| ²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹ | - The official ²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹ album launch is at the Dancehouse on Sat 3 Feb. Tickets are £5
- The album is out on Celestial Engine Recordings
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Yet despite its varied sound, it’s made entirely in this fair city, featuring some names you’ll know like Josephine Oniyama, Sam Hammond and Â鶹ԼÅÄlife, and some that you might not, such as Snaf Ballinger, Bandyleg and Alyss. We spoke to Luko, the brains behind it all, about what it takes to show the other side of Manchester’s music. What is ²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹?
 | | Josephine Oniyama (pic: Helen Davis) |
"²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹ is a Catalan word meaning melancholy and the compilation was christened that by my friend Lluis Fernandez Carbonell from Barcelona when we were walking down towards the college in Whalley Range a few years ago. "He just came out with the word – ²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹ - and I asked to him what it meant. You can understand why he said it when you have bands like the Smiths and New Order, Joy Division composing songs about this place, so I thought that’s the album title." It's not the usual sort of music we expect from Manchester - how did the album come about?
 | | Oddness (pic: Helen Davis) |
"We wanted to depict the other side of Manchester, to give the worthies the chance. This is an album created by some of the city's key talents breaking through from the underground scene – some born and bred in the North West, others attracted from lands afar by its musical heritage and reputation.ÌýÌý "The album reflects the fact that there is much, much more happening musically here than is indicated by the general music press, and that there always has been in this complicated and cosmopolitan city, a city which through its grey skies, rainy days and towering concrete produces music which moves, music which strikes a chord, music which has far more uncharted depths than music journalism has explored… so far." There's a lot of people involved with the album. Was it easy to organise? | "Mal-as-tru-gan-sah with the trilled R like in Catalan and Spanish, remembering to put in the ç like the Haçienda." | | Luko explains how you pronounce the album title |
"The organising was so interesting. We really wanted to find the performers who we thought could give the album variety. A lot of them are good friends and we always seem to find who we want to work with and it’s all been in this city. "Most of the tracks where recorded, produced and mixed at our own Vinga Va Studios in Chorlton by Manos Sarantidis and Davis Moleiro Sousa and some where done at Trap door Studios in Levenshulme by the amazing Paddy Steer.
 | | Dan Hope (pic: Sy Evans) |
"It’s making more sense everyday what we have done here. It’s the way we like it, it’s what we believe in. We don't want to compete. We have come at this from a different angle. We did this album at our pace; the boundaries have been pushed, ²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹ is filling in the gaps." Which is your favourite track? "It has to be from Bandyleg’s Tbilisi. It’s really amazing how a band from Manchester could do a track like that. I remember going to see this band from Tbilisi, Georgia in Chorlton’s Revise Bar with Bandyleg’s Dan Hope and being blown away. They were called Soft Eject and I guess you could say that's where the track came from." You're launching the album with a show at the Dancehouse. Who's playing on the night?
 | | Alyss (pic: Helen Davis) |
"We are trying to do most of the artists on the album in one night but it was impossible to put them all on, so we’ve got nine of them: Josephine Oniyama, Oddness, Ed Cottam, Â鶹ԼÅÄlife, Snaf Ballinger, Sam Hammond, Culann Keys, Alyss and Frankie Teardrop aka Ed Williamson." It doesn't look the easiest name to pronounce. How do you say ²Ñ²¹±ô²¹²õ³Ù°ù³Ü²µ²¹²Ôç²¹? "Mal-as-tru-gan-sah with the trilled R like in Catalan and Spanish, remembering to put in the ç like the Haçienda." | 
