Thandii X Regalado: Coco Okayo - VINYL LP

Thandii X Regalado: Coco Okayo - VINYL LP

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Preorder Release Date: 09/11/2026
Title:

Coco Okayo

Artist:

Thandii X Regalado

Label:

Sama Sama Records

Product Type:

VINYL LP

UPC:

5070004481629

Genre:

Soul/R & B

Release Date:

2026-09-11

Number of Discs:

1

Additional Details:

140 GRAM VINYL

When a British alt-soul and art-pop duo collaborates with Filipino musical royalty, the result is a blinding flash of artistic spirit that transcends geographical and generational barriers. For Margate-based act Thandii, a chaotic whirlwind of a trip to Manila allowed Graham Godfrey and Jess Berry to explore a new cultural context of song-writing. After several prolific years of self-released albums together, they took the opportunity to channel Graham's Filipino heritage through an ambitious project proposed by the label Sama Sama Records: for Thandii to make their next album with the most recorded drummer in the Philippines, Jun Regalado.Now in his late 70s, Regalado has recently gained more recognition internationally after the reissue of his track 'Pinoy Funk' (from the Soundway compilation Ayo Ke Disco in 2024), along with the discovery of nearly 500 album appearances that are now finding themselves in the collections of younger generations. And on Coco Okayo - the first time he has collaborated outside of his contemporaries - Regalado effectively passes the torch.In exploring a sound born of the diaspora with roots in British soul music, Coco Okayo makes full use of the polymath abilities of Thandii. While they provide vocals, percussion, flutes and production, they still manage to carve out space for regular Margate collaborators (including keyboardist Steve Pringle, Graham's bandmate in Pigeon), as well as tapping Filipino connections in the United States such as Wyn Avillas and Ian Santillano.'It's a new genre coming from Filipino diaspora artists paying tribute to the Manila sound of the 70s,' say Thandii, 'but combining it with modern day post-punk-disco, beat-driven-art-pop music coming from the small seaside town of Margate'.However the listener might interpret it, it's clear that Coco Okayo is not stuck between worlds, but rather, has built a utopian world of it's own.

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