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10/07/2005

New records coming out on Autopop Records

Autopop is Elefant Records’s own sublabel, through which our aim is to help and work with bands and artists who share our label’s philosophy and aesthetics and are ready to self-produce their recordings taking advantage of our structure. We can’t release everything we like, but we can help release a lot of recordings that are really worth seeing the light of day. That is undoubtedly the case with the two new references on Autopop: the long awaited first long-player by LOS SOBERANOS, and the great soundtrack from the movie “See you later Cowabunga”.

“Maratón ye-yé”, the album by LOS SOBERANOS, features fifteen cover versions from the most famous artists in Spanish and international pop music from the 60’s. Songs by Bruno Lomas, Juan y Junior, Rocío Dúrcal, LOS MUSTANG, Arthur Alexander, Caterina Caselli, etc... Fifteen direct, simple songs, fresh and full of humour; fifteen songs that will appeal to all and any kinds of public, from the toughest of the rockers to the most respectable of the family mothers. The record features as well a videoclip where LOS SOBERANOS perform “Yo no tengo a nadie”, originally by the great Spanish crooner Raphael.

“See you later Cowabunga”, on the other hand, ” is a tribute to the music films from the 60’s, specially to legendary Spanish film “Un, dos, tres al escondite inglés”, by cult director Iván Zulueta, and the movies Richard Lester did with THE BEATLES. All of this combined with an almost non-existent budget (around 3000 €), and under the influence of the great underground B-movie director Jess Franco. It’s also remarkable the cameo by legendary Spanish National Radio DJ Juan de Pablos, who works as a link between the different phases in the story. As Ernesto Ronchel, composer of the score, puts it: “the songs on this album aren’t but the outcome of many years listening to Juan de Pablos; all I know I have learnt from him... all about that world, now timeless, from the 50’s and 60’s. Now it’s me who writes songs and I feel I must pay tribute to all the “teachers” I’ve had from whom I have learnt so much: Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, Carole King, Booker T, Buddy Holly, Beatles, Burt Bacharach and a thousand million more. The record goes through the big variety of styles you can listen to at the radio show, from 50’s doo wop to the cute electronic synth-pop that’s in fashion these days, through Stax styled soul, some Françoise Hardy, Phil Spector’s wall of sound, some Gainsbourgism, home cooked Pet Sounds, Ramones guitars and many other things from the music that I love”.