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Comment: these 29 blithesome minutes can be compared with Tangerine Dream and the so-called Berlin School though the US-based Macroform`s 10-track issue chimes like a diluted, watery version of it. Yet it does not mean it is weaker than the German legends` music. It is not the point at all. More concretely, it does mean some similar sonic templates and stylistic elements are adopted to be added to the sonic body yet its emotive side is arranged quite differently. For sure, it is a blithesome journey through outer space, across the meadow, on one`s serene mood. For instance, listen to Verbatim which is thoroughly awesome. In fact, at times some compositions go onto a more thoughtful strip yet the sensation is bittersweet rather than sad and somehow depressive I would dare to say. Obviously Tedious is the most "invasive" track on it with those readily bouncy rhythmic parts and thumping bass drumming at bottom. There is no hesitation to have any doubts about the experience and skills by Macroform. With the recent one you can listen to 43 albums by him at Jamendo (since 2006).

9/07/2018

Go Genre Everything – Ghost Dreamer (2014)

Munchiegohilarious

Krautrock
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimental rock
Psych-rock
Avant-rock
Trance rock
Space rock
Doom rock
Drone rock

Comment: this album of 9 tracks is about those human beings who used to imagine the ghosts really exist and because of that they also can be considered ghosts. Actually the combo can also be considered a phantom band because it is quite hard to discover some definitive information about them. First of all, the Australian Go Genre Everything used to exclusively release their sound under the domestic imprint Munchiegohilarious (you can find out approximately 10 releases from within). Formally it is a skewed release because 4 tracks are longer than 13 minutes and the rest of 5 tracks each of them used to be shorter than a span of 6 minutes. However, musically these 85 minutes are going to alter your mind due to those knee-deep psychedelic improvisations, and hirsute noisy soundscapes with such graters as haphazard, free-form drumming, dada-alike speech sound, didgeridoo-induced drones, loopy guitar-driven walls, lycanthropic growling and howling. If it seems to be wild and setting you free at the same time, then something it is still inside you you will have not cut primordial natural roots yet. The predominant rhythmic pattern of the issue is thick and groovy as if providing a dance-appealed material for the doom, space and krautrock-septic geeks. Hypnotic and baneful. More profoundly, killing boring feelings and tedious life aspects. All in all, it is overcoming and diving you potty in a positive sense. It may involve even more – it can be depicted as a pilgrimage through the purgatory where the intention and the ambience do encounter and interact with one another. Or a process of exorcism. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of AXXONN, Circle Of Lebanon (both artists come from Australia), TFSL, LFC, Outer Gods, Ashtray Navigations, Vibracathedral Orchestra. In fact, the album`s sound used to partially connect to even more artists, from the dada music and freaked-out acts to free jazz and drone music to noise and sound art. A cut above for sure.

9/06/2018

[Teaser of the day] The Hathaway Family Plot - Hitchhiking - Trucker with a Red Cap

Art pop
Electronic
Avant-pop
Post-classical
Leftfield
Experimental pop

Artist: The Hathaway Family Plot

Release: Bethlehem Is Burning

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Messy Clothes

Darkwave
Shoegaze
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Dream pop

Artist: Sun Devoured Earth

Release: Autumn Songs

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

9/05/2018

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - Girls We Know

Shoegaze
Alternative rock
Noise pop
Indie rock
Nugaze

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: Mauve

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Töfie - Geislun

Dream pop
Alternative pop
Electronic
Indie
Synthwave
Art pop
Indietronica

Artist: Töfie

Release: From Earth LP

Label: Linge

Year: 2018

1g0g – Quiet Cube (2010)

Drill

Live session
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Sound art
Dark ambient
Musique concrète
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Drone
Ambient

Comment: this bunch of 53 minutes is an old recording from a Butoh theatre (Japanese dance theatre) in Sankt Peterburg, Russia taped in 2008. Undoubtedly it is an intriguing, adventorous issue though the very first minutes of it are needed to get into the point of it. In fact, what is the core and intention of this issue? How much the volume knob should be cranked up? Actually there are hidden many points into it to be found out by the listener. First of all, one can hear iterative patterns coming over your head in an enchanting way. It embarks on with a pattern of the repetitive ringing of church bells by representing it in a way to connect the mundane and heavenly aspect. There is up glitched-out debris, there are represented sounds reminding of the scrapes of metal, sometimes you can hear fascinating drones and murmuring and hectic short wave radios and mind-altering spoken words (in Finnish) which started to live their own life which later will be replaced stepwise by autumnal, a bit caliginous drone ambient and then in turn by splashing watery sounds and spatial female singing. However, the pace of the album continues to be the same – hypnotically iterative. The more you listen to it the more this magnificent world by Gosha Solntsev (a part of the art combo Noises Of Russia) opens up inside your spiritual and mental cerebral centre. The great issue is a part of the discography of Drill Records, and Haze Records (unfortunately I could not find out the link of the latter one anymore).

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9/09/2018

[Teaser of the day] Albert Negredo - Paradona

9/08/2018

[Teaser of the day] Empirical Evidence - Socialism

[Teaser of the day] Ant GM - Restborg

Macroform – Spacious (2018)