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1/16/2017

[Teaser of the day] Camper Van Beethoven - Eye Of Fatima


  • Indie rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Alt-country
  • Live recording
  • Crossover
  • Psychedelic rock 
  • Bluegrass
  • Blues rock

Label: Archive.org
Year: 1989

1/15/2017

Matthew Collings – EICV7" No.104 (2015)


  • Experimental electronica
  • Electro-acoustic 
  • Post-classical 
  • Chamber music 
  • Improvised music 
  • Alternative 
  • Glitchtronica 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Art music 
  • Experimentalism

Comment: this handful of compositions is a consistent blend of rough electro-acoustic, rugged chamber music, and more sublime ambient and volatile electronic progressions. Musically it is intriguing to listen to it because electronic music is seamlessly mixed up with sounds of natural instruments. For charlatans I guess it would be a good fare to describe their view of outer space through the aforementioned elements, of how masculine and feminine genuine/primal matter will meet each other, of how energy will have been lead in a proper way. They might be right, by the way. You can not wave off odds and ends within it because it is the main ingredient to lift the whole up to the next level. A Smashed Up World is the final issue on it and being the right choice for it. The composition will expand epically due to fine-grained glitches and the dense orchestrated drone which is going upwards again and again. The outing is a mote in the discography of EverythingIsChemical.

Liz Chidester – Otter Hill (2015)


  • Singer-songwriter 
  • Americana 
  • Indie folk 
  • Alt-folk 
  • Folk indie

Comment: Liz Chidester is a new singer-songwriter from, Chicago, Illinois, USA who is adept at storytelling to bring forth oldie traditions through music, lyrics and memories told once and now by one generation to next ones. It seems the tradition is something extraordinary seminal which enables new galaxies of indie folk/alt-folk and also mainstream folk and country artists to be cropped out. In a word, it is the seminal soil for singer-songwriters today and in the future. The outing of Liz is austere but poignantly accentuated to fill one's soul with emotional coverage and suggestive touch. She says these five songs are the most intimate she has ever written. It had been created during the worst winter storm in Chicago in 2014. All in all, let it be a boosting engine for your world of imaginations.

Jeff Bennett – Doubting Faces EP (2004)



  • Tech-house 
  • Club dance 
  • Alternative dance 
  • Deep house

Comment: I am sure it was a happy period of time in the beginning of the 00s when such labels as Epsilonlab, Thinner, Kahvi Collective, Autoplate, and Monotonik started off to develop a new, net label-based platform for the club oriented scene. For example, there is up Jeff Bennett with three compositions full of trance-y magic being conjured up by monotonous yet enchanting techno influenced beats in the vein of house music. Frequently the techno influenced vibe will be jettisoned for more deeper and nocturnal vibrations. It is far more than just a collection of tracks - it is the feeling, it is the mood. It is the superimposed quality of variegated beats and sublime softened synthesised chords and synergy pouring out of it. For me, it reminds of those times approximately 20 years ago when club music, especially deep house, and drum and bass were those styles which would influence me profoundly. Top tier, for sure. The issue was the first release in the discography of Montrèal-based imprint Epsilonlab.

1/13/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Kettering


  • Indie pop/rock
  • Art rock
  • Space pop
  • Glam pop/rock
  • Alternative pop/rock
  • Live recording
  • Psychedelic pop

Artist: The Antlers
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Godspeed You Black Emperor! - improvisation


  • Post-rock
  • Improvised music
  • Avant-rock
  • Post-classical
  • Drone
  • Chamber rock
  • Experimental rock
  • Live recording
  • Minimalism
  • Leftfield

Label: Archive.org
Year: 2002

Daniel Barbiero / Ken Moore – Frequency Drift (2016)


  • Improvised music 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Electro-acoustic
  • Live session 
  • Experimentalism

Comment: a first thought of mine was it is music for cello, and live electronics. However, I was totally wrong because instead of a cello Daniel Barbiero plays a bowed double bass, and Ken Moore employs a tam-tam (it is a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick). It embraces seven improvised compositions full of space, and time, full of different frequencies and changes within it. Even if one used to think of it to as an austere one because of a minimal amount of instruments it is in fact a far more than a sum of its initial parts. It is saturated with grayish delay effects, achromatic reverberations, some gong-induced slams and mournful drones beneath it. In the terms of metal as an element, it is filled with different sort of clattery, rusty grinding and reddish-tinged rattles. It must be called synaesthesia, if you hear colours or at least the spectra of them. This could be a good soundtrack for a contemporary gothic motion picture, at least to depict some (horrendous) scenes within it. As I understood the tracks are not recorded in one and the same place, not during the one tenure. The issue is a part of the discography of Chicago, US-based experimental imprint pan y rosas discos. Very intriguing outing indeed.