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2/16/2016

Der Zirkus brennt – A Heap of Broken Images (2015)




  • Post-rock
  • Post-classical
  • Chamber music
  • Mood music
  • Modern classical
  • Piano music
  • Ambient
  • Crossover
  • Art music

Comment: these nine images are about piano based music where the mostly restrained chords used to simmer from track to track with some tectonic dodges into guitar induced noises. Much such sort of will be happened at Spy From The Void, Star Smugglers, and Wilhelmina where unknown ghosts will enter into the nature of the tracks in a knock-down way. On the other side, Days Before Winter for instance embraces very exactly the mood due to the title. It is fairly picturesque due to lonely chords and emphasized space between them. There are up exquisite cool jazz vibes meeting an austere chamber ambiance. It could be said the trio of Dario Mambro, Marco Di Vita, and Federico Bernacchi tries to relentlessly search for the balance by interlacing moody music with artsy advancements. In a word, one will get calmed down and then get excited and thereby living up to the listener`s expectations. At times the trio`s sound chimes like a subtle breeze coming from nowhere to accumulate and gain in artistic and aesthetical terms. That`s a fulfilling formula for creating music for sure. By kindred souls the issue could be compared with such artists as Max Richter, Bosques De Mi Mente, Hauschka, Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Lubomyr Melnyk.

11/20/2015

Owl Brain Atlas – AM/FM/UFO (2011)





  • Dada music
  • Avant-garde
  • Experimentalism
  • Acousmatic music
  • Drone
  • Sound collage
  • Non-music
  • Improvised noise
  • Leftfield
  • Avant-electronica
  • Psycho-acoustic
  • Electro-acoustic

Comment: frequently unusual and weird sort of music is called “UFO music” by superficial music listeners. Indeed, J. D. Nelson`s produced album is one of that because of consisting of 23 tracks with a total duration of 26 minutes only (the only exception is XI which last beyond 9 minutes). It does mean an average structure of musical compositions one cannot find from there because all is thoroughly warped and destroyed/deconstructed or subjected to uncompromising algorithms of cutting-edge noises, repeated loops of very short samples and incisive droning here and there. At times it rings like an example of sound collage by using speech samples and electro-acoustic snippets. Those speech samples are being exploited in different ways with different purposes to conjure up different associations in the listener`s head. For instance, at times it chimes like an instance of dada madness, at times it chimes like a time span filled with groans and moans as if reflecting zombies to come nearby to attack a new target. Indeed, every element within it is thoroughly elaborated and channelized despite its overtly fragmented appearance. In fact, J. D. Nelson has produced it for four yeards (2007-2011). In a word, it is a thought-provoking, frantically manipulated electronica/noise mayhem. 

8/26/2015

Third Mind Movement - Ups and Downs (2015)




/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.

6/15/2013

Owl Brain Atlas - Snow Eater (2013)



9.2

/Avant-garde, Noise, Musique concrete, Experimentalism, Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics, Avant-electronica/

Comment: although this album consists of 30 tracks all these ones are just snippets, fragments and sonic glimpses finished off in total at 20.09. Owl Brain Atlas is the project by Colorado based musician J.D. Nelson who generates noise with vocal samples, field recordings, and guitars. Indeed, the result is a kind of subtle noise infiltrated with concrete sounds, evocative sonic effects, and spoken word touches. More concretely, the wind blows at a distance, ghastly electronic ideas attack on you, warped vocal snippets, peculiar electronic flickers come out from nowhere, preserve their monotonous standings for...to be disappeared into nothing ultimately. In a word, it is a challenging, thought-provoking listening time. Recommended for melomans who like all kind of challenges in the realm of experimental electronic music.

3/06/2013

Bob Meanza - Three Diamond Ohms (2013)



9.2

/Conceptual, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Psychedelia, Progressive/

Comment: this set of 3 compositions is composed on a vintage CRB transistor organ. The result is challenging due to torrents of a poignant key changes and irrefutable progressions into psychedelic cascades and crescendos. By recording the issue Bob Meanza gave nod to the composition techniques of avant-garde music composers a la Wendy Carlos, and progressive rock approaches. Indeed, all of the aforementioned cues are hearable on it.