Vinocio - Tostados (Self Release)
- The Slow Music Movement
- 5 days ago
- 2 min read
*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's June 3rd Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***
Out of the blue this week Vinocio landed on my radar. Well not quite out of the blue. As I was struggling for releases to recommend, I decided for the first time in years to scope out Gilles Peterson’s latest radio 6 show tracklist for new artists that I didn’t recognise, and there they were. If only I had time to actually listen to his shows again. Alongside John Peel, whose selections warped my fragile teenage mind so much I’d never listen to commercial music again, and Charlie Gillett my world music mentor, Peterson was such an influential DJ in the 90s and 00s for me and it’s great to see him still in the game and as enthusiastic as ever. Check him out if you want some jazz rooted eclecticism old and new.
So over to Argentina, a country whose musical output, apart from tango, tends to get ignored by many, and which has never been of much interest to soul jazz and disco lovers. Whether that’s a failure of creativity, international marketing or just the language barrier who knows? Well say ‘hola’ to Vinocio - multi-instrumentalists Lucio Memi and Fermín Carpena, plus a revolving cast of musicians that help out in the studio and at gigs, who are serving up classic sounding soul, jazz, funk, fusion and boogie vibes to the Buenos Aries soul crew, and now further afield.
The new LP, apart from the disco dancing “Cash”, drops the dance floor designs for a lovely warm Sunday morning vibe, even daring to venture north of the border on “Favela“ to pay respects to the care free bossa sounds of their neighbours. Opening with a short boogie intro the LP really gets cooking with “Tostados” the sort of slow, soulful, jazz tickled groove that should be the first track on any respectable late night smooching playlist. “Risah” heads into nu-soul territory with the vibes, rhodes, drums, bass and sweet vocals of Chiljud in sweet harmony. And so we continue, with the cosmic folk of “Cabo” and the easy bumping, vocoder reviving “Colibri”, before fading out with the minimal, aptly named “Lento“. The LP is a summer soundtrack if ever there was one.
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