Fundació Tony Manero and DJ Miguelito captain New Year's fest in Formentera

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There will be no short supply of music as Formentera residents close out 2015. The New Year's Eve concert bash will be headed by Fundació Tony Manero as the group turns Formentera into a stop on its Superficial Tour. Starting at 1 am, the Fundació will take to the stage in the festivities tent in Sant Ferran. DJ Miguelito Superstar will then take the reins and finish out the show. The ensemble event is an unbeatable opportunity for anyone interested in the historic (and now in its 20th year) disco-funk operation.

Crowning what had been a total experience in imaginative songwriting, the members of Pandilleros spent the next five years constructing parallel universes (Los Fulanos, Chocadelia Internacional, Cardova) and dabbling in projects that were both publicly- and critically-acclaimed (Banda Achilifunk, TheExcitements, Hypnotic). Now, Miguelito Superstar and Lalo López unite disco-funk heroes and Spain's black music pioneers into the Fundació Tony Manero. Their goal? Hatch a follow-up to accompany the group as it treads a path from bass drums to roots music and straight back home to the dance floor.

With SUPERFICIAL the members of Manero harbour zero pretences; the goal of the album is to get listeners dancing. The group pledges unequivocal allegiance to the sacrosanct values of party and music. In so doing, they float past disco and electrofunk, gravitate between the analog seventies and digital eighties that followed. As all the great funk-soul soloists and groups before them, Manero finds evolution by forcing a clash of the seventies and eighties and then reaping in the rewards. The composition of the ten-track disc varies from acid synthesisers and digital pianos to primitive drum machines and so-sharp-they-cut riffs on wind instruments. With the typical touches from singers Miguelito and Paquito Sex Machine, all of it just oozes Manero.

Back on their home turf (the dance floor), Fundació Tony Manero has got a somewhat tweaked line-up. The old crew – Paco “Mantecao” Manzanares on keyboards, Deliciosa Smith on bass, Ginés Brown on saxophone, Tom Johnson on trombone, Paquito and Miguelito on vocals and Lalo López on guitars – is joined by the magnificent drummer Marc Benaiges and Marçal “Sweet Lips” Borràs on trumpet, fresh blood that will pump the Manero family forward on this next portion of their twenty-year journey.

Where: Sant Ferran
When: 1 am on New Year's Eve

For more information contact Music bus at 93 320 82 92

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