Showing posts with label synthwave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label synthwave. Show all posts

Friday, August 19, 2022

08/ 2022 New release: Canal Pop – Synthwave Sessions: Letters From LA

 

Eternal Sunday presents a release by Canal Pop, Synthwave Sessions: Letters From LA. The album features 6 synthwave tracks. Most of them are instrumental or with sampled voices. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Preview Canal Pop – Cruising in Randy’s Brand New GTB

  

 

 

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Friday, February 25, 2022

02/2022 New release: Canal Pop – Superficial

 

Eternal Sunday presents Superficial, the new album from Canal Pop. The album features 11 tracks of the artist’s signature catchy synthpop, and includes performances by three outstanding guest singers: Polette, Josefina Aufranc, and Pauline Q.

One of the songs "The Starman Won’t Come Tonight" is a tribute to David Bowie, written after his passing in 2016.

 

 

 

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Preview Canal Pop ft Josefina Aufranc – Anything Can Happen Tonight

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday, November 12, 2021

11/ 2021 New release: Canal Pop feat. Eva Esdrujula – Comment Te Dire Adieu

 

Eternal Sunday presents "Comment Te Dire Adieu", a new single from Canal Pop featuring Eva Esdrújula. The track is a cover of Françoise Hardy’s 1968 French hit, later re-recorded in 1989 by Jimmy Somerville as a duet with June Miles-Kingston.

Eva Esdrújula is a French-Argentine artist who has worked as a model, actress, photographer, and press correspondent, in addition to her career as a singer.

The single is produced in Canal Pop’s signature synthwave/electropop style, using classic analog synthesizers. It also marks the artist’s first release sung in French.

“This is a song I’ve always loved,” says Emiliano Canal, the man behind Canal Pop. “It’s one of the best-known French-language songs in the international market—and there aren’t many of those. When I had the chance to record it with Eva, I didn’t think twice. She’s a very interesting artist.”

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Preview Canal Pop ft Eva Esdrujula – Comment Te Dire Adieu

 

 

 

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Friday, March 22, 2019

03/ 2019 New release: Canal Pop – Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop

Eternal Sunday proudly presents Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop, an album that compiles some of the best songs recorded by Canal Pop, the synthpop music project led by songwriter and producer Emiliano Canal (who also happens to be the label’s director), from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
“I spent these last years devoted full time to the record label” Emiliano explains “so my artistic project Canal Pop was not my priority, when I had some free time I recorded some songs and released them but without the time or energy to come up with a proper campaign. And it was a shame, because some of the songs that Canal Pop released were good and deserved better luck with the public”.

This doesn’t mean that Canal Pop’s songs went unnoticed these years. Canal Pop is well known in the synthpop/ electropop global underground scene and specialized portals like Side Line (Belgium) and others write about him on a regular basics. Songs and remixed by Canal Pop have been released in compilations by labels and pages like Side Line and Alfa Matrix (Belgium), Sector44 (USA), Ninthwave (USA) and Electrozombies (Germany) (as well as by Eternal Sunday, Emiliano’s label).   

Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop features 13 original tracks, and all of the songs are a proper sample of Canal Pop’s style: classic electropop arrangements and production, catchy radio-friendly choruses, crystal-clear voiced professionally produced and plays of words in the lyrics (in English, which is not bad considering that Emiliano is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where people speak Spanish). The lyrics are about falling in love, being yourself, infatuation, electricity, being cool in Japan, dancing alone, girls who want to learn new things and girls that really enjoy phone calls. 

Several amazing singers collaborated with Canal Pop over the years and all of them are present here: Gaby Laguzzi, New York City’s Bea Conenna, Polette (who shared stages with the likes of Deep Purple and Shakira), Josefina Aufranc and recently with teen singer and TV actress Pauli Cugnata. “All of them are amazing professional singers with thousands of hours of live and studio work” says Emiliano, “I’m very proud of the girls I work with. Besides, they’re all very pretty”.

All the songs were produced by Emiliano Canal except for the opening track “I Want You (To Be My Baby)”, which was produced by producer Osi Tejerina (who also directs a record label in Buenos Aires). 9 of the songs are featured in 2019 versions, with an improved sound. “Future Nights” was commercially unreleased (only as part of a free compilation).

“A new Canal Pop period is beginning”, says Emiliano. “New songs, new singers, bigger and better plans”. In the meantime, the world can listen to Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop to catch the mood.




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Friday, February 15, 2019

02/ 2019 New release: Canal Pop feat. Pauli Cugnata – Let’s Move

Eternal Sunday presents another single by synthpop artist Canal Pop, this time featuring the beautiful and young singer and actress Pauli Cugnata on vocals. The song is called “Let’s Move” and it’s an ironic look at someone who feels that his or her life must go on somewhere else. As usual, the production features a classic synthpop/ synthwave arrangement with lots of analog synthesizers sounds. Two remixes were added to the single, both by DJ and producer German Kreff.




Canal Pop feat. Pauli Cugnata – Let’s Move on iTunes




Preview Canal Pop feat. Pauli Cugnata – Let’s Move


Friday, January 4, 2019

01/ 2019 New release: Softcore Express – Electronic Bach: Switched-On Versions

Eternal Sunday presents another landmark album by Softcore Express: Electronic Bach Switched-on Versions, an album that features 12 tracks composed by the immortal Johan Sebastian Bach produced with  analog synthesizers. Of course, the album is an homage to the first ever synthesized classical music album, done by Wendy Carlos in 1968 (back when he was Walter Carlos). That album produced dozens of clones, creating a new musical genre: classical music made with synthesizers. Now Softcore Express pays homage to that late 60s/ early 70s craze with this lovely album. The cover features a picture taken on the Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.



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Preview Softcore Express – Electronic Bach: Switched-On Versions


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Friday, November 23, 2018

11/ 2018 New release: Softcore Express – Michelangelo ’70

Eternal Sunday presents a new electronic tango single by Softcore Express, this time Michelangelo ’70 a composition by Astor Piazzolla, the composer that fusioned tango with contemporary music in the second half of the XX century. As usual the track is produced using analog synthesizers and drum machines, with no acoustic instruments whatsoever, including no bandoneon (tango accordion) which is the instrument that gives tango its distinctive sound. A very fresh version of a classic composition.





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Friday, September 21, 2018

09/ 2018 New release: Softcore Express – Synthango

Eternal Sunday presents an amazing album: Synthango, by Softcore Express, an album that compiles instrumental versions  of 11 of the best known tango pieces in the Universe produced with a synthpop/ synthwave sound, made with vintage analog synthesizers.

Electronic tango or electrotango became popular as a genre around the year 2000, but was mostly a combination of tango classic sounds, especially the bandoneon/ tango accordion, with loops and electronic percussion (not always produced in good taste). This is not what Synthango is: there’s no bandoneon/ tango accordion or any other acoustic instrument in this album, everything was replaced with pulsating lines of analog synthesizers that create a surprising sound collage that was never done before, very catchy and overflowing with naïve freshness.

Synthango is both an homage to tango from Buenos Aires and to the synthpop sound of the pioneer producers that developed electronic music based on synthesizers during the 70s and 80s. The sound and arrangements evoke legendary producers and artists like Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Cerrone and synthpop pioneers like Yazoo, SoftCell o Depeche Mode, giving as a result a tango album that’s unique, revolutionary and apt for a global public and market.




Softcore Express – Synthango on iTunes



Preview Softcore Express –Synthango




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Friday, April 21, 2017

04/ 2017 New release: Canal Pop feat. Polette – Moonlight Shadow (2017 Version)

Eternal Sunday releases a new version of the 1983 Mike Oldfield hit “Moonlight Shadow” by Canal Pop feat. Polette. The song has already been released in 2012 as the b-side of the single “Electricity”, but the artist was not happy with that version.

“The version released in 2012 was not finished, we were working on it and a hard disk crashed so I had to use the only mix I had”, says Emiliano Canal, AKA Canal Pop. “Luckily enough, we were able to recover the original files and make a new version, the way I originally wanted it so sound”.

As usual, the song features the whole Canal Pop production package: carefully produced amazing female vocals and a synth-lead infectious rhythm that makes people want to dance.




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Preview Canal Pop feat. Polette - Moonlight Shadow (2017 Version)



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Saturday, August 6, 2016

08/ 2016 New release: Softcore Express feat. Pauline Q – Venus

Eternal Sunday presents a new single by Softcore Express, the label’s exclusive tributes and covers makers. In this occasion they present two songs made famous in the 80’s by the girls group Bananarama, “Venus” (which itself is a cover of the 60’s, the original version was done by the Dutch band Shocking Blue) and “Love In The First Degree”.
 
Both songs were classic examples of the sound of legendary pop producers Stock Aitken & Waterman, whose bands and artists dominated the teen pop/ dance music scene in the UK in the mid-80s (Kylie Minogue, Dead Or Alive, Rick Astley, Bananarama, Mel & Kim, Samantha Fox among many others).

“Stock Aitken & Waterman were criticized, both by rockers and by ‘serious’ electronic musicians, because they made pop hits for teens”, says Emiliano Canal,  the label director. “But it is very difficult to come up for pop hits for teens. People not always realize this, and SAW did it worderfully for a decade or so”.

The vocals were provided by the very young and very talented Pauline Q, a 17-years old singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina, who also works as a voiceover artist for Disney and other companies. This single is her phonographic debut and, judging for the results, she’s got quite a bright future in her hands.

More cover versions are in the making! Enjoy!




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Preview Softcore Express feat. Pauline Q – Venus



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