Lucia Bosé, Gregorio Paniagua Io Pomodoro LP

Cat. No. HOL-153
Edition of 500 copies, gatefold cover reproducing the original artwork. Includes insert.

Part Iberian early-music laboratory, part Italian cinematic séance, this ripe and wholly unclassifiable 1981 collaboration pairs Madrid’s master of the hurdy-gurdy, the vihuela and the reconstructed instrument, Gregorio Paniagua, with Lucia Bosé, the former Miss Italia turned muse of Antonioni, Buñuel, Cocteau and Fellini, for what a small band of devoted diggers has long considered the secret back garden of Spain’s post-Franco avant-garde, and one of European music’s most curious hybrid harvests.

The founding force of Atrium Musicae de Madrid, the family ensemble that dusted off centuries of forgotten European song with his brothers Eduardo and Luis, Paniagua had already broken ranks with the baroque on his 1980 Hispavox debut Batiscafo, a record that sits in the same fertile soil as Orquesta De Las Nubes, Suso Saiz and Música Esporádica. On Io Pomodoro he empties his workshop onto the studio floor: a “flute without breath”, a party blower in F, a soprano ratchet and a barrel organ share the tape with viols, winds, piano, synthesizers and electronics, while Bosé speaks, sings and whispers her own verses in Italian and Spanish. The result is a medieval music with its feet in the 1980s, a kind of psychedelic minstrelsy that shares a bloodline with Maria Monti’s Il Bestiario, early Franco Battiato and the folk-baroque reveries of Emmanuelle Parrenin, without ever settling into anyone’s family portrait.

Issued once by the Spanish arm of CBS and then left to ripen in the major label vaults for over forty years, the album finally drops from the vine in a remastered vinyl edition that reproduces the original sleeve, ready to be picked by a new generation of curious ears… and squeezed!

Release date: October 23rd, 2026