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Ricardo Acevedo

Ricardo Acevedo of Lost Cat Magnet grew up in an urban environment, roughly 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles, the Inland Empire. Funk, jazz, and rock music of the late 60’s and early 70’s were the constant soundtrack of his childhood. All this morphed into him becoming a new wave, art-punk musician by his early twenties.

After moving to Austin in the late 90’s, Ricardo met and started interacting with several musicians and artists of the scene, and during this time, he took on the solo moniker of Lost Cat Magnet. Through the tech tutelage of Ramon Mills (Production Unit Xero) and his label Heterodox Records, he released a series of new, ever-more defined Lost Cat Magnet albums.

O'Clock Trio: Sessions 24

Read "Sessions 24" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 31, 2025

The trio's Sessions 24 is an EP that clocks in around 15 minutes and serves as a sonic adventure that leans hard into the wild world of effects-driven soundscapes. Spearheaded by Willie Oteri's guitar wizardry, Ricardo Acevedo's (also known as Lost Cat Magnet) pulsating beats, synths and samples, with Tiago da Silva's anchoring bass and percussion, it is less about jazz's conventional swing and more about crafting immersive improvisation and electrified textures that pulse with raw energy. “Billy ...