Ubiquity Records' gets all fruity with Tigerbalm's second solo album at the 'Bubblegum Discos'!
You'll recall Tigerbalm's 'Nayar' (with Giorgio Lopez) from last year (see review HERE) but we are now four years on from the release of her acclaimed, outward-looking debut solo album, 'International Love Affair' so it's about time we had studio album number two, the thrillingly impressive and kaleidoscopic 'Bubblegum Discos'.
Prepare yourself for "Tigerbalm’s interpretations of two of her most cherished musical inspirations – Brazilian musical culture, and vintage dancefloor workouts from the African continent – infused with nods to Italo-disco, proto-house, soca and the fusion work of Jasper Van’t Hof" - he of 'Pili Pili - Selected Works 1984-2002 (See review HERE).
And whilst we're very much in that nu-disco fusion, the album can be split into South America and African continental groove.
And 'Diga Me'! If 'Diga Me', featuring regular vocalist Joy Tyson / co-produced by Michele Charivarini, doesn't get the dancefloor moving in a disco rush for the dancefloor, there's no hope - it's a carnival dream with Flora Purim-esque cat suite and whistles.
And talking Airto/Purim et al - get Cuíca's out for the "samba-disco colour of ‘Vera En Paraty’, a brilliantly breezy and life-affirming affair fronted by vocalist Melodie Correira" whilst Tigerbalm (aka Rose Robinson) takes to the vocals on the proper Italo-synth'd up Bubblegum of 'Coco Makako' which is a bit of an ear worm grower.
'Pura Vida' picks up on the Pura Vida sound of GUTS (see HERE) and who could resist Afriquoi performer Andre Espeut vocals in Lingala (the creole-like language of the Democratic Republic of Congo) and returning for percussion-rich album closer ‘Conga’, a thrillingly heavyweight fusion of Afro-centric disco rhythms, weighty dub disco bass and far-sighted flashes of synthesised colour.
'Do Da Soca' and 'Afro-Diso' complete this album and whilst it's miles away from some of the early releases on Ubiquity (and indeed The Flying Mojito Bros. - see review HERE) what they all have an upbeat and dancefloor craving attitude; and we can all do with some of that to chew on!
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Artist: Tigerbalm
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