Onda Sonora Kinderpunkgarten Your Kid Sister by Sonia Fernández Pan

Gracias a Maïa Vidal podemos tener una hermana pequeña aunque seamos hijos únicos. Invirtiendo los habituales tópicos de parentesco, esta vez será tu nueva hermanita la que te lleve de concierto con su entrañable gorrito de lobo, su acordeón y un piano de juguete. Your Kid Sister es una vuelta a un jardín de infancia muy particular en el que rebotan ecos del punk rock de Rancid dentro de un universo folk que no empalaga. Esta hermanita pequeña a la que le gusta vestirse con camisetas de rayas y viajar en tren, se acompaña de Gius y Alberto en unas aventuras sonoras de las que salen álbumes como Poison. Cuando el veneno se disfraza de sirope de chocolate podrás echarle la culpa a Your Kid Sister.

Toy Piano
YKS: My dad gave me my toy piano for Christmas last year in a big box with a bow! I’ve never played real piano, but just like a kid, from play-ing the toy piano, I’m beginning to understand the real piano!

Rancid
YKS: Rancid was my favorite band for like… 5 years. More. Even when I didn’t listen to punk anymore, if somebody asked me my favorite band I said Rancid because I liked most of their albums, and that was more than I could say for most bands.

Aid
YKS: I hate asking people for help and the shitty thing is that when they DO help me, I usually don’t thank them very well because I feel so uncomfortable. This is why it’s often difficult for me to collaborate with other people in my music, I just get really bent out of shape and weird about it.

Punk rock tapes
YKS: My first car, a 1979 volvo station wagon, only had a tapedeck, so even before I got the car, my best friend prepared mix tapes of all our favorite punk bands: Rancid, The Distillers, Bad Religion, etc. so that even before I drove the car, we just sat in it listening to our tapes.

Kindergarten
YKS: I went to a crazy hippy kindergarten where all we did was play outside and paint and play with dolls made of corn husks with no faces.

DIY
YKS: I’ve been DIY since I was a kid. DIY haircuts, DIY clothing modification (when I was in 1st grade I was wearing jeans on a summer day and got a little warm in class, so I asked to go to the bathroom, took scissors, and cut off the pants of my jeans so they would become shorts).

Relationships
YKS: Are hard. You try living with your boyfriend, who’s also your drummer, who’s also recording your album, while maintaining a healthy a normal relationship. Impossible.

Trains
YKS: I love trains. They’re kind of rarely used in the United States so they make me really happy here in Europe. I would take trains every-where if I could. Because flying is bad for the environment and buses smell bad.

Underwear
YKS: For a long time I was searching for the perfect kind of underwear. I was never happy with the ones I had. Finally one day I found the perfect ones at a store in my hometown, so I bought like 20, in every color possible. Every time I visit my family, I go buy another 10 pairs just in case.

Poison
YKS: “Poison” is the first Rancid song I ever recorded and the reason is this: I was cooking with an ex-boyfriend of mine and we were listening to Rancid and I was singing along, but instead of screaming I was singing sweetly the harmonies, and we started to laugh because we were both conceptual artists who could see the irony in this. I decided I wanted to record the way that I sang the Rancid songs, and so I learned how to play the accordion by teaching myself those chords.

Catch Your Kid Sister together with Nina Nastasia in concert at Apolo 2 on the 7th of October.
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