‘Indecent sinners, you are!’ screamed a Spanish granny, waving her cane at a gaggle of naked cyclists. Across the street, a passerby dropped his shopping bags, stripped to his tennies, and sprinted off to join the pack. This is Madrid’s annual Ciclonudista, a bike event in which hundreds of brazen activists gather in the nude for a rollicking ride to raise awareness for bicycle culture in the Spanish capital.

In conjunction with Critical Mass and the World Naked Bike Ride day, Ciclonudista calls for a safer, greener, and more bike-friendly city, beginning with the creation of bike lanes in Madrid. Complete with a police escort, traffic came to a complete standstill as the mass careened down boulevards and plazas in a whirlwind of breasts, butts and spokes. Riders were armed with wigs, masks, blow horns and boom boxes strapped to their baskets. They used squirt guns to ward off the myriad of bystanders, who whipped out cameras at the sight of a white rump. That this year’s ride fell on a cold and rainy Saturday merely hindered activists from reveling in the fountains outside the Royal Palace as they had in past years.

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With talent beyond their years and humility to grasp their weight of their predecessors, Madrid’s Talk! have earned their salt as being the only active Hammond trio of young musicians in the city. While replacing the bass with an organ is nothing new, what sets Talk! apart is not innovation, but the unharnessed ferocity with which they pay ode to the beastly Hammond organ.

Talk! surges with the rhythm, precision, and pathos that gave life to 60’s jazz, stoking the coals that ignited organ giants like Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGrift, Jack McDuff, and Richard “Groove” Holmes. Their sound is dark and smoky, punctuated by fevered solos that send the crowd reeling. Talk! is Jon Sande on organ, Lucas Vázquez on guitar, and Beny Grooves on drums. In late April the boys will release their lauded first single-a 45 recorded completely on analogue by Spanish producer Carlo Coupé on the label Lontano Records.

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