pablo Prisma y las Pirámides. María was Javi’s girlfriend back then, not sure if they continue to be together of course. It’s been a while. The first release of the band was “Adios Navidad” which was recorded by Rodrigo, Pedro and the band at the living room of María’s parents in July of 2003. This CDR was an album of 11 songs: “Celeste”, “Tu Cabeza es de Cristal”, “Oslo”, “Júpiter”, “He…