Nostalgia

In the twentieth year of his solo career, Sula Bassana releases an album that sounds more like a reflection than an experiment, and for that very reason, it is one of his strongest. The five tracks on Nostalgia were created between 2013 and 2018, never stylistically fitting the more electronic albums in between, and patiently waited until the right moment. The cover art is by French painter Hervé Scott Flament.

"Real Life" opens with whispering vocals over sitar and wavering synthesizers, before the song builds to a stomping post-rock finale. "We Will Make It" feels like early Pink Floyd meets Sonic Youth, driving, hypnotic, with a Wall of Sound conclusion. The title track "Nostalgia" is the centerpiece: melodic, slightly jazzy, with Mellotron and pure fuzz. "Wurmloch" takes a synthesizer arpeggio and builds the rest of the instruments around it – a fully unfolded spaceflight. "Mellotraum", the oldest track, was created on the very first day of Sula Bassana's newly arrived Mellotron in 2013 and sounds like a first, astonished encounter.

Also available as an LP on 180 gram black vinyl in a gatefold cover made in Germany and limited to 500 copies, including download code!

Sula Bassana is
Sula Bassana – guitars, basses, drums, synthesizers, organ, mellotron, electric sitar, vocals