Musique: Golden Parapluie

Clement Pasanau, Mathieu Jegourel, Renaud Gerin, Petra Håkansson & Lovisa Elwerdotter



Contact: goldenparapluie@gmail.com

Once described as a Latin-swing-coup-d’état by a guy who was arguably out of his mind, Tonto Malembe is in fact a Venezuelan London-based association of musicians whose enthusiasm around certain political issues was not —and is currently not being— precisely well received by their government. Established in 2014, this Breakfast Club of Exiles —as it was also called once or twice, consists of Mandred Olbrich (bass, guitar, keyboards, synths). Joel Rojas Arriaga (drums, percussion, cuatro, sequencer) and it’s leader Baldo Verdú (vocals, guitar, cuatro, percussion), who besides of being execrated from the Christmas gift list of quite a bunch of politicians, also happens to be a songwriter, guitarist and percussionist with life-long experience among Venezuelan traditional rhythms as well as in genres as diverse as rock, funk and tropicália. These influences combined with the different musical backgrounds of each member of the group, all agglutinated by the notes of psychedelia, result in a sound that has been approved by the audiences from venues to major festivals such as Latin American Film Festival, Secret Garden Party, London Remixed Festival, Vagabond Festival and the Glastonbury Festival; both as a dance floor fire igniter as well as a mass-provoking political discourse.

Listen to 'Exotic Other' and order the album via https://t.co/pbvnRu13Af 

Exotic Other (Official Video) : https://t.co/i0l44E9Ac8

Candela Records is the UK's first ever record label dedicated to Urban Latin Music. A partnership between Atlantic Records UK, music distributor ADA and Latino Life media and events, it aims to discover and develop UK-Latin talent and launch it onto the global stage.

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