As much as I love Manu Chao’s albums—Clandestino is an underground classic—his live shows can be somewhat one-dimensional. I saw him in a rare US appearance last summer in San Diego; what started out as an unforgettable performance, blending dub, punk, ska, and rock in Chao’s inimitable manner, devolved into a repetitive ska-punk blowout halfway through.

Still, I’m psyched that he’s coming to Sasquatch. Maybe he’ll stick with the dub and ditch the punk.

More importantly, thinking about Manu Chao brought to mind one of his proteges, the relatively unknown Spanish oddity Tonino Carotone.

I was turned on to Carotone by a friend in Barcelona while traveling through Spain in ‘01. Dude is Spanish by birth but some kind of Italophile—he’s adopted the quintessential look of the Italian greaseball, pencil-thin mustache and all—and sings in a weird mix of Spanish, Castillian, and Italian. The first two tracks from his second album, 2000’s Mondo Dificile, were produced by Chao, and percolate with that deep, dubby funk he’s known for, blended with Carotone’s own mafioso wedding music shmaltz.

One of those two tracks is “Me Cago en el Amor”—“I Shit on Love.” Here’s a YouTube vid that follows Carotone through the streets of Barcelona as he dry humps a harem of well-dressed mannequins. Fuckin’ weird and totally awesome.