Visciera – Six Bits Of Black Broken Glass (2012)

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• Industrial rock 
• EBM 
• Alternative 
• Electronic 
• Synth-pop 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: as you have already figured out the title of this 6-track issue suggests both irony and desperation, humor and painful experiences, love and hopelessness, aggressiveness and humbleness. By considering the issue's cybernetic, industrial-imbued and machine-bent threads the question could be about the relationship between a human being, and a machine. Is the machine controlled by the human being, or vice versa? As you can see from the question and accents related to it the control is that the most important aspect which regulates our everyday's life between the groups, and how much the machines should be subjugated to the human being as a species? Earlier it was an urgent question about the relationship between the human race and nature. It seems that Florian Cziesla tries to find out a fine balance between the aforementioned compartments, between the touch, and determination. More profoundly, you can hear compositions from exquisite EBM-drenched synth pop and solid industrial rock to a stylistically pure EBM example with the lyrics of pessimistic allusions to downright noisy dead ends shedding no light and hope anymore. The solid issue is a part of the discography of Headphonica.

Ana Bogner – Multiple Proportions (2015)

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• Singer-songwriter 
• Art pop 
• Drone pop 
• No Wave 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental pop 
• Minimalism

Comment: Ana Bogner is an artist from Berlin, Germany whose 4-notch outing had been released on Headphonica. By listening to it I can imagine she is a previous punk who has made many further steps on to land in that uncanny, deeply inside twisted whole. She used to sing in a decelerated mode about her demons, blurred surrealistic dreams, internal battles regarding life and love being backed up by sparse throbbing drones, lone guitar chords and sporadic field recording snippets. Musically it is all but multiple in its general variation and proportion. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon such names as Lydia Lunch, Jarboe, H Stewart, Ludus.

Marcel Pequel – From One To Nine (2012)

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• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Piano music 
• Mood music 
• Art music

Comment: from one to nine by having been illustrated with short compositions on a piano where one dim chord is followed by another in a loose yet refreshing way. It varies at length from a minute to a three minute. I guess the piano is played in a dark room being away from a hot summer day. The mood is being created, the relations between the chords equate the flowing, slowly and a bit hypnotic atmosphere which provides a forward-flowing and purgative impulse. For sure, it is a moody experience yet simultaneously it is an instance of active listening where any chord must be caught with stark seriousness. The outing is a bit of the discography of Headphonica.

Jan Grünfeld - Music For Plants (2015)

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• Experimental rock
• Post-folk
• Indie folk
• Musique concrète
• Kosmische Musik
• Post-rock
• Modern classical
• Folk indie
• Electronic music
• Art folk

Comment: Jan Grünfeld likes to basking by just playing guitar and using a few elements to accentuate the instrument`s chords. Mostly those few elements are just algorithms to be implemented for more and less tight air surrounding his guitar endeavours. More profoundly, there are up a loads of echoes and reverbs in the middle and on the fringe throughout seven compositions of improvised guitar playing, however, additionally adorned with hisses from concrete music (the birds are singing and people are chatting) and the tolling of faint glockenspiel here and there. The only exception is The Nightshade where the composer takes on electronic devices to create more sequencer induced paces and synthesizer led Kosmische Musik impulses. The final track Feel Alife used to move on through slow motion lenses with the assistance of bold yet lonely piano chords and concrete music layers and an extended guitar riff thereby eventually resulting in the thoroughgoingly dream-soaked appearance. Fairly impressive. Indeed, the result is a bewildering piece of instrumental music where experimental approach in chords is finely balanced against beauty in touch. It is a joint release under la bèl, and Headphonica imprints. 

Jan Grünfeld - A Trace (2012)

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9.2

/Ambient folk, Folkgaze, Dream folk, Organic electronica, Ambient, Indie folk, Musique concrète, Folk indie/

Comment: there are up 13 compositions dragged out for 47 minutes. More profoundly,  despite of being instrumentally minimal the issue is highly picturesque due to gliding guitar chords, blissed-out strums, suggestive vowel expansions, and environmental sound processing thereby resulting in wondrous tonality and plenty of semitones and fulltones. Emotionally it is a refreshing, bucolic listening time with regard to staggered murky and cloudless moods. Now and then Grünfeld is accompanied by unknown female singing therefore
further expanding his world of sounds. There may be drawn some parallels upon Imandra Lake`s pristine (ambient) folk endeavours and Coen Oscar Polack`s field recording snippets recorded in India, for instance. In a nutshell, this rich textured album can be considered a soundtrack of your saturday morning. At random today is saturday. And with sunshine.

Björn & Gorden - Autumnica (2012)

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9.3

/Experimental indie, Indie dance, Leftfield, Indietronica, Alternative dance, Post-rock, Electronic pop, Poptronica, Alternative/

Comment: Björn & Gorden is a collective from Dortmund, Germany whose 6-track set is filled with glossy electronic pop surfaces, psychedelic dance grooves, and indie blended compositions, however, ideologically harking back to the glorious Ruhr district-centered experimental music/Krautrock tradition of the 70s (CAN, Neu!, Kraftwerk) and the 90s/00s (Pluramon, Mouse On Mars, Microstoria, Kreidler, and To Rococo Rot, Mina, The Notwist, Lali Puna, Contriva, Tarwater elsewhere). Sultry and suggestive by any means.

Marcel Pequel - From One To Nine (2012)

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9.0

/Modern classical, Minimal, Mood music, Piano music/

Comment: there are 9 emotionally accentuated piano tracks which are exceeded over 17 minutes. More concretely, by the word of the author it reflects upon a wide array of feelings and sentiments, some of them are positive, some of them quite negative ones. More concretely, these negative experiences seem somehow to be related to lonesomeness. However, first of all, it is a minimally treated moody composition, full of distinct corners to allowing the listener to be alone and  stay in his/her contemplation. In a nutshell, it is an instance of the 20th century classical music.   

The Plastic Jazz Orchestra - 39° (2012)

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9.4

/IDM, Experimental electronica, Nu-jazz, Indietronica, Avant-electronica/

Comment: TPJO was established by Bernd Burnson as an ensemble electronique for modern music in late 2006. Although soon thereafter he passed away his ideas do perdure. Indeed, the rhythms and beats coming out of it are poignantly composed, however, having a loads of hints at different genres and fields (indie, jazz, IDM, tango). At times it comes out as quite joyous entertainment, sometimes, on the contrary, providing more epic gliding and shifts. If you are interested in to get the more detailed comparisons for it then you can think of it as an example of how Bang On A Can could sound under the umbrella of Warp Records.

Abc100 - Exit Site (2012)

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8.8

/Electronic pop, Noise, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica, Experimental electronica/

Comment: there are up 13 notches recorded by Alexandr Sinyagin, a literature student from Moscow, Russia. It is assumed his music used to be directly influenced by literature. His sound used to extend from the structures of quelled but chopped electronica to more bubblegum bouncing ones which sometimes run along more poppier pathways. For instance, Sous Cari does have such marks being highly suggestive through its exulting hooks and sequences. Or on the other side, it exploits the templates of more experimental and even pranky details (different kind of noises, pitchbent effects, somehow weird sounds and disrupted developments, radiophonic samples etc). Thus the spirituality of the album used to superimpose with the main slogan of the Headphonica Records. In a nutshell, the whole is brisk, disquieted and lively.

Ergo Phizmiz The Faust Cycle (Headphonica)

Kas kujutate ette situatsiooni, et ärkate hommikul kell 7, panete käesoleva albumi pahaaimamatult mängima - heitmata seejuures pilku Winamp-player`ile (või millele iganes) - ning lõpetate õhtul kella poole kümne paiku? Täpipealt selliseks võib osutuda situatsioon tuntud sound collage-, plunderphonics-artisti ja ümberkontekstualiseerija (Aphex Twin, Velvet Underground, Missy Elliott jt) Ergo Phizmiz`i uue üllitisega.

Kuidas tuleks seda 5-loolist (träki keskmine pikkus läheneb 3 tunnile!) kurioosumit hinnata? Esiteks on see tohutusuur helikamakas, mida valmistati ette pikad 3 aastat ning oleks autori sõnul peaaegu aju kokku jooksutanud- täis erinevaid viiteid, stiile, epohhe ning seinast-seina meeleolusid. Kui otsida läbivat elementi, siis selleks on enamasti sürreaalse sisuga jutustused, mille vahele on lükitud tolmused ning kulunud latiinorütmid, konkreethelid (nii päris- kui linnadžunglist), art-pop, kabaree, ooper, art noir, klassitsistlik muusika. Suures ulatuses omandab album õõvastava kõlaga raadiofoonilise kunsti raamid. Luupainajalik tsükliline alkeemia. Samas - kuivõrd sämplilegend on kirjutanud muusikat ka nukuooperile ning helindanud (lühi)filmide saundträkke, siis sellesuunalised püüdlused ei tekitagi üllatusmomenti. Väljuda eelmisest käitlusest uute käitlusse, luua varasema põhjal uut väärtust - EP kuulutas välja “The Faust Cycle"`i remikskonkursi, mille põhjal üllitatakse lähitulevikus uus väljalase. Lisan mõned põhjendused (kokku on neid 46), miks seda albumit tasub kuulata: keelpillinelik, kes sõidab tsiklitel ning mängib Janacek`i; Marcel Duchamp õpib räppima; kõndiv grammofon; kus mujal võiksid sa kuulda plahvatavat siga?; (tummfilmitäht) Erich von Stroheim`i on siin korduvalt kuulda; Läti laululind Margita Zalite kaverdab Peggy Lee`d, tehes tolle muusika enda omaks. Ning ärge oma iPod`i üle koormake!

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8.5

[Artistid] Ergo Phizmiz

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[Vana ning oluline] Mu. Arecibo Psycodelic Classics 17: Abortos Musicales (Headphonica)

Veel enne kui asuda järama uue aasta (alguse) kurioosumit - Ergo Phizmiz`i kolossaalset, üle 14 tunni pikkust albumit “The Faust Cycle” - , põikan innovatiivmuusika leibli Headphonica ühe teise väljapaistva üllitise juurde.

Kuigi puertoriikolasest trummari Nomar Díaz`i (ND) aka Mu. teos “Arecibo Psycodelic Classics 17: Abortos Musicales“ on kõigest 35 minutit pikk (14 lugu), on see informatiivselt mahukas. Amüsantne fakt on, et enamus selle eelmise aasta albumi helidest on salvestatud mobiiltelefoni osadest kokkuklopsitud mikrofoni ning fooliumpallikesega.

Teadmata täpselt, kuidas eelpoolmainitud protseduur välja näha võis, keskendun konkreetsetele helidele. ND trummeldab, andes vahetevahel ka vaikusele voli. See ei ole ainult free jazz - see on avangard. Ta - pluss mõned abilised - sämplib trummide kohale pärishelisid - indiaani šamaani(itk)laulu ning piaanohelisid; lisaks on siin veel elektroakustilist metallimüdinat, thrill and bass`i/vabavormilist freakout`i ning sünteetilisi saunde. Ning vahetevahel võtavad võimust etnotrummide põhjad. Teisalt on siin ka pesuehtsat hardcore rock`i (Demi Moore) - seda küll psühhedeelse kaldega. Tõepoolest, albumi pealkirja esimene ots näikse viitavat psühhedeeliale ning teine pool katkestatud-katkenud muusikapaladele. Esimese poolega võib nõustuda, teise osaga mitte. Tegelikult ju ei katkestata muusikat - lood on vaatamata detailirohkusele selgepiiriliselt liigendatud, kuigi samas võivad teineteisest täiesti erineda -, vaid ehitatakse laastava röövkäigu tagajärgedele - väljarebitud sämplite vundamendile. Minu lemmiklugu on Loubriel´s Psycodelic Odyssey, mis põhineb sünteetiliste helide abrassiivsel massiivil, soleerival bassisekventsil, kergel trummeldamisel ning süntekapassaažidel.

Kokkuvõtvalt võib väita, et “Arecibo Psycodelic Classics 17: Abortos Musicales”`i kõige peamiseks omaduseks on sellega kaasnev vabaduse tunnetus - albumi lõppedes on selge, et helid olid pelgalt vahendid selle saavutamiseks.

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