Yousuf and Amman Abbasi create "sound-scenes" that immediately fill the void left by your daily mundane routines with an intricate, dreamy, and nostalgic sound. Closing my eyes I can’t help but see moving images of nostalgic events that took place somewhere in another life. This is the music for the waving hands on the platform of a leaving train; music for the hopeless bolts through endless cornfields; music for the fallen tears on a park bench erstwhile drenched in rain. The fifteen scenes split into tracks defy the genre classification. Yet the album, two years in the making, clings tightly to the nomination as the modern classical soundtrack of my life. I could also see the Abbasi Brothers fighting for my Best of 2008 list, when the time comes [something I felt from the very first track]. Something Like Nostalgia is scheduled for a release the summer of ’08 worldwide. Highly recommended if you like Skyphone, Deaf Center, Elegi, Marsen Jules, and of course, Clint Mansell. Every track is a gem.

by HEADPHONE COMMUTE
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Tracklist :
01. Stacy's Day Parade
02. Kompa
03. Something like Nostalgia
04. Camera Flashes Blue
05. The Way of the Wanderer
06. Dreams of a Graffiti Artist
07. The Social Evening (in 1992)
08. Mr. Boe
09. A Long Weekend
10. In a Field
11. Playtime in Spacetime
12. Approaching the End
13. Fragments of Memories as a Child
14. Reprise
15. Clouds are Sleeping

Véritable ovni musical et formation cosmopolite, La Caravane Passe cache derrière ses costumes directement empruntés au folklore russe un univers tout aussi barré. Après avoir inventé de toute pièce un village imaginaire pour son précédent album "Velkom Plechti" et donné des dizaines de vrais-faux mariages en guise de concerts à travers toute l'Europe, le collectif revient en pleine forme et en couleur avec un troisième disque intitulé "Ahora In Da Futur". C'est à vitesse grand V et avec la frénésie d'un charriot de montagnes russes que la formation démarre en trombe son nouveau délire.

Pour ce disque, La Caravane Passe a eu l'idée de faire monter dans son train lancé à toute vitesse des invités parachutés avec brio dans son délire. Rachid Taha sur le politique "Perdu ta langue" ou encore R.Wan (Java) avec "Zinzin Moretto" se fondent à merveille dans le moule de la joyeuse bande. Chanson française, musique tsigane, rap-world, balkan-ska ou encore électro-rock, le style du groupe est assurément indéfinissable mais totalement jouissif ! Les textes ne sont pas épargnés puisqu'ils mêlent avec justesse thèmes sérieux et légers en français, anglais, serbe, espagnol et allemand. Les chiens aboient... La Caravane Passe !

par Guillaume Torrent
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Tracklist :
1 · Cybermakovic
2 · Babakdol Babushka
3 · Zinzin Moretto
4 · Moustache On The Stage
5 · Miriano's Market
6 · Perdu ta langue
7 · Bulibasha
8 · Like A Sextoy
9 · Cybercriminal
10 · Interllugs
11 · Cocooning On Da Bivouak Style
12 · Paint Him Black
13 · One Kolo Beyond
14 · Gypsy Magic Woman
15 · Une cigogne a traversé le Danube

UK duo Psapp (Carim Classmann and Galia Durant) have continued to solidify themselves as child musicians in adult bodies with their unique brand of toytronica. The esoteric clicks, the otherworldly blips, the raucous bangs of child’s play are all simply instruments in the minds of Classmann and Durant. And the kitsch doesn’t stop there; the two have an odd obsession with cats, which pops up everywhere on their albums and on stage (they thrown handmade cats into the crowd).

And so, after making some noise (pun intended) in the electropop genre, Psapp has gone back to the old hard drives and dug up some of their earlier cuts and whatnot for Early Cats and Tracks Volume II. Truthfully, these tracks are not too unlike those on Tiger, My Friend.  “Northdown C” seems to have taken the rain from the beginning of “Tiger, My Friend” and given it new life with a hand drum beat and the bright tinkle of a plaything in the distance. “Happy Lamb” sounds like a typewriter bred with an organ and had children proficient in the marimba. Though many of the tracks on here appeared on earlier EPs or Psapp’s debut Japanese-only release Northdown, the true highlight of this EP is “Who Knows My Ohs”, featuring Durant’s sultry sweet alto vocals laced craftily over a strumming guitar and the frenetic plucking of a toy.

by Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream
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Tracklist:
1. "Feel the Fur"                   3:58
2. "Dad's Breakdown"        3:04
3. "Scissory"                         4:09
4. "Northdown C"                4:38
5. "Happy Lamb"                 3:53
6. "Whores"                          2:24
7. "How Things Turn Up"   4:57
8. "Who Knows My Ohs"    3:47