The title means “haunted ruins”, although “encantado” is also what you say in Spanish when you first meet someone, meaning that you have been touched somehow by their presence. Based roughly around the idea of fantasy, we ask: what is folklore? With a healthy belief in the future, based on a continuous dialogue with the past, imagination is totally relevant. Religion, rituals, and future utopia are public fantasies to transcend the empirical world and appreciate the mysteries of being here. Contemporary utopian images are stunted, thus limiting possible change. We offer our ideas of contemporary audio fantasy. All sounds are based on legends and folk tales.

Brief notes on our use of technology
Using our electronic tools of preference, this work considers the past, while not repeating it. It is not interesting to merely state that we are using the computer. (Businessmen, grandmas, bus drivers, athletes, congresswomen, lawyers, artists, and yes, musicians all over the world have used computers in their daily life for several generations now. Describing computers as “new media” is like saying oil paint is new because it was invented after bone carving.) Instead, we suggest that the folklore of our time is as much online as it is offline.

Basically, we are brewing up a storytelling storm, where the medium is the medium, and not the message itself.

Likewise, Lucky Kitchen presents technology as a commonplace communication medium of secondary importance to the ideas behind it. Lucky Kitchen is as personal as it is technical. Lucky Kitchen presents our own work and the work of others, when we find special qualities somewhere between technique and sentiment...