Natal

My contact in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Eduardo, sends me music from his Boston Medical Group label along with updates from his life. He records as Pandit Pam Pam and at the start of this year released Dot, experimental ambient music recorded on modular synths (on at least one occasion with his infant son Diogo asleep in his arms). 

In April Pandit Pam Pam released a single track, The Senator, a track that moved towards the dancefloor, the modular synths joined by a drum track and a lovely trumpet, three different sounds converging into a unified whole. Inventive and totally hypnotic, a 2025 highlight, a treat from Sao Paulo. Go on, listen to this...

In November he put out Newsun, an album fusing field recordings and ambient sounds using analogue synths and Ableton. Pandit Pam Pam's tagline is 'unsettling punky ambience' and that's definitely part of the story and the sound. 

Pandit Pam Pam has released an ambient Christmas EP for the last three - Equipe Exploratoria Papai Natal I, II and III. Volume IV came out yesterday, four tracks for an ambient Christmas. 

Italian Brain Rot Xmas sounds like it was recorded live in a busy shopping centre, a busker with an organ annoyingly close by. A minute in Eduardo's modular synth sounds weave their way in and we're onto more familiar ground, analogue ambience, rising and falling notes, ticking echoes, whispers and space. 

More Christmas music should sound like this.  

The second track is Unconditional Love, a shorter piece, only three minutes long, minimal synth notes and some light background drone. Christmas Arrived (Theme) is an interlude, just forty seconds, the self service machine at the checkout having a pre- Christmas breakdown. Santa Sitting On The Kerbside Wondering What's Next finishes the EP off, three minutes of synths and a heavy background thump that fades out into bubbling water and bird squawks. For Pandit Pam Pam, Christmas is whatever you want it to be. 

Equipe Exploratoria Papai Natal IV is here.