Spanish band Giulia y los Tellarini are some lucky bastards.
The girlfriend of one of the band members left the group’s CD at the director’s Barcelona hotel, the fashionable Hotel D’Arts. Somehow the music fell into Woody Allen’s hands as he was in the city shooting “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” his upcoming love-triangle story and first feature film set in Spain.
Pretty soon the band’s MySpace page was getting messages from someone claiming to be from Allen’s camp that wanted to get in touch with the band. “I didn’t even know about it. I thought it was a joke. I didn’t think that something like this could happen,” singer Giulia Tellarini told Billboard.
And now the group – who’s music mixes traditional Spanish music with French chanson, as well as tango, jazz and Latin boleros – are the featured track in the trailer to Allen’s ‘Cristina’ and its a song (“Barcelona”) that’s becoming a pretty sought after one (we even tried to figure it out who it was until some blog farted and our ADD attention took off elsewhere).
“I equate Barcelona with love,” Tellaraini said, which is perfect considering all the three-ways, lesbian trysts, make-out sessions and attempts at love and sex there are in the film.
The soundtrack to the film also includes Giulia y Los Tellarinis’ song “La Ley del Retiro,” but they hope people stick around for longer than just the film’s box-office lifespan. “We hope that people will appreciate the music — not just the buzz it’s getting because it’s part of the film.” Allen calls the track “perfect.”
The group’s first album Eusebio was released in May and is available on ITunes now.
Trailer: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
Watch: Giulia y los Tellarini – “Barcelona”