La Casa Azul

La nueva Yma Sumac [What the Revolution Left Us] [2009]

ER-1144 CD Digipak

“The sexual revolution” left us with unforgettable moments, a never-before dreamed of happiness, and an endless feeling of pleasure. The concerts were authentic exaltations of uncontrolled happiness, collective madness and a truly therapeutic release. LA CASA AZUL’s newest work is a gift for fans, a small souvenir that closes the magical era. LA CASA AZUL’s new journey is still full of fantasy – a fantasy that begins in their new video, “La Nueva Yma Sumac”, an incredible piece by the great master Duprez (responsible also for the album design) and a team made up of true fans of the group. It is an ambitious project that makes this video unique and unprecedented in the history of music videos and animation in our country, and that will undoubtedly be talked about outside of our borders as well.

Some of Guille Milkyway’s most admired personalities have unconditionally given themselves to “La Revolucion Sexual” and collaborated on this disc, making it the most international project yet by LA CASA AZUL.. Françoise (STEREO TOTAL) sings a new version of “La Recolucion Sexual” in German, which Guille rerecorded almost entirely. Guille himself was in charge of the vocals in English and the exquisite Yeongene does her thing on the Korean version. Guille and Duglas T Steward (BMX BANDITS) share vocals on “Bad boys”, the English version of “Chicos Malos”, which is also a heart-felt homage to Chris Montez, and THE APRILS remix “La Nueva Yma Sumac”, singing it in Japanese. Inspired by HELEN LOVE’s “Jump Up & Down”, Guille constructed an authentic dance hit that is not lacking in small homages and references to Plastic Bertran, 50’s rock and roll and of course surf, one of their great passions. The disc includes three versions - Joan Manuel Serrat’s “Señora”, THE JACKSON FIVE’s “I Want You Back” and “Love Is in the Air” by John Paul John - and it closes with four live songs taken from one of their last concerts in Barcelona.

It’s a special, limited edition disc that also contains a data track with the video for “La Nueva Yma Sumac” (in Spanish and Japanese), and screen savers for computers and mobile phones.

La revolución sexual [Spatial edition] [2007]

ER-1131E CD

Only 5,000 copies of this special limited edition were produced

La revolución sexual [2007]

ER-1131 CD Digipak / LP

With this album, Guille Milkyway makes a big step forward in the evolution of his sound and the concept of one of the more successful records we have ever released in Elefant Records.
Musically, the songs are based in the same patterns that turned them into world cult artists: melodic pop songs, with catchy choruses that are easy to strum and singalong. High class pop music, that here shows itself as intentionally artificial, more made in Shibuya than ever. Songs are here maybe more complex than before, but always keeping the timeless classic pop influence that, along with its coups d'effect, sudden changes and surprising twists, describe the magical touch of the songs by LA CASA AZUL.
In the music by LA CASA AZUL live together without any problems 50's doo wop and 60's easy listening and 60’s bubblegum, 80's technopop, 70's disco and 90's shibuya-key and europop; references to such different yet close bands and artists as ELO, PILOT, Hugo Montenegro, PIZZICATO FIVE, Jean-Jacques Perrey, DENIM, Jacno, Enoch Light, Lio, Silvetti, The Jetset, Scoobydoo... Or to mention more contemporary names: APRILS, YMCK, PLUS TECH SQUEEZE BOX, CAPSULE, Andreas Dorau, STEREOTOTAL, HELEN LOVE, THE GO! TEAM, THE BRAN FLAKES, SCISSOR SISTERS, OPTIGANALLY YOURS...

Limited edition [White Vinyl]

El sonido efervescente de la casa azul [2006]

ER-1119 CD Digipak

The debut album by LA CASA AZUL with a lot of extra tracks. We mean a lot, really: the original album featured eight songs, and the featured tracks on this reissue will rise to twenty-one! Besides the eight original songs, this new reissue includes the band’s first three demos: the first one, “Te invito a mi fiesta” (recorded between 1998 and 1999), which features the first version of their classic tune “Cerca de Shibuya” and several previously unreleased songs; the second one, “Canciones ligeras” (1999), which features Jeanette’s version “Si no voy a esperar” among others; and the third one, “Galletas” (1999). Besides of this, the album features three bonus tracks: the cover version of the 80’s hit by MECANO “Quiero vivir en la ciudad”; the revised version of their classic song “Chicle Cosmos” (revised in 2005 to be used in the soundtrack of the movie “Borjamari y Pocholo”); and the song “Tantas cosas que arreglar” (initially released in our compilation “Momentos perdidos”).

For the new cover we have used the beautiful illustrations drawn by Duprez, who has perfectly captured the unique mood and universe of the band, and their philosophy of eternal fun and happy pop scapism. To make it short, this is a deluxe reissue which will be a great news for all the recent fans of LA CASA AZUL, who until now had to do with cold and soulless CD-R’s. Very soon it will be available in the best shops.

Como un fan [2005]

ER-360 CD-Single Digipak [sold out]

Tan simple como el amor [2003]

ER-1107 CD Digipak / LP [sold out]

Finally, here's the long-awaited long play by LA CASA AZUL. Sunshine-pop producer Guille Milkyway found in the five members of LA CASA AZUL the perfect performers for his sunny melodies that mix the spirit of 60's A&M productions with 70's disco music and 90's most refreshing europop. Perfect pop artisans, we're talking about pop full of small details in the shape of arrangements, LA CASA AZUL have the knack to catch you at the first listen with their songs, making you play the main role in so many stories dreamt by all of us, where the main ingredients are love, happiness, friendship or even anger. The vinyl LP version is a numbered and limited edition of 555 copies.

El sonido efervescente de la casa azul [2000]

ER-1076 Mini-CD Digipak [sold out] / Mini-LP [sold out]

Six song amazing debut by this Spanish act. A mixture of europop and A&M 60's sound, of PET SHOP BOYS and THE ARCHIES, full of top class arrangements, refreshing tunes and superb vocal harmonies. Songs like 'Cerca de Shibuya' are instant pop hits, pure sunshine pop for the twentieth century.

Yo, también [Me too] [2009]

ER-1147 CD Digipak

“Yo, También” [Me too] is the full length film debut of Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro and it is one of the projects we have been involved in this past year with “Elefant Music Supervision”, a project that has been taking shape over time and that has the singular goal of helping and collaborating on audiovisual projects of all types, and to give musical supervision from Elefant that would help the creators’ find the perfect music for their work. Álvaro and Antonio’s recent visit to the San Sebastian Film Festival was a total success, two Silver Conches, for Best Actor for Pablo Pineda and for Best Actress for Lola Dueñas. Lola Dueñas (a renowned and prestigious actress, winner of a Goya for her role in Alejandro Amenábar’s movie “Mar Adentro” (The Sea Inside) and nominated for Pedro Almodóvar’s “Volver”), recently stated in an interview, “When I finish a movie, I forget about it, but I’d never experienced before putting on the music from the soundtrack, like this time”. The music plays such an important role in the movie and the musical selection turned out to be so varied and enriching. Guille Milkyway (LA CASA AZUL) was responsible for creating small musical brushstrokes especially for the movie. The soundtrack is atypical with simple, bare pieces, based on emotionally charged piano melodies that can just as easily express the greatest happiness as they can sink into the deepest sadness and frustration. Guille was also in charge of the movie’s theme song, a 70s style rumba, “Yo, También”, somewhere along the lines of the first recordings by LAS GRECAS or LOS AMAYA, but with that magical touch that our great master’s compositions are full of. There is a lot of music in the movie, as much music as there are characters and situations. Quiet moments, sweet, quotidian, romantic, sad, exciting, fun, crazy, partying, totally out of control… there is music to fit every moment and all together it makes a perfect soundtrack for understanding the movie. Guille’s rumba and MANZANITA’s “Te amaré” give that Spanish touch to the movie, which takes place mostly in Sevilla, but the soundtrack also has the delicate songs of Wales’ THE SCHOOL, the magnetism of CAMERA OBSCURA, the Italian romanticism of GIORGIO TUMA and FITNESS FOREVER, the delicacy of BMX BANDITS, the timeless folk-pop of Nick Garrie and RÓZSÄK and the strength and rhythm of LA CASA AZUL, SOUVENIR, BEEF, and THE GENTLE PEOPLE, among others.

Momentos perdidos [2004]

ER-1115 CD [sold out]

We´re happy to bring you "Momentos perdidos", a collection of rarities, b-sides, wrong hits and a bunch of previously unreleased gifts. Lovely souvenirs from such different harbours as Japan, Germany, United States, France, England and, of course, Spain.
"Momentos perdidos" shouldn´t be seen as the usual compilation, nor a balance of the most representative stuff from the last years: we only expect to bring you a collection of delightful songs that, due to different reasons, were hidden in a record or never came to be published.

Modapop [2003]

ER-1094 CD Digipak

Here is a new Elefant compilation: 25 songs including songs taken from our newest releases, juicy advances from forthcoming records that will cause a commotion during the following months (CAMERA OBSCURA, LE MANS, LA CASA AZUL), and, of course, more than one unreleased treat for collectors and pop lovers in general (Ana D, ENTRE RÍOS, NOSOTRÄSH, COOPER, METRO, LES TRÈS BIEN ENSEMBLE and NIZA). From acoustic pop to naïve electronics, from sixties beats to avant-garde experiments; an exciting combination of very well-known names.

Elefant Dosmiluno [2001]

ER-1083 CD Digipak [sold out]

Here we find again some Elefant all-time favourites, plus a document on how our recent sign-ups have growned up since last year's "Verano del 99". Besides, we were honoured with the inclusion in our big family of some of the finest, classic names in the history of Spanish pop music, such as VAINCA DOBLE or Carlos Berlanga. The complete tracklist goes as follows: LA CASA AZUL, COOPER, ME ENVENENO DE AZULES, NIZA, VAINICA DOBLE, CIELO, NOSOTRÄSH, CARLOS BERLANGA, LES TRÈS BIEN ENSEMBLE, GASCA, THE PANCAKES, VACACIONES, LA MONJA ENANA (unreleased track) , JUNIPER MOON, CECILIA ANN, LA PEQUEÑA SUIZA, Ana D+ Ibon Errazkin (live from Los Angeles!), UNION WIRELESS, THE PRIBATA IDAHO, BEEF, Ibon Errazkin and AUTOMATICS.

Elefantdiez (1989-1999) [1999]

ER-001DL CD [sold out]

The most recent Elefant sample included in a Spanish mag came with Rock de Lux magazine on late 1999; to celebrate Elefant's tenth anniversary we prepaired a compilation called "Elefantdiez", a selection of our label's best moments, a mixture of classics and new names