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Stations of Abandoned Days 3 / Various on CD

Volume 3 in the 18 Frames Per Second series of imaginary soundtracks, this one is for drifting, lovesick wandering, and perhaps disappearing in a faraway port. As far away as our imaginations, that is. Drenched with romanticism and fantasy, with a touch of the tropics and a bit of wry humor to boot, this might be "Paris, Texas" re-imagined by a (much) younger Jean-Luc Godard. On the soundtrack: Vibrafon artists Chesty Morgan provide opening theme and finale, a whistler suitable for slinking into the shadows of a darkened alleyway halfway around the world; Pan-Europeans Cinnamon break free with a remix by Finnish cohorts the Pansies, a remix that would better be described as new song (and not a deconstruction); Hitoribocchi provides a springtime weather forecast for Mars from his hidden satellite workshop in the suburbs of Paris; the elusive Chocolate Barry sends a postcard from some tropical Hell, care/of Brian Wilson; French indie pop eccentrics Caramel pay homage to la nouvelle vague with a lounge drama unlike anything they did before, and which sadly was the very last track recorded before Denis himself dropped out of sight.