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MOLOTOV JUKEBOX Game of Thrones star Natalia Tena brings her gypsy-punk band north A band notorious for their high-octane live enables fans to get more involved in innovative sets, Molotov Jukebox blend samba rhythms, and creative ways. One such example involves Latino instrumentation and gypsy-punk riffs Tena and violinist Sam Apley visiting the homes of dedicated supporters to cook lasagne. ‘I to form a sound that’s full of flavour. Following reckon it helps fans that pledge to connect a tour of South America and two successful with you as humans while being directly PledgeMusic campaigns, the six-piece is back responsible for the album getting made. It’s a with their second release, Tropical Gypsy, an sexy symbiotic relationship and it humbled us album that builds on the energy and passion of their debut Carnival Flower. that people actually did help us reach our target both times and believed that we could deliver the aural goods.’ ‘We were trying to focus our sound and
find our genre so we locked that down first,’ explains frontwoman and accordion player Natalia Tena (you might also recognise her as Harry Potter’s Tonks and Game of Thrones’ Osha). ‘Any time we started deviating on musical tangents during the creative process, we would look to the album title as a fixed mark, which is really an attempt at fusing the tropical hemisphere and Balkan rhythms and themes together.’ The band’s latest PledgeMusic campaign
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Molotov Jukebox will be taking to the road to celebrate the new album’s release. ‘I literally cannot wait to start this tour!’ says Tena. ‘The closer it gets, the more it’s a strange combination of insomnia-inducing terror and manic, joyous excitement, like you’re a child desperate for Christmas but worried Santa might turn out to be psychopath.’ (Arusa Qureshi) ■ King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, Thu 28 Apr; Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Fri 29 Apr.
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