Niko Tzoukmanis - Hope Is The Sister Of Despair"Androids may not yet dream of electric sheep, but maybe computers do sing sad songs." In 2013, Tzoukmanis released Hope Is The Sister Of Despair, issued here for the first time on vinyl with 4 previously unreleased tracks. The album was made following the end of a relationship and the happy sad feeling is everywhere in this music. Sequences twinkle and nag, soft pads pour balm on tired ears and when drums do appear they provide an intimate framework

OTIH Records

they could only afford to have it pressed in small quantities

Mr Bongo kickstarts a new Afro 45s series with serious intention

better known as The Buckeye Politicians

Alan explains

the result is songwriting that’s genre-bending

Its lyrics drawn from the Old Testament

boogie classic originally recorded in 1982 and released on the Rain Records label

all with a sense of style

Limited 10 year anniversary repress with black/white artwork

70’s keyboards

like the unreleased instrumental versions by the Estonian TV and Radio Estrada Orchestra "Kesköösamba" (1977)