PulciPerla will unveil “Tatekieto”, their new album, on its release, January 04, 2025, on Prado Records / Cie Pulcinella / The Pusher (CD, vinyls, digital). This opus will be presented on Wednesday, February 05, 2025, on the stage of FGO – Barbara, Paris (France) during an exceptional launch concert.
➡ The eponymous single “Tatekieto” will be released on all plateforms. on November 22, 2024. ⬅
Take an iconoclastic and energetic quartet from Toulouse, combine it with a female power trio from Bogotá, shake it up, and you will get Pulciperla! After an explosive encounter in Colombia in 2019, the fiery trio La Perla and the unclassifiable Pulcinella decided to create an original repertoire: a hybrid, swaying, and sensual music where vocals, saxophone, keyboards, double bass, and percussion blend generously, driving a powerful trance-like pulse. A quirky and striking repertoire infused with bullerengue, reggaeton, funk, and champeta influences, which stirs the fire and gets you moving. The tribal music of La Perla’s percussionist singers merges with Pulcinella’s explosive groove to electrify the audience and awaken their primal instincts! PulciPerla is composed of : La Perla: Diana Sanmiguel: vocals, maracas, guacharaca; Giovanna Mogollón ‘’Roberta Leono’’: vocals, tambor alegre; Karen Forero:vocals, gaïta, tambora Pulcinella: Ferdinand Doumerc : saxophones, flutes, keyboards; Jean-Marc Serpin: double bass; Bastien Andrieu: keyboards ; Pierre Pollet: drums
Pulcinella :
For almost 20 years, this mischievous group from Toulouse has never tired of doing as it pleases. Armed with drums, double bass, accordion and saxophone, they mix funk, jazz, Balkan music, electro, musette and progressive rock to create a polymorphous music that knows no boundaries. With 6 albums to its name and over 700 concerts to its credit, Pulcinella is a real live band. They have performed at such prestigious festivals as Jazz in Marciac, the Radio France Festival, Rio Loco, Jazz sous les Pommiers, the London Jazz Festival and the Odessa Festival. They have toured some twenty countries, including Honduras, Guatemala, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Moldavia and even Vietnam, where they celebrated the 1,000th anniversary of the capital Hanoi! The quartet loves to meet new people and collaborate with other artists. As well as working with musicians (Émile Parisien, Leïla Martial, Andreas Schaerer, Hervé Suhubiette…), the quartet likes to rub shoulders with other artistic fields. After meeting Italian singer Maria Mazzotta in 2018, with whom the group signed the album Grifone in 2021, and while developing its Guerre des boutons, a borderless ball repertoire, Pulcinella met the Colombian musicians of La Perla in 2019…
La Perla :
La Perla was created in 2014 by Karen Forero, Giovanna Mogollón and Diana Sanmiguel. These three women artists, explorers and bearers of Colombian-Caribbean culture, set the stages on fire in Colombia, and well beyond the South American continent. Their unique musical identity is underpinned by an undeniable charisma on stage that pays tribute to their cultural roots. A call to trance and rhythm, based on ancestral instrumentation, with their feet firmly planted in the pavement of Bogotá. In 2017, La Perla travelled to Mexico for their first international tour… That same year, the group released its first EP on Mambo Negro Records. Two international tours of Europe and Chile followed. In February 2019, La Perla went on tour in the United States and took part in the Ground Up festival in Miami, sharing the stage with major artists such as Susana Baca, Snarky Puppy, Richard Bona and Carlos Malta. In 2022, they released their first album, Callejera, and toured Europe for three months, performing at numerous festivals (Jazz sous les pommiers, Les Vieilles Charrues, Musicalarue, Sziget, Fusion, Womex Porto, etc.).
