Taking its title from the word loloiza, a Spanish term for football chants where the collective act of singing means more than the words sung, Za! built the concept of their new album Loloismo from an audience participation routine that the pair developed with an improvisation orchestra. “These [football] chants are seen as vulgar,” explains one half of the duo, Eduard, to Stewart Smith in The Wire 384, “You would never do ‘lolololo’ in an opera house. With experimental music it’s sometimes too serious, so this kind of lolo-ising is a way of saying, hey, what you’re doing is not that important, just enjoy it.”

Identiying strongly with the European DIY scene, the experimental punk duo from Barcelona consists of drummer Spazzfrica Ehd aka Eduard and guitarist and trumpeter PapaduPau. Stewart Smith explains, “The carnivalesque spirit of Loloismo comes through in the album’s freewheeling approach to genre. Over ten songs, Za! blast through gnarly proto-metal, detourned hardcore, clicks and cuts techno, electrodabke and their own DIY take on EDM. Recorded live, with minimal vocal overdubs, Loloismo captures the energy of a duo flying by the seat of their pants as they play several instruments simultaneously, trigger samples and process sounds in real time.”

Loloismo is released by Sheffield label The Audacious Art Experiment and Folkestone's Hot Salvation records on 29 February. Za! will be touring throughout February with NOPE at Brighton Sticky Mike's (11 February), London DIY Space For London (12), Folkestone Harp Restrung (13), Milton Keynes MK Gallery (18), Bradford Delius Arts and Cultural Centre (19) and Sheffield Picture House Social (20). Pre-orders can be made at Hot Salvation. Subscribers to The Wire can read Stewart Smith's article in The Wire 384 and online via Exact Editions.