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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 HaloWed 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
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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
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