Giorgio Tuma, release their second album "My Vocalese Fun Fair"

So much time gazing out over the Atlantic, observing Salvador de Bahia from the other side of the ocean, when it turns out that the most exotic sun shines on this side of the Mediterranean, in Italy, where Giorgio Tuma has just released his second, marvelous album, “My Vocalese Fun Fair”.

Starting with fibers as solid as the delicacy of Caetano Veloso at his most Bahian, the elegance of Burt Bacharach, the jazzy approximations of Antonio Carlos Jobim, the circus-like psychedelia of the BEATLES at their highest, the Californian soft pop and a touch of sweet soul in the style of Terry Callier or Marvin Gaye, Giorgio Tuma builds a source of imagination with “My Vocalese Fun Fair” that makes his inseparable band mates, OS TUMANTES (as a tribute to the Brazilian psychedelic pop group OS TUMANTES), reach their highest level. This album is able to bring together the different influences of all these artists and fit them together with their own personality. Sunny melodies, bright arrangements, a production with echoes of the sixties, deep Brazilian influences, and above all, a highly inspired artist with clear colorful inclinations, as the album cover, designed by the internationally renowned artist, Davide Zucco, perfectly portrays. And the lysergic aspect, the one required by music with so many tonalities, the one which painted the submarine yellow, is found in lyrics that are authentic space voyages, a spirit that is perfectly defined in the lyrics of “Musical Express”, where it says “I’ve singable dreams”. Giorgio Tuma is the artist that turned the daily journey of the summer sun into music. But it is not a yellow, monotonal or monotone sun, but a sun that has a complex shine, complete, full of nuances, one we believe in and that, as such, manages to irremediably affect our state of mind. Giorgio Tuma, the man who turned the colors into notes.

Tracklist: 01. Introduction 02. Two happy sad guitars... 03. Saltamontes 04. Let's make the Stevens cake!!! 05. Musical express 06. ... And three parasol stars 07. Astroland by bus 08. Coney island memories 09. Marsico 10. St Nicholas' blue melody 11. Ml Db (Mary Louise song) 12. Faye’s flying shoes 13. Dedicated to Timmy the whale 14. Sirens pray for us 15. G-Lombardi magic rollercoasters

- “Introduction”. The opening melody, the melancholic feeling that sets off the sunrise.

- “Two Happy Sad Guitars...”. A beginning with a bittersweet, vintage feel like THE CLIENTELE, but just a moment before, they make the leap to the world of samba a la Edu Lobo and Marcos Valle. It is in this moment that we realize that the journey has begun, that we are already on the train, just in the moment when he begins to sing, backed by his TUMANTES, “white rails to moon!” and Brazil appears for the first time. The joy of a new day.

- “Saltamontes”. An addictive melody, SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME spiced with Northern Soul, and lyrics that are pure expressionism: “Happiness and cakes / chocolate words to say / dreams!!! / fireflies on water / glitter together / the more the better / everyone's awake”

- “Let's Make The Stevens Cake!!!” Return to samba, this time along the lines of Luis Bonfa and the QUARTETO EM CY, with a melody that smells like coral, salt and sand. That’s right, we’re by the sea.

- “Musical Express”. A playful song that tells us of a new journey to the heavens, like a song by Vinicius de Moraes released by Él Records. A journey that could easily be a walk through the most wonderful and utopian childhood memory.

- “...And Three Parasol Stars”. Brasil peeks in through the window again, with a bossa rhythm, this time with a memorable piano part, and what is probably the most hummable chorus of the whole album: “Gleaming light on my fingertip / I design a ship with a see-through sail”.

- “Astroland by Bus”. STEREOLAB meet soul. THE BEATLES meet Brian Wilson. One of those meetings that only Tuma can make work, with impossible songs that in little more than three minutes are constantly changing structure, melody, and time.

- “Coney Island Memories”. Sweet and peaceful soul-bossa, Marvin Gaye, SLY & THE FAMILY STONE, Joao Gilberto, the warm and marvelous voice of Matilde de Rubertis...

- “Marsico” closes the trio of openly soul-styled songs on the album. The sun is high on the horizon. The musical journey moves into a new and comforting stage.

- “St. Nicholas' Blue Melody”. Without a doubt the most bucolic moment on the album, with those bells and the omnipresent piano evoking the sweet melancholy of “Pet Sounds” and the elegance of Henry Mancini on the keyboards. The sun is beginning to move toward the horizon. The sky turns lovely shades of carmine.

- “Ml Db (Marie Louise Song)”. Nick Drake and Tim Buckley light up the night sky, while we lie back in the sand on the beach and look at the stars. The accordion’s melody evokes Mediterranean coasts, small fishing towns dyed with lime, the fireworks that mark the local celebrations of August. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE have forgotten the cold.

- “Faye's Flying Shoes”. The sheets get ready to wrap themselves around our dreams, our space voyages. Burt Bacharach and PLUSH sing a lullaby that doesn’t exist. It’s the story that doesn’t let you fall asleep, the story that fills you with excitement.

- “Dedicated to Timmy The Whale”. Caetano Veloso and Joao Gilberto caress us with a samba to say goodbye to the sea and to the sun, full of excitement and happiness as well as peace and beauty.

- “Sirens Pray for Us”. The sirens hold us in their lap and sing us into the deepest sleep. A melancholic, comforting song, goodbye to the day’s last ray of light, with the conviction that tomorrow, bright and early, it will return.

- “G-Lombardi Magic Rollercoasters”. It’s nighttime, time to dream of roller coasters and imaginary planets, circuses and chocolate cakes. That’s how peace sounds, in Brazil.

Release date: January, 26th 2009

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