Biography Javier Colis.

LA Times describes him as " night's only really sexy moment" seen at Leonard Cohen's Tribute in wich he took part at Los Angeles. Harp Magazine, saids that he "writhed and pranced on stage like Nick Cave or Jarvis Cocker"...JAVIER COLIS is one of the essential figures in avant-garde rock in Spain.He has a huge background as composer, lead guitar player, and lodestone member of several influents bands as Vamos a Morir, Demonios tus Ojos o Mil Dolores Pequeños. After releasing his first solo album, “Luna de Agosto”,His new band is Javier Colis y las Malas Lenguas,, with whom he realesed in October 2006 the album “El Futuro ya no es lo que era”, album where his experimental spirit is combined with terrorific valses, broken tempo blueses, and rock at its less pure state, intuitive and cerebral in equal proportions. The band´s previous release was “Lo eterno es lo que más dura” (2005), and album unanimously acclaimed by the critic. With this new band, in which he is escorted by Saúl Cortés, Julen Palacios, Sergio Ceballos , Adrián Ceballos and Marina Radis, he has ended a complete tour that took them trough almost all of the Spanish geography. During 2006 he was on tour with his band, and with another solo proyects like this spoken word duo with the poet John Giorno, playing live in diferent spanish cities and Leonard Cohen Tribute Tour with another musicians like John Cale, Jackson Browne, Perla Batalla or Elliot Murphy.

The early compositions of Javier Colis, during the middle eighties, were part of his works in the video art scene. In this way we can not overlook his video "Proceso / Adagio / Situación" (1987), which after winning some important national awards, and being selected for Muestras de la relevancia of Ars Electrónica (Linz), became part of "La imagen sublime", an Spanish video art anthology that was held at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid on that year, 1987. ñol que se celebró en el Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid en este año 1987.

In 1986, Javier Colis together with his brother Nacho Colis (drums) and the painter and sculptor Julio Jara (vocals) founded Vamos a Morir. Soon afterwards, the Colis brothers gave shape Demonios tus Ojos this time together with Javier Corcobado and Javier Almendral, these two bands co-existed until this last one dissolved on the beginning of 1989. After two albums published in 1990 y 1992, respectively, Vamos a morir, dissolved that year, 1992, coinciding its dissolution with the birth of a new musical project by Javier Colis and Ajo (vocals): Mil Dolores Pequeños, band with which he recorded four albums.

Javier Colis also appears in other bands and artists recordings such as Superelvis, Justo Bagüeste o Clónicos, also he has joined in various live shows Scorecrackers the live free-jam band of Pedro López and Markus Breuss and Laboratorio a band that came to be after El Europeo published the album-book of the same name. As cultural activist, Javier Colis was co-founder of Por Caridad Producciones, record label born in 1992 after their split from the record label Triquinoise and of ExperimentaClub website and the music festival of the same name. These days he runs side by side with Silvia Grijalba the Spoken Word International Festival Palabra y Música

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MIL DOLORES PEQUEÑOS is the third band leaded by Javier Colis after Vamos a Morir and Demonios Tus Ojos.
Avant-garde and experimentation are words that became known with in this band founded by Javier Colis (composer, lead-guitar, vocalist, writer and producer) in 1992. With Ajo (vocalist, writer) and Javier Piñango (percussionist, synthesizers, producer) joining to the project and the collaboration of Jaime Munárriz (co-producer, bass, trumpet, harmonica, and piano) came to light this same year their debut album, “Lady Lazarus”. A sample of which will be the personal style of a band that had creates tendencies and, as in all Colis projects combining in a fully natural way elements that may appear antagonic but that created a new and ultra original landscape in which sweetness mixes up with fragments extremely harsh and where the organic lives up with the most painful energy.
Theirs next release was “Soul Shack” (1994), with whom they reached a great popularity thanks to the anti prohibitionist song “De la piel pa’ dentro mando yo” (based on the lyrics by Antonio Escohotado, that collaborates with guitar and vocals in some maxi versions of this song published in 1995).
Afterwards, came the darker and naked “Madrid Capone” (1996), where Markus Breuss (trumpet) plays with them for the first time. From then on the members of MDP band change. Javier Piñango leaves the band and Nacho Colis (drums, back-up vocals, and occasionally bass) joins the band as a permanent member.
In October 1998, "Opio" is on the market, the band’s last album and, for part of the media, their utmost album what makes it superb farewell.
At MDP gigs many and various musicians have taken part between them we can highlight Jaime Munárriz (Destroy Mercedes), Alejo Alberdi (ex-Derribos Arias), Susana Cáncer (ex-Chatarreros de Sangre y Cielo), Javier Bermejo, Margarita Blanca o Luis Escribano (ex-Clónicos).

Mil Dolores Pequeños

Javier Colis was part of Vamos a Morir and Javier Corcobado had just dissolved Mar Otra Vez, it was 1987 and both decided to join their efforts and formed DEMONIOS TUS OJOS.
To achieve that they recruited Nacho Colis (drums, afterwards member of Los Chatarreros de Sangre y Fuego) and the guitarist Javier Almendral (later in Vírgenes Adolescentes), that changed his guitar for the bass- guitar.
Demonios Tus Ojos had brief but intense live that let behind an album under the same name, edited in 1998, where the complex personality of the band combining echoes of urban rock, blues, free and noise with an emotion and intensity that makes your skin full of goose bumps was spotted. The broken voice and lyrics of Corcobado, the madness and precision in the Colis´ brothers tandem and the energy and distortion from Javier Almendral provoked one of the greatest, intense and emotive short-circuit in Spanish modern popular music

1986-1992. Three men band formed by Nacho Colis (drums and vocals), Javier Colis (guitars and vocals) and Julio Jara (vocals and lyrics).
The plastic art, the literature and the music combines in this “trio” that came out from the band Gene, in which Javier Colis ( at that time video artist) and Julio Jara (painter and sculptor still active) were.
Among VAMOS A MORIR achieves, besides becoming the germen of many art rock bands that came afterwards, are the winning of Rock the Luxe magazine awards for demo recordings and touring round Germany.