- Improvised music
- Space rock
- Avant-garde
- Noise
- Experimentalism
- Ambient
4/24/2016
Obasquiat and Dancing Deadlips in Free Sonic Explorations – Urban Astronauts (2016)
4/23/2016
Martin Rach – Late Autumn Quartets (2016)
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Improvised noise
- New Weird Lithuania
- Electro-acoustic
- Ambient
- Drone
- Electronic music
Kria Brekkan – 2008-09-16 Lutheran Church (2008)
- New Weird Iceland
- Avant-pop
- Abstract,
- Dream pop
- Live session
- Post-pop
- Singer-songwriter
- Experimental pop
- Art pop
- Folktronica
Astma – Moscow / Istanbul (2011)
- Live session
- Noise
- Electro-acoustic
- Electronic music
- Freeformfreakout
- Noise rock
- Avant-garde
- Psych-rock
- Improvised music
- No Wave
- Experimentalism
- Non-music
- Crust punk
Comment: The presocratic
Greek philosopher Heraclitus said once that there is no possibility to step
into the one and the same river twice. All around us and within us used to be
in permanent flux, all is changing around and within us consistently. I guess
the same can be said about the Russian duo Astma consisting of Alexei Borisov
(also known from such groups as Volga, Notshoi Prospekt and many other projects
and collaborations), and Olga Nosova (Motherfathers). Indeed, there are up some
similar points between the two live gigs in their native Moscow and Istanbul
but in general in the form these sessions are built up slightly in different ways.
However, both of them involve interesting experiments with noise music,
improvised music, rock-oriented music, voices and electro-acoustic chips. There
are up some very intriguing sonic effects as if coming out from unknown or at
least extraordinary sources. The both gigs used to progress gradually and being
directed in the way to unleash catharsis punctually and poignantly. There one
could draw parallels with diverse movements such as free jazz, noise rock, No
Wave, crust punk, electronic music. In a word, let's listen to these
mind-boggling sessions from different places worldwide.
The Day Of Extinction – Mutually Assured Destruction (2010)
- Black metal
- Symphonic black metal
- Trash metal
- Funeral metal
Comment: First of all, by
seeing the title of this 3-track issue the first thought of mine was it was
either a case of blackened metal or goregrind because having hints at
misanthropy and destruction. Indeed, the opening track Black Sunrise in the mp3 player of mine is
based on the fast churning of instruments supported by massive symphonic
synthesisers and hissing feedback. The base used to be appealingly iterative
just providing one loop from start to finish. It could be said it transcends
its stylistic borders in an elegant way. The following track is In Loving
Memory... where the tempo is decelerated and accelerated in different
layers at the same time. Furthermore, later on, the composition will be adorned
with bold yet slowed-down piano chords and an exquisite orchestrated whiff. The
final piece is the self-titled one similarly to the first track being fast
running yet demonstrating some tones lowered downward and on the other side
there are up massively bumpy riffs and ridges thereby coming into trash metal
altogether. In a word, it is a fabulous issue by any metal and conceptual standards.
The Shining Men – Interlude Music EP (2010)
- Techno
- Lo-fi
- Electro
- Tech-house
Comment: Undoubtedly it is a
challenging outing because of representing some styles with unconventional
sonorous appearances and corroded sonic frequencies. More profoundly, electro,
techno and tech-house vibes have been emerged by exploiting low-end bits and
rough, bumpy rhythmic patterns. It is fairly impressive to hear obsessive mood
in some tracks (Girl Passion,
for instance). At times the artist follows cues of the minimalism though doing
it in a small scale (Goodbye Birds). Despite its unconventional
appearance the result used to be on the top by its quality.
Artifact of Skulls - Artifact of Skulls - I (2016)
- Speed metal
- Death metal
- Hardcore
- Crust punk
Comment: Oh
yeah, it's great delight to listen to such a sort of metal music wherein
exuberant, dark hued energy through the interplay of bumpy guitars and bass and
jolting drums will result in pummelling against your bourgeois mentality to get
it out of your rotten, decayed head. Stylistically it is an amusing blend of
death metal, crust punk, and speed metal. The more you listen to this bunch of
five tracks the more you could perceive it like it was thought to be a tribute
to deceased Lemmy Kilmister. The more you listen to it the more it seems to be
spatially appealing in addition to some groovy elements. With regard to Lemmy
the issue chimes like a Hawkwind without synthesisers. On the other side, it is
very sympathetic to see the minimal aesthetic of the combo (the track titles
are denoted with the Rome numbers only; the cover print is depicted as
black-white). The issue is a part of the discography of Torn Flesh Records.
Great and purging work for sure.
4/16/2016
Chuzausen – Dump Garden (2015)
- Electro pop
- 8-bit
- Ambient trance
- Breakcore
- Electronic pop
- Mood music
- Tracker music
- Alternative
Comment: this
11-notch album chimes like a rusty mood music issue where low-end, 8-bit
frequency based rhythms do vary with more bold and thudding rhythmic patterns.
All these cadences are adorned with catchy melody and harmony threads where one
could perceive even the 80s electro disco and house vibes (at Not House, for instance). Not House is followed by Out Smarted which is a fabulous blend of
folk, hip-hop and 70s electro pop a la a late Kraftwerk. The next track People is about catchy warped synth
lines and heavily stomping electro rhythms which are imbued with exquisite
sonic debris and a vowel iteration. The opening tracks Are We Digital, and Duck+Cover
remind a little bit of the Orb`s ambient trance opus Orblivion (1997, Island) which makes me immediately psyched. The
more you listen to this issue by the Madrid, Spain-based mastermind Chuzausen
the more you perceive his poppy yet not self-indulgent potential which could be
a case of ideal pop in certain circumstances. The whole is organic and witty – all these
elements which are treated over there are the delicate ones and they are
expertly mixed up with each other. Fairly great indeed.
4/14/2016
[Teaser of the day] Ivan Black - Waves Of Insomnia
- Ambient
- Soundscape
- Electronic music
- Space music
- Epic
- Ambient drone
Artist: Ivan Black
Release: The Stillness
Label: Petroglyph
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Florian Wahl - Just Like That
- Hip-hop
- Screwed & Chopped
- Conceptual
- Breaks
- Sampledelic
- Urban music
- Rap
Artist: Florian Wahl
Release: Miley Matrix
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2013
|sistra| - All My Friends Were Dead (2011)
- Indie pop/rock
- Electronic
- Alternative pop/rock
- Dream pop
- Live
- Art rock
Comment: there
are represented three pieces altogether By Russian combo |sistra| which used to
reveal the ensemble`s exquisite manner to produce sounds – sparse yet poignant
instrumentation is bound to high-pitched singing which emotionally provide a
pre-eminent dagger ultimately. Indeed, the singing is a very amusing element
within it providing different threads due to exploiting female-male mixed
dreamy voices with a slightly elliptic trajectory which used to chime and chirp
in an unconventional manner. Because of this it sounds in a familiar and
unknown way this creates a welcome tension in the listener. Because of this one
could enjoy indie music which does not follow an average indie pop formula.
There are the guitars to be represented but they seem somehow to be treated or
pulled out of the blend sometimes. It is very ok for this case. One could even
say it is an example of dream pop produced and rehearsed in vacuum. By the way,
one of those songs Tiny Boat is
performed live. In a word, it is a solid indie glimpse under BFW Recordings.
4/13/2016
Shinobu – 10 Thermidor (2015)
- Power pop
- Alternative pop/rock
- College rock
- Indie pop/rock
- Art rock
Comment: The
Californian, US-based Shinobu is a meritorious quintet whose 11-track issue
used to mostly drift between college rock and power pop elements which frequently
are superimposed or blended into each other. More profoundly, it does mean
their song structures are built up quite straightforwardly and the combo`s
lyrics is about anxiety, haunting past, and warped reality. The favourite
tracks of mine are those where the band decided to abandon usual verse-chorus
form and develop into extraordinary ways. For instance, at Hell Screens the track starts off with hirsute, thrusting guitars
being quite similar to an angular, math rock exploration. And it is very sympathetic
to listen to the somehow elliptical and swaying chorus at the rear part of the
song. Jokes is a great punk song with
appropriate, nihilistic energy which always used to make sense. The most
favourite of mine is Melbourne Cup
which embarks on by reminding of Albarn & Coxon`s (Blur) songwriting but
which will finish off being awash with permanent echo and delay effects thereby
magnifying the whole effect. In a word, the album as a whole experience is solid
and enjoyable.
4/12/2016
[Teaser of the day] Decktonic - BGM
- Electronic music
- Robot pop
- Breaks
- Synthwave
- Electro pop
- Alternative
Artist: Decktonic
Release: Marble Life/BGM
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
Yo La Tengo – 2015-10-10 Kings Theatre (2015)
- Indie pop/rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Slowcore
- Covers
- Americana
- Sadcore
- Live session
Comment: by listening to this 24-track live gig by
legendary Hoboken, US-based indie purveyors Yo La Tengo I would like to share some
moments which emerge from their conception and music. Firstly, YLT is a
thoroughly American combo which used to play principally country music though
with a different, introverted posture. They are indie nerds who not dare to
present their music loudly. However, it seems to be the protective pose of
theirs which eventually contributes to their idiosyncratic image. Of course,
these words could only be said about their live sessions which are absent with
studio trickery and synthesised and psychedelic sound creation. Secondly, they
prove again to be champions of the cover songs. There they convey their own
versions of songs by the likes of The Cure, Minutemen, Lovin` Spoonful, Gene
Clark, Special Pillow, The Scene Is Now, and Cat Stevens. In a word, their
session is highly relaxing and enjoyable.
4/11/2016
[Teaser of the day] Big City Orchestra - Moya Drone
- Micronoise
- Avant-garde
- Acousmatic music
- Sound art
- Glitchtronica
- Ambient
- Experimentalism
- Ambient noise
- Psychoacoustic
- Ambient drone
Artist: Big City Orchestra
Release: Things Fall Down
Label: Lost Frog Productions
Year: 2005
Flying Species – The Second Flight (2015)
- Tekno
- Psytrance
- Electronic music
- Big beat
Comment: my first impression was not affirmative
altogether to this 10-track issue because I did not get it – it seemed to be an
average, even lacklustre (psy)trance, tekno and big beat tinged assortment. Later
on, however, those groovy synths, darker droning undercurrents and pummelling
rhythms started to swirl in my head throughout. It needs to get obsessively
focused upon that one could notice all those catchy odds and ends which in fact
provide additional points and extra value to the whole. Eventually one could
admit he/she feels himself/herself as if either having gathered in the middle
of a dance floor or searching for a cosy seat in his/her living room. It could
be compared with an obscure textbook which one needs to read many times to finally
understand it. The coverprint is truly nice. I guess it might be one of the most poppy issues under the
experimental imprint Murmure Intemporel.
4/10/2016
[Teaser of the day] Cocteau Twins - Circling Girl
- Alternative pop/rock
- Indie pop/rock
- Art pop
- Post-punk
- Dream pop
Artist: Cocteau Twins
Release: Circling Girl
Label: Self-released
Year: 1996
Helen Austin – A Few Songs of The Week (2011)
- Indie folk
- Singer-songwriter
- DIY
- Folk indie
- Americana
Comment: Helen Austin
decided to produce one song weekly since April 2009. After producing 51 tracks
altogether she picked up twice a portion of tracks to release them on a CD,
called Song Of The Week, and for new
mixes, respectively. Thereafter Lee Rosevere chose 11 compositions for Free
Music Archive from the rest of the whole. I have been listening to the issue for
the last three hours to have only good words to say about this portion because
of being so light-hearted, bucolic and pristine by its nature. All of that is
principally created by using only gentle guitar twanging and mild singing where
the artist craftily creates enchanting harmonies and chord sequences. Furthermore,
one could perceive even cinematic flow within the tracks. Lyrically it is about
to surface themes with a positive sense of life. Fairly nice.
4/09/2016
[Teaser of the day] Cortical - Chain Reaction
- RIO
- Avant-prog
- Progressive metal
- Progressive rock
- Math rock
- Ambient
- Technical metal
- Art rock
Artist: Cortical
Release: Entropy EP
Label: Yes No Wave
Year: 2015
4/08/2016
Dead Gum – Ghost Wise (2011)
- Ambient
- Drone
- Noise rock
- Experimentalism
- Post-rock
- Noise
- Drone rock
- Ambient rock
- Ambient noise
- Avant-garde
Comment: these
20 minutes within just one composition reveal quite different angles and facets
throughout the course. It starts off with low-end, buried frequencies to evolve
into more masculine and labyrinthine, noise-drenched droning where guitars are
being set up to be either static or ready to render its undulations in a
minimal manner. I guess it is not the most primary case to puzzle out is it
either more about experimental rock or ambient kind of music. I guess the
borders between the styles started to blur stepwise after outings by the likes
of Labradford, Slowdive, Flying Saucer Attack, Lycia, My Bloody Valentine. Later
on, of course, Montrèal, Canadian ambient/drone/micronoise juggernaut Tim
Hecker loaned some of the peripheral rock influences from these artists and
synthesised them into his own work. Dead Gum`s Ghost Wise is like a clockwork which has been managed in the way to
rev up with every minute. Indeed, in the middle part of the whole an abrasive,
chord-changing guitar and Oriental-alike vowel effects alongside will begin to
build on mind-boggling phantasmagorical threads and noisy terrains which almost
chime like a converse, “minus-signed” symphonic work. Indeed, its influence is
twofold – it is both aesthetically overwhelming and physically loud to
stimulate one`s forehead and brain. In a word, it must be heard and shared
being created by the Greek Panagiotis Spoulos.
[Teaser of the day] Alexei Rafiev & Alexei Borisov - Solntse i luna
- Avant-garde
- Dark wave
- Spoken word
- Glitchtronica
- Microtonal
- Experimentalism
Artist: Alexei Rafiev & Alexei Borisov
Release: Znamenie Presvjatoi Bogoroditsy
Label: Clinical Archives
Year: 2009
[Teaser of the day] Kevin Bryce - One Day In Spain
- Downtempo
- Chilltronica
- Folktronica
- Electronic music
- Mood music
Artist: Kevin Bryce
Release: Strange Mosaics
Label: Free Music Archive
Year: 2016
Giant Gutter From Outer Space - Set Adrift (2016)
- Math metal
- progressive metal
- Technical metal
- Stoner rock
- Crossover
- Experimental metal
Comment: the Curitiba, Brazil-based duo Giant Gutter
From Outer Space has been very active during 2016. Some days ago they released
their third issue Stumm under
Sinewave. Before it they issued Black
Bile (Promo), and before that Set
Adrift under Sinewave. This
handful of tracks contains many elements pulled out from different metal and
rock subdivisions. Instrumentally the punch is driven by heavy noodling of the
drums and bass guitar, though it is not the noodling in the classical sense of
rock and metal music. More profoundly, it does mean relentless key changes to
be appeared throughout the course, a shitloads of dodges and plunges between
stoner rock/metal, math rock, technical/progressive metal. I am quite provoked
about the question – might it be the sort of improvised music or all these
elements are previously rehearsed to be played punctually? The energy coming
out from these combinations is another case of appeal. More concretely, it is
not the energy of pop inflected music, it is quite murky, silent and glowering.
Thumbs up!
ANNISAxGAHAR – ANNISAxGAHAR (2011)
- Trashcore
- Punk rock
- Hardcore
Comment: recently
I had listened to an earlier radio show where one part was dedicated to music
and especially to earlier live recordings of a famous Estonian punk rock,
Psühhoterror. Similarly to the music of Psühhoterror the Indonesian
AnnisaxGahar`s 9-track issue consists of short-running tracks being laconic and
staggering in its nihilistic brutality and energetic chaos (however, those
vectors are not set up against each other which would have cancelled the
whole`s influence altogether – vice versa). More concretely, spasmodic guitars,
rattling drums, hi-hat rumbling and desperate singing is the very base of the
outing which would be the one and only vivid and viable appearance of punk
music by my personal opinion. In truth, the sort of classic punk is not about
the aesthetical side, it is about raw, destructive energy to come along in the
first place (differently from the movement of post-punk, for instance). Indeed,
shout your gutter out of your mouth! It to spot upon the titles of these songs
then those are at times funny, at times misanthropic and environmentalist-alike
(commit a suicide to save the planet; kill people to save the animals etc). And they do not care of the formal outlook of theirs - I have not sure at all what is the proper name of the issue and when it was actually released. In a word, it is a convincing punkish shit.
F.ck off! Sincerely.
4/06/2016
[Teaser of the day] Mojave 3 - Tomorrows Taken
- Indie folk
- Folk indie
- Indie pop
- Alternative pop
- Sadcore
- Live recording
Artist: Mojave 3
Release: Live at House of Blues on 1996-04-22
Label: Archive.org
Year; 1996
[Teaser of the day] Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
- Alternative rock
- Alternative dance
- Psychedelic rock
- Electro-rock
- Live recording
- Indie rock
- Indie dance
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Release: Live at The Arena on 1996-04-15
Label: Archive.org
Year: 1996
Ou Où – Ou Ng (2014)
- Ambient
- Post-rock
- Electro-acoustic
- Sound art
- Experimental rock
- Soundscapes
- Electronic music
- Musique concrète
- Ambient drone
- Epic
Comment: I
could remember for that I had had only good words about the St Louis, US-based
duo Ou Où`s previous issue Geocities.
The same could be assumed about Ou Ng
which is similarly overwhelming in its aesthetics and epic touch. Similarly to
Kinematik VKE`s Placental Drops From A
Gestating Sky (2014, Dystimbria) it is often composed of elemental sonic
“debris” (hisses, crackles, concrete sounds) which is magnified to get higher
sublime reach and provide new colours through its alchemic approach. Of course,
all the aforesaid elements are crossed with “ordinary” ambient developments and
droning undulations to drift between the known and the unknown to uphold strain
within compositions. In a nutshell, it is fabulous to spend a part of your life
with these 26 minutes.
Transfer_ERROR – Out_KILLER (2004)
- Industrial electro
- Lo-fi
- Ambient
- Abstract
- EBM
- Avant-garde
- Digital Hardcore
- Noise
- Rhythmic noise
- Psychedelic
- Drone
- Non music
- Art music
Comment: this bunch of 11 tracks starts off in my music
player with the composition 58286788
which used to run in the vein of digital hardcore in general though yet there
one could hear solitary brownish sonic shards and muddy audible glimpses giving
the way to many branches elsewhere. Indeed, I am not wrong at all to suggest
about the course of the release in that way. It is getting more obscure and
getting more stoned being imbued with abrasive noises, glitch-coated
atmospheric outputs, abstract noise imbued drones, ill-omened synth swirls and
filthy lead motives in the meantime. All of that is amplified by low-end bass
rumbles to jump in and out independently. On the other side, such composition
as IRL taps into EBM-alike rhythms
and ill fortune presaging buried chants, however, it might be the most “poppy”
on the whole. Alt_ctrl_DEL is the
favourite of mine because of somehow reminding of My Bloody Valentine`s outsider
track Touched on Loveless by its dichotomous structure. The more you listen to this
whole the more you will get involved in this frenetic buildup. It is very impressive
statement by the Frenchman from Marseille, Laurent Mekka.
4/05/2016
[Teaser of the day] Volga - Volga-mat`
- Ethnic music
- World music
- Electronic music
- Woldbeat
- Live recording
- Crossover
- Experimental electronica
Artist: Volga
Release: Kiasma
Label: Zeromoon
Year: 2004
[Teaser of the day] Arditi - Unbroken Tradition
- Martial industrial
- Neoclassical
- Post-industrial
- Dark ambient
- Illbient
- Soundscape
Artist: Arditi
Release: Samhainwork II
Label: Heathen Harvest
Year: 2013
[Teaser of the day] Turner Of Wheels - Metropolis Ant
- Experimental techno
- Avant-techno
- Ambient techno
- Glitch techno
- Kosmische Musik
- Abstract techno
Artist: Turner Of Wheels
Release: Misses The Cocktail Party
Label: Panospria/NoType
Year: 2004
[Teaser of the day] Manuele Atzeni - The Death With Modugno
- Acid jazz
- Nu jazz
- Chilltronica
- Breaks
- Film noir
- Trip-hop
- Crossover
Artist: Manuele Atzeni
Release: Sleepwalkers Walk Alone
Label: Upitup
Year: 2011
4/04/2016
[Teaser of the day] Flu - Cidra e Cigarrinho
- Psychedelic pop
- Hip-hop
- Folktronica
- Alternative pop
- Crossover
- Mood music
- Art pop
Artist: Flu
Release: No Flu do Mundo
Label: Bump Foot
Year: 2007
Kinematik VKE – Placental Drops From A Gestating Sky (2014)
- Illbient
- Post-industrial
- Avant-garde
- Dark ambient
- Sound art
- Ambient drone
- Epic
- Experimentalism
Comment: this issue could be shown off as a nice exemplar
of sound art music by considering that the artist exploits very intriguing
approaches and a huge swarm of samples to create the craved result. However,
Kinematik VKE as an artist has reached far more because these 20 minutes hide
buried emotions within the whole. It might be seen quite paradoxical while the
composition consists mainly of droning sounds which are at times adorned with
accidental noises and metallic strikes. Furthermore, all the soundscape is
highly intense and expertly accentuated. To explain the effect of the outing it
could be assumed it is not music something of the sort where the sounds merely
move on from a point A to a point B. Instead of it this used to develop
vertically where many elements either will be progressing simultaneously or
will be added at a certain time. It could be described as an example of
polyphonic music where the woodwind instruments and violins are jettisoned in
favour of abrasive hisses and murky threads which have been managed in the way
to trudge at different speeds to alter one`s state of mind. Ultimately it
chimes like an example of symphonic music, though an ominous sort of ambient
music. It is staggering by any means.
Kyland Holmes – Seattle Session (2011)
- Improvised music
- Art music
- Experimentalism
- Modern classical
- Piano music
- Post-classical
- Avant-garde
Comment: indeed, it is piano music and it is a kind of
improvised music. It is the sort of piano music which makes sense for me personally. It is
piano music where watery tonality and floating chords in permanent change used to become larger and smaller and begin to metamorphose differently. Silence meets intensity,
being meets nonexistence. Many states of mind will be cancelled and erased
throughout the course to create many new ones instead. It is like an artsy reflection of the human being`s life. It was a cosy session to
listen to it in the night.
4/03/2016
Kingdom Of The Holy Sun – Thirteen Eyes EP (2014)
- Indie rock
- Space rock
- Blues rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Trance rock
- Drone rock
- Alternative rock
Comment: with regard to the name of the Seattle-based
quintet references emerging out from it used to be quite strong and
fantasy-provoking. On the other side, music supports it entirely because of
being loud and aesthetically overwhelming. It could be said this 4-track EP is
an instance of genuine rock and roll whirlpool. It is rebellious and
boisterous. More profoundly, it consists of droning psychedelic frequencies a
la Spacemen 3, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Spiritualized, glowering, muddy blues energy and murky,
angular, deliberately rough post-punk spores a la Joy Division. Indeed, huge
energy is up there from beginning point to final seconds. The guitars are
massive, even epic on it, pummelling drums run on mid-tempo and it makes
immediately difference. I guess it makes sense with any weather. It is
undoubtedly mandatory. Holy Shit of the Holy Sun.
Rory Storm – Dot Matrix: Red (2014)
- Experimental techno
- Avant-techno
- Deep techno
- Abstract
- Dark ambient
Comment: Rory Storm`s handful of tracks wades into the
realm of techno music though an abstract one. Indeed, at times those rhythms
are minimized to get along with no feeling to simply develop on in an
intriguing way. More profoundly, machines are very excited to progress
obsessively on microscopic elements of rhythmic music. At times those elements
are magnified with dark ambient tinged terrains (containing ominous shades and
echoes within it) and even shoegaze and noise rock-alike interventions (for
instance, rd_04). In a nutshell, it could
be assumed the issue is obsessively enchanting. The outing is a part of the
discography of Tape Safe.
4/02/2016
Mount Eerie - Live at Drouthy Neebors on 2003-04-27
- Indie folk
- Americana
- Live recording
- Folk indie
- Singer-songwriter
Comment: this
14-track issue was recorded in the year Phil Elverum had jettisoned the name
The Microphones in favour of Mount Eerie. His music continued to be artsy
though it might be it contained less noise and instinctive outputs and used to
be more milled, intimate and lyrically analytical. In the meantime the ditties
accompanied only by the acoustic guitar are variegated with hilarious speeches
and laughing. Indeed, these 54 minutes are fairly nice and sincere ones where
one could perceive the cordial relation between an artist and the
audience.
3/31/2016
[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - nRnR
- Drone folk
- Ambient folk
- Chamber folk
- Epic
- Minimalism
- Avant-folk
- Experimental folk
Artist: Take Pills Die
Release: 07.04.23 Dead Sea Parting
Label: Take Pills Die
Year: 2007
[Teaser of the day] Unspeakable Forces - Pnakotic
- Post-rock
- Drone rock
- Guitar ambient
- Avant-rock
- Noise rock
- Trance rock
- Doomgaze
- Experimental rock
- Minimalism
Artist: Unspeakable Forces
Release: Butterfly Corpse
Label: Silber
Year: 2012
[Teaser of the day] Sekotis - Lava Fields
- Musique concrete
- Post-rock
- Art rock
- Epic
- Alternative rock
Artist: Sekotis
Release: For Your Weird Ears
Label: Bandcamp/Self-released
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Uni - Trollid
- Ulmetronica
- Ambient pop
- Indietronica
- Alternative
- Dreamwave
- Electronic music
Artist: Uni
Release: Mahajäetud jaam
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
FET.NAT – Poule Mange Poule (2014)
- Avant-punk
- Dada music
- Spoken word
- Free jazz
- RIO
- Sampledelic
- Art rock
- Improvised music
- Punk funk
- Psychedelic
- Crossover
- Art punk
- Avant-prog
- Alternative dance
- Experimental rock
Comment: this issue comes out from Hull, Quebec, Canada
which is a blend of free jazz and improvised music and punk funk which in turn
is sprinkled with dada music drops. It could be said the set of 6 tracks is
charmingly angular fulfilled perennially with unexpected turns, slowed-down
otherworldly atmospheric glimpses and even some noisy and disturbing outbursts
coming out from nothing (I mean to surface rapidly as if from nowhere). At
times those punk funk-based and dance-appealed numbers will change into
avant-prog/RIO music thanks to free jazz-y inner impulses, at times members of
the group are perverted by language, at times they exploit samples and spoken
word parts to magnify their mix. Holy
shit. The mission is successfully accomplished. It is an outstandingly
refreshing issue from (French) Canada.
Esmectatons – Bene Gesserit Science (2008)
- Lo-fi
- Noise
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Psychedelic
- Non-music
- Dada music
- Freeformfreakout
- Electronic
- Krautrock
- Space rock
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Psycho-acoustic
Comment: this outing consists of a couple of notches
which in turn are divided into a numerous batch of subunits reflecting upon
diverse themes most of them are titled funnily and surrealistically. Behind the
project is Brazilian musician L. Borgia Rossetti with a little help by other
musicians. Rossetti`s concept and therefore sonic endeavours trudge across
diverse pathways, from uncanny post-classical music and electro-acoustic
whirlpools to lo-fi inflected brown noise and warped psychedelic noise and
stark outright sonic experiments to spaced-out rock and improvised krautrock
madness which in the end chime mesmerizingly and formidably. Honestly, at times
it sounds like the tape were streaked and hurt mechanically. By kindred souls
it could be compared with the likes of Hawkwind, Isotope 217, CAN, Faust, Led
Zeppelin, Borbetomagus. The issue is a part of an off-kilter imprint, Year Zero
Records (business as usual it does not disappoint you).
Die Geister Beschwören – Drawn To The Investigation Of Shadows (2014)
- Acousmatic music
- Dark ambient
- Indie folk
- Americana
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Drone folk
- Folk indie
- New Weird America
- Post-classical
Comment: this issue comprises a couple of
lengthy compositions which in turn used to chime like mind-boggling patchworks
where sound snippets from different sources are followed by one another with
great subtlety. More profoundly, it is from immersed indie folk/Americana and
drone folk numbers and steamboat-alike ghastly epic brass sections (which sort
of has always made difference in fact) to dark ambient and concrete music
blended endeavours and post-classical sublime orchestrations based on vowel
effects. The result is organic and sonically logic which in turn does mean
there is up a mesmerizing whole for your pleasure. Very well done indeed.
Firach Enabragem – Walking Fast, Not Running (2015)
- Afrofunk
- Soul
- Urban music
- Afrofuturism
- Psychedelic music
- Dance music
- Hip-hop
- Funk
- Mood music
Comment: although Walking
Fast, Not Running is an afro-futurist issue it does not originate from the
Black Continent but instead of it coming from Lebanon, Asia by a talented
musician, Charif Megarbane who is also being known as the protagonist in Cosmic
Analog Ensemble, another fabulous project. With regard to the recent issue he
reversed his name to produce analogue based dusty sonic vibes drawn out from light-hearted
reed organs and short brass bleeped toots and dynamic rhythmic rattles create
an unforgettable, haunting event. The issue is based on two compositions
clocking in at a 23-minute each. To differentiate it slightly from the
classical tradition of afro-futurism the musician adds some hip-hop scratches
and cut-up voice samples to the blend. As much as it used to be an example of
dance music it is as much a chill out one as well. In a nutshell, it is a
must-hear issue.
3/27/2016
[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - As Empty as I Seem (Way Out There)
- Ambient pop
- Art rock
- Post-rock
- Soundscape
- Alternative
- Ambient drone
- Cinematic
- Dream pop
- Experimental rock
- Electronic music
- Ambient
- Epic
Artist: Brother Saturn
Release: Tales Of Space Explorations 9-16
Label: We Are All Ghosts
Year: 2013
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Pilot Cloud – In Transition (2008)
- Post-rock
- Alternative rock
- Epic
- Post-metal
- Shoegaze
Comment: Pilot Cloud is a project from Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA which was embarked on in 2008 by Nick Biscardi, and Justin
Lerner. Their 10-track debut issue straddles the border between post-rock,
post-metal, alternative rock, between silent chord shuffling and highly
pummelling instrumental developments and raved-up refrains, ecstatic singing
and overwhelming crescendos. At Map, and Sounds of an Era shoegaze takes place to spread out and govern throughout five minutes. All
these elements used to melt together seamlessly or being superimposed or
followed logically by each other. Because of that the structure of the album is
quite predictable, on the other side the duo is all about to act upon the rock
music must have been – emotional and loud. Although it is an example of
traditional post-rock sound it makes sense, especially in particular tracks
like Star Redoubt, Map, Ex
Astris Scientia, and Dead Satellite.
These are the examples where the emotions and electricity are put into one
another in the way to establish more staggering synergistic outputs due to more
chord changes and dreaminess of a greater amount. Get it.
3/26/2016
[Teaser of the day] Tarred Brigade - The Accurate Betrayal
- Psych-folk
- New Weird America
- Indie folk
- Acid folk
- Free folk
- Folk indie
Artist: Tarred Brigade
Release: HoneyMoon
Label: FMA/Archive.org/Self-released
Year: 2008
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Cagey House – Stations Alive (2013)
- Post-classical
- Art music
- Electronic music
- Experimentalism
- Hauntology
- Sampledelic
- Avant-garde
- Experimental electronica
- Sound collage
- Psychedelic
Comment:
Baltimore, Maryland, US-based resident Dave Keifer aka Cagey House has
produced much music since 2005 under different netlabels of whom many still
exist and some of them do not anymore. During his 11-year tenure it seems to me
he has influenced many artists through his special experiments. For instance,
most notably these threads could be heard on Oneothrix Point Never`s album R Plus Seven (2013, Warp) reminding very strongly of Keifer`s albums like 1902 (Bump Foot, 2009), and B For Breakfast (Bypass, 2010), for
instance. The recent 7-notch issue was outed on under Japanese imprint Elegirl
in 2013. He continues to strengthen his wondrous metaphysical world through
sonic and stylistic permutations where warped yet delicate electronic movements
are imbued with film noir dark tinged shades and ghastly seeds as if taking
place in a remote, isolated place after the doom. It chimes like a miniaturised
eerie motion plot which is expressed sonically. One of the ingredients of the
formula are undoubtedly simmering psychedelic flickers which in turn are a
consequence of improvised sounds. On the other side, many sounds are
orchestrated in a way giving the whole a more dynamic and panoramic flow, of
course, done on its own terms. Sometimes the aforementioned sonic motes are
coated with gentle, exquisite drones which used to flow and hover atop to
mesmerise the listener. It could be said Keifer takes on recognized elements of
music yet changing it in his own way which eventually result in something very
idiosyncratic and original. It could be assumed he takes on piano and classical
music which ultimately comes out not being an ordinary example of the styles.
It is something far more stylistically, it is somewhat more emotionally to
provide much pleasure to the listener. Afford it for yourselves.
3/25/2016
[Teaser of the day] Filt - Story Teller
- Psytrance
- Progressive trance
- Darkpsy
- Goa trance
- Hi-Tech
- Spoken word
- Psybreaks
- Alternative dance
Artist: Filt
Release: Black Roots
Label: Ektoplazm/Glitchy.Tonic,Records
Year: 2016
Alternative links:
Glitchy.Tonic.Records(Bandcamp)
[Teaser of the day] Vate - Diablo
- Robot pop
- Techno pop
- Electronic music
- Alternative dance
- Kraut-techno
Release: 1a10
Label: SOCSUB
Year: 2010
[Teaser of the day] Agulikass - Hullumaja
- Singer-songwriter
- DIY
- Psychedelic pop
- Alternative pop
- Outsider pop
Release: Agulikass
Label: Õunaviks
Year: 2009
[Teaser of the day] Eucci - Fifteen Miles Downwind
- Microtonal
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Ambient drone
- Leftfield
- Micronoise
- Non-music
- Abstract
- Glitchtronica
- Minimalism
- Musique concrète
- Acousmatic music
- Field recordings
Artist: Eucci
Release: LGL Winter
Label: Rive
Year: 2007
[Teaser of the day] EugeneKha - Bells Of Maracoon Underground
- Abstract
- Experimental electronica
- Field recording
- Electro-acoustic
- Sound collage
- Psychedelic
- Avant-electronica
- Psybient
- Musique concrète
- Art music
- Crossover
Artist: EugeneKha
Release: Maracoon
Label: Eg0cide Productions
Year: 2011
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