Taxon Lazare – Goodbye Nostalgia
Coming straight from Eastern Siberia (Ulan Ude, Russia) is Taxon Lazare with the deliciously retro minimalist synthpop album "Прощай, ностальгия" (Proshchay, nostal'giya, or “Goodbye Nostalgia”)! “Goodbye Nostalgia” is a beautiful piece of old-school synthpop that features a host of unique, interesting melodies and eastern synth sounds
Coming straight from Eastern Siberia (Ulan Ude, Russia) is Taxon Lazare with the deliciously retro minimalist synthpop album “Прощай, ностальгия” (Proshchay, nostal’giya, or “Goodbye Nostalgia”)!
“Goodbye Nostalgia” is a beautiful piece of old-school synthpop that features a host of unique, interesting melodies and eastern synth sounds not often found in U.S. releases. I highly recommend a listen! Although I could not understand a single bit of the lyrics the nostalgia transcends the language barrier.
In fact, I found “Прощай, ностальгия” more engaging than many English language releases I hear nowadays.
Foreign language music is all too often ignored in the U.S., and it’s important to note the retrosynth and synthwave movements are happening all over the world – just like the sounds they emulate became a worldwide phenomenon in the 80s.
Russian synth label Retrowave Touch Records has been putting out a lot of fantastic synthwave from our eastern brothers in synths a while now – and Belarusian wunderkind Molchat Doma is setting up for a USA tour this coming spring! (If you haven’t listened yet, I highly recommend their album we reviewed here, as they even hit our top 10 albums list for 2017!)
