Music: Contemporary: Bunbury Deluxe Argentina where Enrique vocalizes in Spanish is phenom

"Bunbury & Vegas - Welcome To El CallejÃn Sin Salida"
  [Babelfish says this translates "The street with no exit"]

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Somebody in Latin America to my fevered mind suggested that Enrique Bunbury now of Bunbury Deluxe Argentina, after establishing a name in contemporary Spain, his native country, was / is a Christian.  I don't know what I expected, but I signed onto his espanolic Facebook page some months ago, and have been receiving his noticias ever since.  Eventually, as the enigma grew in my mind,  I checked out his most recent website, there to find, inter alia, this image of him with his band -- and not in the colourful stage clothes they wear in performance.


The Saints Innocent, or in more grammatical English, The Innocent Saints -- The Band of the Devil, or perhaps The Saints of Innocence -- The Devil's Band.  I considered this all inauspicious; not the best recommendation, but capable of being given a Christian spin, with which I will dispense here.  Perhaps this Bunbury is a thoro ironist, irony being a genre that enriches many arts (along with satire) not much appreciated among most thawtful Christians, to our discredit. But irony woud have to be the order of the day in reading and musically experiencing the always-new Bunbury a Christian practioner of contemporary musical arts.


But, hecks, there's lots more interesting about the man and his bands and their processes of development over the years than whether the group's leader has been able to achieve some expression or other of a possible Christian culture.  As I listen to the music, I'm finding interesting, attractive flows of sound that have an integrity in their own rite.  


Oh yeah, the name "Bunbury."  Enrique acquired it as a nickname from a mention in the comedic drama The Importance of Being Ernest, by that consummate ironist and satirist, Oscar Wilde.  In turn he was poking at and alluding to the Bunbury Group, a social circle that included Alfred Keynes the prominent economist and many other literati and intellectuals in an area of London.  In my college days, I performed the character's role of Dr Chasuble, the presumably Anglican cleric who preferred to quote 'the pagan authors' to convey his tidy Christian witticisms and maxims.


-- Musikos