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Setlist: 

01 Te Miro Mientras Duermes

02 Infectados

03 Te Espero En Navidad

04 Sube La Canción

05 Fraga

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BELLE GHOUL are releasing a digital single that includes three marvelous covers taken from different recording sessions, and that show the duo’s – formed by Christopher Tait (ELECTRIC SIX) and Jesse Smith (the daughter of Patti Smith and Fred “Sonic” Smith, from MC5) – calling to become classics, and that they emanate a certain magical halo influenced by the wintry seasons.

To start things off we have “Care Of Cell 44” by THE ZOMBIES, one of the starting points and musical coincidences between Jesse and Chris, as they themselves have said. Psychedelic pop made for a piano, with heavenly choruses à la BEACH BOYS, brushing up at some points against LOVIN’ SPOONFUL. Recorded in Tree Laboratory (Brooklyn) by Eric Hoegemeyer for Halloween night 2013, this song switches between a mystery and a luminosity that give it an unmistakable air of Christmas.

“Free Ride” was originally recorded during the sessions for “Saturday Knife Fight” and was finished in the Rust Belt Studios, for a tribute to Nick Drake that was ultimately never released. Luckily, the song is rescued here for us to enjoy in all of its solemnity, far from the intimacy of the original, with a more ambient touch but just as melancholy.

“Swee’Pea’s Lullaby” was was originally recorded during the sessions for “(Out Of) The Neighborhood“ in 2012, by Zach Shipps, but the truth is that this [ Read more ]

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In 2003, “Un Soplo En El Corazón”, the FAMILY album that definitively shifted the evolution of pop music made in Spain and that became a landmark of a cult group like few we will enjoy in this lifetime, had its 10-year release anniversary. To celebrate that sweet heart attack, Elefant Records, in collaboration with Rockdelux magazine, released an album in homage to the original, with diverse artists, both new and renowned, giving brave, daring, revered versions of the songs that made up such an inimitable album.

Now that the album has reached its twentieth anniversary, so that it is available to everyone, everywhere, especially to the new generations, Elefant Records is rereleasing it in digital format, where we will once again be able to enjoy these daring and curious versions. Like the arid poetry of ANA D, the immense sweetness of LA BUENA VIDA, FANGORIA’s double homage, or the dreamy melancholy of the versions by LOS PLANETAS, AMA, PARADE, APENINO, and CHUCHO. 

 ASTRUD, the most daring with their priceless live vocal revision of “El Bello Verano” adorned with the eternal melody of “The Pink Panther” soundtrack, and LA CASA AZUL’s powerful version with a fun, imaginative Shibuya-Kei rhythm, also participated on the album. The homage, made with all the love in the world, went beyond the concept of homage and became a part of the mood of the moment, with songs that are key to our way of understanding music toda [ Read more ]

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Another year has passed and the holiday season is here again. Here at Elefant, at this time of year, we’ve always like to plan something special for all of the label’s fans. Last year we released “A Christmas Gift for You from Elefant Records”, a compilation full of pop-Christmas carols that will continue to give us a few more surprises. This year we have a Special Holiday Sale in our Elefant store https://elefant.com/shop that will run from Friday, November 29th until Monday, January 20th, 2014. You can find so many of our products at really special prices.

We have dedicated a lot of our efforts this year to improving our online store,  and though there is still a lot of work to be done, we are really happy with the results of what we’ve done so far. The store is now divided in two parts, the Digital Store, for album and MP3 downloads, and the Physical Store. Some of the new aspects in the Physical Store are the new sections, which will help you find everything much faster. In “Last copies” you can find the albums that are about to go out of print. Now we have a new section exclusively for “Vinyls”, where fans of this format can find the entire collection of vinyls released by Elefant and vinyls from other labels that we distribute, together in one section. There is also a “Second hand” section where you can find a variety of albums; some released by Elefant, some o [ Read more ]

Roughly one year ago, on a day just like today we published the "La Fiesta Universal" video-clip. To celebrate this first anniversary we are pleased to share the new and improved "Full Version" of this audiovisual production with the supporters and fans of LA CASA AZUL. We think it’s amazing. Because of the times we live in, where everything goes at such a fast pace, there was no time to follow through with all of the ideas that Jean-Marie Marbach had bouncing around in his head. Over the past year this genius of the audiovisual world has managed to incorporate all the details and create the new scenes without which he thought the first version of the video-clip was just a little incomplete.

The new version features three kinds of changes: changes that are purely visual, changes linked to sound effects and changes that have a significant impact on the storyline, which are the most appreciable.

The purely visual changes are:

• A lot of set elements were added throughout the entire first scene where Guille wakes the android up. Before, the set was very dark and empty. Now there are blinking light tubes scattered around to fill up the empty space.• The Polynesian mountains are completely new.• The rest of the changes are corrections to Guille's helmet reflections, corrections to incorrect framings for some of the android shots and color timing corrections to enable a better color palette.

As regards sound effects: a proper mix of the [ Read more ]

Release Date: 18th November 

LP [Translucent Navy Blue Colour Vinyl] [Numbered Limited Edition of 500 copies] / CD DIGIPAK / DIGITAL • The vinyl format includes a free digital MP3 download [320 kbps]   

There are few times that a group’s name explains so much about their musical aspirations. THE MAGIC THEATRE’s music is a dramatic evocation with no limits; thousands of stories seem to flow within their melodies – through the richly timbred, vast instrumentation, in the impossible arrangements, and in the thousands of influences from all over the world that fill their songs. It is fantasy and imagination made into music, something that Dan Popplewell and Sophia Churney exalt on their second album, “The Long Way Home” – their first for Elefant Records. 

Ever since Popplewell and Churney met as part of OOBERMAN – the British band that won single of the year about ten years ago from The Times and Mark Radcliffe’s Radio One program, for their single “Shorley Wall” – the two felt compelled to work together. This was finally possible just a few years back with the birth of THE MAGIC THEATRE. After a delicious first album that set up all the parameters that this new album expands on, they signed with Elefant Records. And after that marvelous single, “I Got The Answer”, a song which is included on the album, we finally have “The Long Way Home”. 

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UNA PRODUCCIÓN APASIONANTE

Como productor de este disco, tengo que decir que éste ha sido un proyecto de absoluto disfrute artístico. Mi profundo amor por los discos deNino Bravo se remonta hasta prácticamente mi niñez. “Un beso y una flor” fue de los primeros discos que me compré y a través de las composiciones y, sobretodo, los arreglos de Algueró, Torregrosa,Calderón, Ferro, Ibarbia, etc… descubrí mi paraíso personal. No ha sido fácil enfrentarse a regrabar canciones que uno considera casi perfectas en todas sus facetas. Menos aún teniendo en cuenta que, excepto un par de casos,  no contábamos ni con la pista de voz de Nino Bravo ni con ninguna pista de instrumentos aislada. Solamente se disponía del máster de la grabación que todo el mundo tiene en sus casas. En este sentido se tuvieron que aplicar técnicas muy sofisticadas de tratamiento del sonido para conseguir separar elementos de forma artificial y sobretodo intentar que la voz de Nino Bravo siguiera sonando natural dentro de las nuevas grabaciones. Desde el primer momento tuve claro que el enfoque artístico del disco tenía que ser el de una grabación atemporal con total coherencia sonora y que pudiera resul [ Read more ]

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