Prior to moving to Tucson, AZ, in 1997, Gabriel Naïm Amor and Thomas Belhom had explored a variety of musical styles in Paris, France, first in the hardcore punk outfit Witches Valley, then as members of the experimental music/theatrical avant-garde political activist stage group Generation Chaos. Once settled in Tucson, the pair set to collaborating with not only one another, but also local Calexico stalwarts Joey Burns and John Convertino, as well as French filmmaker
Marianne Dissard (director of the Giant Sand documentary Drunken Bees). Amor and Belhom provided the soundt...