They were formed in Southampton, England, in 1988, from the ashes of indie band Who's In The Kitchen?. Likened to everyone from Les Negresses Vertes to Madness, La Cucina were a fun and fundamental plank in the development of UK roots music of the early 90s. Morte Accidentale De Musiciste (cassette) (1990) This review is published on print in Djembe Magazine, no. It is almost impossible to keep your body still when their music comes pouring out of the loudspeakers. If you want to cheer yourself up one day, or you're going to have a party, La Cucina's music is definitely the kind to put on the CD player. The single 'Buddhas Are We' consists of two versions of the titel song, 'L'Americana' and 'Windy Windy Dance Night', and it gives a good impression of the band and their musical style. Over the past year they've been performed on the stages of Glastonbury, Womad and Sidmouth. All the tracks, though, have catching lyrics and are originals from the whole band (five members). The latter is a cheerful singalong, which could easily be a holiday hit in the coming summer. The lyrics are performed in British English on all the tracks except on 'Villa Laterno' and 'Naked in the Sunshine' which are in both English and Spanish. The group in question is La Cucina from Great Britain and the music on their new album 'Nabúmla', released in the beginning of March, as the follow up to their debut album 'Chuchería', is a mixture of lively latin rhythms, melancholic gypsy tunes and pop-jazz fusions with a twist of roots and world music. What have we got here? A Bulgarian gypsy band, a South American latin orchestra or a British pop group? The answer must be all and neither. ![]() Their third album Bloom (CD) (1997), completed after the departure of Owain Clarke and the introduction of the songwriting partnership of Paul Goodall and Tom Hazell, contains several collaborations with Najma Akhtar of Robert Plant & Jimmy Page fame, on their MTV Special "Unplugged" performance and their No Quarter Album (2001) This featured the new band members on the CD Bloom. ![]() In 1996 they visited Jordan to play at the wedding of one of the granddaughters of King Hussein. They played throughout the United Kingdom, as well as France, Spain, Germany and Italy. Later, they produced 3 CDs in which the instrumentation and production is of a much more contemporary nature, with influences such as Tom Waits and Madness. They brought out a series of cassettes, in which they explored Neapolitan music. (The Bass-Player would go to the dressing room and drink the whole rider). ![]() They were famed at the time for their wild concerts, and lack of wild living - on arrival in a new town, two members of the band would head for the local library. Although they were based in the south of England, their music was an amalgam of Southern Italian folk songs and disco and salsa beats. La Cucina was an English roots style band of the 1990s, that went under the tagline of "accordion-driven funky neapolitan rockers".
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