Chordophone Rock n Roll
Celebrating the release of the vinyl LP and Digital Deluxe edition of “Exotic Quixotic”, Lusitanian Ghosts perform several in-stores at FNAC Sessions as well as two live concerts in Portugal this week:
#lusitanianghosts #exoticquixotic #DGartes
After several production delays and two returned test pressings, we are happy to announce that the LP version of “Exotic Quixotic” is almost here!
Pre-sales can be ordered via FNAC Portugal: https://www.fnac.pt/Lusitanian-Ghosts-Exotic-Quixotic-LP-12-Vinil/a9469968#omnsearchpos=3
Folks in Germany should also look out for the LP to be distributed by Broken Silence distribution: https://brokensilence.de/en/artists/detail/?artist=lusitanian_ghosts&i=5225
This month will also see two new digital singles of the title track, “Exotic Quixotic”, sung in Portuguese by Joana Negrão (Seiva, Cantadeira) and in Polish by Misia Furtak!
Stay tuned for live show announcements in Portugal before the end of the year.
Chordophone collective Lusitanian Ghosts release their sophomore album “Exotic Quixotic”, recorded at Clouds Hill in Hamburg, Nov. 19th 2021.
Listen here: lnk-to/exoticquixotic
Here’s what people are saying:
“Magnetic appeal… the band’s creative strength lying in its flexibility and ability to cast the net wider sonically. They are creating a broader cultural and sonic arsenal, while maintaining a buoyancy that takes the listener on a fantastic ride from start to finish” ~ The Spill Magazine
“Lusitanian Ghosts impressively channel tools of the past to create a beautiful sonic vision for us listeners now. Innovative in their use of traditional instruments to make clearly modern pop-rock, this music is upbeat, quirky, feels familiar and is catchy as hell. The fact that this is entirely performed with traditional instruments is mind-boggling” ~ Big Takeover Magazine
“Highly melodic and sonically great with applaudable production, for music performed with classical instruments, this is a pertinent, contemporary collection of songs that is full dignity, the artists’ remaining true to their values and ethics” ~ Amplify Music Magazine
“Warms the heart and nourishes the soul… a crooning catharsis, a rush of adrenalin, that gleams and mediates whilst chasing utopian fantasies through the interval of stripped down acoustics and clapping beats” ~ The Manc Review
ALBUM CREDITS
Neil Leyton: Lead vocals
Mikael Lundin: viola Amarantina, backing vocals, bass, Mellotron, viola Campaniça. Lead vocals on ‘Exotic Quixotic’ and ‘Hometown’
João “Johnny” Sousa: drums and Adufe
Vasco Ribeiro Casais: viola Braguesa
Abel Beja: viola Terceira
Jan-Eric Olsson: bass and viola Campaniça
All songs by Neil Leyton and Mikael Lundin aka Micke Ghost
Published by Lusitanian Music Publishing
Recorded at Clouds Hill Studios, Hamburg
Engineered and Mixed by Sebastian Muxfeldt
Produced by Neil Leyton and Mikael Lundin
Mastered at Soundgarden by Florian Siller
Cover Illustration by Johan Lindberg Brusewitz #exotic quixotic #Lusitanian Ghosts
Lusitanian Ghosts’ second album, recorded at Clouds Hill in January 2020, is finally set for a digital release Nov. 19th, to be followed by the vinyl LP at a date yet to be announced.
The release will be preceded, this October 15th, by the latest single “Never Less Than Lonely”, which vocalist Neil Leyton recalls “was the first record written for the new album, we actually pondered playing it live back in 2019 before the pandemic hit.”
Lusitanian Ghosts will celebrate the release of “Exotic Quixotic” with a live-streamed concert from Forum Luisa Todi in Setubal “which is like our second home, Vasco (aka OMIRI) and Joana Negrão from Seiva live there, as do my half-brother and sister” explains Leyton. More details regarding the live-streamed concert will be announced soon.
Meanwhile you can pre-save the single and album, pre-following Lusitanian Ghosts on the following links on the platform of your choice:
International collective Lusitanian Ghosts step out of the shadows with new single ‘Soul Deranium’, an instant summer anthem intended as a “protest song for the ages”.
The chiming, finger-clicking single comes ahead of new album Exotic Quixotic (out November 19th) and follows the April release of the LP’s title track; a rallying song for artists marking the anniversary of Portugal’s non-violent uprising against dictatorship in 1974.
Central to ‘Soul Deranium’ are resonating chordophones – ancient Portuguese instruments the Ghosts resurrect as the basis of their melodic, seductive 21st century rock n roll.
Set to breezy rhythms, this apparently blithe clap-along evokes classic Marc Bolan and T.Rex tracks, complete with ambiguous, sometimes unsettling lyrics which offer much to reflect on; gun violence, gender stereotypes and the hangover trauma of the Trump presidency.
“We’re fully aware ‘deranium’ is not a real word,” says Lisbon-born, Canada-raised musician Neil Leyton, who takes lead vocals on the track, written by Swedish multi-instrumentalist Micke Ghost. “Micke’s English is a lot better than he makes it out to be but he has a knack for making up pseudo-English words in a really funny way.”
Ghost says: “I was singing ’21st century boy’ and ‘soul deranium’ or something like that on the demo that I sent Neil but never intended it to be a part of the lyrics. Then I got the finished song back, Neil was singing ‘deranium’. That’s when I asked if it was an actual word.”
“I often write lyrics based on the sounds of Micke’s Swedish humming on our demos,” rejoins Leyton. “’Deranium’ came from there and to me it sounds like it could be a condition, a sort of uranium poisoning leading to deranged, enlightened, ultra-inspired and potentially psychotic behaviour.”
“Not that any of our songs compare, but if Marc Bolan can sing about Telegram Sams and Cosmic Dancers,” says Leyton, “I wanted to open our new album with a song about someone engaging in ludicrous amounts of Clockwork Orange X-rated self-indulgence, all for the toppermost possible good of humanity – all entirely made up, of course. But still, in its own way: a protest song for the ages. You are invited!”
Listen here: https://lnk.to/deranium