SCHEDULED RELEASES FOR 2010

LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE
March 9th

After a two year hiatus, the Blondes of the North are back. Their new material covers a wider range than usual.  The songs run from an intimate Neapolitan ballad to a Bollywood production, a Kurt Weill song in French and a classic Chicha. While the dynamic range and the geographic scope are wider than ever,  Las Rubias do keep the Pan-Latin spirit alive by treating it all like it was recorded in Veracruz in the 1950’s. With special guests the Parker String Quartet.

VERY BE CAREFUL -
April 13th

Los Angeles’s seminal vallenato group is not a World Music band. Their sound may be classic early Colombian cumbia with accordion, bass and percussion, but the music is raw and groove-oriented. The material is mostly their own, and their attitude owes more to punk than anything else. The result is trance-like, hypnotic cumbias, Puyas and Paseos from a place no one seems to have ever gone to.

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BAD REPUTATION: Pierre de Gaillande Sings George Brassens
June 8th

From the1950’s through the late 70’s, the late George Brassens redefined French Chanson. He was an anarchist bard whose songs were sometimes raunchy, sometimes polemic, often poignant, and always steeped in classic French poetry - from Françcois Villon to Appolinaire and Aragon.
Franco-American singer and composer Pierre de Gaillande has taken on the impossible task of translating Brassens' songbook, to astonishing results.

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CHICO TRUJILL0
Chilean Cumbia
May 11th

Started ten years ago as an offshoot of the Chilean Ska-punk band Lafloripondio, Chico Trujillo has become an institution in Chile where their national brand of Cumbia is the soundtrack to every party. Their big band arrangements owe as much to the Cumbia bands of yesteryear as to rock and ska. They have shared the stage with Los fabulosos Cadillacs, have performed at every major Chilean festival and regularly tour Europe. Chico de Oro will be their first US release.

 

 

 

Coming out later in 2010

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- HAZMAT MODINE - Their long-awaited follow-up to Bahamut is in the works. It should be out by next summer and will include surprising collaborations.

- THE ROOTS OF CHICHA - Volume 2:
We can't wait to put this out. More proto Chicha with new vintage gems from Peru.

- CHICHA LIBRE. More Swampy Psychedelic cumbias from the Land of the Gowanus.