11/16/2011
11/15/2011
Tristeza Orange - Monochrome EP (2010)
/Film noir, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, No Wave, Psychedelic, Experimentalism, Alternative dance/
Comment: here are represented 4 solid explorations being quite characteristic experimental notches on their own. The issue kicks off with a droning film noir-charged soundscape, the second track The Stars, They Burn My Eyes, My Hands resembles of the interplay between Michael Karoli`s screeching guitar and Irmin Schmidt`s synth layers while proceeding CAN`s Tago Mago album. Two last, short tracks do constitue slightly more dance-appealed rock/No Wave notches- funky bass gears and bouncing electronic bits are begirded by different kinds of minutiae (there can be used adjectives like "droning", "shouting", "soothing", "joyous").
Herwig Holzmann - Has your anger really disappeared or have you just buried it so deep (2011)
Camomille
Bandcamp
9.4
Bandcamp
9.4
/Modern classical, Organic electronica, Film noir, Mood music, Soundscape, Chamber music/
Comment: a legendary electronic musician (also known as Das Gritli Moser, and Macon Tights), from Graz, Austria provides a bewitching, 5-piece release of orchestrated fascination blended with discrete, organically loaded electronic undercurrents, chiming as a soundtrack for an imaginable film somewhere outside of perceptible reality. It is filled with highly doleful harmonies and more gleaming and murky shimmer to soothe your pain and desperation.
Sky Picnic - The Unknown Regions EP (2011)
Comment: seemingly squelched indie progressions with accidental, restraint storms above it. The mellow chords of guitars and synths prone to orchestrations and vocalise-based skies are mixed up with more murky bits and beats. The aesthetics of this Brooklyn-based duo reminds of Low, and Galaxy 500, and even borrowing from the distant past of acid/psych folk.
11/13/2011
Chester Chicken - Clucking The Classics (2011)
/Conceptual, Humour, Covers/
Comment: good idea, good humour, good accomplishment. Indeed, 50,000,000 chickens will not be wrong - let`s have spot upon song titles - Omletes Keep Fallin` On My Head, Hard Egg`s Night, Egg-White Christmas, You Don`t Bring Me Feathers, Can`t Cluck Without You, and one song and dance remix more yet.
X-Structure - The Future (2011)
Comment: X-Structure, a quartet from the Republic of South Africa is back with their brand new one. Similarly to their previous album (The Past) it is drawn upon the time category and used to shimmer like an iceberg in the sunshine or brown, sunburned landscape. By being massive, and a little bit mystical, the album represents the vision of electronic Africa, because of below those soothing, mostly majestic synth layers are deeply buried different shapes and patterns of the Black continent. Chill and alert.
11/12/2011
Echoes - Echoes (2009)
Comment: a gritty set of instrumental post-rock compositions from St Louis, Missouri, USA. Furthermore, epic, monumental guitar works (which include lots of changes in timbre texture and dynamics or providing lofy, dark-hued droning below the other layers) are sometimes mixed up with airy found sounds and the telling oscillations of hum to create a lush vision of rock music or on the other side constitue an interim compartment to bridge post-rock and ambient into a new path and bewitching ambience. Indeed, it is far away from being just a sequent (boring) post-rock publication. In a word, it is one of the best guitar-based releases ever heard.
Sara Santos - Vacu Sessions 20 ( 2011)
/Guitar ambient, Sound art, Experimental rock, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Noise/
Comment: massive, abrasive guitar seaways and slapping drums are up here to dominate throughout the 37-minute session. Crashing, ingurgitating and crushing noise enlightened with some atmospherical layers coming out from it/revolving around it. In fact, having no certain idea how to entitle it exactly - is it sound art or a sort of cutting edge noise rock a la the Lightning Bolt? Never mind, first of all, Sara Santos` work reminds of Tore Elgarøy`s whilom opus The Sound Of The Sun (2001, Rune Grammofon) and Glenn Branca`s guitar noise-drenched symphonies. And it makes you smile tonight.
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