Tag: Lovemonk Records

• Andalusia’s flamenco artist Perrate and Catalan duo Za! join forces from opposite ends of Spain for an album of radical experimentalism

  

  Jolifanto is a collaborative debut album by ZA! and Perrate for Lovemonk Records – who create an electronic fusion under the influence of flamenco. Jolifanto, takes its name from the first verse of Karawane – a seminal Dadaist phonetic poem by Hugo Ball, first recited at the Cabaret Voltaire, in 1916. Ball became entranced and…

  WTM

  March 30, 2024

  Experimental, Flamenco, Spain

  Adalusia, Babelia/El País, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, Caberet Voltaire, Catalan, Dadaist, Flamenco, Gitano, Hugo Ball, Jolifanto, Karawane, Lovemonk Records, Música y Museos, MegaCobla and Tarta Relena, phonetic poem, Romani, Seville, Utrera, ZA! + Perrate

• J.P. Bimeni releases first single with his trusty Black Belts band from his forthcoming second soul album of same name: ‘Give Me Hope’ on Lovemonk Records

  

  Burundian soul singer J.P. Bimeni – the royal refugee who escaped death more than once and has now found fame in the UK – has dropped the first single from his forthcoming album of the same name, Give Me Hope. As before, JP’s amazing voice channels Otis Redding in his prime, while musing about ambition,…

  WTM

  November 26, 2021

  East Africa, Europe

  “Two Guns”, 2018 BBC 6 Music Album of the Year, Afro-funk, Alex Larraga, Black Belts, Burundi, Fela Kuti, Fernando Vasco, J.P. Bimeni, Lovemonk Records, Motown, Pablo “Bassman” Cano, psychedelia, Rafael Díaz, Ricardo Martínez, Rodrigo Diaz “Niño”, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Stax soul