Starting a new week, now it is June and the World Cup will start in less than two weeks. Probably there will be less posts on the blog during the weeks it lasts. One can’t help it. Especially as it is a World Cup that is very important to me as Peru is going to be in it for the first time since Spain 1982 and it will be the first time I will see them participate since I’m alive. So this means a lot. I’m very happy, very excited, and I look forward to June 16th for the first game against Denmark.

Also this month I should be receiving the Salt Lake Alley 7″. I can’t wait any longer!! And hopefully will be able to announce one or two forthcoming releases. I hope this will be a good month for everyone!

Now onto some new indiepop finds!

Nubes en mi Casa: the Buenos Aires, Argentina, have a new video for their song “¿Qué viene después?” which will be part of the album “Duelos” that Plastilina Records will be releasing this August. It seems the band has shrinked, now from what I understand from the press release only Josefina Mac Loughlin and Hernán Dadamo are left. But that doesn’t mean the band has changed their sound much. “Duelos” will be their third album and as soon as there is more info about it, I’ll be happy to share with you all.

Japanese Summer Orange: I got this recommendation through an email from Minasamaz from Japan. The band is Japanese and from what I was told the person behind it is a 23-year old boy who seems to like the band Fazerdaze.  “Let Me Get You Some Beers” is the song that was shared with me. It actually has a video. I was told in the email that I was going to like the sweet and bitter sounds like marmalade. But I’m not totally hooked. I think it is okay. What do you think?

The Caraway: another recommendation from Japan. This one came from Twitter. And I this is much more my style. It sounds really great if I must say so. I was shared this beautiful song “Apple of My Eye”, though it is just a teaser on Soundcloud. Now I’m looking for more. It sounds fantastic! But, are there any releases by this band? I had to find them on Youtube where I got to listen to “The Rainy Day”. Now, I’m curious. On Discogs only a compilation appearance from 2005. Maybe I should interview them and find out more?

Cariño: a new video for the song “Canción de Pop de Amor” that will be included in the 10″ mini-lp “Pop para la Bajona”. I had recommended the band before and now I have to do it again as the video is really great too! The band formed by Paola Rivero on guitars, Alicia Ros on bass and Maria Talaverano on keys and vocals, is definitely one of the most exciting bands to appear on Elefant in a long time. Makes me glad that the label is going back to its root and not releasing so much boring 60s sounding stuff. This is much much better. Definitely a must for me.

BMX Bandits: and there’s not one but two videos coming from the Spanish label Elefant. The legendary BMX Bandits have unveiled a video for the song “Way of the Wolf (With Dr. Cosmo’s tape Lab)” which sounds great, great, GREAT. One can only wonder how can Duglas do it again and again. This song is included in their last album, “BMX Bandits Forever”.

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Pomme Cannelle, the sugar apple, or sweetsop or Custard apple is the fruit of Annona squamosa, the most widely grown species of Annona and a native of the tropical Americas and West Indies. The Spanish traders of Manila galleons brought it to Asia where its old Mexican name ate may still be found in Bengali ata, Nepalese aati, Sinhalese mati anoda, Burmese awzar thee, and atis in the Philippines. It is also known as custard apple in India, (mainly Annona reticulata) in the Philippines and in Australia. The name is also used in Portuguese as ata.

The fruit is spherical through conical, 5–10 cm in diameter and 6–10 cm  long, and weighing 100–240 g, with a thick rind composed of knobby segments. The color is typically pale green through blue-green, with a deep pink blush in certain varieties, and typically has a bloom. It is unique among Annona fruits in being segmented, and the segments tend to separate when ripe, exposing the interior. The flesh is fragrant and sweet, creamy white through light yellow, and resembles and tastes like custard. It is found adhering to 13-to-16-millimetre-long (0.51 to 0.63 in) seeds forming individual segments arranged in a single layer around a conical core. It is soft, slightly grainy, and slippery. The hard, shiny seeds may number 20–40 or more per fruit and have a brown to black coat, although varieties exist that are almost seedless.

Is it popular in the US? I haven’t really seen this fruit at supermarkets nor at markets. I actually didn’t think it existed. When I saw the photo of it I thought it was a chirimoya, a fruit native to my home country Peru, which is really popular. It seems they are from the same family, Annona, but they are two different fruits. I wonder how it tastes.

I ask if it is popular in the USA because there was a band here once that used that fruit’s name. Well, its name in French. Maybe the band members saw the fruit while in France and tried it there? It is a possibility. If only I would know the names of these band members. They were part of the indiepop-list at some point. At the end of the 90s for sure. That’s the time when the only song I know by them was included in a compilation I’ve been going back a lot lately, “The Family Twee”.

As I mentioned on the posts about The Autumn Teen Sound, The Imaginary Friend and Boy Mouse, Girl Mouse, this double CD compilation was put together by participating members of the Eskimo indiepop list in 1998. It wasn’t released by any label, so someone in the list might have put it together. I believe it was Skippy from March Records who was the one behind The Autumn Teen Sound. I looked on the archives of the indiepop-list for any information about this compilation and there is not much. It was released around Christmas 1998 and I see on the list posts from early 1999 mentioning that listees were receiving their copies. It looks like that most people didn’t think much of the bands on it. Most seem to say that it sucked. That only a few songs were good enough. I haven’t listened to all of the songs yet. So couldn’t say.

But Pomme Cannelle’s “Paper Kisses” is a blissful little tune with female vocals. Who knows who was behind this band. I’m sure some indiepop fans might know, and I hope someone will share that information. Many of the bands that appear on this compilation had been involved with other bands and used different names to appear on this compilation.

Would be interesting to find out if there were more songs by them!

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Listen
Pomme Cannelle – Paper Kisses