Name: Birds
Brand: Da Lata

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DLM004CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-11-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5056032324527

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Da Lata

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Da La Music

Da Lata’s highly anticipated fourth album Birds is a genre busting journey through London Afro-Brazilian soul music. The most homogeneous Da Lata record to date, Christian Franck has honed his craft and expanded his art to create a glowing testimony from the melting pot of the capital’s musical life.

Gathering his family of collaborators with diverse musical backgrounds in soul, jazz, and gospel as well as African and Brazilian forms, Birds is an album that finally lays waste to that tired idea of World music. There are tracks that are inspired by Chris’ journeys to the source, there are elegant horn and wood-wind arrangements recorded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, there are lyrics in different tongues, but this is a London record.

Birds is an album of warm organic grooves infused with sophisticated funkiness and splattered with instrumental colour. From the Afro skank swagger ofthe low slung opener Mentality to the Beatles-esque pathos of the closingtle track, it’s a record packed with soulful surprises and beguiling rhythms. The sound is both in mate and expansive, drawing the listener into Da Lata’s London tropicalia and out into the cosmos. Birds is an album about keeping doors open and conversa on owing, it’s about survival, hope, family, resistance, awareness, unity and love.

Birds

Music GB