Social criticism! Joy! Dance rage! For more than 16 years, the northern Italian sextet has been inspiring an ever-growing crowd of fans, playing around 100 acclaimed live shows every year. Following the legend MANO NEGRA, founded by MANU CHAO, who referred to their casual crossover as "Patchanka", TALCO's "Punkchanka" is a bubbling and fiery mixture of uptempo punk rock, Latin, folk, Balkan and ska influences. Here, the 13 songs are dedicated to the humiliation of humanity, moral and political abysses or the concept of truth. The fact that TALCO act with such breathtaking safety and precision, while still transporting so much euphoria and fire, is always astonishing. (Source: coretexrecords.com)