02/ 2022 New release: Canal Pop – Superficial

Eternal Sunday presents a new album from Canal Pop, Superficial. The album contains 11 tracks of the artist’s signature catchy synthpop. The album features three great guest singers, Polette, Josefina Aufranc and Pauline Q.

One of the songs "The Starman Won’t Come Tonight" is a tribute to David Bowie, written after his death in 2016.

 

 

 

 

 

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09/ 2019 New release: Canal Pop feat. Polette – Moonlight Shadow (German Kreff Remix)

Eternal Sunday presents an amazing progressive house remix of Canal Pop featuring Polette’s cover of Mike Oldfield “Moonlight Shadow” by DJ and remixer German Kreff.












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03/ 2019 New release: Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop

Eternal Sunday proudly presents Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop, an album that compiles some of the best songs recorded by Canal Pop, the synthpop music project led by songwriter and producer Emiliano Canal (who also happens to be the label’s director), from Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
“I spent these last years devoted full time to the record label” Emiliano explains “so my artistic project Canal Pop was not my priority, when I had some free time I recorded some songs and released them but without the time or energy to come up with a proper campaign. And it was a shame, because some of the songs that Canal Pop released were good and deserved better luck with the public”.

This doesn’t mean that Canal Pop’s songs went unnoticed these years. Canal Pop is well known in the synthpop/ electropop global underground scene and specialized portals like Side Line (Belgium) and others write about him on a regular basics. Songs and remixed by Canal Pop have been released in compilations by labels and pages like Side Line and Alfa Matrix (Belgium), Sector44 (USA), Ninthwave (USA) and Electrozombies (Germany) (as well as by Eternal Sunday, Emiliano’s label).

Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop features 13 original tracks, and all of the songs are a proper sample of Canal Pop’s style: classic electropop arrangements and production, catchy radio-friendly choruses, crystal-clear voiced professionally produced and plays of words in the lyrics (in English, which is not bad considering that Emiliano is from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where people speak Spanish). The lyrics are about falling in love, being yourself, infatuation, electricity, being cool in Japan, dancing alone, girls who want to learn new things and girls that really enjoy phone calls. 

Several amazing singers collaborated with Canal Pop over the years and all of them are present here: Gaby Laguzzi, New York City’s Bea Conenna, Polette (who shared stages with the likes of Deep Purple and Shakira), Josefina Aufranc and recently with teen singer and TV actress Pauli Cugnata. “All of them are amazing professional singers with thousands of hours of live and studio work” says Emiliano, “I’m very proud of the girls I work with. Besides, they’re all very pretty”.

All the songs were produced by Emiliano Canal except for the opening track “I Want You (To Be My Baby)”, which was produced by producer Osi Tejerina (who also directs a record label in Buenos Aires). 9 of the songs are featured in 2019 versions, with an improved sound. “Future Nights” was commercially unreleased (only as part of a free compilation). 

“A new Canal Pop period is beginning”, says Emiliano. “New songs, new singers, bigger and better plans”. In the meantime, the world can listen to Not Mister Right: An Introduction To Canal Pop to catch the mood.




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04/ 2017 New release: Canal Pop feat. Polette – Moonlight Shadow (2017 Version)

Eternal Sunday releases a new version of the 1983 Mike Oldfield hit “Moonlight Shadow” by Canal Pop feat. Polette. The song has already been released in 2012 as the b-side of the single “Electricity”, but the artist was not happy with that version.

“The version released in 2012 was not finished, we were working on it and a hard disk crashed so I had to use the only mix I had”, says Emiliano Canal, AKA Canal Pop. “Luckily enough, we were able to recover the original files and make a new version, the way I originally wanted it so sound”.

As usual, the song features the whole Canal Pop production package: carefully produced amazing female vocals and a synth-lead infectious rhythm that makes people want to dance.




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Promo video ES 2299 Canal Pop feat. Polette - Moonlight Shadow 2017 Promo video ES 2299 Canal Pop feat. Polette - Moonlight Shadow 2017





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02/ 2017 New release: Canal Pop feat. Polette – I Want You (To Be My Baby) (German Kreff Dub)

Eternal Sunday presents Canal Pop feat. Polette – I Want You (To Be My Baby) (German Kreff Dub). The single features a killer remix of the Canal Pop feat. Polette catchy song “I Want You (To Be My Baby)” made by electronic music producer and remixer German Kreff.









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05/ 2015 Electric Future Beats 2014: New Electronic Music From Argentina, nominated for the Premios Gardel/ Gardel awards

We are delighted to announce that the compilation Electric Future Beats 2014: New Electronic Music From Argentina, is nominated for the Premios Gardel/ Gardel awards (the Argentinean equivalent to the Grammys) on the best electronic music album category.

The Gardel awards are organized by CAPIF (the Argentinean chamber of record labels) since 1999 and have a huge local media coverage, national TV included. The 2011 edition of the Electric Future Beats compilation won the best electronic music award in 2011.


The compilation includes Canal Pop’s song (featuring Polette) “I Want You (To Be My Baby)”.




The whole list of nomination can be read here (in Spanish).


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12/ 2014 I Want You (To Be My Baby) included in the Electric Future Beats 2014 compilation

Eternal Sunday presents the third version of the Electric Future Beats compilation, the one that was awarded with the Gardel award in 2012 (the Argentinean equivalent of the Grammy) as the best electronic music album. In this occasion the compilation combines tracks that have been released as singles or as part of EPs during the year plus three unreleased tracks, by Alberto Perrone, KooLTURE remixed by German Kreff and X-Tralounge.

As usual the Electric Future Beats compilation feature a sample of the best underground electronic music from Argentina for the world to listen. Canal Pop is present with the song "I Want You (To Be My Baby)" (featuring Polette).


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Promo video: ES 2276 VV/ AA – Electric Future Beats 2014: New Electronic Music From Argentina

08/ 2014 New release: I Want You (To Be My Baby)

Eternal Sunday present’s the new Canal Pop release, I Want You (To Be My Baby).
 
“I Want You (To Be My Baby)” is the new song by Canal Pop feat. Polette, the first one after the release of the 2012 EP High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys. Unlike past material it was produced by Osi Tejerina (gold-record producer from Argentina) and it features the classic Canal Pop radio friendly electropop sound combined with more edgy electronic bits and effects. As usual, the track is very catchy and radio friendly, the vocals are carefully arranged and the lyrics are clever.


The single features a B-side, “Your Daughter’s On The Phone”.




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Promo video ES 2271 Canal Pop feat. Polette - I Want You (To Be My Baby)

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12/ 2013 Canal Pop track included in the Eternal Sunday compilation Buenos Aires Glamour Beats 2013

The song “Things You Say You Like” by Canal Pop feat. Polette was included in the Eternal Sunday compilation Buenos Aires Glamour Beats 2013. The song had been included in the Alfa Matrix (Belgium) 4CD’s best-of-electro compilation Absolute Grrrls Manifesto but it was not for sale digitally.

Bueenos Aires Glamour Beats 2013 is an electronic music compilation that features some of the best tracks released by the label Eternal Sunday during 2013. The album contains 12 tracks by artists and producers like Dsynchronize feat. Evi Adam, KooLTURE, Fr3ak Y Los Ali3nados, Lea Rognoni, German Kreff feat. Arabescos, and others.

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ES 2260 VVAA – Buenos Aires Glamour Beats
Artist: Various Artists
Release: Buenos Aires Glamour Beats
Release date: December 9, 2013
Genre: dance, electronic, house, tech house, electropop
Label: Eternal Sunday
Catalog #: ES 2260

Tracklist
01 Dsynchronize feat Evi Adam – Now I Know
02 KooLTURE – 7 Days 7 Nights
03 Fr3ak Y Los Ali3nados – Don’t Follow (Radio Edit)
04 Lea Rognoni – The Moon Wraith
05 Ignacio Paz – Ménage
06 German Kreff feat Arabescos – Say My Name
07 KooLTURE – Make-Believe (KooLTURE Vs Ladies On Mars Mix)
08 The Kavanaghs – Tonight (Alfredo Norese Dance Mix)
09 Gonzalo Wels – Keep It There
10 Sebastian Da Vinn – Baby Maybe
11 Canal Pop feat Polette – Things You Say You Like
12 KooLTURE – 7 Days 7 Nights (Ladies On Mars Club Mix Part 1)

Compilation by Emiliano Canal. Mastering by Emiliano Canal & Michael Etes at the Michael Etes Studio, Buenos Aires. Design by AltoBelgrano. Picture by Marcia Hill.

02/ 2013 Canal Pop feat. Polette's track at Alfa Matrix compilation Absolute Grrrls Manifesto

A track by Canal Pop featuring Polette AKA Paula Varela, "Things You Say You Like", was selected among hundreds of submissions to be part of the Absolute Grrrls Manifesto compilation released by the Belgian electro label Alfa Matrix.

Absolute Grrrls Manifesto is the ultimate anthology of female fronted bands from the alternative / underground music scene and its various subgenres (gothic metal, new wave, industrial, pop rock, electro, synth pop, EBM, techno...). This 4CDs collection (plus a 40-song additional soundcard) presents an unbelievable 111 (!!) bands in a deluxe carton box with an extensive 32-page booklet featuring the splendid design of Oliver Haecker with photos from all featured bands and an essay about the place of women in the music industry.

The compilation is available at Alfa Matrix site: www.alfa-matrix.com/manifesto1/

The Argentinean band Cosaquitos En Globo was also included in the 40-tracks additional download card.


Canal Pop feat. Polette "Things You Say You Like"



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12/ 2012 New pictures (with Polette)

There’s a new picture set taken by Marcia Hill faturing Canal Pop and singer Paula Varela AKA Polette. You can watch it here.

 

01/ 2012 New Canal Pop release: High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys

ES 2234 Canal Pop – High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP

Catchy electropop with ironic lyrics and carefully crafted vocal arrangements. That is, more or less, the definition of Canal Pop's music given by Emiliano Canal, the man behind the project. And the 4-tracks EP High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is the proof that the definition still applies.

"Contrary to what people may think, catchy pop music is very difficult to make, because you have to combine a few very effective elements in a very little time, and everything has to fit perfectly. Anyone can make an experimental 15 minutes ode full of chords and strange noises, the difficult think is to make people dance in 3 minutes", says Emiliano about his songs. Maybe he knows what he talks about, since he's the owner/ director of Eternal Sunday, a label specialized in releasing Argentinean artists who sing in English, and that job forces him to listen dozens of new bands and songs every week.


Canal Pop - High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP on iTunes


"I love to own a label but the cons are that it takes time away from my own musical projects like Canal Pop. The label forces you to think and work in a different way, especially about marketing and airplay, and it becomes difficult to sit at the studio to mix a song or to simply try new music ideas at the keyboard. It's like owning a football team and wanting to go to kick a corner shot at the same time, it is not very practical." Maybe because of this High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is a 4-tracks EP. "To record and finish a complete album was taking  too much time for me, and it's not that important nowadays since people consumes music in a different way. I think it's better to have an EP with four solid songs and not a 15-tracks album with ten fillers".



After a first listen, the four songs in High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys seem to be solid enough. "Two Of A Kind" opens, a story with a somehow erotic innuendo and sexy plays of words ("we're two of a kind, 'cause you've got a sexy body and I have a dirty mind"). "A Place" follows, based on a true story, a song that describes a confused girl who doesn't know if she likes girls or boys. "I went out with some friends and a pretty girl came to say hi and when asked how was everything she said not  very good, because I don't know if I like girls or boys", Emiliano remembers. This song has a lot of fans, and I suppose it is because it's about being young, not knowing what you want, being afraid of showing yourself the way you are, wanting to go far away, and all the issues of sexual ambiguity, of not matching a certain social ideal. The third song is "Electricity", a song that was chosen in 2011 (among thousands) to be part of the Face The Beat compilation, released by the portal/ magazine Side Line, from Belgium, property of the owners of Alfa Matrix, the most important electro/ industrial/ EBM label in the world. "All the classic electropop band have a song called 'Electricity' and I didn't want to be exception", explains Emiliano. "Of course I tried to give it a sexier connotation ('plug your love into me') because I like to make those plays of words. I think it worked, because the people from Side Line liked it and they have more than a thousand tracks to choose from for their compilation". The EP closes with "For Falling (In Love)", a song that Canal Pop recorded a few times before but was never released. "The chorus simply came to my head. I was in my apartment and heard on my head the 'Oh eh oh, this is a night for falling in love'. I sat at the keyboard and noticed that the musical phrase had a 2/4 bar that complicated everything, but the melody was so catchy that I wrote the rest of the song. I needed to record several versions to be satisfied, when you have a very catchy idea everything you add on top of it tends to interfere".

As Canal Pop, Emiliano Canal works alone ("I deal with enough musicians as a label owner"), so all the keyboards, the production and the arrangements are his. The exception are the voices, Canal Pop has collaborated with very interesting female singers like Gaby Laguzzi (We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires, 2007), Bea Conenna, born in New York (Ecstatic Days single, 2008), sexy Lara Sambert who later appeared on prime time Argentinean TV show Cantando Por Un Sueño, the equivalent of Singing With The Stars, and who toured Greek and Turkey) (An Electro Tribute To Oasis, 2010) and this time Paula Varela AKA Polette, one of Buenos Aires' top singers and sessionist who shared stages with Shakira, Deep Purple and countless other local stars. "Polette is, by far, the best singer I worked with. It is not only about singing nice, but about understanding what the producer and the song need, and Polette has an unique quality, she sings my songs in a nasal, Kylie Minogue way, after that she goes to a jazz club to sing jazz or funk like a diva and then she records a jingle for a canned soup, and she does everything right. That's why everyone calls her, it is an honor to work with her". As in every Canal Pop release, the vocal arrangements are very precise and elaborated, with crystal clear backing vocals coming and going, with little delays and echoes here and there (only noticed with headphones and the traditional robot-like vocoder and lo fi vocals. Canal Pop is back.


Canal Pop feat. Polette - High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys

Artist: Canal Pop (feat. Polette)
Release: High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP
Release date: Enero 23, 2012
Genre: Pop, Electropop, Dance Pop, Europop,
Label: Eternal Sunday
Catalog #: ES 2234

Tracklist
01. Two Of A Kind
02. A Place
03. Electricity
04. For Falling (In Love)

All songs written by Emiliano Canal. Published by Eternal Sunday/ Universal Music Publishing.

01/ 2012 Nuevo lanzamiento de Canal Pop: High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP

ES 2234 Canal Pop – High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP

Electropop pegadizo con letras irónicas (en inglés) y arreglos vocales cuidados. Palabras más o menos esa es la definición de la música de Canal Pop que da Emiliano Canal, el hombre detrás del proyecto. Y el EP de 4 temas High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys es una prueba de que la fórmula sigue vigente.

"Contrariamente a lo que la gente puede pensar, la música pop pegadiza es la más difícil de hacer, porque hay que combinar elementos muy efectivos en muy poco tiempo y todo tiene que funcionar perfectamente. Cualquiera hace una oda experimental llena de acordes y de ruidos raros que dure 15 minutos, lo difícil es hacer bailar a la gente en 3", comenta Emiliano cuando habla de sus canciones. Quizás sepa de lo que habla, ya que su actividad paralela (¿principal?) es la de ser el dueño/ director del sello Eternal Sunday, sello especializado en lanzar artistas argentinos con material en inglés, oficio que le demanda escuchar docenas de bandas y canciones nuevas por semana.


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"Tener un sello me encanta pero tiene la contra de que le resta mucho tiempo y energías a mis propios proyectos puramente musicales como Canal Pop. El sello te obliga a trabajar y a pensar de otra forma, sobre todo en las cuestiones de márketing y difusión, y cuesta ponerse a terminar una mezcla o a probar ideas en el teclado. Tener un sello y querer ser artista es como ser directivo de un club y querer ir a cabecear un córner, es poco práctico". Quizás por eso High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys es un EP de 4 tracks. "Grabar y terminar un álbum completo me estaba llevando demasiado tiempo, y hoy la gente consume música de otra manera, es preferible tener un EP de cuatro canciones sólidas y no un álbum de quince tracks de los cuales diez son relleno".



A primera escucha, las cuatro canciones de High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys parecen ser suficientemente sólidas. Abre "Two Of A Kind", una historia con insinuaciones eróticas y juegos de palabras sexys ("we're two of a kind, 'cause you've got a sexy body and I have a dirty mind"/ somos tal para cual, porque tenés un cuerpo sexy y yo tengo una mente sucia). Sigue "A Place", una historia basada en un hecho real, que describe a una chica confundida que no sabe si le gustan los chicos o las chicas. "Salí con un grupo de amigos y una chica bastante linda vino a saludar alguien y cuando le preguntaron cómo estaba dijo mal, porque no sé si me gustan los chicos o las chicas", recuerda Emiliano Canal. "Esta canción siempre gustó, supongo que porque habla de  cosas como el de ser joven, no tener claro lo que se quiere, tener miedo de mostrarse como uno es, de querer irte lejos y toda la cuestión de la ambigüedad sexual, de no encajar en un molde social predeterminado". El tercer tema es "Electricity", canción que fue elegida (entre miles de postulantes) en 2011 para ser parte de la compilación Face The Beat lanzada por la revista/ portal Side Line, de Bélgica, de los dueños de Alfa Matrix, el sello electro/ industrial/ EBM más importante del mundo. "Todas las bandas electropop clásicas tienen un tema llamado 'Electricity' y no quise ser la excepción", explica Emiliano. "Por supuesto, me tomé el atrevimiento de darle una connotación más sexy en la letra ('plug your love into me', enchufame tu amor) porque es lo que me gusta hacer, tomar un tema cualquiera y darle un doble sentido. Creo que quedó bien, porque a la gente de Side Line les gustó, y tenían miles de canciones de todo el mundo para elegir para la compilación". El EP cierra con la híper pegadiza "For Falling (In Love)", una canción que Canal Pop ya había grabado pero nunca lanzado. "El estribillo me vino de repente, estaba en mi departamento un día y escuché en mi cabeza el 'Oh eh oh, this is a night for falling in love'. Me senté al teclado y noté que la frase tenía un compás de 2/4 que complicaba todo, pero la melodía era tan pegadiza que compuse el resto del tema. Tuve que grabar varias versiones para estar medianamente satisfecho, cuando aparece una idea muy pegadiza y muy sólida todo lo que uno tiende a meter la ensucia".

Como Canal Pop, Emiliano Canal trabaja solo ("ya trato con suficientes músicos como dueño de un sello"), por lo que todos los teclados, la producción y los arreglos son suyos. La excepción son las voces. Canal Pop ha colaborado con cantantes (femeninas) muy interesantes como Gaby Laguzzi (We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires, 2007), Bea Conenna, nacida en Nueva York (Ecstatic Days single, 2008), la sensual Lara Sambert (luego participante del programa de TV Cantando Por Un Sueño y con giras a Grecia y Turquía) (An Electro Tribute To Oasis, 2010) y esta vez es el turno de Paula Varela AKA Polette, multifacética cantante y sesionista de Buenos Aires que ha compartido escenarios con Shakira, Deep Purple e incontables estrellas locales. "Polette es la mejor cantante con la que he trabajado, por lejos. No se trata sólo de tener una bonita voz sino de interpretar lo que el productor y la canción están pidiendo, y Polette tiene una ductilidad única, canta mis temas con una voz algo nasal a lo Kylie Minogue y después sale y va a un club a cantar jazz y funk como una diva y después termina el día grabando un jingle de sopas instantáneas, y hace todo bien. Por algo trabaja con los mejores y la llaman siempre. Es un honor grabar con ella", confiesa Emiliano. Como en todos los lanzamientos de Canal Pop, los arreglos vocales son elaborados, prolijos, con coros cristalinos entrando y saliendo todo el tiempo, con pequeños ecos y delays que se aprecian sólo con auriculares, y no faltan ni los ocasionales vocoders robotizados ni las voces low fi. Canal Pop está de regreso.



Artista: Canal Pop (feat. Polette)
Álbum: High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP
Fecha de lanzamiento: Enero 23, 2012
Género: Pop, Electropop, Dance Pop, Europop,
Sello: Eternal Sunday
Número de catalogo: ES 2234

Tracklist
01. Two Of A Kind
02. A Place
03. Electricity
04. For Falling (In Love)

Todos los temas escritos por Emiliano Canal. Editados por Eternal Sunday/ Universal Music Publishing.