Toxicosmos #43

Toxicosmos

dance you
Luis Costa
Anagram | 2022
This book dedicated to the art of dance and enjoyment is presented in pocket format.. It is signed by someone who knows a lot about it.: Luis Costa, DJ who since 1994 fill the nights with rhythms and beats, and writer who has already surprised us with previous musical volumes. With fluorescent pink cover, This book talks about music but also about celebrating life, because dancing makes us connect with the deepest part of our being. It has always been like this in any culture, as demonstrated by the first modern dances on the plantations of the southern United States around 1890, until the clubbing actual, going through jazz in the twenties, el swing, el twist, soul and pop, disco music, the balearic sound, and until the cod Valencian. And those are just some of the musical terms that appear here, why, With this book, so enjoyable to read, you will learn a lot., but above all you will enjoy anecdotes, like knowing that the first DJ appeared in 1943 in the English city of Leeds and the first nightclub a few years later in Paris. A notebook that reminds us of the importance of socializing, move, dance and burn sole, because Nietzsche already said it: whoever doesn't dance is out of reality.

Disco local:
Doctor Divago
The promised land
Bonavena Music | 2023
After thirteen albums and 33 years into their career, the Valencians Doctor Divago return with a brilliant new work that is eminently rock. With beautiful melodies and pop arrangements, careful vocal harmonies (What a great voice that of Manolo Bertran!) and a brilliant production. Disco to start the year.

National Disc:
Rigoberta Bandini
The empress
Rigoberta Bandini | 2022
Perhaps this is one of the most anticipated albums on the national scene.. After releasing small pills in the shape of singles, Catalan artist Rigoberta Bandini's full-length debut is finally published, in which she brings together a good collection of hits vitalistic and luminous.

International disc:
Belle and Sebastian
Late developers
Matador Records | 2023
Not even a year has passed since the publication of the previous work by the Scots Belle and Sebastian and we already have a new installment: a delicious album of eleven songs with the purest essence of the band, at the height of his best creations. High caliber indie pop.