Author: pimpod

More crate digging gold from the excellent Analog Africa label, this time with a focus on Cameroon. Yaoundé, in the 1970´s, was a buzzing place. Every neighbourhood of Cameroon´s capital, no matter how dodgy, was filled with music spots but surprisingly there were no infrastructure to immortalise those musical riches. The country suffered from a serious lack of proper recording facilities, and the process of committing your song to tape could become a whole adventure unto itself. Despite the myriad difficulties involved in the simple process of making and releasing a record, the musicians of Yaoundé’s underground music scene left behind an extraordinary legacy of raw grooves and magnificent tunes.

In this episode we feature some short sharp punchy indie rock, starting with Bad Bad Hats, a trio from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their fourth album Walkman is chock full of memorable melodies and sweet harmonies. Essential listening!

Influenced by European film and library music, Maston is a composer from Los Angeles who relocated to Europe a couple of years ago. When he encountered Swiss ensemble, LÉclair, he knew he had found the missing link to his dream to create sounds in the spirit of Ennio Morricone, Sven Libaek, & Piero Umiliani. The result is the colorful and kinetic album Souvenir.