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Crammed Discs announce Juana Molina’s live album, and an expanded
edition
of "Mr Manager" by Zazou Bikaye, originally released in 1985 on vinyl
only
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JUANA MOLINA ”ANRMAL”
first-ever live album
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Recorded at the NRMAL Festival in Mexico, in early March 2020, a few
days before the world came to a halt in a massive lockdown, Juana
Molina's live
recording ANRMAL will bear forever the
memory of things as they were ”before”. The powerful
rock-punk vibe of the whole set gives us hope for a better world to
come.
When she started out, over two decades ago,
Juana’s music was rather reflective and stripped down. She mostly
performed solo concerts, with her guitar, a keyboard and effects. Over the
years, her shows gradually became wilder, while her recorded output
grew more intense and extrovert. The tours following her latest couple of
releases definitely took Juana’s live show to a different level.
ANRMAL sees Juana Molina and her excellent bandmates Odín
Schwartz and Pablo González at the top of their high-energy shape.
It’s her first-ever live album, and will undoubtedly be a revelation to
anyone who hasn’t had a chance to attend a recent concert.
The set contains tracks from Juana’s latest releases:
the Halo, Wed 21 and Un
día albums, as well as the Forfun EP.
The album was mixed by Juana Molina’s engineer Marcelo Coca Monte. It
comes in a beautiful packaging, in LP (red vinyl), CD and digital formats.
Watch Juana Molina performing live at NRMAL Festival in
Mexico
HERE
ZAZOU BIKAYE
"MR MANAGER - EXPANDED VERSION”
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Mr. Manager is the second album
by Zazou Bikaye, which only ever came out on vinyl in
1985.
This expanded and remastered edition comprises nine additional tracks,
including six previously-unreleased recordings, and three which were only
included on limited-edition singles.
In 1984, after the Afro-experimental adventures of Noir et Blanc,
Zazou Bikaye turned into a proper band, and started developing their own special
brand of digital Afrobeat/Afrofunk.
Some of the tracks from the album became underground club hits in Europe and in
the US.
“The future started here, back in 1985. It's difficult to imagine
something more "Big Apple 1980s" than this blast of Afro-futurism...
The Congolese roots of the music are evident (it nods back to rumba, and forward
to the Congotronics phenomenon), but the synths hymn the momentous changes
taking place in hip-hop and digital post-Thriller pop…” (MOJO)
"A shiny wonder of Afro-European art-pop... every track feels like an
adventure with surprises around every corner... a sonic parallel to some of
Talking Heads' and Arthur Russell's mid-80s adventures, though
Bikaye's soukous/avant-pop influence makes this much more of a wildcard.
There is much to unpack among Mr. Manager's wealth of treasures and nearly
all of it is exciting." (AllMusic)
Watch music video
HERE
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