Stephen Briggs – Earthbound (2018)

Sucu Music

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• Art music 
• Guitar ambient 
• Space rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Mood music 
• Improvised music

Comment: Stephen Briggs used to create a swarm of seven compositions which can be compared with such artists as Gaetano Fontanazza, and Drew Miller, for instance. They are artists who employ their guitars in a way to create meditative soundscapes and enchanting phases of mood. All these artists come from very remote areas related to each other yet their music is comprehensive in a sense. By listening to this issue one could think of it as if it were created by employing electronic devices like synths as well yet it is not so (the same I was thinking mistakenly of the sound of Gaetano Fontanazza). Stephen Briggs employs different sort of technical approaches to brush and vamp up his sound, for instance, by moving chords back and forth and by extending particular chords into the droning and manipulations through phase changes. A main feature is to push electric guitar induced chords are through reverb laden ambiances. Mostly it is illustrated through light-hearted timbres though at times one can hear more ominous threads to disturb the mix. Emotionally the result is adeptly loaded. The spellbinding release is a part of the discography of Sucu Music.

[Teaser of the day] Praveen - Only To Make Ammends

Sutemos

• Indietronica
• Ambient 
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Praveen

Release: Various Artists - Intelligent Toys 4 

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Elektrobi - Biba

Far From Showbiz

• Electronic music
• Spoken word
• Electro
• Micronoise
• Synth-pop

Artist: Elektrobi

Release: 1+1

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2005

Kalouv – Sky Swimmer (2011)

Sinewave

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• Post-rock 
• Epic 
• Art rock 
• Ambient rock 
• Yacht rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Funk rock 
• Crossover
• Indie rock
• Alternative rock

Comment: this 7-track outing is a debut album by the Brazilian ensemble Kalouv being released on a Brazil imprint, Sinewave (which has been a fine platform for providing a review about a part of the Brazilian experimental rock scene). These 36 minutes build up an arousing listening experience veering away from propulsive yet caressing guitar chords and funky yacht rock-alike gears to dizzy crescendos and lofty ambient rock sweeping to intense progressive rock noodling. It is a simultaneous play with the format and timbre, with the mood and self-expression. Actually the great cover print of this release used to embrace all of that in a fine way. Sea, sun, and a fine, light-hearted mood in overall. Great music by any means.

asdfhg. – Örvæntið ekki! (2018)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Drone pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Glitch pop 
• Chamber pop 
• IDM 
• Organcore

Comment: by listening to this 6-notch release it reminds me of those days approximately 15 years ago I had been listening to mùm's first albums as Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is OK, and Finally We Are No One. In comparison to the mùm's albums one may discern even more layers coming from within it – beyond glitched-out techno rhythms, subtle drone pop waves, suggestive singing in Icelandish one can enjoy more or less synthetic orchestrations, and acerbic ambient rotations. In fact, I do not need any comparisons because it used to meander now and then. It is absolutely over there and everywhere in my ears. It is beauty reflecting back from the blue and white mingled icebergs which in turn reflect back the light of Aurora Borealis. From one channel to the other one to set up an alternative sonic parade. The feeling redeems it. Yeah, it feels organic although it is synthetic. Organically synthetic. Undoubtedly one of the most enchanting albums being released in 2018. It is a way of ideal pop of how it should be represented for.

[Teaser of the day] Xpurm - Duita

Soft Phase

• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical
• Piano music
• Mood music
• Art music

Artist: Xpurm 

Release: Prumx  

Label: Soft Phase

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Belly

Textural Healing

• Experimental electronica
• Micronoise
• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Abstract
• Avant-electronica

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Uinua

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Akiba Jonze - Nit d`Hivern

• Alternative pop
• Post-pop
• Dream pop
• Art pop
• Indie pop 

Artist: Akiba Jonze

Release: Nit d`Hivern

Label: Mothermantra

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Tont - Suutra

• Electronic music
• Dark ambient
• Spoken word
• Crossover
• Ethnotronica
• New Age
• Ambient

Artist: Tont

Release: Vaba vesi

Label: Trash Can Dance/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - I Had The Same Nightmare

• Guitar ambient
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Breakbeat
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Indietronica
• Experimental rock
• Art rock

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: When You Find Me, I`ll Be Gone

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018