Olympic Smoker – Noises And Echoes (2009)

Bypass

Jamendo

• Electronic music 
• Alternative dance 
• Breaks

Comment: undoubtedly this patch of 13 tracks is not an easy fare to be described although musically it is an enjoyable ride. Olympic Smoker is an artist from Russia who did start making music in the mid of the 00s. Lots of spiky rhythms, low frequencies and different tempos used to surface and fade away. Clangour is traded for silent progressions occasionally (even a couple of piano balladry stylised snippets are represented over there). I would like to call it post-breakbeat/post-techno/post-jungle music because it contains vague echoes of the aforementioned styles yet surpassing obviously their limits and thriving toward a wider comprehension. Some advantage of the album is a partial withdrawal at greater extent from the annoying contemporary post-dubstep and autotune/poptronic influenced (electronic) pop scene. There is no need to waste time on the aesthetics of softened artists and thin machines. All we need is more power, more jungle, more sweat, more pain, more sincerity, more natural feelings and organic consequences! We need more Barry Whites, Fausts, Sun Ras, Aphex Twins, Kraftwerks, Pulps, Joy Divisions, My Bloody Valentines, Scott Walkers, Johnny Cashes, CANs, The Smiths, Sonic Youths, Carpenters, Authechres, Lee Hazlewoods, Nina Simones, Diana Rosses! We need more obsessed characters and especially natured mavericks! The release is a part of the discography of Chinese imprint, Bypass.

Nick R 61 – Into The Mind (2019)

Fusion

• Noise-hop 
• Avant-garde 
• Art music 
• Field recording 
• Organic electronica 
• Experimentalism 
• Trip-hop 
• Avant-hop 
• Drone 
• Musique concrète 
• Lo-fi

Comment: as I assumed yesterday no one – neither Trump nor the Left – can save this world. In fact, it is truly childish to set up barricades against each other by the both sides. Something rational and viable can be found from views of the both sides. However, all the saving decisions must be done by us by ordinary people. Only we can bring to pass a silent and green revolution by minimizing our consumption and harmful habits. We shall have to get rid of our corrupted minds and beforehand of noises and wastes all of which is related to excessive consumption of materials and superficial informative content. We shall have to take responsibility for Universe, for us and all the living and yet unborn generations regarding humans and non-humans. Before to do it, before one could be able to comprehend the idea one should clear his/her mind. I guess we need some purgative practises to get out from this god-damned enclosed circle. Profound music examples may help us to deal with it. Most of music one can find from the charts is just a noise – it is not a thing on its own, it is just a product to fasten the aforementioned damned circle. Beyond that one's soul will be empty. Nick R 61's music is being free from this sin. It stimulates thinking of different aspects and spawns suggestive roundabouts in one's mind. Into the mind, isn't? He has been running an imprint called Fusion Netlabel and most of the catalogue is filled in with his own music. Regarding this it can be admitted his path has been long and the recent one is another step to accomplish his audible travel. Otherwise it is a perception of Hindustan and Nepal (the titles of the album are Kathmandau, Chomolungma, and Lhasa), a source of renewing spiritual practises for Westerners since the 60s (The Beatles, George Harrison, Angus MacLise). Nick R 61 employs samples from music/instruments of the abovementioned area and natural sounds to merge them with thick drumming of experimental hip-hop and trip-hop and less or more somber echoes and glowering drones. In a word, the short-running issue is highly poignant and mind-provoking.

[Teaser of the day] Julio y Agosto - La niebla y la autopista

• Indie folk
• Art folk
• Folk indie
• Alt-folk
• Psych-folk

Artist: Julio y Agosto

Release: La niebla y la autopista

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mad Grinder - Shore

• Doom rock
• Alternative metal
• Grunge
• Stoner rock

Artist: Mad Grinder

Release: Boris

Label: Deserto/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Us - Save Me

• Alternative pop/rock
• Indie pop/rock
• Dream pop

Artist: The Us

Release: The Sky Was Open

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Bloodkin - Her Blues

Southern Shelter

• Southern rock
• Americana
• Live
• Blues

Artist: Bloodkin

Release: Bloodkin Live at Flicker on 2019-05-16

Label: Southern Shelter/Live Music Archive

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Bone Conductors - Bermuda

Luvsound

• Art pop
• Singer-songwriter
• Post-pop
• Baroque pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: Bone Conductors

Release: Twitches

Label: Luvsound/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

Whalt Thisney – WalkThisWay (2019)

Batenim

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient 
• Art music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Piano music 
• Glitchtronica 
• Post-industrial

Comment: this handful of tracks is obviously one of the best albums I have heard in 2019 so far. Of course, it is not thoroughly innovative from scratch but the grid and substance and the ultimate impact of the album will haunt you even after you have finished dealing with it. The impact comes out from minutiae of the issue. Glitched-out abrasive microscopic noises sweeping around gentle slope of the piano built sonic mountains and exuberant atmospheric reverberations being steeped with dystopic industrial hisses do build up a magnificent whole. The listener can enjoy the immersive pace of the issue and easy impressionistic climaxes based on the aforementioned elements and fragile volatile piano chords as if a stunning example of meta polyphonic musical concept. It is a glorious part of the discography of Batenim Netlabel.

Globoscuro – 3+3+3 (2018)

Hortus Conclusus

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Acousmatic music 
• Experimentalism 
• Conceptual 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Art music

Comment: the Italian musician Globobscuro has been around for a while with his stunning industrial and experimental sounds to provide an alternative point of view about music and life in general. Emiliano Pietrini's recent work of a couple of tracks is inspired about semi-mythological philosopher Pythagoras and his fancy against the number 3. Additionally, Pythagoras did live in Syracuse, Sicily (recently a part of Italy). Musically it is highly arousing due to vociferous guitar noises, elliptic patterns of tape manipulation, hazy electro-acoustic litters at bottom and ennobling atmospheric hovers in between. Even if the guitars are the most prominent element within the whole it is not about rock music at all because the instruments are not treated in that way. On the other side, it is really beautiful in a rare sense of this term. Beauty is not a thing on its own it is a fertile and organic relation between the aforementioned characteristics even if they are uncanny, provoking and destructive. I like the industrial musicians because they used to be honest because of having no urge to provide aesthetical and economic compromises. Instead of it they have been providing measures to undermine general models and instructions with ultimate intention to liberate the energy of sole parts. The outing is a bit in the discography of Hortus Conclusus. And the cover print is amusing and deep at the same time.

i AM esper – My Withering Life (2012)

Fall Into Void Recs

• Post-rock 
• Art rock 
• Noise rock 
• Epic 
• Experimental rock 
• Avant-rock

Comment: the US-based artist's 4-notch outing is all about guitars, about clanging and shrieking yet elliptically running guitar patterns. The patterns used to repeat with a slight ambient touch. Of course, Justin Palmieri has been very prolific since 2009, since inception of the project so any minutiae and slightest details I guess is thoroughly developed and analysed. He uses clamorous noises and even melodic sequences atop other layers as if a (noise) poppy version of Glenn Branca's noise symphonies. Indeed, beauty can be perverse and ennobling at the same time – it is a radically indicative anthem for our recent miserable situation globally. Neither Trump nor the leftists can save us although there is up the brainless sort of messianism on both sides. There is no organic ideas and general consensus which could be promulgated within a society. There is no Jesus and Yeezus and will be no Jesus or Yeezus but just hunger and calamities can be seen to come in. All is torn apart. We are poisoning ourselves stepwise to death. Overpopulated Earth is the truly horrendous reality. At least at the same time we can listen to music and enjoy art like this. A party at the time of the plague.