Exihibition Poland and the Helmut Orchestra - Like All The Leaders (2011)

Paragrafo

9.1

/Avant-garde, Martial industrial, Spoken word, Experimentalism, Dark ambient, Illbient, Neoclassical, Chamber music, Ambient drone, Musique concrète/

Comment: as so characteristic instance due to the aesthetical platform of the Italy-based Paragrafo Records, this issue comprises deliberately vanguard-ish progressions made up of the snippets of spoken word (more concretely, Parts of Speech), martial industrial-relied brooding epicness, glooming but dirty ambient droning, chamber-soaked or even jazz-esque bits and minutiae, however, all these tendencies are infiltrated with naturalistic shades and dust. Indeed, despite of many elements within it the issue is solidly produced, having neither shortfalls nor deficiences.

B.R.O - Etudes EP (2008)

B.R.O

9.5

/Nu jazz, Free jazz, Acid jazz, Cool jazz, Crossover, Experimental, Improvised music/

Comment: B.R.O is a Polish musical group which appeared to the world in 2008 by releasing Etudes, their 6-track debut issue. More detailly, by any means, the release is highly intriguing because of blending old and modern, burbly and soothing - traditional jazz standards/the whiffs of Miles-esque trumpet are enlaced with acid jazz-indueced programmed beats and noise-inflected glimpses in between. The enterprise will be ended up with an exertion based on the ridges of afrobeat/funk - once again, it is obviously the best solution for finishing the issue. All in all, the album is astonishing at any angles. It enters top 10 regarding the favourite jazz albums of mine.

Younnat - Duct (2007)

Bump Foot
Planear
Lastfm

9.3

/Poptronica, Easy Listening, Electronic pop, Retrodelica, Organic electronica, Lounge pop, Alternative, Chill out, Electro-indie/

Comment: if you are intended to search for poignant kind of loung/easy listening then Oleg Serdyuk aka Younnat`s music is one of the most reliable candidates for it. Duct was Serdyuk`s debut release (before he was known as the keyboard player in the line-up of Lюk (or Lyuk) from Kharkiv, Ukraine) issued both on Bump Foot, and Planear Records. More profoundly, you can enjoy enormously catchy surfing on retrodelic harmonies and frequent rotation of motives which at times resemble another slavic group, Messer Für Frau Müller, though, Younnat used to be unprovided with black humor. Anyway, the concluding track Djedai Arkadyi seems to exploit Los Kjarkas`s Llorando se fue (which was popularized by a cover of Kaoma, called Lambada).

Gevolt - Tshiribim Tshiribom

The Gifted Children - Montgomery Blue Ash (2011)

TGC
Bandcamp

9.2

/Alternative pop/rock, Art rock, Soft rock/

Comment: The Gifted Children, a Buffalo/Rochester-rooted project. combines literate art rock, profound soft pop and catchy dance vibes and grooves on a 4-track EP. Recently there was reviewed a TGC`s Christmas compilation at RMH which was truly compelling and ethralling, however, displaying the band`s ability to manipulate with an vast array of different genres and enormous conciseness. Though, it is not surprising for an ensemble at all who has issued 5 long players and approximately 15 EPs during a period of 16 years. They need much more to be sung.

Pretty Ugly - Wine Cellar Elephants (2011)

CLLCT

9.2

/Experimental electronica, Indietronica, Experimental indie, Alternative, Leftfield/

Comment: Pretty Ugly is a project from Calgary, Alberta, Canada who offers up a pair of tracks. The self-titled opening is to have showed up clumsy beats tightly enlaced with the undercurrents (or is it above it?) of skipping electronica. The darling of mine is another notch, called Enrutcon, which observes a type of dashing indie music through broken electro glasses. The extraordinary element from within it are undulating radiowaves fluttering incessantly back and forth. Suggestive and eminent undoubtedly.

Telafonica - Morpheme EP (2006)

Electrolyt
Lastfm
Telafonica

9.3

/Electro-indie, Leftfield, Alternative, Indietronica, Experimental indie/

Comment: behind Sydney, Australia-based Telafonica are Adrian Elmer, David Hughes, and Marcella Hughes. (Adrian Elmer, for instance, is at the moment more known as a prolific reviewer at Cyclic Defrost, one of the coolest webzines all around the world). However, 6 years ago Telafonica functioned as a combo mixing up bouncy yet mesmerizing electro beats with slowly evolving indie scaffolds which are infiltrated with somewhat sound, hirsuit layers. After many laps on it you can admit all these 5 tracks are on the ball. A classic (whose longer version is available at Bandcamp).

Emilie Lund - Something Is Eating Me

Crimewaves - Eighteenth (2010)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Chillwave, Glo-fi, Dreamwave, Alternative, Post-pop, Poptronica, Electronic pop/

Comment: at first, it is said that Crimewaves is the result of a mixture of boredom, musical desire, and an obsession with sonic textures. Indeed, it may be that the most optimal place to enjoy the Las Vegas-based project would be siiting in armchair. Such a lazy yet blissed-out soundscape outreaches the boundaries of styles and genres, running across the fields of dreams and fiction. More detailly, these 6 notches are made up of the exploitation of reverie-soaked guitars, beatific keyboards, and some clicking in-between waking up and bringing the listener back to the real world.

Yeyo Moroder - Yeyo Moroder (2006)

Umor Rex

9.4

/Krautrock, Lo-fi, Psychedelia, Crossover, Avant-rock, Experimental indie, Experimental rock, Psych-folk/

Comment: The Mexican Gerardo Monsivais aka Yeyo Moroder`s 9-piece album is about how motorik can be twined with lo-fi-tinged folk and indie music in excellent way. More profoundly, all these offbeat repetitions, chopped-up effects, noisy yet spatial feedbacks are set up in a way to create a lopsided whirlpool involving the legacy of the likes of CAN, and Faust (though, the traces of the latter may be perceived even more). Furthermore, the listener can be a part of the fingerpicking of American Primitivism and shoegaze music. All in all, the result is excellent. The issue was released in 2006 on Umor Rex, an Mexican imprint.