Day 85. Closer and closer to 3 months. Music is here to keep us entertained, distracted. That’s a good thing.

The B-Team: there are two 6 from their live set list from 1986. They are “Quit Dreaming” and “Salamander” and they are really good! It is really exciting to see so many new gems being unearthed by Paul Rosendale!

Cinéma Lumière: what a lovely song is “Love”. This is the latest from the indiepop band based in Manila. Our friend Xavier Emas is the one leading group of pop music alchemists and I can’t wait to listen to more tracks by them!

Electric Lo Fi Seresta: the Rio de Janeiro project formed by Guilherme Almeida is back with a new EP called “The Gash Dance”. It has 4 songs and is available now digitally. These songs are also a preview of the forthcoming full album “Songs From Hypnagogic Cave”.

The Caraway: Our friends of The Caraway are going to re-release their songs on vinyl thanks to the Blue-Very label in Japan! This is very exciting news for fans of the music of Osamu Shimada. 10 songs and only limited to 100 copies. Hopefully it doesn’t sell out soon, I already spent my budget for the next two weeks! It is a must have.

Aiko el Grupo: this fun Spanish band has just released a new digital single on Elefant Records and it is called “Truchita (Nunca Volveré!!!)”. It is very nice I think and would be great to see it released properly in the future. Youthful, fun, punk-spirit, on this one!

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This will probably be once again a very short post. I am trying to find out information about a very obscure band called Green Romance. And I honestly think there’s nothing on the web about them, so I am asking for your help.

They appear curiously enough on a compilation tape that has a green sleeve, the fantastic and legendary “Frischer Morgentau” compilation that was released on the German label Steinpilz Tonträger (STEIN 1) in 1993. They contributed a nice jangly track named “Rain Keeps Falling’, a very indiepop title indeed.

And the sound of the band is very indiepop too, very early 90s indiepop. Jangly and sweet. I can’t tell where the band is from, but I would actually guess they are German singing in English. Something that confuses me is that on the sleeve bands are broken up. There is a German side and the International Side. Green Romance appears in the International side alongside Venus Peter or Les Chaplinn’s. But there are German bands on this side too like Fluffy Pillows or Die Wurzelsepps. The main difference is that they are singing in English. So it may totally be that Green Romance were German.

I know the tape came with a 16 page booklet with information about the bands on it. I don’t own it. So I can’t say. Once Peter Twee.net, when visiting him in Bremen, offered me a tape but I didn’t take it (I don’t like tapes, but nowadays I really regret not taking this tape!). But I don’t think he had the booklets with the bands information.

This tape is wonderful, it includes top bands like Die Fünf Freunde, The Almanacs, Acid House Kings, The Pearly Gatecrashers and many more. So you know there’s quality here.

Now I really hope someone can tell me anything about them. I would LOVE to hear more stuff by them!

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Listen
Green Romance – Rain Keeps Falling