TRACKLIST: 01 Creation Of My Ghosts (Feat. Clarissa Rustico)  02 Embracing Livia (Feat. Clarissa Rustico) 03 Prisma Clarisse (Feat. Clarissa Rustico)  04 Lasciamoci In Allegria (Feat. Gaia Rollo)

We know that talent isn’t normally recognized in the music industry. But we created an independent record label to make space for people we believe have something to say. Giorgio Tuma has always been one of those people really focused on his commitment to creating beauty in this world. His albums, somewhere between lounge music, psychedelia and Brazilian music, have been exquisite exercises for the most dedicated music lovers. Collaborations with Laetitia Sadier (STEREOLAB, for whom he even wrote a song), Lena Karlsson (KOMEDA), Sean O’Hagan (THE HIGH LLAMAS), Malik Moore, Matias Tellez (frontman of YOUNG DREAMS and in charge of production work for some Sondre Lerche and KAKKMADDAFAKKA albums), Michael Andrews (soundtrack composer for films as important as the sci-fi classic “Donnie Darko” and “Me you and everyone we know”), POPULOUS, among others. Elegance, fantasy, creativity, dreaminess… His disappearance from the music scene seven years ago was terrible news.

Soon after “This Life Denied Me Your Love”, he put together his friend guitarist Alberto Zacà a bossa nova tribute band called WE LOVE GILBERTO where he played drums, and Clarissa Rustico sang. Clarissa’s voice inspired him to [ Read more ]

It has been too long since we had news from Giorgio Tuma. We haven’t had any new songs from the Italian author since “This Life Denied Me Your Love”, although that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been active. Before the world sank into a pandemic, Giorgio had put together a bossa nova and Brazilian music tribute band called WE LOVE GILBERTO, with an important lead role from the singer Clarissa Rustico. This ultimately led to Giorgio returning to the studio for one last EP, that we get an advance of with this “Creation Of My Ghosts”, where he warms our hearts with this reminder of his delicate harmonies, his delicious melodies, his exotic arrangements, the overflowing fantasy and caress of his songs. Some of them, like this one, are magistral exercises in escapism. And for this return, we have a lyric video by Pooley (Woom Studio), where he shows off his exquisite esthetic taste again, perfect for Giorgio Tuma’s music, and here it is inspired by the cover art, with a certain dreamy, psychedelic tone, increasing the feeling of unreality, of marvelous hallucination, that this Italian genius’ music transports you to. It is a banquet of pleasure.

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Elefant Records continues to be a source of sound material for filmmakers, and the latest proof is “La Amiga De Mi Amiga”, the debut film of Zaida Carmona (yes, the one who sang “La Llamada” with PAPA TOPO in Marc Ferrer‘s film “La Maldita Primavera”), which celebrated its presence on 1 February at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, as part of the Bright Future section. Two days later, on 3 February, and coinciding with the premiere in commercial cinemas in Spain, we are releasing the soundtrack just with the Elefant songs that appear in the movie, which in this case features SOFT REGIME, AIKO EL GRUPO, LISASINSON, JULIE ET JOE, BAND À PART, Giorgio Tuma, NOS MIRAN and FITNESS FOREVER. What a great selection! And as a gift we include in our edition the original version of “Lady Dilema” by Carlos Berlanga, which in the film is covered by Aroa Ay, from SHEGO. The film also features songs by MALAMUTE, MASONIERÍA (the solo project of Sonia, from PAPA TOPO), Rocío Saiz and CHRISTINA Y LOS SUBTERRÁNEOS. In fact, Christina Rosenvinge herself makes a cameo in the film.

“La Amiga De Mi Amiga” is a generational story, as Zaida herself says: “a five-way lesbian comedy of entanglement”, a story about women who love a lot, but love badly. A project that arises from the need to consolidate and reaffirm positive queer and/or feminist references, filmed in eleven days, wit [ Read more ]

We are really enjoying this process of looking back and recovering some of the albums that we have released at Elefant during our first 25 years as an independent label. Giorgio Tuma has been one of those artists that we have handled with special care. His music, so far from the stereotypes of the latest music trends, hides a true genius who is inspired, evocative, and has a psychedelic, melancholic, elegant pop spirit. A musical goldsmith.

That’s why we are so happy to be able to re-release, for the first time on vinyl, his first album with Elefant (second in his discography), “My Vocalese Fun Fair”. It is a delicious album, exquisitely arranged, where the psychedelia, the lounge music and the Brazilian samba all join hands to make up a banquet of an album. It’s because of all of those influences, that let us catch a glimpse of other small ingredients that make the final result richer, like the soul on “Coney Island Memories”, the funk-pop on “Marsico”, the baroque folk of “Musical Express” or the northern soul of “Saltamontes”. That is the definition of banquet that Giorgio Tuma proposed on that album: dishes full of all the ingredients imaginable, mixed with elegance, color, sometimes exoticism, sophistication, sometimes seriousness, but always achieving excellent results. Like “…And Three Parasol Stars”, “Let’s Make The Stevens Cake!!!”, “Astroland By [ Read more ]

We are almost finished with the series of re-releases we have been putting out for many months now, in honor of our 25th anniversary in 2014. The series has included such distinguished names as FAMILY, LE MANS, LA CASA AZUL, CAMERA OBSCURA, NIZA, TREMBLING BLUE STARS, THE SCHOOL, JUNIPER MOON, LOS FLECHAZOS, COOPER and LA BIEN QUERIDA, among others. To almost bring things to a close, we are simultaneously releasing a series of exquisite rereleases.

To start with, we are going to release that FUGU Single again that we originally released in 1998, and it is especially relevant because Mehdi Zannad has just released a marvelous album on Elefant in collaboration with Erin Moran (A GIRL CALLED EDDY) under the name THE LAST DETAIL. This Single has been a collector’s item for a long time now, and we are releasing it this time as a 300-copy numbered-limited-edition white 10” vinyl, and it will include the songs that were on the Split that FUGU released in 1997 with STEREOLAB as well as their first EP from 1996. There are 12 songs rereleased for the occasion. It’s wonderful.

What’s more, the first album, now out of print, from the Italians, FITNESS FOREVER, will also be re-released – where we will remember their orchestral pop and Mediterranean airs – on a transparent red vinyl, 300-copy numbered-limited-edition, which will also include the two songs that appeared on that also out of print “Mondo Fitness EP”.

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Such is the magic of music that sometimes it is capable of changing the meaning of images. And sometimes the images themselves are capable of changing the perspective we might have about a song. Something like the chicken or the egg dilemma, but expressed in the relationship between two arts that multiply themselves when they meet. We have talked several times about the cinematic and evocative qualities of the music of Italy’s Giorgio Tuma. But the video that the Spanish artist Raquel Calvo made for his song “Foxes Don’t Lie” (previously, she had made the video for “Mountain Elia K”), included on his most recent album, “This Life Denied Me Your Love”, has made our heads explode and let us see that the creative limits of Giorgio (and Raquel) are atmospheres above what we thought they could reach. 

The Association for Professional Illustrators in Madrid (APIM, in Spanish), has confirmed this, awarding Raquel (who uses the alias DondeEstaMiPollo) in their annual awards with the New Talent award for making this video. It is full of tenderness and fantasy, transcending the song by our beloved Italian composer and turning it into one of those stories that makes your heart tremble, between autumnal chromatic palettes and textile textures (please forgive our playing with phonetics but the way the video plays with wools and other fabrics is sublime) that would undoubtedly have enamored Karel Zeman (the father of stop-motion) for his [ Read more ]

After touring Italy and the UK, our beloved Italian composer and producer, GIORGIO TUMA, is heading to Japan for a tour that consists of 9 concerts in various Japanese cities, for the release of his fabulous album, “This Life Denied Me Your Love”, released on Dessinee, like his other previous releases.

After how incredibly the island in Asia received ALPACA SPORTS and IKO CHÉRIE, Tuma is taking over the country and releasing an exclusive single, specifically for the tour. His recent, unhurried, relaxed, and tremendously precious songs feel like they are tailor-made for Japanese spirituality, and the country has received all this Italian’s releases really well.

More information available in the following link: 

http://www.productiondessinee.com/news/pd-tour-giorgio-tuma-japan-tour-2017/

GIORGIO TUMA JAPAN TOUR 2017 (Giorgio Tuma Japan Tour 2017)◯ 2017.2.17.Fri – Fukuoka – "Papparayray (Pappa Lai Lai)"◯ 2017.2.19.Sun – Oita Yufuin – "Quebradas (Calas)"◯ 2017.2.20.Mon – Kumamoto – "FELICIA (Felicia)"◯ 2017.2.21.Tue – Tokio Kiyosumishirakawa – "LA CASA Fleming (Fleming House)"◯ 2017.2.23.Thu – Ebisu, Tokio – "Batica (Bachika) "◯ 2017.2.24.Fri – Daikanyama, Tokio – "Fin de semana Garaje Tokio – Cafe & Dining "◯ 2017.2.25.Sat – Osaka – "Iglesia Tenma"◯ 2017.2.26.S [ Read more ]

Giorgio Tuma is going to Britain this October to present his fourth album, “This Life Denied Me Your Love”. Tuma’s arrangements and compositions on this album unleash an elegant nocturnality. This leg of the tour will take him to six British cities, including Nottingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester and London. That last concert, which will take place at The Lexington, will be really special, thanks to the presence of Iko Chèrie, DEERFUL, and Laetitia Sadier. The once-singer from STEREOLAB will be joining Giorgio on stage to sing. We tremble with just the thought of seeing Sadier and Tuma together on stage singing marvelous songs like “Maude Hope”, “Release From The Center Of Your Heart” and “Anna, My Dear”.

In November, he will present the album in his own country on an extensive tour that will take him to 9 different Italian cities.

Dates for Japan and Spain will be announced soon. For all dates confirmed so far, go to:

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We made the announcement just a few short weeks ago – after three singles of collaborations with Malik 'theFreq' Moore, Laetitia Sadier and Lena Karlsson, and after a few months of waiting, we finally have Giorgio Tuma’s new album in our hands. “This Life Denied Me Your Love” is a collection of songs made for a galactic cocktail party, where glamour and elegance go subtly and delicately hand in hand, making a highly exciting but hard to classify collection of songs. 

The album substitutes the psychedelic fantasy of previous releases for a dreamy elegance, without letting go of the small trademark hallucinogenic touches, to which we also have to add the goldsmith’s accuracy we have come to expect. In this case, the hallucinogenic touch comes from the synthesizers and arpeggiators (which curiously links him to our beloved MODULAR, using that collaboration with Laetitia Sadier, that delicious “Maude Hope”, as a tie), which intermix with silky chords and acoustic guitars. But at the same time this is probably the most introspective of all of Giorgio Tuma’salbums so far. From that opening full of synthesizers that is “The Wings Of A Loser” to that fragment of acoustic folk-blues that closes the album (“In Back Of You”), a certain melancholy runs through the album from beginning to end, with its luminous moments and other silent ones, but always with that feeling of unease that stays in the body af [ Read more ]

The musical relationship between the Italian composer Giorgio Tuma and Laetitia Sadier (STEREOLAB, MONADE) is one of those worthy of forming part of music history (and we won’t be pulling out the typical references like Hazlewood & Sinatra here; this is going in a different direction). Their alliance has an impressive chemistry and magic. And “Maude Hope”, the next advance single from what is going to be Giorgio Tuma’s fourth album, is further proof of that.

This story is full of those magical halos that can only send out luck and excitement, in a kind of unpredictable pact. It all began with that absolute delicacy, full of romanticism and melancholy, called “Anna, My Dear”, which has caused many a tear to fall since it came out. String chords that deserve Laetitia Sadier’ssilky voice… perfection. After that, the encounter took shape on stage, with both stars sharing space in the “Contronatura” festival in Lecce (Italy). From then on, a sort of “agreement” was born, in which Giorgio wrote song for Laetitia’salbum, and she sang a few songs on his new album.

As you know, our admired song-writer is no friend of predictability, which is why he began to work on a reggae song (“Through Your Hands Love Can Shine”, the A-side of the collaborative single they wrote together a few months ago for Elefant Records), but Laetitia Sadier, while at rehearsals for that, heard the [ Read more ]

 This VIDEO sums up our year

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For a while now all the news about Giorgio Tuma came to us in the form of singles and collaborations, with major artists like Malik Moore, Laetitia Sadier and Lena Karlsson. Little but at the same time immense songs that make us anxiously await the arrival of a new album from the italian songwriter, after four albums of that evocative, exciting cocktail of psychedelic pop, italian classics, and brazilian music. And the time for this new release will come, specifically in February 2016, when we will finally be able to hear the songs that make up “This Life Denied Me Your Love”. As an advance, we now have “My Last Tears Will Be A Blue Melody”, an advance single and proof of the infinite inspiration of such a wide-reaching author. 

Produced and mixed by Matias Tellez (YOUNG DREAMS, RAZIKA, Sondre Lerche, KAKKMADDAFAKKA), this first song has a certain air of the classics and at the same time a certain dreaminess, like what surfaced in the collaboration with Laetitia Sadier (“Anna My Dear”), without ever abandoning the sonic experiments and spacial moments; it is a “tour de force” that brings us to an emotional exaltation full of light and euphoria. Yet another demonstration of imagination and creativity, with a goldsmith’s touch in the arrangements, and total emotional honesty. It’s a sign of something big, something that is a long time coming. In February, we get the final answer.

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Our beloved Giorgio Tuma, while his putting the final touches on his amazing new album, is still working on what is looking to be a juicy collection of Singles that includes collaborations with notable international independent music stars. We have already been able to enjoy the incredible releases with Laetitia Sadier and Lena Karlsson. Now it’s the Californian Malik 'theFreq' Moore’s turn. He is a member of THE LIONS, one of the most important soul-based reggae bands on the Stones Throw label (J Dilla,Madlib,Aloe Blacc,Mayer Hawthorne…), and also of THE BULLETS, a project he shares with Roger Rivas (THE AGGROLITES). He is a singer who has collaborated with such important people from the reggae rocksteady scene as Leroy Sibbles,Pat Kelly,Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan and Dennis Al Capone.

The Italian composer’s proven passion for reggae makes for magic, once again. “My Lively Youth” contains those rays of sunshine that each and every one of Giorgio Tuma’s arrangements has, plus Malik 'theFreq' Moore’strembling and innocent voice. It is an exercise that goes above and beyond style, and that makes it ever clearer that Giorgio Tuma’s universe is infinite and fascinating.

This collaboration, just like with the two previous ones, will be part of an exclusive, limited-edition 7”, that will also have a B-side remix, in the dub tradition, by Sean O'Hagan of THE HIGH LLAMAS. Psychedelic, [ Read more ]

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We have been talking for months about the musical romance that Giorgio Tuma and Laetitia Sadier have been living, which has given us marvelous songs written by Giorgio that have been released under the names of both artists. It was only a matter of time before they released something together, just like Giorgio Tuma did with Lena Karlsson (KOMEDA), and this is an homage the Italian musician pays to another of his musical muses, the ex-singer of STEREOLAB, one of the groups that most inspired Giorgio to begin writing his own songs.

We told you just a few months ago how Giorgio Tuma was preparing a different and surprising reggae song for Laetitia Sadier’s album, when she caught them recording “Release From The Center Of Your Heart,” and wound up taking the song for herself. Precisely that Jamaican-descendant song “Through Your Hands Love Can Shine” is the one that opens this numbered limited-edition single, and it will be included on their upcoming, marvelous album. It’s a gem that is marked by its originality, the dreamy, fantastic arrangements, and the instrumental composition that could be a Monet painting. The B-side has a song we already know, “Anna, My Dear”, but that is finally here being released in physical format. It’s an exciting, elegant, nocturnal, delicious, dreamlike landscape, cradled by majestic, beyond perfect string instruments. There is only one t [ Read more ]

A few months ago, we mentioned a collaboration between Giorgio Tuma and former STEREOLAB singer Laetitia Sadier. The result was the delicious and delicate “Anna, My Dear,” a song that feels like magic, thanks to the special chemistry between Tuma’s majestic and crystalline arrangements and Laetitia’s silky voice. The results were so incredible that this story’s stars themselves have even decided to do it again.

After such a fruitful collaboration, Giorgio Tuma invited Laetitia Sadier to participate in the “Contronatura” festival in Lecce (Italy). The visit ended up cementing their friendship and they reached a sort of “agreement”, in which Giorgio would write a song for Laetitia’s album, and she would sing on a couple of songs from his new album.

Giorgio’s first idea was to write a reggae song, something different, something that stood out, that would be a change from Laetitia’s usual style. But at the time, Tuma and his regular musicians were recording the new album (of which we are already anxiously awaiting signs) and already had an instrumental version of “Release From The Centre Of Your Heart” prepared for Laetitia to sing. When she heard it, she loved it so much that she asked if it could be the song that she included on her own album. And so that is how this song came to be included on “Something Shines”, the amazing new album that Laetitia Sadier released on D [ Read more ]