I Have an Art Boner for El Guincho

"Bombay" combines satire, sexuality and spanish

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El Guincho

I know I'm a girl, and that it's physically impossible for me to have a boner, but I am genuinely excited right now. Set up as a mock documentary, the video for El Guincho's "Bombay" combines artistic modes of sexual expression with violence, science and various styles of cinematography. Nicolas Mendez directed it as not only a music video but also a trailer for a movie with the same name. El Guincho plays a satirized version of Carl Sagan, launching a tape of I'm guessing his music out into a valley after introducing us in Spanish to the cosmos. What!

Even more, as we are bombarded with images of partially nude girls, ritualistic dances, abducted bunnies and crimes against a stuffed panda in a locker room. Mind = blown.

Hear "Bombay" without the visual bombardment above by downloading it below, or skip all that nonsense and just watch the trailer/music video.

This player (brightcove.com) didn’t survive.

(via IFC)

The latest El Guincho album, Pop Negro, is out through through Young Turks.

Words by Danielle Fowler

Published on melophobe September 23, 2010.