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North-East London singer, songwriter and producer Fran Lobo presents her long-awaited debut album Burning It Feels Like.
The record was written and produced by Lobo, engineered by Andy Ramsay of Stereolab and mixing was completed by
regular studio partner Jimmy Robertson.
Of Goan and Maharashtrian descent, Fran spent a lot of her childhood absorbing the sounds around her: her mum’s pop,
Bollywood and R&B obsessions, her dad’s love of rock and country, her brother’s metal and nu-metal, alongside her own
adoration for Spice Girls and TV shows like Girls Aloud-spawning Popstars: The Rivals. The result is that Fran’s own work is
collagist and kaleidoscopic in nature, often taking unexpected twists into unfamiliar places, with songs sometimes imploding
in on themselves. “Within every track, it became a theme of turning everything on its head; having an outro you wouldn’t
expect, flipping the words a bit – this cut-paste collage where nothing is safe,” she explains. In part, this is rooted in a desire
to convey the feelings of being deep in someone’s mind, jumping around unpredictably in feelings and overthinking and
anxiety.
This style is enhanced by Fran’s collaborative approach to her work; she is part of Deep Throat Choir, has worked as a choral
conductor, and many of her good friends like Lucinda Chua, Sam Beste, CJ Calderwood, Jemma Freeman, Laura Misch and
Coby Sey appear on the album, building up an array of sounds with them.
Visceral, beguiling and dense with yearning, sometimes she glimmers like flames and sometimes she lets us fester in the
ashes with her. An unflinching debut, Fran Lobo will have you feeling that burning too.
1 Burning It Feels Like
2 Armour
3 See Again
4 Slowly
5 acid dream.
6 Push and Pull
7 All I Want
8 The Arp Song
9 Why You Came
10 Tricks
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Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is a highly respected and experienced musical selector and curator,
founder of the album listening event and content hub Classic Album Sundays and an authority
on music, sound and the vinyl renaissance. She was mentored by David Mancuso at his
seminal Loft parties in New York City. Together they co-produced the compilation series David
Mancuso Presents The Loft and worked together on David’s record label The Loft Audiophile
Library of Music. In 2000, David told Time Out New York City “ She is very devoted and very
pure about the music. She’s one of the only people I would trust, both with the music and with
the equipment, to fill in for me.” She is one of the musical hosts at The Loft, the co-founder of
the Lucky Cloud Loft parties in London and DJs internationally on the world’s best sound
systems and dance floors.
Classic Album Sundays tells the stories behind the albums that have shaped our culture and in
some cases, our lives. Colleen founded Classic Album Sundays as a stance against the
increasing devaluation of music and sound. What began as a passion project is now the
world’s most popular album listening event with satellites in four continents and the website
and social media channels host content on classic albums and artists such as interviews,
videos, playlists and more. BBC Breakfast Television remarked, “Classic Album Sundays treat
our best-loved records like great symphonies.”
She has been a radio host and DJ since the age of fourteen and today hosts Balearic Breakfast,
Cosmodelica and Classic Album Sundays Worldwide on Worldwide FM. She also wrote, co-
produced and hosted the Classic Album Sundays series ‘This Women’s Work’ for PRX, ‘Sounds
of a City’ series on BBC 6 Music and ‘Turntable Tales’ on BBC Radio 4. As a producer Colleen
has remixed Roisin Murphy, Mildlife, The Rapture, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Beardyman, Candi
Staton, Two Bears, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Cantoma, Horace Andy, Chaka Khan & more
under her Cosmodelica moniker and as DarkStarr Diskotek with Ashley Beedle. Along with
former Captain Beefheart guitarist Gary Lucas, she recorded and produced as Wild Rumpus.
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