Table Music Meeting - Wild Flower Way/Echo Holiday (2009)

MiMi

/Indie folk, Folktronica, Art folk, Folk indie, Post-folk, Mood music, Drone folk/

Comment: Recent Music Heroes is back again at a notch of the roster of Mimi Records. This time the Japanese collective Table Music Meeting`s 2-track/single issue provides many associations and creates a fine frame of mind. Although the release is described as “electronica” at the Portuguese imprint`s site it is half true at least only. Mostly it is guitar driven folk-tinged music which frequently draws upon droning, however, being saturated with minute yet delicate electronic and free and easy glockenspiel-based fringes. Between these two components you could perceive much air to be flitting around in thereby furnishing the exertion with the organic slide. By its intention the outing could be tagged as “chill out (chill folk?)” music because it calms down the listener providing him/her a virtuous buffer against daily problems he/she encounters. Additionally I recommend to listen to the likes of Oto, Nick Rivera, Plusplus, Possimiste, 2muchachos, Junya Nishimura, Koji Maruyama.

[Teaser of the day] Possimiste - Clockworkbird

Free Music Archive

• Art pop
• Chamber pop
• New Weird Estonia
• Baroque pop
• Post-folk
• Crossover
• Singer-songwriter
• Folktronica
• Leftfield pop
• Post pop

Artist: Possimiste

Release: Clockworkbird (single)

Label: Free Music Archive/Self-released

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Bloatsucher - Landcrabs

Candymind

• Drum and bass
• Breakcore
• IDM
• Techno
• Crossover

Artist: Bloatsucher

Release: The Discipline Of Fibers

Label: Candymind

Year: 2006

Land Of Grim – Welcome (2011)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

/Rhythmic noise, Experimentalism, Art music, Electronic music, Post-industrial, Avant-garde, Noise, Drone/

Comment: Torn Flesh Records is mostly known as an imprint for extreme metal/hardcore punk music though there are up some exceptions in the label`s discography. For instance, take on this 5-track issue of 34 minutes. The central track is Select The Victim which embraces 13 minutes to bring forth truly peculiar rhythmic sounds and pulsating electronics in the background as if being influenced partly by art music/Klang music. In fact, the experience is amplified by the following piece Pave The Path. Embrace The Grim chimes like an instance of deep house music produced by the noise musician. It does mean he does not give a fuck to his own principles. However, the other compositions are remarkably more brown noise fuelled, providing obscure synthesised drones with pervasive ominous glimmer and more angular rhythmic frequencies because at times there is no chance to describe it as the rhythmic ones. One could discern them barely as pulsations coming out from the nexus. In a word, Nikolai Gawin`s issue is an impressive insight into a world of uncompromised sounds and attitude. 

Mccandless – Surprisingly Coherent (2013)

Higher Living

/Post-rock, Indie rock, Alternative rock, Soft rock, Duyster/

Comment: although this handful of pieces starts off like a colourless, mediocre guitar issue the Brussels-based duo embarks on to develop slowly by adding new layers and motives into iterative guitar gears. At times it chimes like a daydreaming combo who has no hurry and obligation to move on somewhere. They just enjoy recent moments and being in creation. One could hear glockenspiel chords to accompany guitars and at Twirls synths will take a lead to conjure up more soft rock-alike milieu, however being intersected with soaring post-rock guitar keys. Ultimately it could be said it is a solid output which deserves its title. The issue is a part of the discography of Higher Living Records. 

[Teaser of the day] Keijo & Uton - Pyörivät Pilvet

OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM

• Forest folk
• New Weird Finland
• Improvised music
• Free folk
• Psych-folk
• Avant-blues
• Experimental folk
• Weird folk
• Avant-folk
• Space folk

Artist: Keijo

Artist: Uton

Release: Alun Ääniä

Label: OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM/Free Music Archive

Year: 2009

LFC – Vento Quente (2010)

pCloud

/Space rock, Experimental rock, Improvised music, Weird, Blues rock, Experimentalism, Avant-rock, Post-rock, Guitar ambient, Dada music/

Comment: it was approximately one moth ago when I commented on The Chopittos Arkestra`s album Zavanardi Rising. Vento Quente is another album by Brazilian experimentalist Lucas Pastina whose 6-track issue is ploughed with guitar riffs, heavy moaning and heavy, sustainable reverberations within somewhere of ambient soup. On the other side, it is not pure sort of spaced-out rock/ambient because one could perceive Dadaist approach in Pastina`s concept. At times the music is accentuated with concrete sounds and powerful slams. More profoundly, it sounds like an example of noticeably skewed blues and hard rock tinged music to have appeared in the 10s. Because of that the Brazilian`s album can be compared with the likes of Frank Zappa, Johnny Crewdson (the constant member behind such crazy combo as The Hirundu) and Captain Beefheart additionally to Tore Elgaroy, fydhws, Glenn Brown, Dolores and other contemporary guitar fuelled ambient musicians. By the way, LFC does mean Lucas Fucking Crazy. Indeed, he deserves his name utterly. It is a stunning issue.

Noisesurfer – ADSL (2012)

Ethno Indigo

Jamendo

Bandcamp

Noisesurfer

/Krautrock, Techno pop, Musique concrète, Experimental electronica, Dark ambient, Electronic music, Ambient techno, Space music, Tekno, Downtempo, Breakcore, Techno, Ambient pop/

Comment: Noisesurfer is the nom de plume of the Spaniard Joaquin Ronco aka Joachim Rontxelius who has issued a shitloads of releases so far, mostly on Ethno Indigo (established by him) and Jamendo. ADSL is a stunning miscellany of 15 tracks which used to fluctuate from picturesque downtempo vibes and alien emitted techno rhythms to more poppy techno threads to austere krautrock-alike modern rock structures to noise infused electronic propulsions. At times those techno rhythms are accelerated to reach the tekno level (for example, Timepaste). He exploits elements which may be fairly extremist ones in some circumstances (the use of digital noises, and glitched-out debris, and ghastly reverberations) but Joachim Rontxelius does exploit those ones in the way to create something recognizable and sublime yet poignant. In a word, those elements are subjected to formulas of bearable alternative pop/krautrock/electronic music. By kindred souls it could be compared with some Andrew Cauthen aka Take Pills Die`s releases and an early and mid-period Kraftwerk (the period when the legendary German combo started to drift from krautrock-fuelled vamps toward more electro and techno pop tunes, for instance, Ralf and Florian (1973); Autobahn (1974) ). In a nutshell, it is a solid issue which at times may sound like a retro one yet providing sustainable glimpses into the future. In a word, it is an instance of proper electronic music with and without cadences.

[Teaser of the day] ±±Ding±± - Breeeze

• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Soul-hop
• Trip-hop
• Seapunk
• Avant-hop
• Mood music
• Cinematic
• Breaks

Artist: ±±Ding±±

Release: Voodoo

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] medkit - Step Up To The End

Nenormalizm

• IDM
• Alternative
• Epic
• Electronic pop
• Mood music

Artist: medkit

Release: More Cold Than Warm

Label: Nenormalizm

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Nojoined - A Good Day For Gravity (2014)

aReW

Archive.org

/Ambient, Drone, Minimalism, Organic electronica, Kosmische Musik, Musique concrète/

Comment: behind these 39 minutes is David Priestley whose issue draws upon a minimal approach which consists of droning electronics, and undulating spaced-out synths on the top. At the first sight it might ring a little bit matted, however, the more one listens to it the more it will be opening up for you. Indeed, the core of these 6 pieces is dark-mattered and obscure though one can find out glimpses coming out of it and coming into it. For instance, you can discern the sounds of concrete music and Moog splattered rhythms. In general, it is the solid drift between dark ambient and Kosmische Musik.

Silverstone – Time Will Heal (2006)

Poni Republic

/Indietronica, Glitch pop, IDM, Ambient pop, Alternative, Techno pop/

Comment: Leon, Mexico-based artist and local indie music activist Edgar Medina (also known from such projects as The Rigor Mortis Experience, Transistor, Alejandro Morse) whose 4-bar issue is a cute example of glitched-out pop music. More profoundly, it is a shift between ambient pop and indie electronica and glitch-y techno rhythms though the artist exploits concrete sounds to moisten the melting pot. In general, the harmonies used to build up slowly and the rhythms do break off in a seamless way. It is a fine example of how a nice notch of pop music can be drawn on more sophisticated sonic structures. The issue is a part of the discography of an excellent Venezuela-based lo-fi/DIY music label, The Poni Republic (a dwelling place for the likes of Nuuro, Bi-log, Anton, Bright Star Regulus, American Chamber Music, Anois, Elaine, joiejoiejoie, Sappho, Sunday Parlours, Tropitek, Todosantos etc).

[Teaser of the day] Math - Earth

Poni Republic

• Indietronica
• Lo-fi
• Folktronica
• Organic electronica
• DIY
• Alternative pop

Artist: Math

Release: Nature

Label: Poni Republic

Year: 2006

Revolver Voltex – Kidnapping 019 (2015)

Kidnapping

/Deep techno, Experimental techno, Dub techno, Club dance, Remixes, Tech-house/

Comment: there are represented two superior techno tracks – Metro, and Difentance, and Raid System. Additionally to them there are represented four remixes of Raid System either. Indeed, both of them are fabulous progressions in rhythm and harmony. More concretely, by the pace the tracks have been managed in the way to conjure up the obsessive mood in the listener. Indeed, the listener can perceive dynamic flickers within the rhythmic structure. On the other side, it is replete with hypnotic vibes and spaced-out wobbles and spacey echoes thereby surfacing many changes in the harmony panel and thematic concept`s developments. In a nutshell, it is an example of magnificent techno being obviously inspired by the glorious Detroit techno tradition. However, Raid System used to deviate from the other basic tracks because of providing a more house driven glimpse to be added into the mix. Spigl`s remix is a more dub-drenched one, and Unit 115 Remix is based on clanging metallic drums and mutant vocal interventions. The issue is a part of the discography of the Argentina-based imprint Kidnapping.

[Teaser of the day] Tale Twist - Fthang Chant

Psicotropicodelia

• Hellektro
• Rhythmic noise
• Breakcore
• Drill and bass
• Power electronics
• Experimental electro

Artist: Tale Twist

Release: Path Collapse EP

Label: Psicotropicodelia

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Chuzausen - Mysterious Chip

Enoughrecords

• Electro pop
• Alternative pop
• Tracker music
• 8-bit
• Acid electro
• Electronic pop
• Chiptune

Artist: Chuzausen

Release: Dump Garden

Label: Enoughrecords

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Jamendo

PM Prometheus – Mitochondria (2009)

Jamendo

/Electronic pop, Alternative pop, Synth pop, Electro-indie, Electroclash/

Comment: although New York-based PM Prometheus` album Mitochondria put off with Point Your Tendrils to the Sky which draws on arousing synthesised progressions and piano chords at the edge thereby creating a sublime sense in the listener`s head the artist later takes on more rhythm-ridden developments and harshly discordant structures. Musically PM Prometheus gets obviously inspiration from the 80s synth-pop and electro-rock and the highlight of electroclash at the beginning of 00s.Although the artist complains at his Jamendo site that the album does not maintain consistency of recording quality and the listener has to make his/her volume adjustments I did not clash against the aforementioned shortage. The cover print of the album is appealing (there is a light that never goes out?). Additionally to the 9-track album Mitochondria there are represented the likes of Slumberland, and Lilt at Jamendo as well all of them have been released approximately 5-6 years ago. Ina word, it is a decent exertion.

Nordwiijk – Sailor Boy (2015)

Jeunesse Cosmique

Jeunesse Cosmique

/Electro-acoustic, Crossover, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Ambient, Abstract, Post-industrial, Noise, Jazz, Improvised music, Acousmatic music/

Comment: what to say about Montrèal? Montrèal Canadiens, my favourite sports team is having an amazing new season launch with 7 wins in a row. However, Montrèal is an important location for many substantial artists, mostly related to underground and avant-garde music scenes. Obviously two of the most well-known imprints are Constellation Records and Where Are My Records the focus of both of those labels are set up to promote mainly post-rock music. However, Jeunesse Cosmique is a cult label being endorsed among the indie music fans. Nordwiijk`s album Sailor Boy is a marked notch in the discography of the label because of embracing sounds which are puzzling enough to be firmly categorized yet this patchwork quilt of 10 tracks is enchanting enough to repeat it again and again in your music player. At times it is a sort of improvised and jazz music, at times it is a sort of electronic and noise music, at times electro-acoustic and chamber music, at times it is getting quite close to ambient/post-rock and post-industrial music. All these elements are organically merged with each other or juxtaposed against each other. I don`t know what exactly it is but is sounds in a very convincing way. Certainly it does have something of a parochial, Montrèal-alike flavour around it.

[Teaser of the day] Skyjelly - Move on 45

• Alternative pop
• Chillwave
• Dream pop
• Indie pop
• Glo-fi
• Electronic

Artist: Skyjelly

Release: Boston Not LA 4 (compilation)

Label: I Heart Noise

Year: 2015

Mart Avi – Humanista (2015)

Bandcamp

/Art pop, Alternative pop, Post-pop, Singer-songwriter, Ambient pop, Baroque pop, Leftfield pop, Chamber pop, Electronic pop, Avant-pop/

Comment: by listening to the Estonian musician Mart Avi`s brand new one Humanista I cannot decide whether it is manifestation of love against the human being or it is misanthropic suite on the contrary. Indeed, as human beings we are gifted with free will yet we are built up to have responsibility and duties toward Creator, other people, other species and environment. When we have obligation to fight against some of us? Are we enough powerful ones? When we are powerful and smart enough ones to flight to Mars? Does it have a special purpose or is it just a mere ego trip? When we are wise enough to reach capacity to fight against the most resilient and overwhelming diseases like glioblastoma multiforme and myeloma (still incurable diseases despite many past decades)? However, Humanista reflects upon the tension between fragility and brutality, tenderness and arrogance, inferiority and readiness to find out wondrous entities, between brainless hedonism and relaxing calmness. Musically it is harmless to give it the focus. Moreover, because of that it is the musicians` duty to exert it. In general, Avi`s music is solid and beautiful imbued with picturesque curves and bends, however, which frequently used to climax into weird sonic vamps and inconvenient emotions. In a word, the whole does embrace poignant, even sinister snarls which aesthetically share a quite similar path with such musicians as Scott Walker, David Sylvian, Billy Mackenzie. One might find out one of the most arousing songs composed in 2015 (Newman; V&B; Sanctuary Trek). It could be said it is entertaining and cautionary, it is exertion to stay within the pale and go out of orbit, to set out the balance between them. It is one of the most outstanding releases in 2015 so far.

[Teaser of the day] Univeria Zekt - Ourania

Free Music Archive

• Psych-rock
• Zeuhl
• Progressive rock
• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Cinematic
• Avant-rock
• Jazz rock
• RIO
• Avant-prog

Artist: Univeria Zekt 

Release: The Unnamables

Label: Golden Pavilion

Year: 1972

[Teaser of the day] Lee Noble - Moon Moth

• Drone pop
• Glo-fi
• Post-pop
• Dreamwave
• Psychedelic 
• Ambient pop
• Organcore
• Leftfield pop
• Hypnagogic pop

Artist: Lee Noble

Release: Un Look

Label: Patient Sounds

Year: 2015

Kulkija - Autio Valo (2009/2012)

OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM

Free Music Archive

/Drone folk, New Weird Finland, Psych-folk, Improvised music, Free folk, Psycho-acoustic, Weird folk, Experimental folk, Psychedelic folk, Forest folk, Avant-folk, Space folk, Post-industrial/

Comment: Autio Valo consists of two long-running, 10 minute compositions which can be considered a part of the forest folk, the Finnish counterpart of the New Weird folk movement. It starts off with sounds as if coming out of a Sabbath of the witches. Indeed, it is magical and ominous though it will soon dissipate its rays into the soil elsewhere. In general, it is a sultry drift between improvised music, restrained noise/industrial music and folk touch thereby having similarities with such avant-garde combos from Finland as Uton, Thuoom, Kemialliset Ystävät, and Tomutonttu. Furthermore, quite nearby stand such combos as Paavoharju, Violeta Päivänkakkara, Kuupuu, Lau Nau, Islaja, Kospel Zeithorn, Anaksimadros, Keijo, and Vierivä Viiksiportieeri. At times it chimes like a depiction of creating outer space by the Lord. The music is a thoroughgoing, knee-deep psychedelic ripple. Indeed, one can perceive moments where presumably material entities are being processed to the state to turn into the living one at the next moment. Indeed, it is both dizzy and magical to devour the listener. It is an amazing album at any point.

New Weird Australia – Vox (2011)

New Weird Australia

Bandcamp

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Noise, Electro-acoustic, Drone, Ambient, Minimalism/

Comment: by listening to this17-track issue on can admit “New Weird” does not mean “folk music” at all in some cases. This time the listener can enjoy vowel based experiments from Australia. You can be sure it is as mystical as crooked folk music used to be. More profoundly, the issue is imbued with minimally designed digital drones, spaced-out echoes, buried noises, metallic reverberations and of course, with looped vocals and few words as instruments. I guess this miscellany would be a sweet cake for those protagonists who like such artists as Iris Garrelfs, Maja Ratkje, Jaap Blonk, Michael Schiefel, Roomet Jakapi. However, there are represented such artists as Juarez, Ronnu Panda, Scissor Lock, Furchick, Rabbit Island, Sky Needle, Mosaic Mosaic, Alice Hui-Cheng, Major Napier, Donna Hewitt, Kucka, Holy Balm, Mimic Bass, Kusum Normoyle, Paul Heslin, Amanda Stewart, The Deadly Nightshades. These compositions are well-crafted ones though I suspect for most of these artists such a sort of concept has not been the most substantial one. In a word, New Weird Compilations used to always surprise with truly cutting-edge approach and touch. It is a great series of music gathered together across the Green Continent. Life is noise is art. Something like that.  

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Messy Bessie

Free Sample Zone

• Samplecore
• Plunderphonics
• Psychedelic
• Jazz
• Mood music
• Fusion
• Sampledelic
• Easy listening
• Funk

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Ecossaise

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Noblemo - Jade

• Modern classical
• Piano music
• New Age
• Mood music
• Easy listening

Artist: Noblemo

Release: Heart Of The Piano

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

Di Bos - Five episodes from Le garage hermetique (2011)

La bèl

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

/Experimentalism, Acousmatic music, Sampledelic, Crossover, Musique concrète, Improvised music, Jazz, Avant-garde/

Comment: let`s bring forth some the most marked remarks about this 5-track issue. It is highly fragmented and dissipated, the unity of it is destroyed at the first sight. However, it is being accomplished in a crafty way. So the listener must have no fear to slide into a possible schizophrenic world. It is just art, though truly fragmented one for your sake. One can hear hints at jazz and improvised music, at concrete and acousmatic music tendencies, at outsider/eccentric pop and electronic music explorations. It consists of short-running tracks most of which are permeated with an uncountable amount of turns and twists everywhere. In fact, if the listener is interested in creating the whole it her/his head then he/she has to listen to it many times in a row. Behind this project is Di Bos, who is also known due to heading great Italian imprint La bél with amazing folktronic/indietronic musician Elisa Luu.

Diropel – Yhnpivtr (2015)

Picpack

Archive.org

Bandcamp

/Ambient, Soundscape, Abstract, Space music, Dark ambient/

Comment: Diropel is a producer Santiago Gr from Montevideo, Uruguay also known because of his another project called Donovan Velvet. His 3-track issue is an organic amalgamation of glacial ice-alike reflections and profound sonic glimpses emitting from the outer space. It is thought-provoking and relaxing at the same time. For instance, listen to Wrwlf. However, the opening piece Leporidae is a different case because of being composed of noticeably more ominous sounds and echoes as if its initial sources to have come from the graveyard.  Indeed, the whole used to meander on human being`s fears and hopes. It is a delicate drift between those compartments. 

[Teaser of the day] Apache Viking - Sailboat

• Indie rock
• Alternative pop
• Dance rock
• New Wave
• Post-punk

Artist: Apache Viking

Release: Magic Dudes

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2015

Eskimeaux - I Am a Spiral (2010)

Mine All Mine

Archive.org

/Dream folk, Singer-songwriter, Epic. Experimental folk, Indie folk, Folktronica, New Weird America, Free folk, Alt-folk, Folk indie/

Comment: Eskimeaux is the project of New Yorker Gabrielle Smith whose 7-track issue chimes like a fairy tale. It has been produced in a silent and dreamy way though offering up many poignant moments within the consistent production. Indeed, I had to crank up the volume in a marked way. The listener can enjoy Smith`s daydreaming of more or less extended chords with addition of glitched-out noises which could reach something of a vertigo, and glockenspiel induced blissfulness broadening the borders of the listener`s psyche. Indeed, throughout this course the term “beauty” can be understood as an organic relation between contrasty or even striking elements. Since the appearance of noise music there has been an impellent force between noise and silence, between something and nothing (paradoxically, the nothing which seems to be existing nonetheless). However, School Lane chimes in a downrightly epic way. Ultimately it can be concluded it is fabulous in its restrainedness yet being rich in implication. Good things come in small packages.

[Teaser of the day] Cybered - Wild Tuba

Ektoplazm

• Tech-trance
• Mood music
• Psytrance
• Alternative dance
• Progressive trance

Artist: Cybered

Release: Acid Box

Label: Horns & Hoofs Entertainment/Ektoplazm 

Year: 2015

elephantknuckle - When the Screaming Stops, the Madness Begins... (2009)

Torn Flesh

/Grindcore, Electronic, Crossover, Deathcore, Goregrind/

Comment: it is a frantic mixture of heavy-weighted, metal-oriented styles though electronic music does have a noticeable impact on it. It is intense and sultry, providing dodges and hooks in different directions through speech and situation-indicative samples, manipulations of the radio dial, and sinister moaning and electronically loaded rhythms. At times it is calmed down though not being more rational the least bit. For instance, listen to Simple Simon, the first half of it consists of the screaming of a woman, the noise of a chainsaw, uncanny buried singing thereby conjuring a fairly weird, threatening sense which is very comparable with the most straightforward, slamming moments within it. Axis I - Dissociative Fugue starts off with pagan-alike whiffs of a flute which later will be amended with drilling electronic rhythms and riffs of synth-guitars. In a word, the result is truly thought-provoking.

[Teaser of the day] Transit - Maza

Lost Children

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Mood music

Artist: Transit

Release: Harmattan

Label: Lost Children

Year: 2006

Crashing Down From The Gravity - CDFTG2 (2013)

Ceramic

/Digital hardcore, Breakcore, Alternative dance, Techno, Hi-NRG, Aggrotech, Hardstyle, EBM/

Comment: by listening to this 5-bar issue one can say it is a contemporary, harsh dance album of digital era. It is full of hirsute and rigid synth progressions and rhythmic structures, respectively. Rhythmically it used to extend from hardstyle and EBM to drum and bass and hellektro explorations to calmer techno pads. In a word, energetically it is loaded with overwhelming static and poignant noises atop and beneath, on the right and left side. Those sonic blocks and bits used to fluctuate between getting out of focus and arrive at there again. Because of being replete with incessantly changeable rhythmic and harmonic fabric it needs remarkably more attention to touch its proper core. If one does it then she/he could perceive its greatness. The issue is a part of the Japanese imprint Ceramic Records.

[Teaser of the day] Cairo Braga - A Bola de Fogo

Elegant Elephant

• Soundtrack
• Ambient
• Conceptual
• Mood music
• Art music

Artist: Cairo Braga

Release: Música Original do Documentário: Prelado

Label: Elegant Elephant

Year: 2014

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Featherfin - Butterfly Girl EP (2015)

EardrumsPop

Bandcamp

/Baroque pop, Indie pop, Crossover, Electronica, Drone folk, Art folk, Alternative pop, Chamber pop, Folktronica, Indietronica, Dream pop/

Comment: Featherfin is an artist from Norway whose 5-track extended player Butterfly Girl on EardrumsPop/6-track issue at Bandcamp (with Featherfin`s own remix of one of those compositions) has been produced in the way to bring to the surface a wide range of musical influences from different areas and eras for your pleasure. One can hear picturesque folk tunes coming out of the 60`s Great Britain, for instance. On the other side, the issue does feature a distinctive, a languid and smacking mixed feel of music of the Scandinavian Peninsula/northern countries. Thirdly, it is certainly a contemporary suite – technically it was produced, mixed and composed on an iPad (of course, it is not so important!). The release involves many production tricks and conjuring electronic sounds between and around the organic instruments (the strings, and glockenspiel). In a word, it is a common example of substantial music being issued on Norway-based label EardrumsPop. Get it! 

[Teaser of the day] This Lonely Crowd - La Douleur Exquise

• Post-metal
• Metalgaze
• Experimental metal
• Trash metal
• Art metal
• No Wave
• Avant-metal

Artist: This Lonely Crowd

Release: Meraki 

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Camilo Franco - Minutos Antes De – EP (2014)

Sólo le Pido a Dior

/Experimental electronica, Techno pop, Mood music, IDM/

Comment: Camilo Franco is a musician from Buenos Aires, Argentina whose 3-track issue is a seamless drift between IDM-tinged electronic explorations and pop inflected vamp. Indeed, by listening to it one can perceive a posture and attitude being so characteristic to the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 00s being mostly related to the minimal techno/IDM scene of Continental Europe (mostly artists and labels related to Germany, and Austria). By listening to it at the moment it chimes like something of mood music – it used to meander slowly in between rhythmic and harmonic banks without rapid changes in sonic fabric and harmony. All those chord changes can be perceived markedly arousing a feeling of calm and an absence of agitation. Antes is an exception because it merges together climax fuelled voices of a man and woman thereby arousing sexual desire in the listener. On the other side, the aforementioned compartment is backed up by sublime synth chord progressions reminding of an early and mid-period Kraftwerk (which was less techno and electro-oriented). In a nutshell, it is a decent work. Find it out at the discography of Sólo le Pido a Dior Records.

[Teaser of the day] David Woodgett - Ripple

• Psych-rock
• Indie rock
• Angst rock
• Alternative rock
• Blues rock

Artist: David Woodgett

Release: Over The Ash Tree

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kaori Motoi - BGM

• J-pop
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• Shibuya-kei

Artist: Kaori Motoi

Release: Various Artists - plus one

Label: Ano(t)raks

Year: 2015

Alternative links:

Bandcamp

Ancient Lasers – You In The Future (2013)

Clinical Archives

Bandcamp

/Pomp rock, Electro-indie, Art pop, Alternative pop, Indie rock, Emo/

Comment: the Moscow-based imprint Clinical Archives is being known for releasing experimental, improvisational, mostly noisy electronic stuff in the first place. However, its discography extending above 500 issues to date embraces albums which could be considered to be a part of folk and indie music. For instance, I can remember for such artists as Dmyra, This Co., and Post Human Era. The 14-track album You In The Future could be added to the same compartment. It is built upon the intention to create emotionally overwhelming, bombastic pop rock album. On the other side, California, US-based musicians Daniel Anderson (aka Idiot Pilot) and Daniel Finfer (also known as a part of Post Human Era) exploit many electronic devices and electronic solutions to “deviate” from an average emo rock/pomp rock formula and exert their own concept. For instance, you can hear many programmed rhythms and digitally fuelled bugs in the combo`s sonic feedback and powerful outbursts. Lyrically the combo is to be about love, relational problems, and as if searching for boost to foster their self-belief. The favourite song of mine is The Way It Has To Be which could freely have been a teaser within some of Air`s albums (more apparently, at Talkie Walkie). In a word, the issue is a solid exertion.

Angry Norwegian - Grind Is the New Black (2015)

Torn Flesh

Bandcamp

/Grindcore, Hardcore, Sampledelic/

Comment: who is an angry Norwegian? Anders Breivik? Varg Vikernes? Someone else? In fact, this is the duo of Lane, and Ross from Michigan, USA whose 7-track issue is a hellish blend of burning guitar noodling, disorienting speech samples and tumultuous drumming over the mix. As a proper grindcore album used to be it is produced in the way to be properly tight having no gaps and all the air around it is burned off. Most of the tracks are at a length of 1 minute. Only Endohkneesha which is the hidden track on it has a length of almost 5 minutes (the Bandcamp version of the album does not contain it at all). In a word, let`s get this album and enjoy the slab of Vitamin G(rindcore) and H(ardcore).

[Teaser of the day] Brazzini - Meat, Sun, Thoughts

Far From Showbiz

• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Ambient noise
• Experimentalism
• Dark ambient
• Minimalism

Artist: Brazzini

Release: The Big Ear

Label: Far From Showbiz

Year: 2006

Etza Meisyara – Collapse (2010)

StoneAge

/Dream pop, Indie pop, Alternative pop, Lo-fi, DIY/

Comment: Etza Meisyara is a female indie popster from Indonesia whose track called Collapse takes the listener to a journey of soothing acoustic guitar chords and chopped-up rhythms and dreamy vowels on the top.  All of that used to result in the sublime harmony. The outing is a little bit clumsy, with an apparent angle of lo-fi aesthetic however, it is an intriguing issue from a region of Southeast Asia where producing indie music is being very popular amongst the youngsters for the last years. I can remember for such a site as SEA Indie (at the moment it is suspended though) which issued solid alternative pop music. The single is a part of the discography of StoneAge Records.

[Teaser of the day] K4MMERER - Sling Shield

• Deep house
• Chilltronica
• Crossover
• Mood music
• Electronica
• Chillout
• Alternative dance

Artist: K4MMERER

Release: Fairest Of Them All

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

German Error Message - To Carry Alongside (2011)

Bandcamp

/Indie folk, Anti-folk, DIY, Dream folk, Folk indie, Alt-folk, Drone folk, Singer-songwriter, Americana/

Comment: I can`t remember exactly for when I first met Paul Kintzing`s curated project. It might be I had first become acquainted with it through CLLCT, the glorious site for gathering up do-it-yourself/bedroom musicians across the USA and partly from worldwide either. Unfortunately this site has been down for a while. But I still hope it will be revived sometime. Indeed, the artist`s first issues had been issued in the ending part of the 00s, at the time CLLCT was blossoming and expanding. By listening to his sophomore release To Carry Alongside being relied on Bandcamp it can be said it is a solid issue because of involving intriguing yet highly sustainable compositions. The topic is about something of modern folk expansions where guitars and vocals are accentuated with different instruments, including keyboards and electronics. Kintzing is assisted by   Shelly Lites, and Joan Perez (singing), and Matthew Sigur (bass drums and singing) with regard to some pieces. The mood is restrained yet somehow festive (due to using semi-orchestrated strings, concrete sounds and expanding, subtle drones in the background). The issue includes a shitloads of great tracks from within the 12-track whole (at a length of 28 minutes only – this kind of shortness was quite symptomatic to many albums under CLLCT because embracing mostly singer-songwriter stuff/folk-based sound). Let`s get caught up in it.  

Mart Avi / Toshio Masuda - The Alley Through The Pillow

[Teaser of the day] Feast Of Violet - Chelsea Psychic

• Ambient rock
• Shoegazetronica
• Electronic
• Epic
• Space pop
• Dub rock
• Alternative pop
• Neo-psychedelia
• Dream pop
• Indie rock

Artist: Feast Of Violet

Release: Chelsea Psychic EP

Label: Bandcamp/Self-released

Year: 2013

Natant – Hyphenminus (2009)

MiMi

/IDM, Electronica, Breakcore, Musique concrète, Mood music, Modern classical, Crossover, Chilltronica/

Comment: this handful of tracks is composed of different stylistic aspects, however, sounding consequently like a suite for an art performance or puppet show in the art house or puppet theatre, respectively. For instance, Denentoshi has been spliced in the way to draw on rushed, angular beats which ultimately make up like an instance of breakbeat music, however, providing the backup for major piano chords. It might remind of Dave Keifer aka Cagey House`s aesthetic in a way. However, it the track does have a marked cinematic factor inside. The other tracks used to appear in more calm, laid-back mood allowing the listener to enjoy rainy Sunday morning. Anoxia involves a serene doo wop fuelled female vowel effect or ringing like the main theme from a soundtrack of the 60s/70s European motion movie (a la Caravelli, Paul Mauriat, Raymond Lefèvre and others). The title track takes on beeping synthesizer signals and coiling theme developments, however, creating enthralling, almost psychedelic contrast and feel of encompassing the whole. Ostsee crosses the sample of passing cars with light-hearted piano chords and snappy rhythms beneath. It is a great album by any means. 

[Teaser of the day] Wood Spider - Depraved Thickets

• Drone folk
• Post-folk
• Neo-psychedelia
• New Weird America
• Free folk
• World fusion
• Balkan brass

Artist: Wood Spider

Release: Decadence

Label: Birthquake Records 

Year: 2014

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