Kabomba The Flower of San Marcos by Melody Dowden
focusing on commercializing the product. Sure there are singles that will come out of it, but we are really excited about Spring Loaded being an album that when you listen to it in its entirety you get more from the experience then just jamming the single. We have really taken our time at every stage to be authentic to who Kabomba! is as a band.
Paranoid Magazine: OK not everybody is from San Marcos, so tell readers how the name came about. Kabomba:Well, it really doesn’t have anything to do with this. We mostly just thought it sounded cool and fit our sound, but Cobamba is a plant that grows in the San Marcos River, and in Spring Like where the water is crystal clear yearround, it flowers underneath the water because it gets enough sunlight to think it’s out of the water. We changed up the spelling and were originally planning on calling our album Kabomba! when we were called Helix. It turned out this Canadian metal band, Helix, is kind of a big deal, so we had to change our name, and Kabomba! is pretty much what we immediately gravitated towards. We like its connection to the river where all of us have spent many, many days playing in the sun, but we didn’t choose it because we’re like a flower blossoming under the water or anything like that. I’d say we’re more like river rapids than a Cobamba plant.
Our new album title “Spring Loaded” refers to the San Marcos Springs as well. The San Marcos area has always been the lifeblood of our band.
Paranoid Magazine: What is itchy, fuzzy, smells awful, and goes well with beer? Chasca:Puffy tacos. Steve’s beard.
Paranoid Magazine: What can San Martians expect from the Paranoid Show May 24th at Triple Crown? Kabomba: Free beer, live nudes, and false advertising. But seriously, we always like to push the envelope every time we play. Both ourselves as musicians and the audience.
Paranoid Magazine: Your sound offers some polka, ska, reggae, funk, rock, and yet something Slovakian. It’s like riding in the back of a farm truck full of hay in some foreign Soviet republic drinking beer while the truck hits every pothole in the street!! I mean that in a good way . . . really . . . . Kabomba: (Russain jabber . . . and a bottle breaks) . .. . all laugh . . .
Paranoid Magazine: Where can readers hear the infamous sounds of this drunken hayride? What venues do you frequently perform? Kabomba:They can expect a miracle of flesh and stardust.
Paranoid Magazine: Thank you guys for once again hanging out with us paranoid weirdo’s!!Any final thoughts to our readers? Kabomba: Indeed we do. Here’s a cunning Polish proverb and it has served us well in the music industry,
“The Lithuanian is cunning like the fox, but stupid like the pig.” For more gloop and mischief please find us online at www.chascamusic.com or LIKE us on Facebook. It’s a star-spangled hustle folks… Paranoid Magazine: Where can readers hear the infamous sounds of this drunken hayride? What venues do you frequently perform?
Kabomba:We play in Austin and San Marcos monthly. Our website, www.kabombamusic. com always has an up to date list of where we are playing. We play frequently at Triple Crown, Hole in the Wall, Frontier Bar, Texas Music Theater, Stubbs, 21st co-op, Dr Rockets, and lots of other places. Like us facebook to get the most up to date information about where the band is playing next.
Paranoid Magazine: Look forward to the May 24th Set! Will I be able to get another poster signed by the band including all the vulgarity and profanity again? Kabomba: You good damn right you sexy mother fucker! ...Just five dollars!
Paranoid Magazine: Thanks Guys!! See you under that farm truck full of hay and empty beer cans!!
Kabomba: SPASIBIO!