THE TITLE TRACK FROM THE NEW ALBUM, OUT MAY 15TH
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25 million albums sales, a Grammy Award, sellout tours across the globe and a legendary Glastonbury 2024 performance: the Gipsy Kings and their founder Tonino Baliardo have come a long way since they started out playing the streets, weddings and bars of their native Arles, France in 1979. Continuing to keep the rich, passionate, virtuosic traditions of flamenco music and Catalan gipsy culture alive, the Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo now share the new single ‘Historia’. It is the title track to their new album which follows on May 15th via Cooking Vinyl.
The irrepressible ‘Historia’ is full of the hallmarks that have made Gipsy Kings a longstanding international success: the sheer joy, rambunctious rhythms fervent atmosphere that made the likes of ‘Bamboléo’ and ‘Djobi, Djoba’ so memorable; impassioned vocals; jazzy piano flourishes and, naturally, Tonino Baliardo’s famous and inimitable guitar style. It’s a song which represents a cocktail of all the many genres and global sounds that have inspired the band’s journey – its title also representative of the new album’s direction.
Tonino says, “I have always wanted to record an album where the music that has influenced my life as a Gipsy is reflected. My music has no borders, and our music is universal. I came up with the title ‘Historia’ because it means what has happened in the past, and I wanted to create an album with all the different musical influences I have experienced over the years travelling and performing around the world. The tracks on ‘Historia’ cross over from rhumba, pop, dance jazz, and of course have the passion, spirit, and love of Gipsy Kings music.”
Flamenco is inherently a genre based within the roots of family, and that’s particularly true of the rest of the upcoming ‘Historia’ album. Tonino’s two sons, Cosso and Mikael, helped him write and record various tracks and ideas, while his young grandson Milan came up with the title for the song ‘Big Bang’. Another track, ‘Cielo’, is dedicated to the memory of his dear brother Paco, one of the original Gipsy Kings, who passed away during recording. The album was launched with its lead single ‘Señorita’.
The ‘Historia’ album is available to pre-order / pre-save HERE. The band’s official store offers CD, a sand-coloured vinyl, and a limited edition blue-and-white cloud pattern vinyl. All album bundles from the official store also add a signed 12” print.
Gipsy Kings featuring Tonino Baliardo commence the ‘Historia’ tour in North America next month, before promising the hottest fiesta of the year with a live, raw and up-close intimate tour across Germany and Switzerland in May. Further international dates follow throughout the rest of the year. Their current tour schedule is below, and remaining tickets are available HERE.
MARCH
14th – El Cajon, CA – Heritage Event Center at Sycuan Casino
15th – Oxnard, CA – The Canyon at Oxnard Performing Arts Center
18th – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for the Arts
19th – Oakland, CA – Calvin Simmons Theatre at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts
20th – Newport Beach, CA – The Lido Theater
21st – Newport Beach, CA – The Lido Theater
22nd – Tucson, AZ – Fox Tucson Theatre
25th – Ridgefield, CT – Ridgefield Playhouse
26th – Groton, MA – Groton Hill Music Center
27th – Waterville, ME – Waterville Opera House
28th – Concord, NH – Capital Center For The Arts
29th – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Center For The Arts
MAY
15th – Berlin, Astra Kulturhaus
16th – Hamburg, Georg Elser Halle
17th – Braunschweig, Schön & Frölich
19th – Dortmund, FZW Dortmund
22nd – Düsseldorf, Stahlwerk Düsseldorf
23rd – Mainz, Halle 5
24th – Stuttgart, LKA Longhorn
25th – Saarbrücken, Garage Saarbrücken
27th – Nuremberg, Hirsch Nürnberg
29th – Munich, Backstage Werk
30th – Zürich, Komplex 457
31st – Bern, Bierhubeli
JUNE
18th – Oslo, OverOslo Festival
19th – Langesund, Wrightegaarden
AUGUST
30th – Timisoara, Corfu Festival
SEPTEMBER
18th – Istanbul, Harbiye Cemil
OCTOBER
10th – Warsaw, Roztańczony PGE Narodowy
24th – Strasbourg, Palais Des Congrès
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