Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a good weekend!
My Raining Stars: Disccos de Kirlian has many new releases coming up. The album “Memories” by French popsters My Raining Stars seems like an essential record this year. Co-released with the fantastic Shelflife Records, the album will be available on CD on June 17. 10 songs, and one to preview now, “If You”, which is great!
Fominder: this one will be sold out very soon. It is also on Discos de Kirlian. If it is not sold out when you read this lines. “Supercardioide” is the name of the new mini-album by this Spanish band. 6 songs (you can listen to them all) produced by Guille Mostaza from Ellos. Great electronic pop, catchy, poppy, upbeat and fun!
Miedo: continuing with the latest releases on the Barcelona label, now I listen to two songs by Miedo. It is a digital single for “Como un Juego”. But the interesting part is that the second song is a cover of “You Should All Be Murdered”!! It is a Spanish version of this indiepop classic. And it is a true surprise!
Antílopedevega: one more from this label. Now a band with a funny name based on the the dramatist Lope de Vega. David Haro is the person behind this dreampop project. “Sinrazón” is his first release and it is available only in digital format. 5 songs, dreamy, mysterious, elegant. It is an interesting debut.
Duele: and lastly another Spanish band but this one seems unsigned still. Hailing from Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Duele is the project of Jorge Luis Amil. His first song is up now on Bandcamp. It is titled “Dependientes” and sounds ace.
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I followed the trail. From stoneeyedkiller’s Youtube channel, where he had shared this great track called “Wake” by the late 80s band Colourforms all the way to a hotel in Massachusetts.
Scott Edward Cole is the connecting thread here. On his Soundcloud account, an archive of his solo works and previous bands, he has uploaded 6 songs by the band Colourforms.
The songs are “Wake”, “Magazines and Souls”, “Hangman”, “Vanessa’s Whirled”, “Dating Game” and “These Iron Hands”. They all date from 1989 and that’s all the info we get.
The other band he was involved is called Enter Venus, but we don’t get a year for this band. Probably after Colourforms? Who knows.
It doesn’t say either where the band was formed, where they played.
Don’t know the other band members names either. But at least we know Scott Edward Cole. Thanks to this I find out he is an artist that works in different fields including painting, photography, writing and music of course. He has a website with a sample of his work. He also shares an Instagram account there.
We do know he is American. Or maybe not? He does spell Colourforms the British way. Well, he lives in the US. He has an inn called The Inn at Kenmore Hill. The location is in the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts. The inn is housed in a historic estate he and his partner Frank Muytjens have renovated and made it beautiful as you can see in the photos.
Sadly can’t find any more info about his old band. Was the band based in Massachusetts from the start? Boston perhaps? Who would know. But this is quite interesting anyhow! How his life must have changed, from playing dim-lit bars with his band to a beautiful sunny and spacious bed and breakfast.
Anyone know any details about Colourforms?
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Listen
Colourforms – Wake
