Ooh-la-lá!!!

A new album by Farish Nourallah for free download if you register on Magic (Revue Pop Moderne)!!
Thank you Faris, Merry Christmas for you too.
:)


...Although I have to confess my favourite Faris record still is “I love Faris” (2003).

*(If you love The Beatles, Elliott Smith and so on you won’t be disappointed)

Here’s a beautiful beautiful Gucci commercial directed by David Lynch.
Look at the lights, the colour palette, the atmosphere ...and Blondie’s Heart of Glass is the soundtrack!!


And the behind the scenes...

As you supposed I’m a huge Tropicalia fan, yesterday saw a great documentary about it from the BBC “Brasil Brasil” series.
You can see the whole documentary on YouTube as well, embedded below is part 3.
Enjoy it and have a nice day*

Sorry for not posting these days... I’ve been on a business trip :/
And now for something completely different: A personal November’s Soundtrack:
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Fleet Foxes : Fleet Foxes
(This record is magic! It makes me think sometimes about The Hidden Cameras scoring a Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti Western movie. “White Winter Hymnal” is just brilliant. )

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of Montreal : Skeletal Lamping
(I know that I repeated this one... but I’ve been months hooked on this amazing album. Kevin Barnes is a total contemporary genius. )

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Tom Zé : Grande Liquidação
(God Bless Tropicalia!!! )

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Glenn Gould : The Complete Goldberg Variations 1955 & 1981.
(A classic masterpiece. A must.)

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Jessica Bailiff : Old Things. Une collection de chansons 1999-2003.
(Dreamy shoegazer hypnotic compilation. Some of these songs seem to perfectly fit on Twin Peaks.)

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Beach House : Devotion.
(What a warm beautiful and dreamy album...)

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Final Fantasy : Spectrum 14th Century EP+ Plays to Please EP.
(I am a total self-confessed Owen Pallet fan. Final Fantasy concerts are A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I wish I could attend to his show together with Grizzly Bear and The Brooklyn Philarmonic on next February! )

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Ally Kerr : Off The Radar + Amorino.
(Ally’s delicate pop songs are soft and brilliant.)

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Vinícius de Moraes & Toquinho... : Grabado en Buenos Aires.
(Really funny bossa-nova albums, great songs mixed with jokes and a lot of saudade.)

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Comet Gain : Broken Record Prayers.
(Fantastic fantastic garage band! One of my favs.)

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Last night saw “32 short films about Glenn Gould” and now admire him more than ever. Great sense of humour, absolutely brilliant genius and a total lover of nature and animals. Quite eccentric but totally charming.

Here you can see Gould playing Bach (amazingly):


and this was the last short film I saw yesterday:


Enjoy the weekend*

Vivien Goldman is a brilliant british journalist and a post-punk icon, Launderette is her best known song (maybe you know it from Chicks On Speed produced “Girl Monster” triple CD).

from Books EP (2004).

New song from one of my favourite bands...
“Love without lies” is the new single of the new Comet Gain album “Broken Record Prayers”

Have a nice monday!

Beat Happening : Every single album...
(Since I was fifteen, a time a year I fall under the spell of Calvin Johnson & friends once again... Even my iMac is called Calvin! )


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The Delmontes : Carousel.
(Discovered them last year, a great new wave brit album!)

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The Jesus and Mary Chain : The Power of Negative Thinking (b-sides and rarities 4CD box set).
(A shoegazer collector’s gem).

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Pluramon feat. Julee Cruise : Dreams top rock.
(This is a classic for me...Julee, the dreamy voice from Twin Peaks “Fallen” -main theme- singing in a delicious neo-shoegazer Pluramon album).

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Ride : Nowhere.
(Another shoegazer must. Steve made me remember! Thank you :).

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Bridget St John : Ask me no questions.
(One of the key-records by Bridget released on Dandelion, John Peel’s label. Beautiful late 60s folk.)

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Animal Collective : Sung Tongs.
(Before I was a “Feels” person... but now I’m not so sure... Sung Tongs is amazing!)

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Foals : Antidotes.
(Great contemporary sound, neo-new-wave! once again?! Bravo!)

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Josef K : Entomology.
(Together with The Monochrome Set and Orange Juice are my favourite male post-punk brit bands)

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Electrelane : No shouts, no calls.
(“To the east” played loud drives me crazy)

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Today at Centre d’Art Santa Monica is starting a David Shrigley’s exhibition.
I really like this man and totally adore the Worried Noodles book (and the album performed by tons of talented artists!)

Well, nothing else to say...if you are in Barcelona don’t miss the exhibition please, it will make you a nicer person ;)



*The video is Grizzly Bear’s contribution to Worried Noodles.

Sorry didn’t post these days, I’ve been on a trip (two pictures below).


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While I was on the train back to Barcelona yesterday I got noticed about how much I get addicted to long songs...
I was playing over and over “Calvary Scars II / Aux Out” by Deerhunter and then came to my mind some of my favourite songs above 5 minutes...

Some examples:

Calvary Scars II / Aux Out - Deerhunter (10:12)

No conclusion - of Montreal (9:42)

Melody of a fallen tree - Windsor for the Derby (8:16)

I’m still in love (12 inch mix) - Marcia Aitken (7:10)

Hurricane - Bob Dylan (8:33)

Heroin - The Velvet Underground (8:15)

Emily - Joanna Newsom (12:08)

The Purple Bottle - Animal Collective (6:48)

On a nerve - Vetiver (7:39)

Tiger Trap - Beat Happening (6:53)

Mundo, demonio y carne - Los Brincos (12:22)

House of jealous lovers - The Rapture (5:02)

pd: in this list I’m not mentioning any post-rock nor electronic songs as the lenght comparison would be unfair.

**I created on LastFM a playlist with some of the songs in case you want to check them out ;)

Deerhunter : Microcastle + Weird Era Cont.
(I have a total crush on this band...So talented and amazing...check their blog to download extra songs, singles, mixes, read Bradford Cox concert reviews, lots of things!! -promise when the unintentionally autoleaked “Weird Era Cont” is released I’m going to buy it, it’s a totally brilliant album even without mastering!!!)



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Atlas Sound : Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
(Solo project by Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox)



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of Montreal : Skeletal Lamping
(One of my favourite bands, amazingly baroque post-modern compositions. Wish I could attend to their upcoming Barcelona show on October 17th! - I’ll be on a trip :( -)



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Department of Eagles : In ear park
(Beautiful side project from Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen)



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Mark Eric : A midsummer’s day dream
(A exquisite soft-psychedelic pop jewel by Mark Eric, a former Hollywood actor, model... A BEAUTIFUL RECORD)



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Antsy Pants : Antsy Pants
(Kimya Dawson and some really talented persons under legal age)



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Jay Reatard : Matador Singles ‘08
(New album from another of my late crushes Jay Reatard, pure garage punk bold sound!)



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Duglas T. Stewart : Frankenstein
(Solo album by Duglas, BMX Bandits’ alma mater with many of his friends and collaborators)



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Megapuss : Surfing
(Alternative project from Devendra Banhart, this time collaborating with Greg Rogove -drummer from Priestbird-.)



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The Who : Sell Out
(A must)

Tonight I’m attending a Great Italian Opera Night at Palau de la Música Catalana -a stunning concert hall modernista designed by Domènech i Montaner between 1905-08-.

Arias, duets and recitatives special :D
I wish some of the tenors will sing “Una Furtiva Lagrima” from L’Elisir d’Amore (Donizetti) -here’s a link for the song singed by Best Tenor Ever: Enrico Caruso-

Tonight we are attending The Little Ones concert at La2 del Apolo (Barcelona).
A nice indie-pop dose is necessary when summer is fading into autumn...
See you there :)

of Montreal is one of my favourite bands... their songs are like contemporary operettas, eclectic and mutating all the time.
I’m in love with their new record.

here is a video from their last record Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?



...and today I need to talk about other of my must bands at the moment... in Pitchfork you can see a three part interview with Jay Reatard (totally love his music! -specially loud-)

Two weeks ago I saw “Les demoiselles de Rochefort” and I still can’t take out of my mind the main song from the movie composed by le grand Michel Legrand. Catchy tune, great choreography and endless beauty by sisters in real life Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac.

See the video below, and if you haven’t seen the movie yet, run and go for it ;)




*also highly recommended “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” directed by Jacques Demy too!

Andre Herman Dune and Rachel Lipson : Metal and Vinyl



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The Electric Prunes : I had too much to dream (last night)



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Serge Gainsbourg : Almost all of his records...




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Turquoise : The Further Adventures of Flossie Fillett. The Complete Recordings




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Samara Lubelski : Spectacular of Passages / Parallel Suns



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Jana Hunter : There’s no home



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France Gall : Poupée de Son



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Free Kitten : Inherit (I just realized that I bought my first Free Kitten vinyl when I was 15!... 12 years ago :O )



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Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found BOX SET : One Kiss Can Lead to Another.



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Andy Capp : Pop-a-top (this single was on the famous John Peel box)



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I love Tropicalia...
the brazilian movement and the chair designed by Patricia Urquiola.

Aren’t both gorgeus?


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brrrrr... Totally addicted to the newest Architecture in Helsinki EP “Like it or not”.
To me sounds likeTalking Heads in el caribe or Arcade Fire suffering from jungle fever... well, maybe my brain is suffering calypso fever with such a hot weather in Barcelona... :D

On the same EP there’s a weirdo latin remix by El Guincho... azucar!!

Totally recommended!

Below the fantastic video created by Meg Whitmarsh for the main song...

MusicVictim are THE playlists/podcast masters...
Hundreds of playlists selected by great artists ready to listen and/or download.
For the ones working on august they made three new compilations!!
Listen to them while you picture yourself on a stunning hidden beach...
:)

Well... If you don’t know anything about Maywa Denki, never is too late ;)
They are sooooo amazing that I can’t describe it with words.
First a video of a live performance and then another with some explanations about their instruments.

Have a nice friday*

I recorded this video last Saturday at the Caribou concert.

It was a pity that the concert was short and really late (3 AM)... Razzmatazz should have hired Caribou to play like a normal concert instead of a Club Session performance... Enjoyed it anyway.. here’s Melody Day

Jay Reatard : Singles + Split 7’ w/ Deerhunter



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Carl Barât : Under The Influence



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Belle and Sebastian : Push the barman to open old wounds



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Antonio Carlos Jobim-Luis Bonfa : Black Orpheus



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Desmonde Dekker ...most of his albums



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Trojan Reggae Sisters Box Set : (you have to listen to the infectious Dusty Springfield’s “Son of a preacher man” cover!)



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The Byrds : Younger than yesterday



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Neil Halstead : Oh! Mighty Engine



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Feist : The Reminder



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Le Corbeau : Le Corbeau (another fantastic side-project from Serena Manesh and The Lionheart Brothers)



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If you are in Barcelona this weekend, don’t even think of missing a Caribou concert in Razzmatazz’s super-duper-5-club-in-one-Poble Nou-factory...

2:30 AM though...but it’s summer! who cares!?

Here are two Caribou clips to enjoy meanwhile...
(great dreamy psychedelic pop songs)

Playground is a great spanish music magazine that you can enjoy online...
The project is only three weeks old but it’s quality is amazing!
Spanish only... sorry :)

Really funny Devendra Banhart video... Starring his beloved Natalie Portman and lots of Hindu deities ;)
*Pay attention to the subtitles!

Yesterday had the chance to see a classic movie called “Picnic at Hanging Rock”... knew some things about it but was stunned by the cinematography and the overall beauty. Amazing scenes, light games and psychedelic effects.
Felt like watching Sofia Copula's inspiration before making The Virgin Suicides...The soundtrack is mostly pan-pipe music but if they were changed into synths could have been made by Air easily.

A perfect sunday aussie movie.

Another video that I love...
Kiiiiiii are exotic, brilliant, crazy and funny!

The Kinks (can’t mention just one album...)



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VA - Through the Wilderness : A Tribute to Madonna



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El Guincho "Alegranza"
(great cover design by a friend of us Jordi Ferreiro!)



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Cineplexx “Picnic”



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Tara Jane O’Neil “A Raveling”



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The Wedding Present “El Rey”



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VA - Shadow Music of Thailand



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Los Clásicos de la Ópera - 400 años. 37 CD/book collection.



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VA- Juno B-Sides: Almost Adopted Songs



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The Pastels. EVERYTHING!!



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I recorded this while people were pogo-dancing around me... that’s why the video is soo short.... but totally recommend this gig.
The noisiest experience in my life! EVER!
There were free earplugs for the audience at the entrance of the Roundhouse... A MUST.

You can download the video from the link above... YouTube was banning the video the two times I tried... :/

...and below a couple of Kevin Shields pictures I took.

Grrrr... tonight is our My Bloody Valentine so awaiiited concert...

But in the meantime a fan made a youtube video with great movie scenes:

Cineplexx new album out tomorrow!!
Released by Portia Records, Out June 24th (US)

Download Espiral & Droga Paliativa CDs for free & pre-order the new album here
Portia can ship internationally...take advantage of the cheap dollar!
...and if you order it from Portia you’ll get a free poster designed by us!

also coming up a UK LIVE SHOW...

Cineplexx + Ally Kerr (with special guests) Live! @ Viva Melodia
June 25th, start 8pm (West End Festival, Bar Brel, Glasgow UK)
Thanks to Ally Kerr, Cineplexx will be playing at Viva Melodia (Glasgow, UK) with Ally and special guests. Will be an acoustic solo & short set so please be in time. At 10pm Ally will DJ as well! see you there....
more: http://www.westendfestival.co.uk/Event.aspx?id=644

Tomorrow leaving for London... Will attend My Bloody Valentine concert at the Roundhouse, Gang of Four at Massive Attack's Meltdown, Jon Slade (ex-Comet Gain / Huggy Bear) at HowDoesItFeel... will visit Brick Lane Market too... but, do you have any special recommendations? I'll be more than glad to hear it!

send me an e-mail: ana[at]pop-pervert.com





Note: You knew about this cover homage, didn’t you?
;)

Sidedown has just launched a new music label!
Congratulations Josh!
All the best from Barcelona*

Summer is coming up and we are getting ready for our next "Alan the Gallant music compilations". We give it away to our clients, the best way to disconnect from all...
Indie-ear playlists for all the family ;)

*In the picture “Days of the Week CD collection” created 2 years ago...

Music for mondays, tuesdays...

Party animals, art lovers, music victims... this is your chance to dance 24h non-stop and enjoy contemporary art at the same time...
Hangar is invading Centre d’Art Santa Monica for a day, starting this evening 20PM.
So if you are in Barcelona, you have no excuses*

I showed you the CD cover and back a while ago... now comes the jungle fever collages that never reached the light during the design process... enjoy!

comments and favourites at... ana[at]pop-pervert.com

A-SIDES (just to refresh your mind)





B-SIDES

Herman Dune "Giant"



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Vashti Bunyan "Some things just stick in your mind"



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Scarlett Johansson "Anywhere I lay my head"



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Windsor for the Derby "How we lost"



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Comet Gain : the whole discography... (we can’t even choose one!)


... and many more!

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The Rapture “Echoes” (again! and as punk as the first time...)



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Damon Albarn “Mali Music” & ”Democrazy”



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Rose Melberg “Cast away the clouds”



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Mozart : EVERY LITTLE PIECE... (did you know that Mozart is ideal to regenerate your body cells?)




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Yes, I love Uni and her ukelele!
And she's coming to Barcelona to play at Heliogabal and Duduá!

See you there
;)

Watch out L.A.! This poster will be everywhere!!!

2 poster design drafts created for Cineplexx’s upcoming album PICNIC...available soon in the U.S. and Canada!

more info at Cineplexx website and Portia Records.

We saw yesterday "30 century man" a documentary about Scott Walker, we loved him already, but after the film we adore him even more...

Oh MY!
Can't believe I forgot to mention on our April's TOP 10 The High Dials "War of the Wakening Phantoms"!!

Well, now is number eleven...
;)

Jamie Lidell "Jim"



PJ Harvey "White Chalk" -so addictive!-



Robert Wyatt "Comicopera"



Enrico Caruso "The Complete Caruso Box"



Of Montreal "Icons, Abstract Thee"



My Bloody Valentine The whole discography! We are seeing them next june!!



Pants Yell! "Alison Statton"



Syd Barret "The Madcap Laughs"



Jonathan Richman "Because her beauty is raw and wild"



BLUR "10 anniversary BOX SET"

Tonight going to the launch of spanish étapes magazine. The mag has been one of our favorite ones ever!
We are really happy to see that Internet 2 is playing at the party, their concerts are a must-see...

Blonde Redhead video, directed by Mike Mills and performing Miranda July, we love both...

Jeremy Jay "Airwalker"



The Raveonettes "Lust Lust Lust"



David Shrigley "Worried Noodles"



Hidrogenesse "Animalitos"



Von Südenfed "Tromatic Reflexxions"



Sandro Perri "Tiny Mirrors"



Little Wings "Soft Pow'r"



V.A. Jonny Greenwood is the controller ( TROJAN )



Loney, Dear "Sologne"



El perro del mar "From the valley to the stars"

Just to let you know how much I love Mark E. Smith, The Fall and Von Sudenfeld... I can't get enough.





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Astonishing images, experimental cinema, great song selection (warning: not from Daft Punk!) ...




*the last scene image reminded me the famous Boccioni sculpture from Futurism avantgarde.

I am appearing on the cover of Ally Kerr's upcoming album "Off the radar", designed by my respected and beloved teatimestudio.

*(the back cover picture is taken by me too)

amazing band, amazing improvised concert: here

itte studio designed the new record by Cineplexx, Picnic, with collaboration from Mr. Cineplexx himself (a.k.a teatimestudio)

I made a polaroid-shoot -no retouch at all- for Cineplexx’s upcoming album Picnic!

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Photographic assistance at new album from Federico Aubele “Panamericana” designed by teatimestudio