After the dissolution of one of the most influential alternative rock bands in the underground scene of the Iberian Peninsula, Alado sincera, in 2020, and with a pandemic ahead of them and an uncontainable desire to start making new music… David Berenguer (U-Tòpics, Princess Plan) and David Comas (Quòniams) decide to start again and call their good friend Albert Puig (Taknata, U-Tòpics) to form Turmell, starting a long period of rehearsals and concerts that culminates in this debut album, called «Sambassassina». A mind-blowing, addictive and forcefully original record that, as well as being a real surprise to both friends and strangers, is pure fun.
We are welcomed to the album by none other than -his admired- Tori Kudo (Maher Shalal Hash Baz) and, as the first tracks follow one after the other, it becomes clear that syncretism is one of the virtues with which Turmell likes to manipulate and shape his own kind of songs. That is, a kind of lively rock with progressive structures, luminous and polymorphous that, although it is conceived from disparate and amalgamated measures, with pulses in indistinct subdivisions and other metrical perversions, it is fast-paced and danceable, as well as wonderfully harmonic. In the words of David Comas -Subvert the beat and, from there, anything goes. That was the slogan from the first rehearsal and we immediately saw that a balance was established between us, that music came out easily (…). To which David Berenguer adds -Without looking for it, through our shared references, we suddenly found ourselves exploring the purest terrain of samba. An alien genre to us that has turned out to be a kind of fertile limbo for this album. I imagine that by contrast with rock, with our language (…).
Recorded and mixed with Toni Sistaré (Ghandi rules OK, Matoll) in Igualada, during the sessions many friends from the scene passed through the studio; such as María de Santfores (U-Tòpics), Oriol Solé (Ghandi rules OK, Alado sincera), Daniel Ardura (Ensaña, Sonio, Alado sincera), Pep Massana or Ricard Morros; being all of them duly captured for the occasion and enriching even more the palette of colours that crystallizes under the Turmell rubric. Now, turn up the volume and hold on to your tassels!
