Happy Monday all!

Not much news this weekend, but I am hoping that this week will be eventful. Right now the new projects are on the band’s side, I have to be patient and wait a bit. But I hope soon things will start moving faster.

Last weekend was Wales Goes Pop, one of the few pop festivals around. I was looking on Facebook at my friend’s photos. Seems like they had lots of fun. Would be nice to return to Wales someday. I hope the festival continues for many years. We need more of them!

Space Daze: new music by the ex-Seapony. The Seattle one-man band has just released “Remote View” a mellow 5-song EP. The release seems to be available in digital format only but it is pretty enough to spend time streaming it, having it play time and time again. If you think of Seattle, you think of rain, rainy days… the music gives you just that feeling.

Swiss Portrait: this cool project by Edinburgh’s Michael Kay Terence will be releasing a digital EP titled “Safe House” on April 25. It will have 6 songs and we can now preview two of them. I suggest checking out the excelleent “Play with Fire”, with some superb guitars and great vocals. Really like it!

Atmos Bloom: Curtis Paterson and Tilda Gratton from Manchester are behind this dreampop band. Their latest single “Daisy” is a true corker! I thought the song was great immediately. Great melody, good vocal delivery and the guitars are ace. This is a digital single, I hope it gets released in physical format.

An Ocean of Embers: the great Nantes band is back with a reworked version of their song “Last Night I Fell Agsain”. The band formed by Jimmy Arfosea and Elsa Muller have recorded three versions of this track, the normal one, an acoustic mix and an instrumental. Sounds good!

The Catherines: “I’m Gonna Sue You Real Good” is the new track by the duo from Hamburg. The band that has the best song titles out there, also knows how to make wonderful pop songs. This digital single is no exception!

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I was listening after many years the EP “Turbulencias en Nunca-Jamás” by the Spanish band Tecnicolor. One thing that came to mind immediately was that I didn’t know anything about them. That this was the only release I knew by them and as far as I know they disappeared into obscurity.

I am looking at the CD release that was lovely designed by Gregorio Soria, the mastermind of Annika Records. The EP wasn’t released by his label but by Elefant Records in 2001. Catalog number being ER-340.

I remember playing these songs a lot back in the early 2000s. They may have aged a bit now. But I still have a soft-spot for them. 5 songs were on this EP, “Tú (Eres la Solución)”, “De Otro Color”, “Yo Sé Qu´é Es”, “Amor Bajo Cero” and “Parecido a una Ilusión”.

The band was just two people, Marta on vocals and keyboards and Horacio on guitars. One interesting thing is that the songs were recorded at Refugio Antiaéreo in January of 2001. This studio was Los Planetas studio. Los Planetas being the biggest indie band in Spain. Erik Jiménez played the drums and Miguel López the bass, both members of Los Planetas. You start to wonder if the band was from Granada. Could be because of these connections, right?

The producer was Carlos Hernández and Mónica Esteban did backing vocals. Mastering was done at Sonoland in Madrid by Carlos as well.

That’s all the info on the CD. But one thing I remember from back in the days is that the band had more songs, probably released as demo CDRs. Could I find more info about that?

The band did record  at least three more songs that we know about. “Mi Plato Favorito” which was included in the compilation “Le Touriste Rebusca en el Desván de la Nueva Ola” released by Ventilador Music (CDM 031) in 2003. This of course was a cover of Rubi y los Casinos.

Then a cover of “Oh Que Pena Me Das” by Aerolíneas Federales was included in “Alegra la Cara – Tributo a Aerolíneas Federales” that was released by Ya Estas Ya Producciones YP-10) in 2005. And lastly that same year the song “Idiomas del Corazón” was inccluded in “Contempopránea – 10 Años Pop (Concurso Grupo Revelación)” released by Contempopránea, the fine pop festival in Spain.

Then I find that the band actually hailed from Málaga. And luckily a PDF of the Popchild fanzine. Here there is an interview with the band!

Here they mention the following demo CDRs, “10 Minutos Con…”, “Melodías Olvidables” and “Maravilloso Mundo Imperfecto”. There is no tracklist btu we have some names now.

Seems that their relationship with Elefant was just for the CDEP. When this interview was conducted the band was looking for a label. Seems they had no luck as they never released anything afterwards.

Another interview is available in El Planeta Amarillo, Rafa Skam’s fanzine. At this point it seems the band had grown, now they had Sara on keyboards, Manolo on bass and Alberto on drums. A five-piece! A curious detail too is that Horacio had a bar in downtown Malaga. So cool, would be nice to visit if he is still running it! Sara on the other hand was a teacher in an institute, Sara was studying piano and music education while Manolo and Alberto were into computer science.

And finally found all of the band’s songs that were released on their demos (though can’t seem to find anything about the release “10 Minutos Con…”).

The demo CD “Febrero” from 2002 had the songs “Gotas de Lluvia”, “Cuando estás Conmigo” and “Un Mal Sueño”. Then “Golpes de Amor” also released in 2002 had “Deja Ya de Disimular”, “Cuatro Razones”, “Quizás” and “Mi Plato Favorito”.

“Maravilloso Mundo Imperfecto” came out in 2003 and had the songs “¿Qué Me Das?”, “Bubblegum”, “El Reloj de Arena” and “Plata”. In 2003 they also release “Melodías Olvidables” with the songs “Idiomas del Corazón”, “Enloquecer es Posible”, “Adiós Tristeza”, “Mi Hombre Invisible” and “Mi Droga eres Tú”. Lastly in 2004 they put out “El Color de Algunos Días” which had four more songs, “Si Supieras”, “Amor 100%”, “Tu Suave Violencia” and “Hipnotizada”.

What happened to Horacio and Marta. Where are they now?

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Tecnicolor – Plata