It includes the best songs from the group’s four albums
It serves as a tribute to their singer, Jose Capel, and is part of the Kasba Music anniversary collection
Color Humano was a band formed in Paris in 1994, 30 years ago now. In 1995, with their first album under their belt, they travelled temporarily to Barcelona with some concerts scheduled and got in touch with Tralla Records, which the following year, after the group had settled permanently in the city, published their first album, “Moskowa libre”. That same year, together with Joni and Amparo, creators years later of Kasba Music, they gave shape to the association “Hace Color” which was dedicated to energizing that incipient mixed scene that was born in Barcelona together with bands like Trimelón, Dusminguet or Cheb Balowski and from which they sheltered other similar artists like the Basques Joxe Ripiau or the also French Spook and the Guay.
In 1997 they published their second album, a successful “Hambre de vida” which encouraged them to tour all over the State participating in some of the most important festivals of the time such as the Esparrago Rock in Granada or the Festimad in Madrid.
At the beginning of 1999 their third album, “Burundanga”, was released, which they presented on an extensive tour that covered the entire peninsula.
Already in the 21st century, the group underwent several line-up changes and although they never left the stage, even traveling to Mexico in years when crossing the pond was still unusual, their singer José Capel began his solo career as “El Capel”, until in 2010 Kasba Music published their fourth and last album “Madibá”.
At its embryonic core, in addition to José Capel, we find some pillars of that mixed-race Barcelona such as Stéphane Carteaux “Stef” (Nour and technician of Trimelón, La Kinky Beat and Cheb Balowski among others), Tomas Arroyos (Dusminguet and Fufü-ai), Anouk Chauvet (Fufü-ai), Stéphane Laidet (Black Baudelaire), Francisco Guisado “el Rubio” (La Kinky Beat, Lenacay, Nour), David Bourguignon (Trimelón, Radio Bemba, La Kinky Beat) and Oscar Dominguez (Macaco), so we can say that without Color Humano the music created in Barcelona at the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st century would have been much less rich than it was.
Now, on the occasion of their twentieth anniversary, Kasba Music is releasing this compilation, “Zumo de vida”, which includes the band’s best songs, tracks from their four albums, as a posthumous tribute to José Capel, who left us on October 19, 2017, leaving behind a legacy of vitalist songs like the ones we find here. The design, as in their last three albums, has been done by the artist Lusmore.
In addition, Kasba Music has digitalized some historical audiovisual pieces (video clips and concerts) that will be published soon, including this first video clip of the group that we are making public today, “Cómete la vida”, taken from their second album and made by Lusmore himself.