BILLIONAIR RAINBOW (2015) is a 6 track mixtape by XUXA SANTAMARIA (Córdova's collaborative experimental music project with partner and musician,Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland) and takes as its concept our relationship to money: labor, debt, desire, power, revulsion, mixed-feelings at wanting it.
Each song on the album features a video piece ranging from durational performance to appropriation.
The mixtape was released as a limited edition cassette with original art work. You can buy it HERE
1. CONQUISTADOR
"Tells the true behind-the-scenes "secret of real live cams" through the eyes of a camgirl who makes them. Variously excited and exhausted, Córdova's six-channel camgirl portrait meditates on the conditions of feminized labor, sexual masquerade, performing otherness and global conquistador economies. The song's lyrics detail the compromises and struggles of making a living, roughly translating as "those who have can't lend, and those who have live underwater, where one pays to breathe, he is the conquistador of this city;" while also insisting that what really matters, can't be bought or sold (Y sus monedas son de cristal/And his coins are made of glass)." (Johanna Gosse, for ExCinema, Seattle WA)
2. 12TH OF NEVER
OF LIVING AND DYING
3. LA RED
#BAUTISMO #PIEL #DEADPRESIDENTS #MANRAY #L'INFORME
THE POWER OF POWER MAKES US BELIEVE// \ AND IF YOU TIE ME TO THE NET, THE SHARKS WILL COME.
4. BELSHAZZAR
GRIFFITH's INTOLERANCE// MARBLE ELEPHANTS// EXTRAS AS SLAVES, SLAVES AS EXTRAS.
6. HOLLYWOOD BABYLON
BILLIONAIR RAINBOW REMIXES