On TICARUE:

Three parts--
Introspection
Reflection
and a Call to Action
that's what this album is about.
Using the history of Central America as a pretext, The Independence of Central America Remains an Unfinished Experiment is just as much about my own life as I've had to live it over the past year or so as it is about Honduras, and it's just as much about my own life as it is a cry for a better future for Honduras and Central America, holistically. Conviction, earnestness both in artistic expression as well as individuality is the album's crux--a zealous belief in the Will of God in our lives and His support for LGBT expression.
Heavily inspired by Latin and Anglo scenes of old--70s Nueva Cancion/Anglo Folk Revival. Central American mod/teenie bopper music/children's music. Bolero, boogaloo. Salsa, Latin jazz. Guillermo Anderson, Ruben Blades. Victor Jara, Foxygen.

Despite the sonic palette of yesteryear, it is not stuck in the past. Lyrically fierce and sonically sharp with tinges of low-fidelity abrasiveness and unrefined instrumental performances, the album rings a contemporary bell while refusing to hold itself within established genres.

Starting, narratively, from the independence of Central America from Spain, and initially told from the perspective of Francisco Morazan, the album advances onward to the dissolution of the Federal Republic of Central America and continues with a tribute dedicated to Guillermo Anderson, only to burst back with the Filibuster War, an oft-forgotten part of Antebellum America in which the independence of Central America was again threatened, but this time by a US-backed megalomaniac-turned-dictator seeking to turn the region into a slave state. Following this is another dedication, this time to my mother, which is then followed up with the narrative turning point of the album, "By the Bunches," which is about the rise of the banana republics as well as the current-day mass migration of our people leaving our lands "by the bunches" due to the failure of capitalism and the rise of remittances as the dominant industry of Honduras as a result. An off-the-rails salsa-infused track about the Sandinistas, Anglo-Saxon Evangelism, American-backed dictatorships, and LGBT acceptance follows shortly after, only to give way to the narrative climax of the album, "200 Years... (And What Came of Them)," which is a soft pillow on the face to strangle every theme present throughout the album to a restful, if not wanting, conclusion.

That's just a quarter of the story, though--
Go to cime.casa to learn the rest.

On Frida:

Contrasting the astuteness and visual order of TICARUE is the unbridled rawness of Frida’s Saturday Night in Vegas: The Untelevised, One-Night Residency for None and All (AKA Frida in Vegas), a live album recorded at Cime’s first headlining show in Las Vegas on July 17, 2022. So-called “for none and all” due to the fact that despite there being a healthy attendance, most of the audience chose to leave for their set and return for Crochet–who aided in Cime’s performance, playing bass & guitar, while Aron Farkas of Composition Booklet played drums. “Frida,” as Monty explains, “was the name my mother would have chosen for me if I was born a girl. It’s become something of an alter ego, an identity lost which must be reconciled within myself. The album title is a bit of meta-commentary both on the show and the nature of being an artist. When you do something new, when you’re vulnerable in a way that isn’t necessarily accessible, and you have a voice that is militantly anti-conformist, few care to heed attention to your vision.”