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Artist
El Hombre Trajeado
12+ albums
post-rockinstrumentalmath rockindiebritish
about
El Hombre Trajeado (el om-bray trah-kee-ah-doe) was formed in Glasgow by friends RM Hubbert (guitar and mumbling), Stevie Jones (bass) and Stef Sinclair (drums) around the end of 1996. Ben Jones (synths and turntables), brother of Stevie, joined in 1998. They released four LPs, one EP, numerous singles and split-singles and recorded three sessions for John Peel. Hubby and Stef were previously members of legendary Glasgow punk outfit Glue which split in the summer of 1995. They teamed up with friend Stevie and began writing frenzied experimental music with a focus on contrasting time signatures and moods, being heavily influenced by bands such as Minutemen, Firehose, Deep Turtle and NoMeansNo. The iconic 13th Note club in Glasgow was the focus of the Glasgow music scene in the nineties and provided an exciting experimental atmosphere for the group to feed on. The band name started out as “Canker’d” but this was quickly dropped in favour of El Hombre Trajeado (translates as The Man In The Suit) as a two fingered salute to commercial music. Early gigs with Lungleg, the Yummy Fur and the Van Pelt honed their ideas into a batch of songs which were recorded during all-night sessions at Beatbox in Finnieston where Hubby was working. Assistance during recording was provided by Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand who doubled as engineer and backing vocalist. The result was their first single, the double A-side Logo/Moonunit Manual released on local label Flotsam and Jetsam in sprin
