Erich Schall – No.7 (2017)

Phonocake

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Ethnotronica 
• Deep house 
• Musique concrète 
• Organic electronica 
• Dub house 
• Minimal techno 
• Tech-house 
• Minimal synth

Comment: this bunch of 8 tracks contains lots of sublime moments throughout the vibrant course because a prolific German producer called Erich Schall (also being known from a group, Drehkommando) provides different patterns and mixtures though mainly based on house, techno and dub-induced frequencies and combinations. Additionally he plays with concrete sounds, most evidently and in the most exuberant way at Club Birds; the album embarks on an elegantly messy piano chord shuffle at Static Ram where a bit of aggressiveness dissolves to transform into profound nocturnal house vibes with remote dub reverberations at Night Prism. Gentle noises to be panning here and there used to add an extra gritty ingredient to the whole. At Usha Flute he mixes the predominant minimal, even obsessive techno treatment with ethno-tinged female singing and New Age-y flute whiffs. Contra Vs. Melo is a dynamical, catchy sway between obsessive tech-house and minimal synth(-pop) developments. Anyway, all the aforementioned dissents do not balkanize the whole, on the contrary, one can perceive of how the whole keeps growing on you with any next listening time due to its unfathomable depth based on the aforementioned omnium-gatherum. Erich Schall has done lots of tenures under different imprints, mostly being involved in the discography of such ones as basic_sounds, Der Kleine Grüne Würfel, Insectorama, and INFEKTUS yet this one comes out of another respected and senior weblabel called Phonocake being active since the beginning of the 00s. These decent compositions remind of those old good days with regard to the activities of such imprints as Thinner, Epsilonlab, and Humanworkshop, the releases of the ones still stand up 15-20 years on.

KieLoBot – Hounds of Darkmoor (2017)

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

• Krautrock 
• Psych-rock 
• Art rock 
• Funk rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Indie rock 
• Pop rock 
• Lad rock

Comment: KieLoBot is a Göppingen, German group (Lobo Loco, and Kieli Cat) who has issued a handful of releases so far. They sing in their native language being mostly backed up by easy arrangements as if set up on the next day followed by a heavy booze-up night. Not yet ready and having no intention to provide something serious and profound but instead of it doing joyous lad pop/rock numbers with occasional hints at funk, reggae and smooth jazz. As if getting billed somewhere in a pub to gig a careless stint. Later on, let's take some steps further, regarding impressive Krautrock progressions over there it will remind of some late performances by CAN where additionally to the music and the band were also represented a joggler on the stage. Something similarly inconsistent feels can be felt throughout this course of 11 tracks. However, Wirklich Wichtig Electromix, self-titled track and Tanzen are true gems with analytical approach more depth to be added and gone into both hypnotic funk and spaced-out spheres. You can find out the combo's albums at Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp.

La Houle – Première Vague (2017/2018)

Beko DSL
Bandcamp

• Dream pop 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Shoegaze 
• Alternative dance

Comment: La Houle is the duo of Simon Sockeel and Geoffrey Papin though by listening to this 10-notch outing it would be honest to admit Clementine Blue's remarkable role by adding her enchanting female vocal to the mix. In overall, it is a gentle nugaze/shoegaze album with groovy keyboards and celestial guitar noises and the aforementioned female and male mixed vocals. All the lyrics are represented in French thus making definitely some difference and adding some welcome exotics. A strong thread on this release is to build up from quiet elements into an eargasmic tumult and some tracks result in overtly dance-appealed frequencies. In other words, its absolute sum is definitely bigger than the sum of its initial parts because one get hit by an invigorating synergy. At times it chimes in a kind of symphonic way. In truth, it is a modern counterpart of symphonic music. Truly beautiful in its bliss being released on Beko DSL, another indie stalwart from France.

Melmac – Rambo Rantanplan (2017)

Hinah

Archive.org

• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Improvised music 
• Free jazz 
• Drone rock 
• Space rock  
• Psych-rock 
• Trance rock

Comment: these 1339 seconds as one composition by a French quartet called Melmac used to unveil something mind-provoking and emotionally arousing through slow progressions on guitars, drums, saxophones, and electronics. However, one can hear multifold progressions and improvisations at the same time. It meets at a crossroad of space rock, free jazz, post-rock and knee-deep improvisations. Regarding jazz it provides many forms under the umbrella – from noisy frantic progressions to more complicated modal jazz developments. By rock music side it embraces many forms of experimental rock – from India-alike meditative droning and enchanting semi-orchestrations and repetitive magic and spaced-out psychedelic apotheosis. One can figure out parallels with such a wide scope of artists as Spiritualized, John Coltrane, Borbetomagus, GY!BE. This spellbinding outing is a bit of the discography of Hinah.

The Womb – An Introduction to The Womb (2017)

Danielle
Free Music Archive

• Indie pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Art pop 
• DIY 
• Alternative pop 
• Funk rock

Comment: Alan Driscoll with her female friends are pushing forward another storytelling of The Womb. He has been active already for a couple of decades with a numerous of albums, compilations, and EPs all having been issued on his own imprint Danielle Records. Business as usual, this set of 15 compositions is discretely voluptuous and obsessive, it is all about huge egos and the so-called sperm wars and instrumentally it is accompanied by chalking guitars, programmed rhythms and electronic odds and ends. It is about the rise of self-awareness and self-indulgence and dominance through sex and relationships. Of course, this (partly) confessional set is incomparably much better than reading the bloody Co...an and more convincing than visiting annoying portals which dissect relationships because the aforementioned institutions in fact say nothing particular about you because they trying to say about everything. In fact, all this relationship stuff constitutes a quite adverse yet partly naturally, partly artificially determined horizon for a single human being. I guess the beasts are naturally more arranged because of following the call of nature and being not decayed and get obsessed otherwise than just dealing with survival (the most important thing is that they are smarter because of knowing of how to do it in the optimal way). And that's the very problem of the mentioned horizon by changing a human being into a foolish monkey. After all, does it really make him or her happier as a bunch of bones, vessels, muscles triggered by some chemical-physical processes? Rather it is called a state of affection. The very touch of this miscellany can only be found out from minutiae like funky rhythms, exhausted appearances in singing manner, exalting propulsions in guitar playing, more profoundly, by exploring gentle feedbacks and chopped chords and extended arrangements over here at times. Furthermore, it is an intelligently dynamic (inter)play between the main course and "exceptions" within it. A spastic and a bit interrupted sax development can be met at Sex Club. Suggestive melody progressions lead the listener at The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves, and at Don't Remind Me.

Peter Um – Merz (2017)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Comedy music 
• Hip-hop 
• Noise 
• Avant-garde 
• Alternative 
• Abstract

Comment: this batch of 17 tracks, most of them are short snippets, is joyous and playful being tinged with an amusing dadaist touch and poignant electronic effects everywhere. Furthermore, his attitude is reflected through a domestic imprint, Chinstrap Music (an album called LOOK SHARP! and hear the difference was released on it), which is headed by Ergo Phizmiz, who can be considered to have been one of the most well-known sound collage/plunderphonic artists with People Like Us during the last two decades. I like the attitude of the plunderphonic style because all we as humans and consumers are closely related to public domain. On the other side, we have no chance to surpass our mortality so our would be to live in a way God would have fun by watching us. At the moment if we will watch around us we can see something which can be considered divine comedy but in an inferior sense. However, Merz is a superior case making us feel more upbeat and hopeful. To feel himself/herself alright while pretending to be a freak. Musically it is a wide spectrum ranging from electronic effects obsessed noise and abstract sonic experiments and acoustic anti-folk to obsessive yet somehow sparkling outsider synth-pop to some haphazard rap exercises. I would like to paraphrase the lyrics of a song by Suede – obsession in his head does not connect to the (customary) intellect (of one or another style). By producing his music the artist employs old school reel-to-reel tapes and producing threads. In a word, his touch and thinking manner used to make difference. The artist represents and undermines the establishment at the same time. Overwhelming outing in any case given that the future will not be owned by you and me, it will not be owned by nobody else because one`s words are magniloquent and thoughts are shoddy. Just the absolute void everywhere which may be filled with this sound. At least as a thought it is fancy. Let`s have an um-business!

gunctrl – Obituary Cocktail (2017)

Reverse Engine

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi 
• American Primitivism 
• DIY 
• Krautrock 
• Experimental rock 
• Electronic 
• Drone rock 
• Art pop 
• Americana

Comment: Joe Wozny and Dave Merson Hess spawned the idea to get together in music while having a strike as mattress sellers in Houston. As musicians they both did have a base from earlier times and therefore one should not surprise at all while hearing an adept and stylistically wide result. They play an impressive range of instruments on the 10-track debut album. From immersive acoustic guitar playing and epic Americana and ennobling drone rock progressions to lo-fi poppy electronic and convulsive kraut glimpses it can be considered their drive to come out and fulfill their need for new music. The solid outing is a bit in the discography of Reverse Engine.

Neana On The Trak – The Trak Record (2017)

Bandcamp

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Post-rave 
• Acid techno 
• 2-step 
• Speed garage 
• Industrial techno

Comment: musically it is quite hard to assume what sort of music used to be predominant over this 13-notch issue (credited as a debit mixtape by a Manchester, UK-based artist). As contemporary as it used to be it embraces lots of heavy beats (or steps), rattling and clanging, and piercing electro developments. As if a reflection upon the legacy of illegal music events what did happen in abandoned warehouses approximately 30 years ago and on the other side it is a symptom of the contemporary human being being inseparably related to artificial intelligence around her/him. The latter side is expressed through a highly determined, machine-drenched technical shell where every part of the whole seem to be controlled. Quite dystopic yet appealing ambience to be created rather than providing some relaxation instead of it. Indeed, oxygen molecules are eradicated. By another explanation it is just a masochistic pleasure being in accordance with the nature of the human being to move toward its technical collapse. Who could save us against ourselves?

Psychotic Aliens – Disoluciòn de Todo (2017)

Cieliro Diystro

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Hard rock 
• Improvised noise 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Improvised music 
• Lo-fi 
• Psych-rock

Comment: Psychotic Aliens is a collective based on noise, improvisation and the absolute lack of foreseeable schemes. Its members vary according to the disposition of the day, the mood of the continent and the astral possibilities. And the title can be translated as Dissolution Of Everything. However, in this case it is a positive case because it does result positively rather than providing adverse outputs. Resulting in arts used to be almost always a positive outcome with purgative and relieving side effects. And just shedding a glimpse upon the cover print one is going to understand what they mean. Lots of distracted noisy shards and rusty echoes, accidental guitar chords and cheap synth-based roundabouts. At times it chimes as if coming from a rehearsal room being dwelled by lunatics who like to play psychedelic noise and garage rock with the seeds of hard rock. It is like a lo-fi/demo version of Tago Mago. This 9-track issue is a part of the discography of Cieliro Diystro.

Lucía Chamorro - Luna Anfibia (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

• Abstract 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Electronic music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Improvised music 
• Post-industrial

Comment: in the second half of the 00s and the first half of the 10s a major experimental music platform was a prolific Moscow, Russia-based Clinical Archives, since then fecund France-based Sirona-Records, and after it ceased to exist fertile Chicago, US-based Pan Y Rosas Discos is up there to provide us sounds mostly from improvised, free jazz, sound art, and at times from experimental/avant-rock world. Fortunately there is also up Portuguese imprint Enoughrecords having already been active since 2001. This 9-track album is created from recordings of sound environments and free improvisations. She sought to recreate situations and sound environments of imaginary places, proposed new ways of listening and re-value the everyday soundscape. Musically it is intriguing as if consisting of elongated sonic snippets and warped ambiences which in turn seem to be created from concrete sounds, indecipherable voices and vowel and electronic effects. By the way, I can hear mutant cicadas and stoned cats to be singing. Now and then, for instance, at Pacto Roto one can partake in an enchanting rhythmic pattern which seems to come from nowhere and last for a while. She was backed up by such artists as Jimena Arruti, Lucía Campugiani, Nicolàs Gonzàlez, Ingrid Palacios, Laura Rodríguez, Elena Solis and Agustín Texeira. Indeed, very pro by any means and full of pleasure to be discovered.

Llankrù – Llankrù (2017)

djummi-records

• Post-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock
• Art rock

Comment: Llankrù is a 4-head collective from Dresden, Germany led by the brothers Stefan, and Thomas Weiss. However, the drums are played by a woman called Julia Stephan. Yeah, I like that fact and first of all her playing. Undoubtedly this bunch of 6 instrumental tracks is a fine listening experience for any music adorer who searches for balance between moody progressive guitar treatments and on the other side is a proponent for subtle sonic effects around it. Those electronically sounding effects are conjured up on a sampler. Those guitar chords are truly pastel and sensitive at times following a traditional post-rock pattern leading up to powerful yet cinematic crescendos. The decent release is a part of the discography of a German based imprint called djummi-records.

Soletik – Directional (2017)

Fusion

Archive.org

• Glitch-hop 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-techno 
• Breakbeat 
• Post-industrial 
• Glitchtronica

Comment: this 22-notch mammoth release by Soletik reflects upon some sort of incongruousness within the Directional structure and following and questing subsequent tensions because of it. The breaks are heavily chopped-up, magnified and amplified to take a cacophonous lead over the course of an 86 minute. Stylistically one can hear different club and electronic music elements like techno, house, electro, breakbeat. Frequently the dominant aspect is challenged by fragmented melodies and harmonies as if the irritating counterpoint to it. It is like a symptom describing a deranged human mind, and it is also a prediction what will have happened in societies in 2018. As many signs will have shown people get tired of artificial arrangements of the economics, societal relationships, an imminent, unreasonable burden of migrants. They are searching for a free version of life, seeking for the true version of democracy, for the vox populi. The question is not about either the right wing or left wing, it is all about the survival of (representative) democracy. The mind-provoking issue is a part of the discography of Fusion Netlabel.

Slit In Slot – Birthmarks (2017)

Mahorka

Amek Collective

Bandcamp

• Micronoise 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-industrial 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Ambient 
• Drone 
• Organic electronica 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Acousmatic music

Comment: the more I got into this 10-notch issue by Yavor Grancharov the more I felt some sort of confusion which had fallen over my head. The structures of these compositions used to be complex by using quick transitions from one style to another or just by running multiple stylistic elements at the same time. One can hear spectral human voices coming in from a remote distance while subtle locomotive sounds are set up in front of the listener. In another track an exquisite droning which tends to vary throughout the course is embellished with glitchy shards. And it just goes on and on until it will be finished off sometime without any determination. It is like an antidote to a nowadays human being's life. At times droning gets intensified in volume and in the frequency of chords being meshed with spiky noises and ghostly electro-acoustic clatters from far beyond. Yet it is somehow warm and tempting as if a glimpse into the future, towards futuristic record charts. All in all, it is an overcoming outing in any sense. The issue is a joint release on Mahorka (digital release), and Amek Collective (tape release).

Borgesss – The Invisible Rope (2017)

myhand.thanx

Bandcamp

• Slowcore 
• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Americana 
• Gothic rock 
• Singer-songwriter

Comment: does God lie? What happens next if the witch grabs you by the hand? And if you are surrounded by the howl of a pack of wolves or immersed in the darkest blue for some reason? Instead of wolves you could freely be surrounded by Tony Montana, Anton Chigurh, or Max Cady-alike personae. Instead of God you can put the word 'president' or 'leader' to the sentence who know for what is the best for their nations. You can see what is going on in France during a month as the subsequence of such sort of arrogance. And you will have no chance to blame the so-called populists anymore. Furthermore, it indicates the term 'populism' has been used in an exaggerated way. By facing all of that you are either devastated to the bottom in a paralyzing way or will it provide you some power or even inspiration to create something arousing on its own. On this 6-notch release the minor chords played on bold guitar strings and suppressed female singing supported by faint echoes and synthesised electronics are governing the course for all our pleasure. Of course, additionally I do fancy it because Borgesss is the solo project by Paula Borges, the lead vocal of a favourite combo of mine, Hanging Freud. Indeed, there is no chance to partake in deviation of quality and tasteless self-indulgent excesses. By kindred souls one can draw parallels to such artists as Thalia Zedek, Cat Power, For Solacing Grief, Le Bâtiment, Lullabier. The decorous issue is a part of the discography of an imprint called myhand.thanks.

Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt & Jochen Arbeit – Guitar Solos (2017)

Hortus Conclusus

• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Microtonal 
• Guitar ambient 
• Lo-fi 
• Sound art 
• Minimalism 
• Abstract

Comment: as I see Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt likes to create guitar solos in liaison with other musicians. With regard to these split releases he has collaborated with such artists as Hopek Quirin, Martin Neuhold, and Jochen Arbeit. Chronologically Chicago, the US-born musician's collaboration with the latter named musician was the earliest one based on live recorded guitar manipulations. Undoubtedly such sort of music one cannot hear at a gig by Guns'n'Roses in the embodiment of Slash, and Duff McKagan, for example. Rather one might think of it as not being a guitar-based music at all because all the chords are heavily treated and mutilated. It is an absolutely different (parallel) universe with regard to the legends. It conjures up a fantasy loaded world as if the dwelling place for many horrendous supernatural creatures. It chimes like two metallic surfaces were rubbed against each other in a reverberant room (regarding the track by Jochen Arbeit). However, there is a major difference between the two 15-minute compositions. Jochen Arbeit's work is clean and clear-cut with bass loaded delays and echoes and sometimes employing hisses to be switched on and off. Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt's track, the aforementioned one to evoke ghosts in lobit and lo-fi manner. As if a stoned die-hard lo-fi enthusiast were played his own obtuse psychic shards. It reminds me of some of the most rejective moments by Johnny Crewdson, and his combo The Hirundu being created sometime in the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s. It also resembles my own very first music experiments due to have exploited different sort of artifacts and primitive instruments and tape manipulation in a maniac way. In fact, all the course is highly attractive. The spellbinding release is a part of the discography of Hortus Conclusus.

Radj – Bitolomaka EP (2017)

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Yandex

Illsound

• Trip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Downtempo 
• Electronic music 
• Urban music 
• Cinematic 
• Nu jazz 
• Chillstep

Comment: this set of 9 notches consisting of sloppy decelerated rhythms, lone piano chords, and minor orchestrated chamber music fringes. Some tracks are adorned with spoken word snippets in Russian (obviously sampled from old cartoons of Sojuzmultfilm). It is a bit autumnal music with stylised sadness coming from Montrèal, Canada. One can feel invigorative chill flowing from the slots of it. At times it is so slowed down you cannot call it trip-hop anymore – it is rather chillstep instead of it. The exquisite outing is a part of the discography of such labels as Illsound, and Dusted Wax Kingdom.

Thuoom – reCycle 2 (2017)

Textural Healing

• Electronic music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract 
• Minimal techno 
• Drone 
• Live 
• Post-industrial 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Abstract techno 
• Experimental electronica 
• Avant-electronica 
• Avant-techno

Comment: as the Finnish artist Thuoom did close his second grand cycle in order to begin a studio hiatus, there are up a couple of compilation issues released simultaneously (10 years In Noise, and reCycle 2). These ones gather together a bunch of unreleased tunes having no particular fit with the albums he composed during the second cycle. Indeed, there is represented a bunch of 13 tracks full of different sort of sonic experiments with uncanny rhythms, heavily boreal infused soundscapes, throbbing techno cadences of recent Finnish witches, amplified electricity and elliptically trudging noises, interrupted yet still loopy circuits, extended guitar chords and bold drones from the tundra. All is changing permanently around the listener yet fulfilling it through slowly changing cycles the ultimate effect will grow even bigger. At a time one can discover he/she has stepped unremarkably into another forest or landscape. Without any doubt, there can be drawn parallels upon his outstanding compatriots Ilpo Väisänen, and deceased Mika Vainio aka Pan Sonic, obviously one of the best artists having ever existed within the history of electronic music. Furthermore, I can personally say I am very proud of my mighty paternal grandmother who is Finnish. But such sort of music adds an extra charge to it (of course, I know such sort of feelings are not very supported in the contemporary highly tolerant Western Europe). A must-have listening for any experimental music fan by a man who has established himself as a symbol within the weblabel world. And as usual, this mighty and cathartic miscellany is released on his own imprint called Textural Healing.

EE7A – Tracers EP (2017)

Bump Foot

Archive.org

• Alternative dance 
• Electronic music 
• Tech-electro

Comment: it is said on the site of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot that Clayton Brooks aka EE7A was introduced to the eurorack format of modular synthesis and since then he has preferred recording just in one take rather than just clicking and sticking sonic blocks together on his computer. By keeping listening to it already three times in a row I shall have to assume Clayton Brooks succeeded in his recording politics. Tracers EP is highly ecstatic, even a bit hysterical based on the lame shaped, heavily stomping bass drumming being embellished with faint electro developments, and rusty 8-bit sonic effects. At times the intensity gets a bit attenuated and the pace will be changed into a more monotonous, even a bit hypnotic one. Then I can draw parallels upon the Detroit scene of electro and techno. For me, it embodies the life of an ordinary person within the overwhelming capitalistic machinery. All those doings from one day to another being repeated again and again wherein one can feel pleasure and pain intermittently or simultaneously. It reflects upon the relation between the human being and a machine where exhaustion in one's eyes is mixed up with some hope and look at a next day. However, by creating music, especially by those persons who have built their own studios and create music on their own terms, it is a huge step outside that a bit harrowing system. So one can accelerate the process, be outside the capitalistic system at her/his own disposal. But no one should not forget another truth and be wrongheaded – the communism as a regime is something which cannot be tolerated at all. Otherwise one can see a field of corpses having traversed the countries like it happened in China, the Soviet Union, and Kampuchea during the previous century. There is no need for useful idiots anymore. If someone wishes to behave in that way I guess the North Korea is waiting for you to build up a bright future.

USAISAMONSTER – 5 (2017)

Mass Dist

• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Electronic 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield

Comment: approximately 10-11 years ago the indie scene was partly headed by such radical experimental combos as Black Dice, Terrestrial Tones and The Lightning Bolt who had made noisy, angular rhythms drenched music. Actually USAISAMONSTER chimes in a quite similar way imbued with squalling guitars, psychedelic electronics and slamming drum mazes and angst and artificial angst and dadaism mixed shouts and shrieks. For making sound is it their way to kill pain? However, additionally there are up some off-kilter spans within a considerable part of the whole for showcasing the combo as a part of the music library compartment and reminding of early electronic music explorations within the academic circles. It is the disparate, more abstract case. In turn, those more restrained moments do resemble a little Animal Collective's early post-psychedelic compositions. At that time USAISAMONSTER abandons more or less rock-alike structures by entering into a completely disparate area. For sure, they recognize conventions as much as a mere matter to get subverted and get destroyed just a bit. It is like a perpetrator used to play with his/her victim. Even if it may seem the negative approach it makes sense. Actually it is not an overtly negative statement. Even more, I guess by creating such a sort of din it is a natural part of their vital bloodstream. This overwhelming 17-notch release (clocking in at a 34 minute only) is a bit in the discography of Mass Dist.

Vivid Tribe of Psychics – Seize To Seizure (2017)

Le Colibri Nècrophile

Bandcamp

• Sampledelic 
• Plunderphonics 
• Avant-garde 
• Sound collage 
• Hauntology 
• Dada music 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Spoken word 
• Leftfield 
• Film noir

Comment: this set of 23 tracks might be considered an instance of excessive luxury today because it could be a content for three albums at least. Musically it embodies the mighty hydra whom two new heads had grew after one was chopped off by the legend. In the recent audible case, the more you listen to it the bigger the audible snowball is growing for the listener. Psychedelic and surrealistic texts being inspired by the beatniks are supported by different kind of stuff, from frantic rhythmic configurations and trebly decelerated trip-hop (if it can be embedded in the term anymore) to eerie, film noir-esque samples and smouldering sonic effects to massive and rough guitar riffs. Lots of oldie music templates get involved in that and thereby it abandons its temporal lines. By shifting swiftly between different eras it will provide the immunity against possible Zeitgeist related platitudes and commonplaces. Are you tracking me? Are you tracking me? By its method and timbre and attitude in general there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of The Fucked Up Beat, and The Caretaker. Additionally to English you can hear storytelling in French, and in Italian. This is a kind of tribute to Crammed discs` serie Made to Measure. The mind-provoking umbrella – consisting of such projects as Gestalt OrchestrA, Parrhesia Sound System, Chromatic, Ubuntu Sound Antisystem, and Wild Worm Web – is located in Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, one of the main centres within the innovative music scene worldwide. The issue is a part of the discography of Le Colibri Nècrophile.