If you’re going to be at Primavera Sound Festival, stop by the Elefant Party. It’s happening on Saturday the 29th from 19:30 to 21:00, in the Myspace room. There will be special performances for the occasion, like unique mini-concerts from: PAPA TOPO (who everyone is talking about), LINDA GUILALA (this year they’ll also be in our favorite festival, Indietracks in England, “an indiepop Festival”) and BLA (the new group from Luis and Belén from L KAN’s). GUILLE MILKYWAY will make the party even better as an exceptional DJ! Really, can a party get any better than thiscategoría The meeting point for all of pop’s craziest, loudest, freshest fans. Yeah!!!!!

Saturday, 29 MayPrimavera Sound Festival – Guateque ELEFANT PartyPapa Topo + Bla + Linda Guilala + Guille Milkyway DjBarcelonatime: de 19:30 a 21:00Salón Myspace [ Read more ]

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Guille Milkyway: "Winning a Goya was out of my world"

• The music vindicates independence and musical self-sufficience • The soul of La Casa Azul is profoundly grateful to their fans

YOU CAN SEE THE VIDEO OF GUILLE RECEIVING HIS GOYA HERE:http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20100215/guille-milkyway-ganar-goya-estaba-fuera-mundo/318000.shtml

The seventies styled pop rumba of Guille Milkyway, central song of the movie,Yo, también, directed by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, took the Goya for Best Original Song and the Catalan musician was not expecting it, “nothing further from my imagination and my world”.

Dressed for the occasion in a black polo and a striped tie, the “engine” of La Casa Azul told us that “he had not thought absolutely anything” about his outfit but that he was in the mood for “a special touch”, a more personal way of dressing that, in the end, almost without wanting to, distinguished him a bit from the prevailing style.

Clothes apart and asked about the strategic future positioning the Goya would have in his house he joked, “I will keep it safely in a drawer, well, maybe that sounds a little extreme, doesn’t ití I don’t know where I’m going to put it".

Milkyway told us, live through his Twitter and for RTVE.es <http://twitter.com/guillemilkyway> , about the moment they gave him the [ Read more ]

On Saturday 23th January took place in the Real Casa de Correos in Madrid an event for all final candidates to the Goya Awards 2010. Guille Milkyway, nominated to the Goya to best original song written exclusively for the movie "Yo, también [Me, too]," came from Barcelona to attend the event with Lola Dueñas and Pablo Pineda, main actors of the film.

They appeared simply dressed and spent the entire morning in this formal act where Álex de la Iglesia greeted them cordially. We recorded a little video that after a little editing, we want to share with you all.

Video Here:http://www.youtube.com/watchcategoríav=5qlDgMN88Go

LA CASA AZUL: Video “Reception of nominations for Goya 2010!!” picture: Guille con Lola y Pablo en la recepción de nominados a los Goya 2010!!26/01/2010 [ Read more ]

In the category of Best Original Song: “Yo También”

Each new piece of news related to Guille or LA CASA AZUL is a true bit of joy for their fans and followers. Lately it’s becoming more and more common that the news about them is about important goals in independent music and almost unique and unheard of achievements in the history of pop music in our country. After the intensity of these last years, both on the national and the international level, Guille goes even further with his Goya nomination. Whether he wins the prize or not, the fact that the song was nominated is in and of itself a well-deserved recognition of his musical talent and magnetism, a formula that is capable of crossing indie-borders, and not only in terms of music but also in terms of making a massive public fall in love, totally captivated by highly addictive melodies and lyrics.

This past Saturday, January 9th, the Goya nominees were announced. The movie "Yo, Tambien", directed by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, and produced by Manuel Gómez Cardeña, Koldo Zuazua and Julio Medem, has been nominated for four prizes by la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España (the Academy of Art and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain) whose gala, hosted by Buenafuente, takes place in Madrid this coming February 14th. The categories in which "Yo, Tambien" is nominated are: Best Leading Actress (Lola Dueñas [ Read more ]

Hello Everyone!Another year has passed, a special year for us as we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the label, and we did it the best way we know how: releasing a ton of good music. We put out 22 new releases in total – 13 albums and 9 singles. It was an intense year in every way it could be and a year in which a little bit of everything that can happen, happened. And despite all of the problems that the music world is going through we managed to survive another year and we are full of hope and excitement about 2010.

We are aware of the requests and the things that fans of the label are most worried about and we are working hard on all of it in order to try to have everything organized and updated in the first few months of the new year, so that it is easier to be up to date with everything that’s happening with our groups and our label. We’ve been working on the new Elefant website for the last few weeks, a new website that will maintain a similar design to the old website, but that will be much easier to use, much more intuitive, faster, and clearer. Yes, we are getting rid of Real Audio and you’ll be able to listen to the songs without having a player installed, and you’ll be able to change quickly and simply from the site in Spanish to the site in English from any page. We’re also going to have our new Elefant On-line store with great improvements. We’re closing deals to be able to have the entire catalog available on Spoti [ Read more ]

YO, TAMBIÉN [ME TOO]: will compete in the “World Cinema Narrative" category at Sundance Film Festival [USA]

“Yo También (Me Too)” has been selected to participate in the United States at the prestigious Sundance International Film Festival, founded by Robert Redford in 1981. The festival will take place January 21st – 31st, 2010, in Park City, near Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah. According to the announcement, “Yo También (Me Too)”, written and directed by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, has been chosen out of over thousands of movies from all over the world and will compete in the “World Cinema Narrative” category with thirteen other films from New Zealand, Iraq, Argentina, Columbia, Estonia, South Korea and Australia, among others. “Yo, Tambien” will begin its American trajectory on the grand scale. The Festival chooses 12 to 16 movies to compete in each of its four category: “US Documentary”, “US Dramatic”, “World Cinema Documentary” and “World Cinema Narrative". The Festival’s programmers chose, from among more than 9,800 movies and documentaries sent for the 2010 edition, “works that take risks and that tell a story in its entirety”. As a result, a total of 113 full-length features from 31 different countries and among them, “Yo Tambien (Me Too)”, a movie and a soundtrack that are already a [ Read more ]

LA CASA AZUL won the award!! It was already big news that LA CASA AZUL were nominated for these awards; when they passed on to the second round it was incredible; but now that the winners of this prestigious competition have been published, we know that LA CASA AZUL has been awarded “Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Award”, beating out artists like PET SHOP BOYS, THE SPECIALS, Thom Yorke, Carl Cox, THE PRODIGY and ALABAMA 3 in the fight for this prize. It is a landmark and a point of pride for independent music in in our country.

The UK Festival Awards are the Oscars of the music Festival industry in England; they are the only awards dedicated to recognizing and rewarding the colossal human effort that goes into creating the most important festival scene in the world. Established in 2004 and organized by Virtualfestivals.com (the number one website worldwide about music festivals), the new edition of the UK Festival Awards was celebrated live this past Thurdsay, November 19th in London in a ceremony that, in addition to the “Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Award” that LA CASA AZUL won, 20 more prizes were awarded, like BLUR’s award for best headliner; Glasonbury for best festival and KINGS OF LEON who won the award for Anthem of the Summer for “Sex on Fire”.

LA CASA AZUL participated in the English festival Indietracks this past July and thanks to their impressive scenery, the special charm that Guille gives off du [ Read more ]

“YO, TAMBIÉN” [ME TOO], triumphs in the San Sebastián Film Festival: The movie was awarded two Silver Conches, for best actor for Pablo Pineda and best actress for Lola Dueñas.

YO, TAMBIÉN [a new movie by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, starring Lola Dueñas and Pablo Pineda]

GUILLE MILKYWAY [LA CASA AZUL]: original movie soundtrack composer.

ELEFANT MUSIC SUPERVISION: artistic musical director.

The passion we feel for music at Elefant is something logical and evident, but from the start we have also been involved in and collaborated on artistic projects that go beyond the musical realm but that also need music to complete and fill out the work and make it more personal. A few years ago, our passion for the movies brought about the creation of “Elefant Music Supervision”, a project that has taken shape over time, with the goal of helping and collaborating on audiovisual projects of all kinds, offering musical supervision that would help the creators find the perfect music for their work. Shorts, documentaries, movies, commercial spots, television theme songs… we have found ourselves involved, sometimes directly, other times more indirectly, in a ton of national and international audiovisual projects that have used music from our company or projects that we have created with our artists’ exclusive pieces. International television series like “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Desperate H [ Read more ]

To vote in this last round (those of you who have already voted in the previous round should vote again so that it counts for this final round of voting), you have to go through the awards website, http://www.festivalawards.com, where you can find all of the categories listed at the bottom of the page. Select the category that the band is nominated for (Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Award) and vote for them.

Hurry up, because the voting ends November 4th!

VOTE HERE: Select the category that the band is nominated for (Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Awardhttp://www.festivalawards.com

A few days ago we told you that LA CASA AZUL had been nominated for the prestigious UK Festival Awards in the special prize category for the best concert. As the award title itself proclaims, the Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Award is designed to recognize those whose performance adds something extra to their show in the festival. It can be comedy, nostalgia, interaction with the audience, or simply that “secret ingredient”, basically something that sets them apart from the rest of the artists as true entertainers of the masses. So, as if that weren’t big enough news, we are announcing now that Guille Milkeyway’s band has made it to the final round, where they are up against 11 other bands like PET SHOP BOYS, THOM YORKE, BON IVER and THE SPECIALS, who are all competing against LA CASA AZUL for the honorable award. Our adored Guille is sti [ Read more ]

With the prestigious nominees recently announced for the UK Festival Awards, awards that give prizes related to diverse aspects of organization, philosophy, functioning, and of course the performances that take place at various UK Festivals, we have received notification that none other than LA CASA AZUL have been nominated for the special award given to the best live performance for their concert at the Indietracks Festival this past July. As the award name itself proclaims, the “Virtual Festivals Critics’ Choice Award” is designed to recognize those whose performance adds something extra to their show in the festival. It can be comedy, nostalgia, interaction with the audience, or simply that “secret ingredient”, basically something that sets them apart from the rest of the artists as true entertainers of the masses. And a spark went off like fireworks in a performance that left the audience at the festival (and, as this nomination shows, the critics too) speechless, with incredible audiovisuals and a show that was different from what the group had been doing throughout their Spanish tour the last year. It is a practically singular experience, that a Spanish group is nominated for English prizes, and that Guille Milkyway will have to compete against bands like PET SHOP BOYS, MERCURY REV, Andrew Bird, THE DIRTY THREE, FRIENDLY FIRES, LILY ALLEN, MGMT, NOVELLE VAGUE, Patrick Wolf, TOM JONES, THOM YORKE, BON IVER and PJ Harvey, among others. O [ Read more ]

The movie was awarded two Silver Conches, for best actor for Pablo Pineda and best actress for Lola Dueñas.

“Yo, Tambien” has had its first public appearance and it has been a complete critical success. The San Sebastián Film Festival was a shotgun start for a movie that has all its cards pointing to it becoming one of the most interesting independent films of 2010. The film is Álvaro and Antonio’s directorial debut, it is Pablo Pineda’s acting debut, it is also Guille Milkyway’s soundtrack debut and the first important project for our recently created “Elefant Music Supervision”. All of this has only magnified our excitement and celebration about the two Silver Conch awards that the film received in the 57th edition of the San Sebastián Film Festival, for best actor for Pablo Pineda and best actress for Lola Dueñas, both of whom are amazing on the screen, magical in real life and now, thanks to the Festival, a “timeless couple”.

Music plays a very important role in the movie and, as we’ve already announced, Guille Milkyway (LA CASA AZUL) was in charge of the movie’s thematic music and the theme song – a seventies style rumba that is becoming a huge hit on the Internet. The video has been up on Youtube for just two weeks and thanks to word of mouth, the LA CASA AZUL webiste and blogs, the video has had more than 20,000 viewings in record time. But if you still haven& [ Read more ]

YO, TAMBIÉN [a new movie by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, starring Lola Dueñas and Pablo Pineda]

The passion we feel for music at Elefant is something logical and evident, but from the start we have also been involved in and collaborated on artistic projects that go beyond the musical realm but that also need music to complete and fill out the work and make it more personal. A few years ago, our passion for the movies brought about the creation of “Elefant Music Supervision”, a project that has taken shape over time, with the goal of helping and collaborating on audiovisual projects of all kinds, offering musical supervision that would help the creators find the perfect music for their work. Shorts, documentaries, movies, commercial spots, television theme songs… we have found ourselves involved, sometimes directly, other times more indirectly, in a ton of national and international audiovisual projects that have used music from our company or projects that we have created with our artists’ exclusive pieces. International television series like “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Desperate Housewives”, “The O.C.”, “Summerland”, “Gilmore Girls”, “Ghost Whisperer”, “Degrassi”, “Chop shop”, “Exes & Ohs”, “One Tree Hill” or the imminent new HBO series “Bored to Death” all use music from Elefant Records on [ Read more ]

ELEFANT RECORDS TURNS 20 [1989-2009]

We’re going to England to celebrate our 20th anniversary at the Indietracks Festival, and the same weekend in Spain the ContemPopranea Festival will also be celebrating our birthday by paying homage to our label!

The Indyspensable festival in Madrid gave us the incredible gift of dedicating an entire day to Elefant this past June 12th, and other festivals like Fuengirola Pop Weekend or Lemon Pop will pay special homage to our label in their next editions of the festivals.

We want to thank everyone for having always been behind us! We feel really happy to have lasted all these years with our philosophy and way of understanding the music world, helping groups that excite us, who are on the sidelines of trends and the industry. None of this would have been possible without the label’s FANS, who have supported us all these years. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

THE INDIETRACKS FESTIVAL (UK) PAYS HOMAGE TO ELEFANT RECORDS FOR THEIR TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY BY GIVING US CONTROL OF THE MAIN STAGE! [JULY 24-25-26, Midland Railway, Butterley – Derbyshire, England]

Elefant Stage:

CAMERA OBSCURA, AU REVOIR SIMONE, BMX BANDITS, Rose Elinor Dougall, THE FRANK & WALTERS, FITNESS FOREVER, THE SCHOOL, Nick Garrie, LUCKY SOUL, SPEEDMARKET AVENUE, COOPER, LA CASA AZUL, COLA JET SET, SUCRETTE, TENDER TRAP, MODULAR, TEENAGE FANCLUB, STEREO-TOTAL .

+ info Here: http://www.indietracks.co.uk/ 

Friday, 24Indietracks FestivalModular + Rose Elinor [ Read more ]