Hola mis Mescalitos,
Mr Peyoti here!
We're really happy to let you all know that
the next single - from the recently released album, will be available
as a special digital release from 24th August, including to previously unreleased remix
dance versions!
Yo No Quiero Trabajar available digitally only.
RELEASE: 10th August, includes:-
Yo No Quiero Trabajar (Original off Album)
Yo No Quiero Trabajar remix from Alberta in Love, Barcelona
Yo No Quiero Trabajar remix from Sabio (eastern european hard dance)
This celebrates the continued monumental success of the album, 'Rising Tide of Conformity' which is breaking all records as an independent release from a previously hitherto, unheard of UK indie label!!
The 2 dance re-mix's can be heard on myspace. If you haven't bought the album yet then you should as last we heard there are only 500 left of the initial pressing.
You can purchase the album, 'Rising Tide of Conformity' from HMV, Amazon and many Independent record shops. If you're having problems because you live in a country with no physical distribution you can always order direct from Sordid Soup Records (www.sordidsouprecords.com). Catalogue No. SSOUP003A. Downloads available from itunes and most other online stores.....................
“Genuinely & Shockingly original!"
5/5 STARS Rock N Reel Magazine....
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“Agitation via world music hasn't been
this enthralling for a long time”....
4/5 STARS Rolling Stone, Germany ....
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“Leading us towards some of
the old virtues of politically dedicated multicultural musicianship." www.bluerhythm.de CD of the week ....
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“Breathtakingly modern and
in the best sense of the word - world/pop-avant-garde. Only Manu Chao,
Amparanoia, Lila Downs and very few others are getting politically &
socially involved in such an accomplished way. ” www.laut.de CD of the week....
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“I have never been a fan of
either Latino tunes or protest songs – but I have to admit here that I am
extremely impressed with this album.” 5/5 STARS Sub
City Radio....
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“Welcome the new champions of International
sound and universal message” ....
Fly
Global Music Culture ....
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“New era conquistadors of political punk” - Time Out....
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“This
is incendiary music – they cannot and surely will not be ignored” - Songlines Magazine....
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“Spirited
debut.....hits the ground running & doesn’t let up. These guys want to
party while they’re saving the world!”
5/5 stars - The Independent....
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“Not so much a pop group... more an
attitude........more a way of life.....more a way of thinking” ....
BBC 6 Music....
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“Fervent debut - politically provocative, it
happens to sound rather damn good too! 5/5 stars ....
Jungle
Drums Magazine....
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“Spirit of Punk, heart of the sixties
protest movement & the soul of the Black Panthers. You are going to take to
the streets and praise this record to the heavens!"....
4/5 stars - www.music-news.com....
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Stone Magazine, May 09 Germany 4 stars....
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Agitation
via world music hasn't been this enthralling for a long time: in the lyrics of
this urban troubadour the perverseness of democracy is disclosed using Jorge
Ben's 'mas que nada'-loop and the media brainwashing is decried, stupid
dignitaries are fought against with a megaphone and acoustic reggae. The
hyperventilating guitar and the staccato vocals are supported by fiery hand
percussion, scratch and electro effects are braided in sparingly, a suave
women's choir, a dervish violin and an Arabic flute are duelling with a Bush
speech." 4/5 STARS Rolling Stone May 2009....
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Blue Rythm – Germany
‘CD of the Week’....
"if
someone is announced in the same context as Manu Chao, one should be careful
nowadays. The stern-waves of the mestizo-hype have left us with a bunch of
mediocre shout-bands after all. But you should prick up your ears for Pietro
DiMascio, who calls himself Peyoti - out of the globalized monotony, he and
almost twenty sidemen and -women are leading us towards some of the old virtues
of politically dedicated multicultural musicianship." www.bluerhythm.de CD
of the week and Jazz Thing review 04-06 09....
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Laut.de - Germany ‘CD of the week’....
Breathtakingly modern
and in the very best sense World Pop & Avant Garde. What audacious,
innovative integration giving transport to classics in a contemporary context.
Grossly impertinent the combination of Rock, Punk & Pop, Samba, Salsa &
Rhumba from British artists collective, Peyoti for President.
Mr Matthias Manthe says: So far, the spirit of empire
formation & shines with experimentation - all enriched with a decent shot
of the party & feel-good music!
So skillful a mix only manu Chao, Amparanoia, Lila Downs and
a few others have into political socail have done. In this Peyoti
wonderland I also would like to live where snake charmers and Indian, south and
North Americans, whites and blacks, old world and new world are celebrating a
peacefu co-existence. I want my tent up here forever, where these songs are
sung - evil men have no songs. But, back to reality. Since then (2001 with 1
Giant leap album - sounded like clever), no world-music pearl on this scale has
reached my ears.
It's bossa Nova, Pop & Samba, rock, Flamenco and veteran
singer songwriter. All this and more. Pietro DiMascio and his band have
masterminded in place is something to be banned - or adored. I hope for the
latter. Where forbidden music beautiful music, in uninhabited areas and
uneplored terrain - leave just one conclusion - vote Peyoti for President.
REVIEW March 2009....
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Songlines - May 2009 Album Review
4 stars....
From the first few
‘Firestarter’-like bars of the opener, ‘Take A Leap’, which swerves sharply
through a musical slalom of ticking clocks, crowd noises, insistent flamenco,
staccato salsa and echoey male vocals about revolution and fighting the system,
Peyoti for President has you sitting up, hair on end, and taking notice. Manu
Chao did; the rabble-rousing London collective ended up supporting their hero
on his recent sell-out UK tour as a result. ....
Initially envisioned by
Anglo-Italian singer Pietro DiMascio and Anglo-Brazilian percussionist Ulisses
Bezerra, Peyoti for President cut and paste together pop, politics, sound
effects and the sounds of multicultural London on this quite stunning debut.
Tracks like the carnivalesque ‘We The People’ sweeten messages such as
‘Commodity, pathology and craven anti-ology/Competing in a partnership of
broken ideology’ with whistles and smooth bossa touches; while ‘No Me Siento
Malo’ is a rollicking tale of unrequited love that has a chugging party vibe.....
DiMascio’s voice is
compelling: rich, resonant and beautifully enunciated. He is something of a
standard bearer for a musically savvy generation of party-loving activists –
he’s up there with the likes of revered British Asian percussionist Dinesh,
erstwhile Natacha Atlas ney player Louai Alhenawi and a wealth of musicians
from Australia and India to Jamaica and Spain. ‘Protest the rising tide of
conformity’ ordered Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in 1964. Forty-odd years later,
with consumerism running riot, Peyoti for President are still pulling the plug
out.
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Rock n Reel Magazine UK - May 2009
5 stars....
Explicitly political
music in Britain still tends to generally fall into one of two categories: the
angry young ska/punk bands such as king Blues and Sonic Boom Six - and those
radical folk singers (Gaughan, Rosselson, Bragg) who know there's more to
tradition than maypoles and fair maidens. Which is why Peyoti for President are
such a breath of fresh air: they fit neither description and can hopefully
confuse those who dismiss political music as the 'same old same old.'
Pietro Dimascio, London born front man, has surrounded
himself with musicians, inspiration and ideas from countries as diverse as
Brazil, Egypt, Syria, India, Jamaica, Italy and Spain - the ensuing racket,
loosely samba driven but borrowing from right around the world is funky, fresh
and vital. The up-front lyrics (wake up, rise up! listen to your conscience ,
because its your responsibility - wake up rise up!!) place the band somewhere
Manu Chao and Rage Against the Machine though without any of their traditional
rock stylings: the anger is driven by rhythm and a unique cultural mixture,
acoustic guitars and hand-claps, congas and fiddle, samples and brass.
To Peyoti's credit, the album is genuinely and shockingly
original.
In a globalised world, it seems more imoportant than ever to
find new and universal ways of expressing anger and dissatisfaction and desire
for change. This album - its title taken from a 1964 photograph of Joan Baez
and Bob Dylan - sounds like a perfectly apt response to the madness of a world
at war. 5 STARS....
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The Independent - 3rd May 2009 Top Rating....
This
spirited debut hits the ground running and doesn't let up for a moment. It's a
fizzing cocktail of funked-up flamenco and Manu Chao style pop/rock which owes
as much to Ojos de Brujo as it does to The Clash. Frontman DiMascio sings with
a Bolanesque croon while strumming his acoustic with finger bleeding intensity
and although much of the material has a political slant, there's no
proselytising; these guys want to party while they're saving the world.....