/Krautrock, Experimentalism, Electronic,
Plunderphonics, Art rock, Avant-garde, Experimental rock, Improvised music, Free
jazz, Psychedelic, Freeformfreakout, Avant-rock, Sampledelic, Dada music/
Comment: Ups and Downs is the follow-up to Cardboard Rebellion (2015) by the
Russian combo Third Mind Movement regarding a similar ideological and
aesthetical approach. The issue consists of 4 lengthy compositions which used
to be highly fragmented by having dodges in different directions from free form
based rock and free jazz and motorik krautrock propulsions to old sample based
snippets and uncanny overdriven sonic templates and gravitation-free psychedelic
madness. Ultimately it could be admitted the intention of the issue is to reshuffle
the consciousness of the listener by sequencing and crossing logical and illogical
elements with one another. By exploring the roster of Third Mind Movement you
can discover some weird names within the 9-bar list. For instance, you can find
such names as Arsenic Strychnine, Dima Noise, Nikita Overstillwater etc. Hopefully,
these 40 minutes represented over there are not an effect of hangover after an intake
of strychnine. It is a bewitching result by any means. The release is a part
of the experimental/dada/avant-garde imprint suRRIsm-Phonoethics.