- Alternative rock
- Blues rock
- Art rock
1/26/2015
The Utica Flower Company - The Utica Flower Company (2007)
/New Weird America, Free
folk, Space rock, Acid rock, Indie folk, Psychedelic folk, Drone folk, Trance
rock, Experimental folk, Folk indie, Psych-folk/
Comment: this 14-track
issue is a decorous example of the so-called New Weird (America) movement. The
album was released in 2007 which was the heyday of the style. More profoundly,
expressive but ecstatic singing is tightly surrounded by burbly guitar
twanging, spacey drones, and solfeggio choruses. At times folk tunes are to
progress and metabolize into hazy trance rock templates thereby conjuring up
psychedelic flashbacks and dilated self-realization. Certainly it is a wondrous
experience to stop by and listen and be part of it. Indeed, those times were
unforgettable ones because anyone called the shots and believed he/she can provide
something precious to the world. The collective was related to such
labels/platforms as Quixodelic Records and Daydream Generation which in turn
were closely related to such wondrous music platform as it was Indiana-based CLLCT,
of which involving hundreds of DIY projects. I really hope it is possible to
recover it sometime.
Spacegoats – Live at the Rainbow Church '94 (1994)
/Psych-folk, New Weird
Britain, Free folk, Live session, Exprimental folk, Improvised music, World fusion, Raga
folk/
Comment: I guess
everyone who has listened to music produced by Children Of The Drone and its
satellite projects can recognise immediately the link between these projects. However, these crews are not being directly related to each other (Spacegoats started off in 1991 and lasted for approximately 10 years). This 10-track issue is a fabulous set of
gushing energy and good feeling invoked by powerful singing and chanting and
mystical string based progressions and ethnic music/tribal propulsions (there
are represented such rarefied instruments as bouzouki, djembe, dulcimer,
didgeridoo, mandolin). It sounds like carnival music uniting mundane dimension
with divine perspective. It is a very proper issue worthy of historical legacy. Highly recommended (pf course).
Philip Johnson – 0714 (2015)
/Experimental pop, Primitive
music, Industrial, Experimental electronica,
Avant-pop, Art pop, Dada music, Freeformfreakout, Non-music, Improvised
music, Weird pop/
Comment: this the second
entry of mine into the discography of Year Zero Records, an experimental label
frequently promoted by such great blogspot as Die or D.I.Y?. Philip Johnson`s
30-minute long album consists of spastic electronic drifts, overdriven guitar noises
and angular drumming reminding an early Cabaret Voltaire, for instance. However,
all of it said above conveys almost nothing about the release because if you do
not listen to it you cannot perceive this frantic dada-drenched attitude resulting
in fairly weird sonic effects, bent words, spinning noises, elongated keys and
uncanny classical music developments. Furthermore, it is simultaneously
primitive (sometimes also mimicking minimalist music stances) and sophisticated
(for instance, conveying feeling of social relevance to the listener at Just Like It Should). Johnson`s
experiments with simplistic yet somewhat eerie electronic beeps remind me of
such eccentric electronic music pioneers as Bruce Haack, and Raymond Scott. Very
solid issue by any avant-garde measures.
Tunguska Electronic Music Society - Siberian Jungle Vol.5 (2014)
/Drum and bass, Electronica,
Jungle, Mood music, Dream and bass/
Comment: TEMS is a collective of artists and musicians from Siberia, Russia who
have issued a barrage of compilation albums during the last 7-8 years. They
have got many followers all around the world. This time their key word is
jungle, though their approach is without orthodox one because of mixing those
pumped rhythms with synthesizer invoked magniloquent panoramas and drowsy new
age-y feeling and even indie electronic and jazzy whiffs. It is a moody album
rather than having intention to conquer the club venues. However, there are up
some exceptions either. Get yourself the headphones and listen to this decent
agreement between those spaced-out panoramas, blissful synth touches and spicy
rhythms. It used to ignite some memories from my childhood while watching and
enjoying the film score of such cartoon as Tayna
Tretey Planety (1981, Sojuzmultfilm). Indeed, the compilation embraces a
lot of outstanding compositions. There are represented such artists as Susanin,
N-Box, Black Dominates, Joint Stock Galaxy, Berkheya, Cj Ools, Parhelia, SND,
Van. In a word, TEMS did it again. It is obviously one of the best compilations
from the year 2014. The more you listen to it the more it winds up.
1/24/2015
[Teaser of the day] Microvolt - Morta
- Micronoise
- Modern classical
- Organic electronica
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Glitchtronica
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