Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - Brumaire

’Brumaire’, is the first single to be taken from ‘MLDE’, the debut album from the Marxist Love Disco Ensemble. Merging disco, 80s pop, and boogie into the fold, the group seeks to eradicate both the trite from disco and the sobriety from political music. Half poetic, half tongue-in-cheek, this stunning album is influenced by Eastern European and Mediterranean ’70s disco records. Marxist Love Disco Ensemble was formed by percussionist Paolo Volkov in Bologna with a number of Italian, Slovenian and Croatian jazz musicians. It was recorded at a makeshift studio in Ljubljana with the group spending a two week period living together, improvising and transcribing the jams into something more coherent. ’Brumaire’, finds the Marxist Love Disco Ensemble at their most pop, with band-leader Paolo Volkov’s vocal style evoking early 80s acts such as Orange Juice and Chas Jankel. Influenced by the works of Italo-disco musicians like Kano, Change, and Stefano Pulga, the song utilises a mixture of percussion, trumpet, synthesizers, piano and a vocal quartet, all insulated with a warm, pop glow. Though pop in nature, its subject matter is more political, as Paolo described “’Brumaire’ was written about historical revisionism and the danger of adopting images of the past which Marx discussed in “Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, where the song gets its name from. In this piece, Marx talks about how Napoleon resurrected and mythologised visions of the past to serve his own political agenda”. The album from which the single was taken was mastered by Joker aka Liam McLean who sprinkled his magic dust on the productions. Video Credits: Animated by Mark James