Nostalgia : echoes from the borderland

After years of silence, Nostalgia is back with a mournful album released on the renewed ( pressed CD in special two panel digi file ) Databloem label. Echoes from the Borderland is a fusion of all the different styles Nostalgia stands for, ranging from tribal drone ambient to psychedelic and post–rock elements.With guest appearances by Torsten Hirsch and John Haughm, who enrich this album with their exceptional experimental guitar-sounds. An impressive and massive piece of work, not for the faint hearted.

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REVIEW
Its been quiet for Matthias Grassow, at least from the corner I am in. But he's back here with an album with his 'band' Nostalgia. It started in 2000 with Grassow and Rüdiger Gleisberg and later on Carsten Agthe became the third member. He plays percussion and didgeridoo. 'Echoes From The Borderland' is their fourth album. If you know Grassow's music, then you know where to place him: a long time voice in the world of ambient music, in more specific that area where it meets up with tribal influences, orchestral settings and even psychedelics and post rock. At least on this new one, as I must admit I don't think I heard the previous three records. Slow moving, immensely layered ambient music build around heavily processed guitars and a barrage of analogue synthesizers. Percussion is kept to a minimum, and has a more or less serving function. The didgeridoo is far away, if anywhere at all. Its not easy to say if it is present at all. Slow, meditative music, but also with a great darkness to it. An album of sad music me thinks. More autumn/winter music than for the bright summer, but perhaps also an album that works well when the hot day is over and dawn sets in. It ends with the Nadja inspired (although less 'metal') bang of 'Dartmoor' - an unsettling night is ahead. Scary spaciousness. (Vital Weekly)