Misplaced.

Our merry little band of three spent a good deal of the Christmas break catching up on releases that  we didn't have a chance to listen to in the year past. (Ah, regrets and resolutions...)

In any case, the Official Good Time Disc of the past week, and heretofore regretfully and completely overlooked on my part, is Shantel's Disko Partizani!, which was released on Crammed this fall. The title track is my least favorite (see if you feel differently; the rather excruciatingly heavy-handed video is up at YouTube). If you dig Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box and all that, check out Shantel's heavily Greek/Turkish spin on the genre.

(I must admit that I love the tenth track, "Immigrant Child", in particular, not in small part because it uses the old rembetika tune "Sto Cafe Aman"--the song which inspired the name of this blog.) 

Happy 2008!