Sotra – Wayfarer (2014)

U-Torn

• Kosmische Musik 
• Space music 
• Post-rock 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Ambient pop

Comment: by listening to this handful of compositions by Sotra on Ukraine-based imprint, u|torn I got the idea that Kosmische Musik is by its method quite similar to post-rock. Or vice versa, because Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Ash Ra Temple had existed (or have been existing) long before in comparison to Talk Talk, GY!BE, Explosions In The Sky, Mogwai, Tortoise. All those slowly progressing synths and intention to create a delicate mood around the listener throughout the mostly long-running compositions. Of course, electronic devices to conjure up the aforementioned elements are different and it influences the result. At Wayfarer one can hear blinking sounds coming from a lunar echo sounder and bumpy Moog soup on the bottom and glistening analogue synth-based overdrives here and there. The apotheosis comes at Go North with those tense keytar-alike acidic outbursts. Very solid indeed.

Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang (2013)

Archive.org

• Pychedelic 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Synth-rock
• Electronic 
• Kosmische Musik 
• Art rock 
• Krautrock

Comment: Joxfield ProjeX as a project of a couple of lost musicians reappeared approximately 10 years ago under a Moscow-based cult imprint, Clinical Archives. Indeed, Janne Yan Andersson and Stefan Oax Ek started making music together approximately a half century ago until going to hiatus for decades. It sounds like once upon a time in Sweden… chiming like a fairy tale of the heroes of living much longer than the average human being. For sure, their music will do it. After releasing a bunch of albums under the Russian imprint they went on by issuing a couple of EPs on their own (Tin Can Music) and then they changed “commercial” by signing a deal with the French cult imprint Bam Balam and making collaboration with Cotton Casino, being known from a Japanese space rock juggernaut, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. This set of 6 compositions comes out of their post-Clinical Archives period (also known as Archives (sic!)) although reflecting upon the same tendencies represented before. Their issues are always the same, always different. More detailedly, krautrock intensity on hirsute guitars and New Age-y and Kosmische Musik on spaced-out electronics with different threads within these 28 minutes set up a dynamic and colourful and vivid carnival-alike milieu. Emotionally it is a coherently ecstatic experience providing a stark remedy to get out of a hard day`s rubbish. However, there are up some more eclipsed compositions as well, Brana Funk Sun Ra, for instance. In a word, it is a top release analogically to the previous releases.

Mirth Naarc – FX (2016)

Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Free Music Archive

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Urban music 
• Electro 
• Hip-hop 
• Glitch-hop

Comment: this handful of tracks is created by Martinas Rakshtinas aka Martin Rach, a prolific and talented artist from Lithuania. Mirth Naarc is one of the projects of him and this album of 22 minutes is tagged by him as techno, dance, and abstract hip-hop. More profoundly, spiky incisive drumming is tightly mixed up with an electro matter if to describe it in a gross way. Yet stylistically it is a case of contemporary hip-hop music where digitalised technology and a multi-faceted rhythmic approach prevail the course. A lot of different rhythmic shapes which either are followed by each other or used to be superimposed on each other partly. Emotionally its lightheartedness is beguiling because the ultimate impact of it can be quite dystopia-related and therefore depressive. The machines are governing over a human being mercilessly. Without any emotion, without any discrimination. The issue is released on Folksoundomy, and Free Music Archive.

H Stewart – Parker Square (2011)

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

• Singer-songwriter 
• Electronic music 
• Piano music 
• Alternative 
• Avant-pop 
• Experimental pop

Comment: this handful of pieces are composed by an American artist, H Stewart and released by an imprint, Folksoundomy. She is being known as vowel, sound poetry artist dwelling deep in the avant-garde/experimental music scene first of all. This time she releases her emotions and memories. Indeed, you can partake of those flickering sparse undulations being tapped out on a cheap Casio keyboard and being surrounded by austere sonic effects coming out from a laptop. The result is impressive in its heartbreaking longing and ennobling soul pain showcasing H Stewart is also a solid singer if needed. Indeed, the strength of the outing is that her intimate incantations are delicately stripped down and addressed because of that showing up its inner magic and power. This is music I would like to listen to during late and lonely hours.