/Avant-garde,
Electro-acoustic, Crossover, Acousmatics, Post-rock, Experimental electronica, Glitchtronica,
Folktronica, Organic electronica/
9/29/2014
Morceaux d'Ekumen / Pieces of Ekumen (2006)
Cldscp – Menso Freakfolk (2010)
/Lo-fi, Freak folk, New
Weird Argentina, Cover, DIY, Primitronica, Toytronica, Weird folk, Trip-hop,
Free folk/
Comment: as the title expressively
suggests this 8-track issue is about freakiness and folk music, however, these
nouns and adjectives are closely related to each other. Additionally, the Argentinian-based
duo`s music used to incorporate yet many stylistic elements to create the
crunchy outcome. Andy and Leopo used to exploit a wide array of more or less
conventional instruments and concepts which extend from the utilisation of accordions,
ukuleles, basses, Casio Tonebank-series synths to toys, beat-boxing, abraded
electronica and few 8-bit music/video game snippets, and concrete music samples.
Very likeable is Leopo`s singing filled with gentle flickers and vulnerable
flutters. Beneath layers produced with the aforementioned instruments do throb skiddy
trip-hop paces. Unchained Melody is a
cover of Presley`s most famous song. By kindred souls the duo`s music can be
compared with the sonic aesthetics of the sisters Cassady. The result is
childish yet spiritedly conveyed.
9/27/2014
[Teaser of the day] DJ Quest - Time Off
- Digital soul
- Club dance
- Acid jazz
- Chill out
- Sampledelic
- Mood music
- Breaks
[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Ma Wa Nu Dogbe Me
- Plunderphonics
- Sampledelic
- Psychedelic
- Soul
- Afrofuturism
- World music
- Funk
- Alternative dance
Simone Schirru / Federico Eterno - Around Three Minutes Long Short-movie Songs (2013)
/Free jazz, Cool jazz, Modal
jazz, Film noir, Improvised noise, Experimentalism, Improvised music/
Comment: this collaboration
by two musicians of Italian heritage is all about an exquisite experience of
sloshing through jazz-y swamps. Indeed, the 30-minute session issued under the
wing of Moscow-based experimental records Clinical Archives used to show up
Shirru and Eterno`s continuous skilfulness to drift between scant
instrumentation and jaunty improvisation-filled snippets, still life-esque cool
jazz and more tumultuous modal jazz and free
jazz propulsion forces (especially demonstrated in a series of Videomenata). Furthermore, even curious
approach to (improvised) noise music is presented there now and then. Of
course, as the title suggest the listener cannot underestimate the importance
of recent concept – more concretely, it is film noir-esque and sneaky rather
than joyous and superficially diverting by its nature.
Vortex Rex – Live At OCCII (2012)
/Psychedelia, Alternative
rock, Post-punk, Live session, Indie rock, Experimental pop/
Comment: this handful of
pieces is an episode from the club night at Le Club Suburbia in Amsterdam in 11th
of March, 2008. In addition to Vortex Rex the night was filled with the likes of Adolf Butler, and Japanther (at least the event was conveyed on
the bill in this way). The Vienna, Austrian trio`s gig was furnished with vast
energy-loaded guitars, prominent acid-drenched keyboards and some flickering
electronics filling the background role for the singer`s manifesting singing reminiscent
a little bit Mark E Smith`s hacking appearance. On the other side, it does not mean that Vortex Rex is a copy of The Fall (Vortex Rex is more spaced-out, more acute through their convulsive dodges and propulsions). The gig scenario was based on
intense chord changes varied with more laid-back extensions in time, however,
concretely depending on the tracks. In a word, it was interesting first meeting
with this combo.
Wood Spider – Decadence (2014)
/Freak folk, Weird folk, New
Weird America, Indie folk, Psych-folk, Balkan folk, World music/
Comment: it is
problematic if not impossible to punctually categorise Decadence because of being immersed in providing a shitloads of hints,
reflections and tendencies. The NY residing Wood Spider`s music can be
classified into the New Weird America pigeonhole, however, the sextet`s music
used to be a little bit deviated considering an average example from the
movement. The main element to make difference on it is a fervent accordion
amongst the other instruments thereby adding Parisian street sounds and Balkan
folk facets to their soundscape. Additionally, dizzy gipsy-alike singing keeps another
interstice within it. However, the aforementioned elements are channelized in their own context and presented in a twisted,
burlesque mood. Although their aesthetics chimes mundanely it seems to be far
more than just the capacity of their premises. Indeed, their approach is too
artsy just to be a mere pub folk group. Fairly sympathetic are melancholic accordion-based
drones meanwhile counterbalancing a carnival-alike ambience. At such moments
Wood Spider`s chamber aesthetics come quite close to the likes of Beirut, Bark Cat Bark and
The Retuses, for instance. Overall, imagine as if Animal Collective performing at
a poppy Balkan music festival. It might be readily the band is laughing at it
all. Let`s live up to it!
9/25/2014
Recent Music Heroes Mixtape #11 (26.09.2014)
[Teaser of the day] Anteaters & The Women Who Love Them - Return To The Sea
- Psych-folk
- Free folk
- Weird folk
- Music hall
- Psych-rock
- New Weird America
- Freak folk
Release: The Sea is Blind
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2009
Data Snow – Phases (2014)
/Dark ambient, Abstract,
Dystopbient, Sound art, Epic, Illbient, Soundscapes, Minimalism, Microtonal,
Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Post-industrial/
Comment: although Data
Snow`s 8-piece issue is formally starkly bleak and austere its emotional
impression renders into something remarkably significant and striking. The
project`s thoroughly experimental approach emerges through minimally composed
music predominantly providing hints at classical music, ambient soundscapes,
and minimal music. Indeed, some sonic details are barely within earshot and the
narrative used to meander without blasts or crackles. However, all the
aforementioned stylistic firmaments are contaminated with evil-sounding stances
and visages. Instead of outer space it is rather music composed for the
visualization of abandoned junkyards and nuclear test territories foreboding an
impending catastrophe coming out of there. Ironically, it is fairly beatific
and arching composition at its core. Less is more...imaginative.
He Is Watching Over Us - In Defence Of Disgusting Animals (2007)
/Indie folk, Folktronica,
Lo-fi, Post-rock, Epic, Art folk, New Weird Sweden/
Comment: He Is Watching
Over Us is the Swedish duo of Erik Gröndahl, and Johan Mattson whose 8-track
instrumental issue is a calmed down, even picturesque moving with the
assistance of predominantly restrained arpeggios and organically successive
chords enchanted from acoustic and electric guitars which are varicoloured with
droning organs and diffuse electronic explorations, and some anthemic orchestrated
panoramas on the top. Stylistically the whole has been managed in a way to
meander between post-rock-ish ambition, folktronic crispiness, and lo-fi-esque
cosiness. The collective`s melancholic nature is very appropriate for listening
to it recently, as the summer has passed by and the autumn just began. Least
but not last - there is no disgusting animals, though, animals need to be
protected more with strenuous activity.
Ambient Fabric – Messages (2010)
/Noise, Glitchtronica, Sound art, Ambient, Organic electronica, Experimental techno, Abstract, Industrial electronica, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica/
Comment: Oystein Jorgensen
aka Ambient Fabric`s 4-track issue is an intriguing one due to experiments with
considered noises, ambient sounds and incisive crackles, hisses and pops and
innumerable combinations of them. The Norwegian`s album embarks on with a modest
noise attack stepwise rendering into digital raining intensively pouring out from
every slots and orifices. The other tracks are similarly sustainable as well,
though, providing a little different aesthetics through abrasive manipulation
and wide-screen panoramas blended sonic alchemy, glitch-y techno de-construction
and exposing into something truly uncanny, and restrained but menacing
industrial-tinged electronic insights. At times Jorgensen`s handwriting is
fairly minimal dwelling somewhere in between Kaffe Matthews and Pan Sonic. In a
nutshell, the whole is overwhelming in its dystopic, machine-centred
appearance.
9/23/2014
[Teaser of the day] Taras Bul'ba - My Name Is Igor
- Psych-rock
- Space rock
- Math rock
- Avant-rock
- Progressive rock
- Experimental rock
Rho - Breathing Through the Liquid System (2011)
- Indietronica
- Post-pop
- Alternative pop
- Post-rock
- Mood music
Comment: Rho`s issue is
stripped down on No Source, an US-based record label for post-rock, electronic
indie and folk music. Indeed, this
bundle of 9 instrumental pieces incorporates the sublime guitar chords and
strumming, fine-feeling yet majestically produced electronic orchestrations and
shuffled, skiddy rhythmic expressions. Sometimes guitar chords will be reversed
or dragged through sonic filters to create more otherworldly ambience for the
listener sake. On the other side, notwithstanding predominant experimental
nature of creating compositions by Steve Setzepfandt and Josh Wittman the album
is highly accessible thanks to repetitive motives and attention-getting
melodic/harmonic drives throughout. By the way, Breathing Through the Liquid System was the duo`s debut album.
Enjoy it.
Dick Richards - Costa Daurada EP (2003
- Tech-house
- Minimal techno
- Microhouse
- Dub techno
- Experimental techno
- Remix
Comment: this 4-piece EP
reveals Dick Richards stark affinity for microscopic rhythmic frequencies and
suggestive harmonies within the realm of house, techno, and dub (in a lesser
extent, though). In spite of it the issue`s characteristics seem often to be
way too far away from rhythms of the ordinary club lounge venue. It is rather
cerebral music consecrated by Detroit techno tradition and the artists` aesthetics
of such labels as Minus, Kompakt and Basic Channel. Indeed, every pop, crackle
and slit on it seems to be thorougavaldamahly controlled and managed to constitute
such a soothing gem. Indeed, though 11 years has passed, Costa Daurada EP echoes still in a refreshing way. The release was
done available by cult dance music label Thinner.
Dadalù – Internet (2013)
- Hip-hop
- Electro-hop
- Electro pop
- Digital soul
- Alternative dance
- Reggae-hop
- Urban music
- Remixes
9/20/2014
[Teaser of the day] AKA Gelbart - Please Please Me
- Psych-rock
- Cover
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelia
- Rockabilly
I Heart Noise - Boston Not LA Vol. 3 (2014)
- No Wave
- College rock
- Experimental indie
- Electro-rock
- Jazz
- Leftfield
- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Psych-rock
- Trip-hop
- Dada music
- Crossover
- Indietronica
- Hip-hop
Comment: recently I
reviewed a Boston residing combo, The Mules`s two-track issue 7`` of combining punk rock with No Wave
and experimental rock aesthetics. This compilation of 9 tracks is also about
Boston, more profoundly, about Boston-based label I Heart Noise related
artists. There are represented such artists as School For Robots, Skyjelly,
Mary Casiello, Con-Tex, Andrew Geano, Twink, The Sound Down Cellar, Valentin Price,
and Jenova 7. The base of the miscellany is mostly of how to splice rock music with
electronic or noise music experiments and electro propulsions. Of course, there
are some exceptions either – for instance, Mary Casiello`s I Can't Be Tamed (Songs I Hate) is more jazz and improvised music
oriented composition. Jenova`s Heroin For
Dilla is an insight into a sublime instrumental hip-hop/trip-hop rhythm
world. The most challenging and uncanny track comes out from Con-Tex whose Somehow There You Are is composed of warped
electronic and acoustic instruments layering which in turn is laced with crawling
dada-near vocal manifestation. In the aggregate, it is a fabulous and
varicoloured sum of spellbinding and charismatic compositions worth to be
enjoyed and get appreciated.
Tinyfolk and Wisdom Tooth - Oxbow Woods (2010
- New Weird America
- Free folk
- Folk indie
- Dream folk
- Singer-songwriter
- Indie folk
Comment: I guess everyone who was involved in music provided by such great platform as it was Bloomington, Indiana-based CLLCT knows Tinyfolk very well. Tinyfolk was
one of the most beloved artists under the umbrella. He later moved on from
Bloomington to Chicago, Illinois where he formed an indie rock collective,
Pretty Swans with his fiancée Megan Lamb aka Iron Like Nylon, and Jim L aka
James Eric aka Garden On A Trampoline. Oxbow
Woods is the artist`s probably the most grown-up issue due well balanced
line between suggestive melodies and harmonies and fabulously setup
instruments. At times the acoustic chords are underscored with fine-feeling
electronic progressions and whiffs. Wisdow Tooth is an artist who was
previously totally unknown to me (I suspect it might be Meghan Lamb). However,
her singing manner is frequently fairly bewildering corkscrewing against austere
ukulele based backgrounds and some sonic effects here and there. In true, there
are no shortages in changing moods and tempos. These good old days will be remembered with nostalgia.
Koona - Strakey 7´´ (2012)
- Club dance
- Grime
- Trap
- Dubstep
- Breakstep
Comment: Koona is a producer
from Corigliano d'Otranto, Italy whose 2-track issue does echo tendencies from contemporary
United Kingdom related club scene. Indeed, Koona offers up different pace
tissues from dubstep and trap to breakstep and grime which in turn is a far
echo of Jamaican rhythms. Nevertheless, these modern labels do not make music
by themselves anyway. Fortunately Koona`s music is sophisticated and successful
due
crispy rhythmic patterns and sublime synth hovers above – the first track Underwater crafts cadences and brooding
bubbles meandering along a zig-zag path. The latter piece Starkey seems to be slightly more exuberant thanks to gliding yet
darkly glossy synth layers. However, the rhythmic structure is similarly
disturbingly intriguing in a good sense. This thought and dance-provoking issue
is released on Ephedrina whose discography is vast and worth to get discovered
9/19/2014
[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - The Lucid Dreamer
- New Weird Britain
- Free folk
- Space folk
- Weird folk
- Live session
- Improvised music
- Noise
- Experimentalism
- Avant-folk
Jon Hans - Natives in a Foreign Land (2011)
- Indie folk
- Alt-folk
- Americana
- Folk indie
- Singer-songwriter
Comment: Jon Hans is a
singer-songwriter from Los Angeles, California, USA whose 4-track issue was produced in Nashville,
Tennessee, United States, the main centre of folk music worldwide. It is an
exuberant and up-to-date folk issue where bold string, drumming and singing
layers are accentuated with anthemic synthesised whiffs, jew harp chords and interesting
stereo effects. In a nutshell, it is simultaneously traditions following and
opened for new approaches and touches. And all is balanced very well. There is
also represented a ballad, Your Great To
Me. Everyone who likes contemporary alt-folk/Americana it is thought for
you. Superb release.
Joxfield ProjeX - Mystery Of The Stoned Pharaoh
- Psychedelia
- Kosmische Musik
- Avant-rock
- Experimentalism
- Psych-rock
- Avant-garde
- Experimental rock
- Avant-prog
- RIO
- Alternative dance
- Electronic
Comment: this 7-track issue ending up at 24.16 is the fourth notch in a series of 9 Joxfield ProjeX archives EP. The compositions are edited from the Swedish combo`s three disc album The Pond Intermezzo initially released in 2006. Mystery Of The Stoned Pharaoh proves that every album by the duo of Oax and Yan is a proper event. Brooding compositions based on hirsute and complicated guitar chords or noisy outcomes are varied with more danceable, volatile endeavours and warped modifications of electronic music and vocals and knee-deep psychedelic insights. I recommend listen to their late albums as well, most of them were issued on Clinical Archives and some of them by the duo themselves. By the way, on some publications they collaborated with such luminaries as Kenji Siratori, Geoff Leigh, and Pat Mastoletto. Enjoy this psychedelic carnival of sounds and impulses.
9/18/2014
Girlhood – Remixes (2009)
- Electronic pop
- Mashup
- Remixes
- Alternative dance
Comment: girlhood is an
obscure producer from Arizona, USA who has issued a shitloads of albums by
himself (all the releases can be found from Bandcamp) or under now defunct
CLLCT. This 8-track issue consists of mash-up mongrels and remixes. The result
is shimmering, burbly and dashing. The rhythms are corkscrewed against glitch-y
noises, warped vocal samples and sheeny synth layering, at times manipulated
with pitches and pace speeds to pump up the trunk with good mood hormones. In a
word, it sounds like a dance party presented by a debonair DJ.
9/17/2014
Cybernetika – Solar Nexus (2014)
- Breakbeat
- Jungle
- Psybient
- Alternative dance
- Crossover
- Kosmische Musik
- Chill out
Comment: in fact, what we
could expect from an album which is entitled Solar Nexus? Indeed, it should filled with sci-fi sounds, to be at
least a little bit murky and brooding, full of spacey sounds and feeling of
alienation as if you have been a space traveller very far from the Earth for
years. If we consider another fact the recording platform comes out from
Ektoplasm that it should point out psychedelic trance and ambient blended
sounds. In reality, all these elements are represented on Cybernetika`s 9-track
release, though, it is probably the most stormy issue I have ever heard under
Ektoplasm. More profoundly, those glacial-alike reflections and imposing sonar
beams and trance-y rhythms and melodic layers are tightly mixed up with
breakbeat and jungle-near cadences and corroded robot voices. In a word,
Cybernetika`s recent sound emits nearly like an antidote for traditional New
Age music. Last but not least – the coverprint is eye-catching. Recommended.
Robel Synthesia – Midnight Polaroids (2012)
- Downtempo
- New Age
- Modern classical
- Ambient
- Alternative dance
- Organic electronica
- Mood music
Comment: Robel Synthesia
says on his Soundcloud site that he is a musician and sketcher loving all
things related to the arts. He used to approach music with the intent of
creating something visually alluring. More concretely, if to hint at the titles
of the album you could get proof for it – Autumn
Window, Painting Skies and Stars,
Light Echoes, Taxi Colours. Musically his 7-notch issue is a tight blend of
melancholic yet pushy piano chords, picturesque synth hovers, repetitive
samples and laidback rhythms and some barely audible concrete sound snippets.
Stylistically it is problematic to categorize it in a proper way. It might be
not wrong to say the album reflects upon contemporary New Age music tendencies,
though, the opening track Streetlamp
Waves is properly dance rhythms driven and Polaroids extends to ambient music heights. Of course, it is not
the predominant issue regarding the release and other albums either. It is
essential that it is a fairly stunning and convincing outcome. Artsy touch is
everywhere.
The Mules – s/t 7`` (2014)
- Avant-punk
- Experimental rock
- Art punk
- Post-punk
- Alternative rock
- Electro-punk
- Psychedelia
- Garage rock
- Blues
Comment: The Mules was a combo from Boston, Massachusetts, USA existing in the beginning/mid of the 00s.
Unfortunately they had no fortune to become famous, though, they had potential
for it. Maybe did not have, though, because of its uncompromising nature. Free
Music Archive issued a couple of tracks exposing the collective`s playful and
frenetic world. It is music containing elements from the traditions of No Wave
movement, experimental rock, blues, Garage rock, psychedelic music, and noise
pop. Mandatory for all those people who don`t like dull and exhaustive rock
music but love
9/15/2014
Mount Eerie Live at Hurricane Creek Grange on 2011-10-05 (2011)
- Americana
- Indie folk
- Alt-folk
- Singer-songwriter
- Folk indie
- Live recording
- Psych-folk
- Dream folk
Comment: by listening to
this 10-track live session can admit that Phil Elverum aka The Microphones aka
Mount Eerie is one of the most imaginative artists showing up his depth and capability
to change every song into an event. The live is performed with another musician,
Julia (who is also from Anacortes, DC Washington, USA) who obviously plays keyboards
invoking fabulous synthesised panoramas and virtuous whiffs out of them.
However, in centre Elverum`s guitar and doleful singing are elliptically
shaped, at times being stretched out and sometimes more stripped down in his
trajectory. The result is a quite short-running but bewitching Americana/indie
folk footmark.
Irrlicht Project – Accident (2007)
- Acid electronica
- Speedcore
- Chiptune
- Breakcore
- Digital hardcore
- Gabber
- Crossover
- Chiptune
- Leftfield
Comment: Irrlicht
Project is a producer from Berlin, Germany being active since 2004. He has
issued 8 albums so far, the last one Dat
Fuzz this year. Accident
consists of more or less danceable music because of its very hectic nature
veering into different genres and manipulating with diverse stylistic elements
and playing with rhythm patterns and at different speeds and pitches. Of
course, he recruits mostly electronic sounds though some samples and
progressions seem to be acoustic and concrete sounds either. At times the
artist`s intention sounds very straightforward, at times more flickering or
spaced-out. The mood is changeable throughout these 12 compositions. In a word,
the artist does not underestimate the listener thereby we don`t give him a heck
as well.
The Sugarcubes - 20th Anniversary Concert, Laugardalshöll (2006)
- Alternative rock
- Indie pop
- Psychedelic rock
- Live recording
Comment: this monumental
live gig includes 20 tracks within 84 minutes by the legendary Icelandic
alternative group The Sugarcubes who was the first Icelandic group reached
international acclaim from the island. The collective and Bjork`s solo career
might indirectly open the way for other Icelandic groups either – Sigur Ros,
mùm, Mugison, Amiina if to name just some combos among others. Although I am
being Bjork`s fan for many years my experiences with The Sugarcubes have not
been so pleasant and expected because of chiming a little bit monotonous and
annoying in longer time spans. On the other side, Kukl was far
more sympathetic thanks to their more avant-garde approach in music and
concept. In true, in live they used to sound remarkably better mostly due to
Bjork and Einar Örn Benediktsson`s erratic and tumultuous singing manner. The
best moment is presented in midway – A Day
Called Zero is a gravity-lost jazz-y wonder.
9/13/2014
[Teaser of the day] Wreck And Reference - Abhorrence
Avant-metal
Experimental metal
Avant-garde
Angst metal
Screamo
Post-metal
Apocalyptic
Noise metal
Asalto al Parque Zoológico – Sonnen (2014)
- Shoegaze
- Dream pop
- Alternative rock
- Noise rock
Comment: to listen to
this couple of tracks incessantly from one hour to another it is a very
ecstatic, even purgative listening experience. If to draw parallels to another
South American combo, This Lonely Crowd`s album An Endless Moment Everyday All The Time (2010, Sinewave) sounded blatantly close to Smashing
Pumpkins. In parallel, The Buenos Aires-based combo can sound even more into
the hard core of My Bloody Valentine than the legendary shoegaze pioneers
themselves wanted to do it (you obviously understand what I mean). Indeed,
those exuberant layers of dream-drenched noise cascades do not give you a hoot
wrapping the subject up into a hazy, velvety sonic Shangri-la where she/he
loses a sense of gravity. AAPZ`s concept may be considered partially as a noise
rock example either but it is remarkably more dulcet and sexy than most of pop
acts to put together.
Guerrinha - De Rosinha Falsificado Para Feirinhas Cinzentas (Os Pequenos Tijolos Da House Music) (2012)
- Big beat
- Club dance
- Techno
- Alternative dance
Comment: If you guess 12 minutes might be way too
long to produce one dance-tinged track than you go definitely wrong regarding
the recent issue. More profoundly, Guerrinha`s 2-track outlet is a beast of
corkscrewing techno and viable big beat mixed rhythms varicoloured with some
vowel samples and key chords to result in a highly spellbinding and hypnotic
grower. These simultaneously brisk and hesychastic cadences penchant for
serotonin-releasing key changes remind me a little bit of Italo disco vibes
either. Sometimes it is assumed dance music is somewhat superficial and cursory
kind of music, however, if it is relaxing and psychedelic does it mean that it
is somehow more draffy or rubbish in comparison with Pink Floyd or Spacemen 3,
for instance? It sounds almost like a club version of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Listen to it and you will
adore it.
Ashtray Navigations - Sweet Iron Feet (2009)
- Drone
- Sound-art
- Experimental rock
- Avant-garde
- Post-psychedelic electronica
- Experimentalism
- No Wave
- New Weird Britain
Comment: there can be difference
between Ashtray Navigations, and Ashtray Navigations regarding Phil Todd headed
combo`s releases. There is no wonder because of having issued a shitloads of
avant-whatever albums since the beginning of 90s. Todd and his variable collaborators`
music can be considered a sort of alchemy of manipulated sounds which may be
even more influential than the listener is able to guess. For instance, you could
remember for the first two albums of
Animal Collective where they partially carry out similar minimalistic psychedelic
experiments and more sophisticated noise-tinged explorations (or so-called
post-psychedelic electronica) thereby bringing forth such sort of music to a
wider audience. More concretely, this 4-track issue is a positive sonic mayhem filled
with whistling feedback noises, arty guitar chord layering, amplified hisses and
bubbly synth drones, however, there aforementioned elements are just tools to
experiment with them on different intensities and interactions throughout this
31-minute course. It might be considered an improvised music album, though, it
seems that every element brought forth on it is thoroughly analysed and elaborated.
By the way, the album will be finished off in a majestic manner (The Whirlpool What Was). By kindred
souls I recommend listen to such artists as Kemialliset Ystävat, Glenn Branca,
Vibracathedral Orchestra, fydhws, Tore Elgaroy.
9/11/2014
[Teaser of the day] Postcode - Pound
- Post-punk
- Alternative rock
- Shoegaze
- Alternative dance
Artist: Postcode
Release: Zebratronic
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2014
EDASI – Orphaned Demons Follow Your Destiny (2014)
- Black noise
- Avant-garde
- Psycho-acoustic
- Crust punk
- Blackgaze
- Experimentalism
- Improvised music
- Non-music
Comment: when I was a little
boy while lying in bed I was a little bit frightened by trying to listen to
buzzing frequencies behind the silence and dreaming up ghouls coming out of the
wall. This 11-track issue by Mihkel Kleis aka Ratkiller aka EDASI recalls me a
little bit these early days in my life. Although his music can be considered an
exemplar of black noise the album incorporates elements from disparate genres.
Fairly sympathetic are those barely audible but effectively resulting sampled
particles, occult speech and burked screams-ritual evocations and pulsating
synth repetitions among tight layering. Kleis also used to recruit quite
uncommon sounds in the context of such kind of music – for instance,
melodica-driven explorations in one composition. An important part of the issue
is the relation between insistent, besotted noise walls and elements coming out
of it. Moreover, it is all about of how a sonic particle or snippet is contingent
on the total amount of these particles, and conversely. The final track Outro and partially Intro are more concretely influenced by My Bloody Valentine`s beatific
noise aesthetics. Call it architectural approach to create black noise music.
In a word, it will take care of your soul.
Delhotel Records: Club Comfort Remezclado (2009)
- Indietronica
- Alternative pop
- Leftfield
- Remixes
- Electro pop
- Alternative dance
- Robot pop
- Electronic pop
- Chillwave
Comment: this set of 10
tracks involves both original and remixed ones and some reworks, however, all
thoroughly rotating around Roberto Polo and Sergio Treviño aka Dj Queco`s
collaborative project Club Comfort. Club Comfort`s original sound is based upon
gritty indie electronic, volatile chillwave tuning, and electro pop progressions,
however, remix makers will make it amenable to more diverse electro pop and
stroboscope-lighted and autotuned robot pop touch. The remixers on it are the
collective`s label mates like Mersey Hot Springs, DJ Golonsh, Sr. Amable, White
Ninja, and Mockingbird. The issue includes enough of highlights to be deemed a top
notch. The godfather of the release is an excellent Mexican experimental
pop/rock label, Delhotel Records.
J.-P. CARON – ST (2014)
- Drone
- Dark ambient
- Ambient noise
- Epic
- Ambient drone
- Dystopbient
- Avant-garde
- Minimalism
- Microtonal
- Experimentalism
Comment: J.-P. Caron`s recent
composition may chime like a graveyard or junk yard antidote to La Monte
Young`s music. Just kidding. However, there are represented a couple of tracks
first of them extend a little longer than one hour and another is approximately
about 14 minutes. Despite their imbalance in format the nature is similar –
taut, bleak drones run ceaselessly over endless landscapes full of ghostly
shades and penumbras. Inspite of the minimal or even microtonal concept the
emotion flourishes throughout and will be full-fledged at the end. Of course,
such kind of minimally produced music is tractable by illusions thereby the
listener cannot be very sure where is laid down the border between reality and
fiction. The blurred vision is actually its strength and source of
vitality.
9/09/2014
[Teaser of the day] Erissoma - Emotional Landslid
- Glitch ambient
- Glitchtronica
- Soundscapes
- Experimental electronica
- Abstract
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Microtonal
Cagey House – Second Sight (2014)
- Free folk
- Weird folk
- Avant-folk
- New Weird America
- Sampledelic
- Sound collage
- Art music
Comment: Baltimore-native
Dave Keifer aka Cagey House has been a prolific artist issuing at least 15
albums since 1999. He is one of the main icons regarding netlabel based music.
A shitloads of records who had issued his outcomes are already disappeared but
he is still here to delight the listener. When he started to produce his sound
it was formally electronic but chimed rather like a modern indie rock combo.
However, later on his sound veered into a haunting, more experimental approach
full of haunting art house-y milieus and uncanny but catchy melodies atop.
However, his previous one Pistol Vest
(2010, MAV 0kbps) seemed to be a turn forward due to more psychedelic and
improvised set-ups and soundscapes. And now Second Sight denotes another dodge in stylistic approach of him.
Keifer sound has never been so folk-ish, though, heavily, blended with sonic
effects, orchestrated glides, warped ambiences, 60 and 70s-alike female singing
manner and vowel experiments and electronic ploys. Moreover, his recent
approach is minimalistic relied on a couple of sonic algorithms and repetitive,
even a little bit autistic samples regarding most of these 7 compositions
represented over here. Fairly amusing and relaxing.
AKA Gelbart – Please Please Me (2013)
- Conceptual
- Space Age
- Exotica pop
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelic
- Rockabilly
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Electronic
- Art rock
- Psychobilly
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