Pimp C | pt
Los hermanos Lucia y Joaquín, pertenecen a una familia de origen español en donde el canto y el baile, fueron la excusa suficiente, para exteriorizar sus sentimientos y emociones. Así entre cumpleaños, Navidades, o simples reuniones de amigos, comenzaron a cantar informalmente, sin siquiera imaginar, que ya se estaba gestando lo que un día se daría a llamar PIMPINELA.
Nacieron en Buenos Aires, pero desde chicos viajaban permanentemente a España, donde pasaban temporadas de 6 meses visitando familia. Fueron sus padres Joaquín y María Engarria, asturiano y leonesa respectivamente, los primeros en aconsejar a sus hijos para iniciarse en la...
“The most aggressive Funk I've heard in Years!”
Craig Charles (BBC6)
“The Hottest Funk since The Average White Band!”
Christian Bragg (Jazz FM)
“This record is the illest!”
Joel Hamilton (Producer)
Providing unstoppable grooves since 2005, Federation of the Disco Pimp are Scotland’s premier exponent of modern funk. Combining elements of Old-School Funk, Disco, Psychedelic and Jazz, this 7-piece band of Scots are legendary for their endless energy and blistering live sets.
Championed by funk legend Craig Charles (BBC6), Stephen Duffy on The Jazz House BBC Radio Scotland and Christian Bragg on Jazz Fm, FOTDP have gained a solid reputation...
Dorian Pimpernel : a name that seems born from the chance meeting on a dissecting table of an Oscar Wilde’s character and Lewis Caroll s fantasy. And maybe a sewing machine as well, which could make up Syd Barrett s sybilline melodies and Moondog s baroque harmonies, Brian Wilson s sand castles and the Kinks wobbly victorian buildings. All this using the sharp electronic tools of Terry Riley and Brian Eno. Four pieces in the shape of a pear, elastic ballades, tragic roundabouts, lunar plateaux, acid drops and celluloïd western movies.
Johan : organ, wurlitzer, synthesizers, bass guitar, percussion, vocals...
