FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 31, 2018
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POLARIS PRIZE-WINNING LATINX ARTIST LIDO PIMIENTA
SIGNS WITH ANTI- RECORDS
 

2016 ALBUM LA PAPESSA TO BE RE-ISSUED + ON VINYL FOR THE 1ST TIME VIA ANTI- RECORDS IN FALL 2018, LISTEN NOW ON SPOTIFY

Photo Credit: Ruthie Titus

TOUR DATES INCLUDING HEADLINING SHOWS
AND SUMMER FESTIVALS BEGIN THIS FRIDAY, JUNE 1

“The Art Pop Warrior of the Latinx Underground” – The Fader

“Pimienta's intense, groove-heavy music – which she writes and produces – takes on bodies politic with nerve and joy.” – Rolling Stone

 “Besides boasting incredible talent and a rapturously potent voice, Pimienta speaks eloquently — and with no qualms — about complex issues. She chooses her words with care, deploying terms such as anti-settler-colonialism with surgical precision. This is a woman whose words, art and music are weapons now — and for the future.” – NPR Music

ANTI- Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Lido Pimienta, a Toronto-based and Colombian-born musician and artist.

“I am overjoyed to start this new chapter with ANTI- and give my all to delivering beautiful music and connecting with more people,” said Pimienta. “I am ready to work together with this great team and be the best artist I know I can be.”

In 2016, Pimienta’s album La Papessa was the first 100% independently released and the first non-English-or-French album to win Canada’s prestigious Polaris prize. ANTI- will re-issue La Papessa this fall and release it on vinyl for the first time.

“Pimienta’s soprano voice anchors technicolor basslines, baroque strings, and militaristic snares, as she comes to realize that self-efficacy is the armor needed to combat tribulations both public and private,” said Pitchfork of the record.

Pimienta has performed, exhibited and curated around the world since 2002, exploring the politics of gender, race, motherhood, identity and the construct of the Canadian landscape in the Latin American diaspora and vernacular. She begins a worldwide tour including dates in Europe, the US and Canada this Friday, June 1 in Dudingen, Switzerland. All upcoming dates are listed below.

TOUR DATES
6/1 - Dudingen, CH - Bad Bonn Kilbi
6/2- Offenbach, DE - Hafen 2
6/4 - Paris, FR - Pop Up du Label
6/6 - London, UK - DIY Space
6/8 - Antwerpen, BE - Swim with the Current Festival
6/9 - Hilvarenbeek, NL - Best Kept Secret Festival
6/10 - Berlin, DE – Volksbühne
6/16 - Chicago, IL - LatiNxt Festival
6/19 - Winnipeg, MB - Winnipeg Jazz Festival
6/21 - Calgary, AB - Sled Island Festival
6/23 - Ottawa, ON - Indigenous Day Live
6/24 - Kingston, ON - Skeleton Park Arts Festival
7/6 - Montreal, QC - Montreal Jazz Festival
7/15 - Guelph, ON - Hillside Festival

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