Masato Abe – Author (2017)

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• Post-rock 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Post-classical 
• Crossover 
• Piano music 
• Contemporary classical

Comment: In fact, in the previous year I decided not to send my review about the best albums to a public magazine because it should be the closed case. Yet it is ridiculous to expect to have a good review about the albums having been published during an annual span. If there is any possibility to represent it dynamically (via Internet) then do it. Let's consider this excellent Tokyo, Japan-based Masato Abe`s Author (also known from the duo Swan Kid Sue). I have been listening to it for hours today and there is no doubt it should be added to the list of the best albums 2017. It is the case. More profoundly, it is as easy as feather, it is as heavy as honey, it is as dreamy as your most dreamy reveries. This 8-track adept colossus does not distinguish the borders between contemporary classical, and majestic, chamber-tinged rock swathes. At times the course is amended by vocal glimpses, concrete sounds, and sublime piano tenures. All is floating slowly over your fragile soul and affected mind. There is no hurry and a listener should not rush. If you are listening to it this whole makes impact on you anyway. All is blossoming and inevitably wrapping around you. Like me too. Just hear at Small Window Shows So Many Delight those effortlessly rolling violins and charming orchestrations to make up your blissful Sunday. The release is a bit in the discography of elementperspective. So it can be said the case is Japanese wholly.

Sanmi - Junkie (2013)

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/Experimental electronica, Sampledelic, Leftfield, Hauntology, Sound collage/

Comment: obviously it is not the first attempt to ridicule serious pop music attitude on its very own core. Japanese artist Sanmi exploits only some syllables or words or phrases to underline a peculiar atmosphere predominantly hanging over a whole of consisting of 4 compositions. On the other side, this word based context (having hints at licking at a candybar and hipsters who used to bear an attitude of musical junkies) is backed up by austere, looped bass rhythms which used to ignite a spooky milieu to come forth. It might be inspired either by The Caretaker, by Cassetteboy, horror/sci-fi movies or something else but the result is quite idiosyncratic and unquestionably thought-provoking listening.The issue is a part of elementperspective, an experimental/electronic music label from Nippon.           

Gift – a EP (2014)

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/Folktronica, Alternative pop, Jazztronica, Indietronica, Acid pop/

Comment: these 5 pieces represent a blend of instrumental folk and electronic music in its beauty and craftiness. More concretely, it consists of skewed guitar chords, chopped and twisted electronic bits, unexpected dodges and noisy overdrives giving it a refreshing outlook. At times the guitars are jettisoned in favour of enchanting piano chords and moody jazzy samples. Frequently the chords seem to be stop-timed to be continued with a new rush and power. In spite of superficial effects, a sense of melody comes forth from the nexus. This instrumental issue comes out of Japan and is issued on Element Perspective. Ultimately the outlet is amusing and charming.          

EPV NAVIES – VOLTAGE CIRCLE (2014)

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/Glitchtronica, Experimental pop, Glitch techno, IDM, Experimental electronica, Indietronica, Art pop, Ambient, Ambient techno, Abstract, Glitch ambient, Glitch dub, Modern classical, Post-industrial, Electro-acoustic, Clicks`n`bleeps, Organic electronica, Dream folk, Crossover, Soundscapes, musique concrete, Ambient drone, Avant-electronica, Noise, Art pop/

Comment: by watching this list of a huge amount of tags wrote down above it implies a vary-coloured nature of this 16-track issue. Indeed, the main spots are `electronic` – ranging from refreshing alternative pop expressions and stereophonic fireworks to remarkably harsher, even abstract synthesised glimpses, with more or less bellying, protuberant rhythms; `ambient` - with or without drones, at times knee-deep and spacey, at times more morose, glitch-draped and noise-soaked; `classical` - at the time it does mean mutant classical music where the axial term is buried under other, electronic-induced elements. The only exception is a Finnish singer-songwriter, Violeta Päivänkakkara, though, make that this time her track (Sya; the compilation also includes the video version of it) chimes significantly more electronically than she commonly used to do. Additionally, there are represented such artists as sanmi, AUCHRE, Gallery Six, Rawpass, Senna, Makoto Masui, Nankotsuteacher, N-qia, --memor2, Yoshitaka Hikawa, SHOMOMOSE, Y:E:T, and gift. All in all, it is an excellent introduction to the Japanese label elementperspective. Great.               

Gallery Six - Hiroshima (2014)

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• Micronoise
• Ambient drone
• Improvised music
• Drone
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Ambient
• Epic
• Musique concrète
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism
• Abstract

Outstanding tracks:

Hiroshima

Rawpass - Reflection (2012)

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• Noise
• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Drone

Outstanding tracks:

Reflection

Marlaja Virtä - Minä Uneksin Sinusta (2013)

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FMA

• Primitronica
• Experimental electronica
• Remix
• Alternative dance
• Improvised music

Outstanding tracks:

Minä Uneksin Sinusta (intohimo)

Peachonfuse - I`m Free, I`m Not Free (2012)

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• No Wave
• Experimental techno
• Alternative dance
• Avant-techno
• Remixes
• Glitch-techno
• Noise
• Electronic pop
• Leftfield

Outstanding tracks:
Ho-La (3331voices edit)
Ho-La (SHOMOMOSE remix)
メリーゴーラウンド​(​3331 voices edit

Element Orchestra - Lapland (2013)

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• Noise
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Abstract
• Experimentalism
• Spoken word
• Experimental techno
• Glitch ambient
• Ambient techno

Outstanding tracks:

From Dusk Till Dawn

Violeta Päivänkakkara - Kukkia (2013)

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9.3

/Forest folk, Free folk, Singer-songwriter, Dream folk, Psych-folk, Weird folk, Freak folk, New Weird Finland/

Comment: this handful of tracks is a sequent issue by the Finnish forest folk artist Violeta Päivankakkara. And once again, her intimate songwriting is worth to be appreciated and praised. More profoundly, she conjures up dreamy impressions based on halcyon guitar fingerpicks and some lofty arpeggios which in turn are embellished with idiosyncratic, highly suggestive chant and singing blended vocal expressions and glockenspiel touches. The issue will be ended up by a clockwork toy-based interlude. Of course, there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Lau Nau, Keijo, Paavoharju, Islaja, Kuupuu.

Violeta Päivänkakkara - Pimeässä (2012)

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• Weird folk
• New Weird Finland
• Forest folk
• Free folk
• Psych-folk
• Avant-folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Experimental folk
• Dream folk 

Mitsuru Shimizu - Ili (2012)

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9.0

/Piano, Modern classical, Freeformfreakout, Anime pop, Experimental electronica, Crossover/

Comment: this bundle of 3 tracks sounds like a steamroll launching with restrained, almost inaudible piano chords and glimpses and then stepwisely transmitting into a frantic electronic space and lopsided structures covered with ragged beats, spoken word whiffs, anime-affected textures, and autotuned vocals.