Deep Funk around the world: Spain

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:35:44 -0800

From Madrid, Spain come The Sweet Vandals! As a five-piece they are smaller than most deep funk bands, because they lack a horn section. Singer Mayka Edjo makes up for it, though, with a voice that commands attention and would probably drown out a horn section anyway. Here's a long clip from their show at La Maroquinerie in Paris, just last week:

Sweet Vandals live in Paris 081107

That's hot! They have two songs available on eMusic, I'm still searching for more recordings.

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Cop show themes continued: The Pinker Tones

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:30:52 -0700

I look at all the online music maps, and all the retailer recommendations, but I still didn't learn about Barcelona's The Pinker Tones until I was at my neighbor's house and they were playing on his stereo (that's the boxlike device that sits on a shelf and shoots sound out into the air instead of directly into your ears). He had heard of them on the radio, of all places, although it was NPR and not an actual "music" station. Like Skeewiff, The Pinker Tones are a dynamic duo, Professor Manso and Mister Furia (and with aliases like that, who cares about their real names?); they are a little more stylistically diverse than Skeewiff (more lounge, ska, and synthpop), and much more linguistically diverse, with lyrics sung in English, Spanish, French, and German. Again like Skeewiff, they nail the cop-show theme genre, with "In Pea We Nuts" from The Million Colour Revolution:

08 - In Pea We Nuts

The Pinker Tones

"Love Tape" is the best examination of the role of the mix tape in relationships since High Fidelity:

The Pinker Tones - Love Tape

Finally, The Pinker Tones get bonus points for naming a song "Pink Freud."

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The Pinker Tones on YouTube

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Deep Funk around the world: Spain

Cop show themes continued: The Pinker Tones