Newsun

Pandit Pam Pam's latest album, Newsun, came out last Friday. The ten tracks on Newsun are an ambient treat, a beguiling and hypnotic blend of field recordings and ambient synth sounds, analogue and digital merged and layered. The opener, Diogo Crying, starts off with the sound of Eduardo's infant son and the wind and then piano chords gradually work their way in. Jun 14th is lovely experimental ambient (and coincidentally my daughter's birthday). Halfway through a drum machine pitter- patters in as gentle guitar chords descend. Khords has reverb FX, synths and street sounds- traffic, voices, the outside world and music brought together. 

Lullaby For Lara is the sound of being half asleep, with repeating melodies dancing about. Closer, Peter and Beijo all sound like ideas that became sound sketches and then became tracks- there's an immediacy to them and the sense that you're listening to the world passing by. The album's final track is also the longest, Pascoa, almost eight minutes of gorgeous, slowly unfolding ambience, music that captures the passing of time, daybreak and sunrise. You can listen and buy Newsun at Bandcamp.