Toxicosmos #40

Toxicosmos

The rock of death
Alberto Manzano
Dome Books | 2022
Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, George Harrison, Johnny Cash of Warren Zevon. Six musicians whose names have transcended their deaths and have become icons and fundamental pillars for understanding the history of rock.. But they have something else in common: All of them received the news of a terminal illness that led them to compose and publish a posthumous album.. This common link is what the journalist Alberto Manzano – renowned author of many other musical works – uses to delve into the lives of each of them., with a review as a summarized biography in which personal and family aspects intermingle with musical ones to take control of the story. Six independent chapters dedicated to six musicians and six albums. More of 300 pages, with a beautiful collection of photos in its central pages, that harbor their desires, memories and beliefs to understand those moving albums that they left as a legacy and gift to their followers. The show must go on, that Freddie Mercury sang.

You are beautiful and you are alone. Nico's biography
Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Contra | 2022
The first biography of Nico written from the feminine prism has just seen the light in which the muse gives way to the person to discover in its pages who was hiding behind Nico, the stage name of the real Christa Päffgen. International model from a young age, actress (Federico Fellini gave her a paper The sweet life) and inseparable from Warhol when he moved to New York. It was there when he met Lou Reed and ended up recording with his band The Velvet Underground one of the albums with the most iconic cover in history., the banana. The actor Alain Delon also passed through his life (with whom he had a child) or the filmmaker Philippe Garrel with whom he ventured into heroin consumption, throwing his life into a spiral of darkness and wildlife until his final stage in Ibiza., the one I frequented since the sixties. He arrived there looking for a renewed lifestyle and in the Mediterranean a renaissance.. It was on the island that fate found her. 1988 when I was riding a bike, to the 49 years. A life told after four years of research, consultations to his diary and dozens of interviews by cultural historian Jennifer Otter. The prologue is signed by the Valencian Rafa Cervera.

National Disc:
Pipiolas
The summer that you owe me
Elephant Records | 2022
The four songs from Paula and Adriana's debut EP are framed on a transparent vinyl splashed with black., Pipilas. The summer that you owe me It is instant pop that intersperses Spanish and English with punk-pop and electro touches., beautiful vocal combinations and lyrics of youthful emotion.

National Disc:
Dorian
The underground city
Intromúsica Records / Sinks | 2022
The acclaimed album of 2009 The underground city is now reissued for the first time on vinyl. One of the albums with the most hits together (eye to The sand storm o artificial paradises) that launched Dorian to headline festivals and become today's mass band. Essential edition for fans.

International disc:
Bubble tea and cigarettes
There’s nothing but pleasure
Elephant Records | 2022
New Yorkers Bubble Tea and Cigarettes debut with a beautiful and delicate dream-pop album called There’s nothing but pleasure. A silky female voice that flows over slow tempos surrounded by careful string arrangements, soft percussion and jazzy melodies. The perfect album for autumn.