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6/11/2019

[Teaser of the day] Monster Rally - Maori Mai



  • Exotica pop
  • Mood music
  • Post-pop
  • Easy listening
  • Sampledelic
  • Minimalism
  • Lounge music

Artist: Monster Rally
Release: EP
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Transient - Minty Fresh


  • Electronic music
  • Micro-techno
  • Minimal techno
  • Art techno
  • Deep techno

Artist: Transient
ReleaseWork/Play EP
Label: Monotonik
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Waves


  • Avant-rock
  • Art rock
  • Downbeat
  • Experimental rock
  • Post-rock

Year: 2008

6/10/2019

Stavros Gasparatos – Rage Park (2019)




  • Post-classical 
  • Piano music 
  • Glitchtronica 
  • Crossover 
  • Micronoise 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Modern classical 
  • Electro-acoustic 
  • Contemporary classical 
  • Art music 
  • Ambient

Comment: Patras, Greece-based Stavros Gasparatos (born in 1975) has been tightly related to music as a composer, sound engineer, arranger, producer for decades. His 7-track outing Rage Park is an organic, "logical" yet exuberant mix of blistering and soothing sounds, traditional and modern sonic approaches. More profoundly, the whole body is based on a mindset of classical music (in turn based on brisk orchestrations and artsy piano sequences) which is interfered with or split into noises, glitched-out electronics, vivid drones, open space electro-acoustic effects, rare overdriven synth flutters and full-fledged beatific ambient and classical music mixed soundscapes if to name most of them. At times it reminds somehow of Penguin Cafe Orchestra by its mental grid and ideological grasp though technically Gasparatos' sound is more kindred to Eluvium, Tim Hecker, Hauschka, Stars Of The Lid, Max Richter. Indeed, wide panning and freely blossoming mood is the obvious reason for comparisons to be drawn with the mastermind of Simon Jeffes-led combo. Let's call it excellent breathing or combustion of the album. Given that as a compatriot of the artist said more than 2500 years ago that something could exist/begin existing within the borders only – in the case one can enjoy music which make drifts within the borders of contemporary/modern classical to a bit beyond the limits of it yet preserving its blissful face and dynamic nature effortlessly. In a word, it is a truly astounding output worth to be remembered within lists of the best albums in 2019. I am going to remember. Thank you, Stavros.

[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - Bloom


  • Ambient
  • Epic
  • Drone
  • Microtonal
  • Ambient drone
  • Minimalism

Artist: Dereleech
Release: Valosade
Year: 2016 

[Teaser of the day] Adamned.age - Die Mauer Im Kopf


  • Glitch techno
  • IDM
  • Ambient techno
  • Glitchtronica
  • Electronic music

Artist: Adamned.age
Release: Transit Berlin
Label: Phonocake
Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] iron like nylon - Do It Again



  • Avant-pop
  • Lo-fi
  • Art pop
  • Electronic music
  • DIY

Release: iron like 70s
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2009

BANDWiDTH – Walking Ghost Phase (2011)




  • Experimental electronica 
  • Power electronics 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Noise 
  • Drone 
  • Abstract 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Improvised noise 
  • Non-music 
  • Psycho-acoustic

Comment: the Frenchmen David Vilayleck aka Ayankoko and Mathieu Garrouste do create a batch of nine compositions which is based on a couple of live sessions. Recently I saw a TV show about a ghastly event when a saleswoman dialed the telephone number of a man and additionally contacted with his woman who as later was figured out had already been dead/killed. Supposedly the ghosts can use energy for their own sake coming out from the wire. Of course, by dealing with such intentional experiments one must be very warned. On the other side, we cannot eradicate a possibility regarding our lack of knowledge, our prejudices, and some sort of manipulation. It just may be a case of belief. Musically the duo provides a tense experiment with phase changes, for searching a balance between silence and noise, between abrupt intensity and stepwise relaxation. Like it is quite common to noise music some phases are just switched on and some not, and vice versa (the so-called straight, one-dimensional approach). Paradoxically the least strange/hostile element are the voices which supposedly belong to ghosts. The mind-provoking outing is a part of the discography of Ayan Records, and Clinical Archives.

6/09/2019

[Teaser of the day] Riccardo Cirani - Primo Vere


  • Progressive rock
  • Avant-rock
  • Improvised music
  • Flippertronics
  • Art rock
  • Experimental rock

Label: Laverna
Year: 2018

Ancient Astronaut – Through the Tunnel of Love (2019)




  • Electronic music 
  • Space music 
  • Kosmische Musik 
  • Chilltronica

Comment: there are up a bunch of questions. Did ancient astronauts exist or not? Did they visit our planet or not? Did they help us building huge objects like pyramids? Did they foster us with their know-how? Are they still here by supervising us with intention not allowing us destroy our divine planet? Are they ready to intervene as soon as possible after the faintest step is done to trigger the irreversible apocalypse (little apocalypses used to happen every day around us)? Earth is also a part of the huge cosmic village so everyone living within it should have very responsibility for defending it. Analogously parents have to supervise their children from harming themselves because as Jesus turned to Lord by saying they do not know what they are doing regarding adults though. Musically it is a blissful, I would like to say, a praiseful journey through tremendous, unfathomable horizons within Outer space. Yeah, it can be compared to Tangerine Dream's sound and the so-called Berlin School in general yet ultimately the fact says way too little about the album. So listen and enjoy this organic mode of warm synthesised chords and slightly propulsive cadences. Those static moments and dynamic spans being frequently inseparably intertwined with one another do constitute an extraordinary state of mind. The enchanting 12-notch outing is a bit in the discography of Silent Flow.