Marco Lucchi – Mater Natura (2011)

Webbed Hand

Bandcamp

 

• Contemporary classical 
• Art music 
• Ambient 
• Modern classical 
• Microtonal 
• Minimalism 
• Epic

Comment: Marco Lucchi's 3-notch outing Mater Natura continues elongating the glorious tradition of Italian ambient and contemporary/modern classical music. More profoundly, it chimes in a highly spirited and mysterious manner with the aid of lengthy chords and little yet tectonic changes within lengthy compositions. The lengthy chords are accentuated and stretched even more due to indecipherable female vowels and gravity rejecting easiness. Just coming in and going out as if a panoramic soundtrack to a picturesque documental movie about Earth and the act of Creation. It is all about where mundane and divine amalgamate into one another to become a seamless whole. At least by Marco Lucchi's side it is very possible. The release is a part of the discography of Webbed Hand.

Nasienie – Prevention of Sleep Disorders EP (2010)

Webbed Hand

Webbed Hand

• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Drone 
• Avant-electronica 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: as you can see this 4-track issue provides a practical intention. It is produced by a legendary Russian experimental musician, Nasienie so I can guess to get a good result from it. It is not the first time by him to appear at RMH. Once I read about a black metal musician who was treated in the psychiatric clinic in the way he would have to produce one track in a day to reflect upon his recent mental shape. If the sleep disorders could be resolved through demanding rational analysis and it was backed up by commanding music then this album is for you. Indeed, I cannot say this album is an example of music which used to be regarded as the typical sort of sleep music. Although it includes some dreamy progressions it is quite intensive through post-industrial fields which are up there through clanging electro-acoustic experiments, bold and at times amplified drones, and glitched-out fringes (in the first place at Detuned Sunday). On the other side, the artist does not torture a listener with lengthy compositions rather giving her/him possibility to relax through subconscious turns. In a word, it is a strong result by Nasienie and Webbed Hand Records.

Nasienie – Chasing The Fog (2011)

Webbed Hand

• Ambient 
• Microsound 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic music 
• Microtonal
• Ambient rock 
• Soundscape 
• Alternative

Comment: this set of 6 tracks (clocking in at a 28 minute) is viable to be listened to while you feel yourself sad for some bitter events, for instance, if you remind of your broken affairs though it is hard to figure out is it either the effect of it or a very arousing reason for doing it. While feeling an intense painful sense coming inexplicably out from very deep of your heart. On the other side, while driving across the foggy and very snowy highway you could see even more details in comparison to a usual cloudless day because you have to be more concentrated and you are tightly surrounded by a milky ambience to catch sight of other kind of details. Or you can experience the same feeling when you are driving the bus and your head is leaned against the window and watching drops running sinuously and at different speeds from top of the window. There are represented some audible characteristics which chime on their own and on the other side do interact seamlessly with one another. The aforementioned whitened sublime progressions include some reverberant sounds, some more light-hearted, clearly perceived as more crude, directly played and untreated, synthesiser played interludes (for instance, Microsound). For instance, the track called Undertone sounds almost in a psychedelic way. The following composition Mute Witness changes the path of the course (back again) to thriving into something thoroughly thoughtful and beatifically frost-bound and charmingly immobile as if an audible example of an aporia by Zenon about moving and staying still (the second part of the track evokes your soul to crawl). At the finishing 21 experimental rock tendencies stepwise begin to emerge and swim and lazily produce sonic waves of different shapes and range. The fascinating outing is a part of the discography of Webbed Hand.

Akashic Crow's Nest - Torment of the Metals (2009)

Webbed Hand

• Post-rock
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism
• Ambient

Comment: Akashic Crow`s Nest is one of the aliases by Chris P. McDill also known as Drone Wallah, Rolling Calf Sinfonette, Rowboat Magicians, Saluki Regicide, and Tree Helicopter. He is obviously one of the most prolific solo artists being around today. Most albums have been released under the likes of Webbed Hand Records, and Treetrunk Records. The composition consists of three compositions of a total time of 67 minutes. Two of them are very extended compositions though the nature of these tracks is quite minimal. More profoundly, it used to wobble in a restrained mode conveying feeble changes in structure and pace. At times it seems like the artist is searching for the resonance with the listener`s perception because it might be you are perceiving some sounds which might not exist at all. It is a sort of psychoacoustic phenomenon being deliberately created. Stylistically it could be considered an example of minimal music in general though it provides branches into electronic, ambient, drone and even post-rock music indirectly.

Mystified - Cardboard Hotel Revisited (2014)

Webbed Hand 

/Drone, Soundscape, Musique concrete, Minimalism, Ambient drone, Dark ambient, Avant-garde, Sound-art, Conceptual, Experimentalism/

Comment: undoubtedly Thomas Park aka Mystified (also known as Autocad, Mister Vapor) is being one of the most known web/net audio veterans who has been creating music since the first half of the 00s. His tenure might only be comparable with Dave Keifer aka Cagey House in this compartment. There is up one long-running composition, having a length of 20 minutes and 54 seconds. By listening to it the listener can perceive that such a kind of ambient drone and dark ambient music could be truly emotive. Maybe even the most arousing music produced around him/her. It does not particularly speak about love between people which might frequently turn into a buzz word only. It does not particularly speak love for God which might frequently be subliminal. It is all about warm sounds to surface and conjoin with one another step by step. More concretely, it is about hisses and microscopic noises, it is all about restrainedly progressing whistling impulses here and there which are to get in touch with the concrete music sounds (some buried rhythms resemble the locomotive`s wheel-induced frequencies) in the second part. At times these sounds are counterpointed with magically haunting orchestrated clouds coming from nowhere, then sustaining and fading out. Emotionally these 1254 seconds are positive ones although the objects speculatively denoted over there might be ominous and venomous (of course, I don`t concretely focus upon such majestic creatures as the snakes). I mean mystified creatures spawned in the human being`s mind and soul with purpose to broaden our inner and outer space and then conquer it. Don`t forget – the human being needs actually wilderness and space (without being changed it into places totally) around him/her. Space is actually not equal to place. The former is tremendously more high-powered and divine. As she/he needs it she/he needs Mystified-kind sound either (although he/she might not be aware of it in fact). In a nutshell, get this gem to fulfil one of your most essential needs. By the way, conceptually the issue is related to Park`s first outing Cardboard Hotel EP on the Webbed Hand imprint in 2004.    

Alphaxone - Across The Grooves (2013)

Webbed Hand

Bandcamp

• Dystopbient
• Illbient
• Abstract
• Dark ambient
• Microtonal

Outstanding tracks:

Remaining Gloom

Out of Depth

Silent Souls

Across the Grooves

RMSS Systems Inc. – Live Volume (2013)

Webbed Hand

• Improvised music
• Noise
• Ambient folk
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-folk
• Free folk
• Improvised noise
• Experimentalism

Outstanding tracks:
Maggie Spring Theme [rem]
Hard to Explain the Silence [rem]
Oil-Blooded Bird

Louie & The Ocean – Insubstantial (2012)

Webbed Hand
Lastfm 

8.6

/IDM, Electronic pop, Lo-fi, Electro pop, Mood music/

Comment: this is a drift between IDM-esque beats and downtempo-tinged moody electronica where the listener can meet either melancholic or more swift dodges and angles. Furthermore, the album incorporates the elements of homemade aesthetics and gleaming synth/electro shades. This 9-track album comprises predominantly instrumental notches. In a nutshell, it is obviously better effort than the previous release by Louie & The Ocean, the French artist used to be.

Nasienie - How To Say Goodbye (2012)

Webbed Hand
Lastfm

9.3

/Ambient noise, Minimal, Ambient drone, Ambient, Experimentalism, Drone, Soundscapes, Epic/

Comment: just one, 16-minute composition which takes on epic and majestic and on the other side on soothing and noiseful. Lots of contrasty moments and swirls are up there. During its course the notch evolves into the more brooding and intense final point. If to try to tag it, however, its centric fold can be considered "ambient", though, it can be compared rather to the symphonical aesthetics of Glenn Branca and borealic aesthetics of Tim Hecker than Brian Eno. In a word, intriguing and eminent.

J. Dujardin – This Will Be the Last (2011)

Webbed Hand

9.3

/Post-rock, Shoegaze, Doomgaze, Crossover, Ambient rock, Psychedelic, Experimental rock, Shoegazetronia, Ambient drone/

Comment: the Belgian musician Jeffrey Dujardin (aka Uitgezondert) provides 11 tracks fringed with breakbeat and big beat-esque rhythm patterns below a little bit gloomy skies which in turn involve shimmering shoegaze and massive post-rock-ish washes, orchestrated hovering, and lone plucking or dropping chords. It is as outstanding by its format as by its content. In a word, it involves warm harmonies, uplifting progressions and blissful aesthetics. The listener can see similarities with the likes of Bardo Pond, Seefeel, Jessamine, Flying Saucer Attack. Hopefully it will not be his last album, though.

Louie & The Ocean – …With Eyes To Sea EP (2011)

Webbed Hand

7.2

/Electronic pop, Downtempo, Ethereal, Chillout, Pomp pop/

Comment: At times I used to think that downtempo-ish music unlike most of the other genres tends deliberately to pitch on the ideal, otherworldly solution (spherical solutions). Ethereal, even angelic soundscapes, relaxing beat sequences, shimmering sound effects being likely to the focused release herein. By my experience, at times it might seem to be feasible, yet most of the times obviously not. Too bombastic, too predictable, too slushy, too bleak, too camp. Thereby it is at odds with the kind of chillwave/glo-fi sound, which used to base on similar initial particles, for instance. At times this France-based project seems to be aware of those threats having managed to hold yourselves back, sometimes actually not. The kick-off track No Friends, No Problem showcases itself as the most intriguing one via its samples being seemingly out of context, serene synth warbles and not-too-dreamy cadences.

Nasienie - Blackwood EP (2011)

Webbed Hand
Lastfm

8.2

/Ambient folk, Ambient, Minimal, Soundscape/

Comment: this 3-track issue comes over to folk-tinged mainlines (spiced up with dark-hued waves), and vast-scale atmospheric pannels rippling on sparse, ellipse-stretched loops. In a nutshell, all the logic of the release is subordinated to repetition.

Melophobia – Fukushima (11_04M) (2011)

Webbed Hand

8.6

/Soundscape, Dark ambient, Conceptual, Sound-art, Abstract, Electro-acoustic, Musique concrete, Dystopbient/

Comment: Actually it is amazing how fastly some musicians have already reacted to the horrendous events in Japan nearly one week ago releasing conceptual albums or dedicating the compilations. If to check the album title out Melophobia, a Greek project, is directly connected to it. For instance, (Otsuchi, population = 0), or (No.1 reactor + No.2 reactor + No.3 reactor etc), or (The Bank of Japan & 15 trillion yen). By its outer form the album seems to be filled in with really austere and minimal tunes, yet, by its inner core (or in translation) it comes more into impressive shape, reflecting exactly upon the feelings of despair and fear. Indeed, therein can be detected for creepy, at times almost invisible drone/hiss pulsatings, be a witness for weak echoes of human speech and the sounds of alarm signals and overflowing planes and bypassing trains.

Mister Vapor Altercus (Webbed Hand)

Thomas Park`i aka Mister Vapor`i 64-minuti pikkune sound-art/minimal/ambient/drone-teos viib kuulaja ängistavatesse ning lokaliseerimatutesse koridoridesse - võiks ju kuuldu põhjal arvata -, kust tõuseb ohtralt rõskust ning kuuldub veepiiskade lakkamatut ja pikapeale piinarikkaks muutuvat tilkumist, mida omakorda saadab kurjaendeline bassidrone, mis vahetevahel väändub-käändub valjemaks, et seejärel uuesti tavapärasesse vakku langeda, et siis uuesti tõusta jne. Tõepoolest, selle minimalistlikust iseloomust annavad tunnistust need üksikud-üksikud käänded, mis teadvuses omandavad eksplosiivse efekti. Üleüldse - laske see saund enesele ajju ning aju genereerib seda edasi. Kes on tuttav näiteks Caustic Reverie/Forgotten`i loominguga, see teab, millest ma räägin. Vaatamata tõigale, et mainisin eespool ängistavate koridoride ning veetilkade lõputu langemise assotsiatsioone, on Thomas Park ise pühendanud taiese vanaaja teadlase Galenose poolt kirjeldatud narkootilisele taimele, mille kohta siiski täpsemad viited puuduvad - anonüümne ning lokaliseerimatu ometigi.

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