Day 195.
The Crooner: perhaps the best news of the week is the release of “Heaven Airlines+”!! The album released by the enthusiastic Greek label Make Me Happy looks gorgeous. The A side of the 12″ contains the original “Heaven Airlines CD” whil;e the B side it includes songs that were included in the Japanese release of the album plus other songs that appeared on compilations during the time around the world, including favourite so many favourite songs of mine. This is an album NO ONE SHOULD MISS!! It is available now on Bandcamp.
Low Key Crush: Melbourne continues to be one of the centers of the international pop underground, it is really impressive how many bands and good songs come out from there. Now the duo Low Key Crush has a new song called “Been Waiting” that sounds ace. We are just wondering when is a release coming out?!
The Harriets: this fun Japanese girl group has made a lovely video for their song “Eeenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe”! The song is being released as a CD+fanzine and you can find it in their own website. Really nice!
Nos Miran: another cool video released lately was the one for “Quien Tú Quieres Que Sea” by this Spanish pop combo! This song is actually a digital single that confirms all the good things we heard on their “Todo se Repite” album.
The Silent Love: last August the Jakarta based label Tarsius Records released a 14 song album by this great Indonesian project. It is called “Decade” and it is a great jingle jangly pop record!
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Anyone remember the Swedish band Lothar? They put an album out on Quince Records from Japan called “Montgolfier” (QRCP-65) in 2008 and then they sort of went silent. I am trying to find out more information about them of course. Tag along?
The album had 11 songs in total, “Malone”, “Whizz”, “Nesebar”, “Montgolfier”, “Carol is Knitting”, “By November”, “Coq Au Vin”, “Cars and Cranes”, “Raincoat” and “Our Days Will Pass”. Okay, so you see they have a song about November. This counts towards this silly challenge I have about finding bands that wrote a song about a month. Only missing December now.
But I actually remembered this band because I used to have a poster in bright pink from a gig in Hamburg. I think the lineup was Sad Days for Puppets and Lothar. I think they were to play the Grüner Jäger. Maybe someone remembers this?
I do own the CD and I can look for some more information about the band and the release.
The band was formed by Erik Bromö on guitar, Mats Ingemansson on drums, Daniel Leopold on guitar, Olov Lindberg on bass, Mattias Person on guitar and tambourine, Nathaly Salas on vocals and Daniel Stridh on guitar. Nathaly also wrote all the lyrics.
We know that the album was recorded and mixed in Traxton Recording by Mats Ingemasson between 2007 and 2008. It was mastered at Cosmos Mastering by Christofer Stannow.
The art for the CD was created by Erik Bromö and the photos by Teo Leff. They mention being fans of My Bloody Valentine, JAMC and Sarah Records.
A few blogs picked reviewed them like The Janglebox or The Blog That Celebrates Itself, but they don’t add any details. They just review the music. I am in search of info, details. The music I know that I like it.
I look in Musikon.se and Popfakta, websites that usually have info on Swedish bands. No luck. I know that Traxton Recording, where they made the album is located in Stockholm, in lovely Söder. Did the band hail from Stockholm then?
What I do think I found is a website for Erik Bromö. He is a painter, an illustrator, and he does make beautiful pieces. I would love to have a 7″ with one of his pieces, right? And is Nathaly working in communications?
I would love to know more of course. Who remembers them?
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Listen
Lothar – Malone
