Panda transport music
January 31st, 2010Available on I-tunes click below!!!
Monorail review in HigherPlainMusic
January 31st, 2010Panda Transport – “Monorail” Review
Monorail is the new 6 track EP from Panda Transport and I can confirm that it is rather fantastic. The duo fuse alternative pop electronica with random extras to create a fun.
Opening with the title track, is a groovy cloud-infused piece of dream-pop that you’d be quite happy riding to work via country lanes on your bicycle to, smiling and tipping your hat to all whom pass you. It’s just delightfully upbeat and fun. I could see it opening a Japanese Animation actually.
“Saint Revel” is the song currently gaining exposure via Grey’s Anatomy and is a little more laid back and chilled out with some fantastic vocal layering and sweet electric piano with a Sitar section! How can you lose? Panda Transport’s ability to carry off placing random instruments into a relatively standard track to make it stand completely out from the crowd is one of their key assets.
“Up The Disco” is a more a lighter-swinging track as its more subdued despite its percussive bangs and while its less immediately gratifying than the previous tracks the chorus riff will stick around in your head after a few listens.
“Freak Show” is cute. From the xylophone to warping electric noises to the mariba-esque percussion, it tippy-toes about with children’s movie overtones and then bursts into a lounge jazz piece like something from the Katamari games. I actually really like the way how the whole song shifts into a more slinky mood and it certainly stands out.
“Cicadas in Stereo” see’s Kathy step down from vocals and Ti step up for a French song full of cuteness that verges on Pikmin style music. Think Jazz gone to the circus with a gallon of icing on top. The closer is “Dark Horse” is as close to a downbeat ballad as you’re going to get. Quite minimal and vocal fronted, it works really well with solomn church bells and low hummings setting the mood and is a welcome change from the other very uptempo numbers.
Monorail is a great introduction to a duo that are prepared to take a chance by going for a different approach everytime and merging things together you wouldn’t nessacarily sit together and making it work. I expect to hear of more great things from Panda Transport in the years to come as the alt-electro-pop genre continues to gather strength and popularity.
Pantrans will play at Methodfest Film Festival and The Talking Stick, Venice
January 28th, 2010Wed. 25 Feb 2010 - Pierce College Performing Arts Center, 6201 Winnetka Avenue, Woodland Hills, CA - Private Party - Methodfest Film Festival 2010 - Invitation Only - Announcement of Films Screening and Film Industry Honorees. Methodfest Film Festival is scheduled to run from March 25-April 1, 2010. Panda Transport is tonight’s featured performers. 7:00pm - 8:00pm Red Carpet Music. www.methodfest.com <http://www.methodfest.com> for further film festival details.
Also we will play @The Talking Stick, Venice (CA) feb 22!!!
Panda in higherplainmusic.com
January 28th, 2010
See, it pays to contact me with new artists that I may be interested in! Some wonderful lady contacted me and said, if you like so-and-so, you might like this little duo… oh yes I did! Welcome to Panda Transport, a French-American duo who are recently getting recognition due to one of their songs appearing on the drama of drama’s Grey’s Anatomy. A video for that is due to be made, but for now I wanted to share this video gem for the song “Painting By Numbers” and long live home made animals!!! Hopefully, if all goes to plan we’ll have an interview with them in the near future.
Simon Smith
a real promoter- jeremy koteles
January 26th, 2010we met jeremy in summer of 2007. he calls himself the kid with the hair in his face. he’s humble and passionate about music. our kind of bloke. he is relentless in the pursuit of turning people on to music. the kind of person every musician ought to cherish. we do and we wanted to share our love for him with you- so check out jeremy’s up to on his ms-
www.myspace.com/starvationarmyzine
thanks for all you do jeremy!
xo, kat and ti
Acoustic shows series..
January 21st, 2010We are working hard to set and acoustic live set..
We will play it in Lyon in two differents places.
One by Mirko’s House januar 29, 9 p.m…it’s a private party
the second organised by http://www.101marches.com/ januar 30 saturday afternoon
in a beautiful place in Fourviére..donno yet if it’s open to the public or private.
Maybe some others shows around.
The policy is no amplification !!! a cool experience for us..we have bought small percussions, will use a paper bag and others toys especially for it.
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panda transport Monorail in radio …Laney Goodman show.
January 18th, 2010panda transport Monorail in radio …Laney Goodman show.
www.womenonair.com
Playlists for the last ten years of the show. Women in Music with Laney Goodman features music by the finest female artists from around the world. This hour-long show can be heard on over 99 Public Radio Stations nationwide.
Dark Horse selected by BAOM…
January 11th, 2010Dark Horse selected by the canadian site BAOM…free download with our approval!!!!
Pantrans in Los Angeles!!!Grey’s Anatomy Editor to direct the St Revel video…
January 11th, 2010Grey’s Anatomy Editor to direct the first single, “Saint’s Revel” from Panda Transport’s “Monorail”. We’re headed to the West Coast this February to shoot our first video with a budget above 4 euro. Exciting times. Tell us you love us and we’ll make sure to do right by ya!