THE LIMIÑANAS

From the Mediterranean culture crossroads, psych-pop garage flavour with a burning urge to live.

s song subjects go, listing an old family recipe sounds tasty, but hardly artful. However, for the French duo The Limiñanas, culinary instructions proved to be the starting point for their chic brand of garage-rock infused psych. “We didn’t have any particular plan or ambition when we started,” explains guitarist/singer Lionel Limiñana of how the tempting recipe ended up as the lyrics for Migas 2000, one of the first songs he and his drumming/vocalist wife Marie recorded. Hailing from Perpignan, a French Mediterranean port close to the Spanish border, the pair played in various punk acts before opening their record shop, Vinyl Maniac. Their next collaboration, The Limiñanas, took on a more serious focus after the family were caught up in the 2010 Haitian earthquake while visiting the country to adopt their son. “When we went back from Port-Au-Prince, we decided to do exactly what we want!” says Lionel of the life-changing experience – at the last minute they changed hotels, and their original choice collapsed in the quake. “In short: record music and live intense life situations. The principle of second chance.” After gaining attention via venerable social network MySpace, four full albums, a joint record with French

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