GRATIN CARNIVAL - “Such December” LPGratin Carnival Such December LP (Alien Transistor, 2023) "Alien Transistor is proud to announce a reissue of Such December, the fourth album by Japanese indie folk pop artist, Gratin Carnival. Listeners might already know Gratin Carnival from their appearance on the Alien Parade Japan compilation of indie pop groups working with brass and woodwind; compiled by Markus Acher of The Notwist and Saya of Tenniscoats, it introduced this beautiful genre to

just walked at their own winding pace

Pesky guitars floating around all the time

The Sharrock vein continues with “How to Cook a Wolf

‘Duologue’ revels in its variance of linguistic stylings – from the deep US south religious lament of ‘of a’ hovering above an ambience of Zither & Bells

Another is a trip of a kind — Angel (The Astronomer) is an eerie voyage into the “sinuses” of space

Few managed to tease such fierce poetry from such understated

Although Amba has often recorded a bunch of tune-oriented albums for Tzadik she’s a free improviser at heart

"It has occasionally been assumed that Henry Grimes got this recording date as a reward for his long service in the avant-garde of jazz

This was new and exciting territory

SOUNDING LIKE NEW ZEALAND' FLYING NUN ROCK

far away enmeshes itself in the cultural fabric of a point in time - a little germ

Untitled (Black Is) and Untitled (Rise) are protest music and much more: They are music for the sense of loss that persists when the chants begin to waver and the crowds disperse