- Modern classical
- Ambient
- Post-classical
- Alternative
- Soundscapes
- Art music
- Mood music
- Piano music
9/18/2016
So I'm An Islander – Stelheij (2016)
9/17/2016
[Teaser of the day] Kol9remesez - Jodeisfiskeyz
- Noise pop
- Alternative
- Leftfield
- Experimental pop
- Lo-fi
- Drone rock
- Psychedelic
- DIY
- Psych-pop
Artist: Kol9remesez
Release: Thasuyi
Label: Interplanetary Floral Star
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] Superbells - River Thames
- Chamber rock
- Post-rock
- Indietronica
- Art rock
- Epic
- Ambient rock
- Alternative
Artist: Superbells
Release: Parallel Lives
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] EvilMrSod - Atom Bomb
- Rockabilly
- Singer-songwriter
- Americana
- Alternative rock
Artist: EvilMrSod
Release: Atom Bomb
Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Bandcamp
Year: 2014
Samurau – Things Left Unsaid (2015)
- Fusion
- Jazz
- Improvised music
- Experimental rock
- Mood music
- Post-rock
Comment:
three friends decided to embark on with a band in 2014 and the year
thereafter their first issue was released. Indeed, Michele Sanna
(guitars), Matteo Muntoni (electric bass), and Alessandro Garau
(drums) play sensitive music on their debut album where the listener
can perceive diverse moments from a tickling jazz spectrum. Although
it is mostly predominated by jazz music (indeed, the term “jazz”
could denote very different things from bebop and hard bop to fusion
to acid jazz/nu jazz) it is truly moody, picturesque as if conducted
by the maestro Ennio Morricone himself. At times it is exalting, at
times lethargic thereby calming down and stirring up the listener. At
times one could discern the trio’s fondness to Chicagoan
jazz-drenched post-rock scene, however, it happens in some tracks
only. Maybe a counterpoint to it from real life is driving in
cabriolet across the highway in an unhurried pace, at times stopping
and making pauses to check surroundings and sights. The 8-notch issue
is a part of the discography of La bèl.
9/16/2016
[Teaser of the day] Fitzroy North - Sunset Flux
- Electronic music
- Skweee
- Wonky
- Alternative
- Crunk
- Electro
- Urban music
- Hip-hop
Artist: Fitzroy North
Release: Cronopic EP
Label: Ancient Robot
Year: 2015
[Teaser of the day] Albrecht - The Third Eye
- New Age
- Alternative
- Space music
- Indietronica
- Electronic music
- Synthwave
- Crossover
Artist: Albrecht
Release: Deepspace LP
Label: Tachyon
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] Porzellan - Source
- Experimental electronica
- Avant-garde
- Microtonal
- Abstract
- Drone
- Minimalism
- Leftfield
Artist: Porzellan
Release: Mountains
Label: Abyssa
Year: 2008
The Bumblebee Bats – Leaving It Broken (2009)
- Lo-fi
- Singer-songwriter
- DIY
- Art folk
- Indie folk
- Folk indie
Comment:
at times I guess it is much harder to speak something reasonable and
appealing about the so-called simple musical issues in comparison to
the more sophisticated ones. It is not surprising at all because
those simple ones have been produced without pretense to embark on a
new beginning (being the illusion and thereof eventually
disappointment in most cases) and because of that these issues are
frequently more direct and honest as well. Let’s have a focus upon
this swarm of five compositions. It is composed of strumming guitars
and affectionate singing which in turn are spruced up with lovely
keyboard whiffs and synthesised orchestrations converted into catchy
melodies and harmonies for opening the way for little joys and
tickling delights. Yet having listened to these
gentle moments many times in
a row these ones got
magnified inconspicuously into something elemental and immanent. The
songs` intimate touch and awkward buildup used
to make difference which as
a result are immensely more
worthy than many issues being produced throughout innumerable hours
within the walls of professional studios. Catch
the touch! It is easy to do thanks to a humble, home recording feel.
For instance, listen to Better
When You`re Dead. That`s
mesmerizing. In a nutshell, as you could see by now I have found out
many words and sentencesto describe his fabulous issue. Leaving
It Broken just is. Just
for me, just for you, just for the world, just for all the universe.
And leave it broken. The issue is a bit in the discography of the
Japanese imprint Totokoko Records.
9/15/2016
[Teaser of the day] The Sway - Silk
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Epic
- Noise pop
- Power pop
Artist: The Sway
Release: Silk EP
Label: Jamendo/Archive.org
Year: 2008
[Teaser of the day] Deception Cost - Elysium
- Hellectro
- EBM
- Alternative
- Electronic music
- Industrial dance
Artist: Deception Cost
Release: Pandorum
Label: Dark System/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Let`s Bang Bang
- Plunderphonics
- Psychedelic
- Sampledelic
- Mood music
- Sound collage
- Covers
- Mashup
- Alternative
Artist: Chenard Walcker
Release: X Rays
Label: Free Sample Zone
Year: 2004
Adam Spent Time – Capitalism & Schizophrenia (2014)
- Downtempo
- Modern classical
- Chilltronica
- Post-rock
- Indietronica
- Electronic music
- Post-classical
- Ambient pop
Comment:
I have no doubts of the fact
the artist gets it right musically. On the other side, your aptitude
to connect the music with schizophrenia and capitalism might be much
harder. I guess if you are listening to this 10-notch issue without
earlier having seen the
titles of the songs then you probably used to have no associations
towards the aforementioned direction. Because it is a veritable
instance of chilled-out music drifting somewhere between tranquil
electronica, hovering
beauty of ambient and more
mundane indie and post-rock
sound. It just picks you up
and rolls you along with
those serene orchestrations, serene piano music and smoothly knocked
rhythms which used to pan
within the aforesaid stylistic implications at a different degree.
On the other side, you could never underestimate the role of forced
propagandist value to hint at some problems even if the influences
are no so direct. Thirdly it
does have the reference of the title of a publication of the French
philosophers Gilles Deleuze,
and Félix Guattari. The release is a part of the discography of
Tachyon. In a word, it is a
bewildering issue which chats successfully invisible
era between indie, ambient and emotive electronica coming
in and leaving it in different combinations.
It could be said each
musical element contributes to a whole that is obviously more than
the sum of its parts. The
reception of the 41-minute
issue by my side is
very positive
and filled with contentment
in mu soul. I
hope that our souls are not yet rotten and being in a schizophrenic
stage due to some ravaging implications of capitalism. However, the
communism is remarkably more
destructive.
If you are
feeling
yourself sullen by now and have no believe
in that then
have an immersive effort
into investigation of the
bygone century.
9/14/2016
[Teaser of the day] Roy "Chicky" Arad - Queen of voodoo
- Alternative rock
- Lo-fi
- DIY
- Psychedelic
- Singer-songwriter
- Outsider pop
- Anti-folk
Artist: Roy "Chicky" Arad
Release: Sputnik in Love
Label: WM Recordings
Year: 2005
[Teaser of the day] Luarvik Luarvik - Walpurgi burlesk
- Progressive rock
- Avant-rock
- Dada pop
- Art rock
- Fusion
- Experimental rock
- RIO
- Yacht rock
Artist: Luarvik Luarvik
Release: Enigma Variatsioonid
Year: 2008
[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Lunesta
- Progressive rock
- Art rock
- Funk rock
- Alternative
- RIO
- Electro-rock
- Dance rock
Artist: Hox Vox
Release: Talofen, Xanax, and Other Stories
Year: 2014
Worthy Eardrum Party – Lost Property (2010)
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Folk indie
- Psychedelic rock
- Noise pop
- Indie folk
- Blues rock
- Shoegaze
9/13/2016
[Teaser of the day] The Star Pillow vs Tacet Tacet Tacet - Encounter
- Post-rock
- Ambient rock
- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Guitar ambient
- Soundscapes
- Electronic music
- Improvised music
Release: Concurrence
Label: Laverna
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Empty House Cooperative - Fore
- Post-folk
- Art folk
- Avant-folk
- Experimentalism
- Improvised music
- Electro-acoustic
- Experimental folk
- Avant-garde
- Post-psychedelic electronica
Artist: Empty House Cooperative
Release: Seven
Label: Hinah
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Iñaki - Merpeople
- Electronic pop
- New Age
- Ambient pop
- Electronic music
- Mood music
- Chilltronica
Artist: Iñaki
Release: Merpeople
Label: Khannonmusic Studios/Bandcamp
Year: 2009
9/12/2016
Polygon – Dreamfishing (2010)
- Drum and bass
- Psychedelic
- Jungle
- Breakcore
- Ambient trance
- Electronic music
- Breakbeat
- Ambient dub
[Teaser of the day] Curious Inversions - Local Transportation
- Ambient pop
- New Age
- Chilltronica
- Psybient
- Space music
- Electronic music
- Mood music
Artist: Curious Inversions
Release: Stone on Stone
Label: Kahvi Collective
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Safir Nòu - New Lunacy
- Post-rock
- Experimental rock
- Indie
- Yacht rock
- Cinematic
- Chamber pop
- Epic
- Avant-rock
- Crossover
- Electro-acoustic
- Art rock
- Baroque pop
- Alternative
- Fusion
Artist: Safir Nòu
Release: Groundless
Label: La bèl
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Norja - Vuono #7
- Alternative
- Improvised
- Chiptune
- Synth-prog
- Tracker music
- Avant-prog
- Experimental
- 8-bit
- Art music
- Progressive
- RIO
- Electronic music
Artist: Norja
Release: Vuonoja
Label: WM Recordings/Archive.org
Year: 2007
Gemini Lounge Orchestra – Two Years on the Rock (2007)
- Sampledelic
- Avant-garde
- Alternative
- Film noir
- Electronic music
- Sound collage
- Leftfield
- Exploitation music
Comment:
I am back again to another 17-minute track (day before yesterday I
reviewed Pollux`s Naked Lights) though the recent issue under
a resident artist within the Proc-Records` discography (proc003) is more based
on spoken word samples accompanied by slowly slinging rhythms. The
former element is based around the snippets from gangster motion
pictures. //”Where is my fucking money?/I don`t
know!/Where is my money?/It is in the box/I am talking here
not you/Fuck you! If you could open up your mouth then you
could shut up/Fuck it yourself!”/Your fucking phony/You
get me out of here//. Indeed, it is a dialogue between a young
layer and an experienced mob who is arrested and insists to get out
of jail. And there is up shooting in the ending part as well though
those sordid speech moments and ill-omened sonic themes and nervous
broken beat and retro-futurist haunting electronica and
orchestration blended appearances are at times jettisoned for more
flamboyant, just very lite orchestrated moments which chime thereby
in a fake, excessively emotional way. In a final part one can hear
affectionate shouting and imploring mercy which is followed by
shooting and ultimately by execution. In a word, it is all about very
inferior aspects of human kind. However, as a sonic statement and
formal sound collage it must be astounding because it compels the
listener to think of these adverse situations and choices in life.
Get it as a preventive act against the criminal career.
9/11/2016
[Teaser of the day] Eli Las - Mivta Lo Mukar
- Singer-songwriter
- New Weird Israel
- Indie folk
- DIY
- Folk indie
- Lo-fi
- Shoegaze
- Alternative rock
Artist: Eli Las
Release: A Planet Full Of Motels
Label: Birdsong/Archive.org
Year: 2005
[Teaser of the day] Procedure Club - Indigineous
- Shitgaze
- Garage rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Electronic
- Alternative rock
- Acid rock
- Indie rock
Artist: Procedure Club
Release: The Salmon of Doubt
Label: Beko DSL/Free Music Archive
Year: 2010
[Teaser of the day] Coolrunnings - Better Things
- Psychedelic pop
- Acid pop
- Neo-psychedelia
- Electro-indie
- Alternative pop/rock
- Indie pop/rock
Artist: Coolrunnings
Release: Babes Forever
Year: 2010
[Teaser of the day] Body Cheetah - Charm Serum, Crush
- Psychedelic
- Art pop
- Avant-pop
- Dream pop
- Post-pop
- Neo-psychedelia
- Indie
- New Weird America
- Alternative
- Electronic
Artist: Body Cheetah
Release: Blush Locker
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015
[Teaser of the day] Camper Van Beethoven - Pictures Of Matchstick Men
- Americana
- Folk indie
- Alt-folk
- Crossover
- Folk rock
- Live recording
- Indie folk
- Bluegrass
Artist: Camper Van Beethoven
Release: Live At 40 Watt Club
Label: Archive.org
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] I Am Esper - Ghost Passenger
- Post-folk
- Improvised music
- Dream folk
- Epic
- Indie folk
- Lo-fi
- Dream folk
- DIY
- Folk indie
Artist: i AM esper
Release: Ghost Passenger (Single)
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015
[Teaser of the day] Choke - Sheltering
- Dream pop
- Alternative pop/rock
- Indie pop/rock
- Art rock
Artist: Choke
Release: Choke (eponymous)
Label: Pen & Mallet
Year: 2009
[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - Otherworldly Expedition
- Ambient
- Dreamwave
- Alternative
- Avant-rock
- Post-rock
- Ambient rock
- Epic
- Art rock
- Cinematic
- Soundscapes
- Experimental rock
Artist: Brother Saturn
Release: Unstable Lands
Label: We Are All Ghosts/Archive.org
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] In A Sleeping Mode - Draft 4
- Minimalism
- Art rock
- Avant-rock
- Electronic music
- Post-rock
- Experimental rock
Artist: In A Sleeping Mode
Release: Draft
Label: Yo! Netlabel
Year: 2011
Gloss. - Trophy (2011)
- Chillstep
- Trip-hop
- Crossover
- Art pop
- Folktronica
- Psychedelic
- Alternative
- Urban music
- Electronic music
- Mood music
- Chilltronica
9/10/2016
Experim3ntus – Korruptio (2011)
- Ambient
- Electronic music
- Darkwave
- Soundscapes
- Crossover
- Kosmische Musik
- Glitchtronica
Comment:
Experim3ntus had released three Eps before he changed his nom de
plume to another one, Vuohe. Under the new name, though, he was just
revamping old compositions. The Finnish producer`s 5-track issue
Korruptio is remarkable due to unifying the visual side of the cover
print wherein one can feel sensations of late autumnal uneasiness due to
representation of higher concentration of fog and clamminess than
usual annually. Musically the listener can perceive vivid drifts
between majestic ambient panoramas and eerie darkwave sweeping being
immersed in heavy pessimism and impending tough and morbid times.
That’s chilling. At times those suggestively epic templates are
slightly “corroded” by samples, “accidental” noises,
glitches, and other treated sounds. By the way, it is an especially
right moment to listen to in the early morning when the Sun is still
being eclipsed and greyish darkness and tangible humidity are in full
sway. It must be said surprisingly I had to close the window of my
small living room because all those outer noises merged seamlessly
into the soundscapes. Maybe sometime in the future I will review it
in the described manner. It might be a composition called Ajan
rakenne on MUUTTUNUT (in fact, the title of the track is even
longer) carves out from the rest because of coming very close to the
classic tradition of Kosmische Musik though excelling at Tangerine
Dream-alike templates in the first half only. The latter part of it
will slowly be changing into a dormant yet rocky glitched-out soup.
This is an astonishing bunch of elaborately accentuated compositions.
Get it and additionally I recommend listen to his other issues
(Experim3ntus EP, and Autius EP) and Vuohe`s Yksinäiset
Vuohet, and Bleat Runner (which involves a
new version of Ajan rakenne on MUUTTUNUT) either. The issue is
a part of the short discography of Gabumat Records, which involves the Finnish music only.
Captains Of Sea And War – Captains Of Sea And War (2016)
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Power pop
- Art rock
- Post-rock
Comment:
it is always great pleasure to arrive at the discography of the
Nethelands-based imprint 2419 Record Label due to the quality and
diversity of aesthetics. In fact, you will never know what is the
next turn in sound you while picking up on the discography
nonetheless the issues are described with some hinting tags. For
instance, the last outings being reviewed at Recent Music Heroes
Basnie`s Les Pays-Bas (2008) was a haunting yet stupefying
blend of spoken words, electronic music, post-classical progressions,
tango, found sounds, drone pop, which in turn was imbued with a
retro-futurist sensation. Tunnelbird`s Hohner Sessions (2015)
takes up on blues influenced psychedelic garage rock with hints at
raga and acid rock. However, with regard to the first named issue the
recent issue is a starkly disparate case because of getting a booty
by riding on the guitars and drums which at times are complemented by
by hoarse, tortured, and softened vocals by the occasions and
recherché keyboard stumbles. More profoundly, those eight
alternative rock and post-rock and art rock drenched numbers from
Barcelona, Catalonia used to swing between loud and lofty riffs and
more restrained strums being at times converted into a blissful still
life. By the way, the release will be finished off by a mellow
acoustic ballad. In a word, the collaboration by Gerard Gual, Jose
Martinez, David Montón and Àlex Garcia places it into a column of
other solid releases of 2419 Record Label.
Pollux – Naked Lights (2016)
- Electronic music
- Dark electro
- Illbient
- Neoclassical
- Dark ambient
- Lo-fi
- Experimentalism
- Crossover
- Avant-garde
- Synthwave
Comment:
I guess these 17 minutes are
as interesting as the life of the Frenchman Arnaud Barbe being known
as the prolific musician Pollux, and heading the popular experimental
music imprint Sirona-Records. Indeed, these 1036 seconds are the
truly intriguing which in turn can be compared with a cross-section
of the records. It could be said he is here a little bit more
self-indulgent in comparison to his other ones, or at least most of
his issues, because it consists of disparate musical styles
frequently. For instance, ominous ambient progressions are followed
by free form synthesizer or MIDI-led emulation-based improvised
snippets. Even some lo-fi
and primitive music cuts are represented over there. Let’s
add some electro-acoustic experiments with buried piano chords (or
are they the prepared strings rather?) By
their own point these are very interesting sounds but they create an
additional
value due to those mind-blowing transitions and then relations
between the aforesaid styles. Last
but not least - if the lights are naked then all is naked beneath and
within it. Thereof the fun
is guaranteed, life is
beautiful and give it a proper place.
9/08/2016
[Teaser of the day] Major Major - Microwave
- Alternative pop/rock
- Indie pop/rock
- Epic
- Pomp rock
- Art rock
- Symphonic rock
Artist: Major Major
Release: Major Major
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2008
[Teaser of the day] Paulette Wooten - Outside My Window
- Post-classical
- Post-rock
- Mood music
- Modern classical
- Art music
- Alternative
- Electronic music
Artist: Paulette Wooten
Release: Promise
Label: NoiseTrade
Year: -
[Teaser of the day] Alan Rèvolte - Quiero Ver Arder el Mundo
- Hardcore
- Punk rock
- Singer-songwriter
Artist: Alan Rèvolte
Release: Yo No Soy Igual Que Tú
Label: Naciòn Libre
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] School Of Crystal Healing - Parallax Oasis
- Psybient
- Ambient trance
- Electronic music
- Mood music
Artist: School Of Crystal Healing
Release: Lightworkers Delight
Label: Troll N` Roll/Ektoplazm
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Noidboy - Boludo
- Art folk
- Folk indie
- Avant-folk
- Acid folk
- New Weird Italy
- Folktronica
- Indie folk
- Psych-folk
- Singer-songwriter
Artist: Noidboy
Release: Elp
Label: Upitup
Year: 2016
Peter Nester & Brian Ruskin – The Abscraps EP (2008)
- Art rock
- Post-punk
- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Ambient rock
- Electronic
- Dance rock
Comment:
I have to admit that before listening to this set of 6 tracks I have
heard nothing of these artists. The first impression of mine was
visual and it was very funny – by watching this blurred cover print
it was something like collaborating men behind the mixing desk, one
of them looking like Chuck Norris, and another like Johnny Marr (a
young Johnny Marr, in fact). Why not – both of them are outstanding
persons. Just the most intriguing question is – who will knock down
and win? However, the collaborative act does not remind of the doing
of The Smiths (the best combo having ever been existed under God’s
sight) but is related to a style of which The Smiths is being
associated. Indeed, it is post-punk, one of the most seminal styles
for all times, which in turn was a godchild of Krautrock. At Ten
Four, and Eight Two Oh Eight the influences of atmospheric
guitar by Vini Reilly (Durutti Column) can be discerned. The latter
one is more rhythm-oriented either, though. And the result
rhythmically is very catchy. Ring Finger is another
astonishing glimpse into enchanting world of flickering guitars and
mechanical rhythms. Be Home At Dark might be the most
expressive track due to its thudding programmed beats but on the
other way it reconstructs a pathway of post-punk music because of
embracing elements which did have evolve from the embodiment of
post-punk. The mother meets her derivatives. In a word, this is
grreeeaaaat! Being a part of a platform with a funny (again!) name,
Believe in Billy Records.
9/07/2016
[Teaser of the day] The Wades - Forlorn
- Indie rock
- Alternative rock
Artist: The Wades
Release: Greatest Hits
Label: Comfort Stand Recordings
Year; 2005
[Teaser of the day] Nobodisoundz - Marfa Light Machines
- Ambient drone
- Avant-garde
- Minimalism
- Drone
- Ambient noise
- Epic
- Sound art
- Micronoise
- Experimentalism
Artist: Nobodusoundz
[Teaser of the day] Norman Bambi - Ouah Ouah
- Synth pop
- Electronic pop
- Electro pop
- Comedy
- Alternative dance
- Electro disco
Artist: Norman Bambi
Release: Please Step On My Shoe
Label: NYAPSTER
Year: 2015
[Teaser of the day] Agnès Pe - Rob Herwig
- Comedy
- Primitive pop
- Avant-pop
- Electronic pop
- Glitch pop
- Noise pop
Artist: Agnès Pe
Release: Rob Herwig
Label: MAV [0kbps]/Bandcamp
Year: 2012
[Teaser of the day] Sharks` Teeth - EXP
- Chillwave
- Electro-indie
- Soul
- Glo-fi
- Acid pop
- Alternative pop
- Hypnagogic pop
- Indie pop
Artist: Sharks` Teeth
Release: It Transfers & Grows
Label: Gigantic Noise/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] Yarrow Harvest - Ghost Trees Pt 3
- Singer-songwriter
- Indie folk
- Baroque folk
- Crossover
- DIY
- Art folk
- Chamber folk
- World music
- Folk indie
- Lo-fi
- Balkan folk
Artist: Yarrow Harvest
Release: Ghost Trees
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
Not Ensemble – Capsicum Before Bed (2016)
- Avant-garde
- Abstract
- Ambient drone
- Illbient
- Electro-acoustic
- Sound art
- Drone
- Acousmatic music
- Improvised music
Comment:
this 11-track issue conjures up off-kilter associations within me.
One could imagine he/she is dreaming a nightmarish dream where he/she
is thrown by an omnipotent creature to slide across a perfectly slick
floor having no possibility to stop and then escape from there. The
surrounding around you is dejected, rigid and horrendous until you
will wake up. It is the kind of ambient music of signal-based noises
and amplified electro-acoustic debris. Furthermore, at times it
provides somewhat of such kind of twists one have no conviction of
whether it was real or just a fruition of his/her imagination. Given
that, quite ironically I could tag it as mood music because it does
have much more power than most of the so-called mood music albums
though doing it on totally disparate principles. Maybe those vibrant
sounds which used to emerge here and there might even be considered
as psychedelic ones? It is getting even more ironic by considering the fact the issue was generated by the Dronedario software. It could also bea admitted the relation between the particles and
the total sum of the issue is not fixed at all which even more does
befog the borders. The issue is a part of the discography of the Italian Triceratupuz Lab.
Olah Istvan – Signals to the North Horizon (2009)
- Avant-garde
- Glitchtronica
- Experimental electronica
- Soundscapes
- Ambient
Comment:
the Serbian composer Olah Istvan`s one
track issue consists of 872 seconds which is inspired by the North
Pole by its coldness, beatific radiance, and clear heaven atop those
massive icebergs and polar
bears. Undoubtedly it is
something which stays beyond borders of our every day life. It
is a totally disparate world. By
starting listening to it I was not aware of his influences for this
issue. Instead it
aroused me to think of it as a situation of remote future which is
imbued with mechanical insects, enthralling rhythmic ticking,
and abstract chirping. One
could experience
strange warmness oozing out of those hypnotic layers and glitched-out
noises. One might have
experienced similar sensations with Tim Hecker`s early recordings
like Radio Amor, and
Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again.
You could hear the ambience around you to breath and swell while adding new knacks to the blend. Coming in
and then flutter around your ear. It is a hyper-realist glimpse you
are get caught in. Fairly
astonishing effort for
sure. The issue was
a part of the discography of
the Russian-based Lomeanor which had been active from 2008 to 2010.
9/04/2016
[Teaser of the day] brunk - Takamine
- Post-rock
- Duyster
- Experimental rock
- Cowbell indie
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Avant-rock
- Art rock
Artist: Brunk
Release: Koolmees
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015
[Teaser of the day] Juan Antonio Nieto - Spell Away
Audiotalaia
- Avant-garde
- Sound art
- Abstract
- Experimentalism
- Experimental electronica
- Micronoise
- Acousmatic music
- Non-music
Artist: Juan Antonio Nieto
Release: Litium
Label: Audiotalaia
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] Fake Cats Project - Sad Songs Pt.I: Bells
- Psychedelic rock
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Krautrock
Artist: Fake Cats Project
Release: `Sad Songs`
Year: 2015
[Teaser of the day] Kirill Kara-Banchuk - Moon
- Avant-garde
- Field recordings
- Experimentalism
- Leftfield
- Abstract
- Alternative
- Noise
- Ambient techno
Artist: Kirill Kara-Banchuk
Release: Star T
Label: Mixgalaxy
Year: 2010
[Teaser of the day] Otto Halmèn - Sylvan Waltz
- Soundtrack
- Art music
- Mood music
- Pagan music
- Fantasy
Artist: Otto Halmèn
Release: Otto`s Creative Commons Tracks
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
t e l e p a t h テレパシ – 能力者 – 向かい合って (2014)
- Chillwave
- Seapunk
- Glo-fi
- Alternative
- Indie
- Mood music
- Future soul
- Soul
- Screwed and chopped
- Dreamwave
- Vaporwave
Comment:
I guess such sort of music could be considered an example of
contemporary slowcore even if the contemporary people would denote it
with the following tags like chillwave, chopped and screwed, seapunk,
vaporwave etc. The artist takes much time to present his state of
mind through those drowsy and languid meanderings; the length of the
pieces ranges from 8 minute to 56 minute (sic!). He is like a spider
who likes to seduce the victim and then eat him/her. However, I
couldn't resist it because boredom is conjured up in such a way as if
converted into the fluid of cerebral chemistry. It is sticky and
tight by its consistency being haunting due to those slowed down
vocal deliveries and drum pads and guitar chords. In comparison to
the aforementioned slowcore genre it is slowed down for twice at
least, chiming more like a freaked out soul delegate from the future.
Indeed, it sounds like a harbinger of future soul drifting across the
one and the same thread. I guess Ariel Pink's first issues could have
been sounded it that fascinating way if being slowed down. But it is
not an important point in that case. Once again, I am enthralled by
the branching of the physical boredom of austere chords and somehow
haunting sensuality coming out of it. It is a sort of minimal music,
isn't it. The minimal sort of music of the zombies with regard to the
penultimate track, for instance. What will be the next big thing
with regard to the production side? Maybe intense states of madness
and fury to be stretched out and then converted into the sonic files?
I guess it could be a reasonable way to give music another spin in a
contemporary key. In truth, there are up some more overtly
chilled-out compositions either where the twisted point is more
repressed. In a nutshell, it is a wondrous issue, which obviously
does have its own disciples as well. For example, listen to Florian
Wahl's brand new one 14.
Tutan Come On – Tutan Come On (2013)
- Hard rock
- Doom rock
- Trash metal
- Hair metal
- Hair rock
Comment:
it might be problematic to say much words and columns about this
9-track issue because it seems to be rolling upwards and then
downwards, then upwards, and then upwards the mountain's slope in a
powerful key. On the other hand, it is an intriguing listening
because one is thrown in the middle of a burbling whirlpool of lively
vocals done in Basque, those heavily pummelling drums and sometimes
doom-ish guitar induced colours and thumping basses. Indeed, it is
quite unusual to listen to this campy hair metal tinged falsetto with
those sooty drenched guitars at the same time. You know, there are up
some topics like love, women, cars and sleek clothes represented
excessively, i.e. resulting in kitsch. Indeed, it induces an amusing
and thereof positive resonance within me. Fortunately the virtuosity
by the band members did not kill fun within it. It chimes like a group of
hair rockers from the 80s having accidentally found themselves in the
time machine and landed in the 10s.
Tunnelbirds – The Horner Sessions (2015)
- Psych-rock
- Raga rock
- Alternative rock
- Garage rock
- Indie rock
- Acid rock
- Blues rock
- Lo-fi
Comment:
first of all, it seems to me that Beer Bottle Blues is the
most rocking issue throughout this 10-notch issue. It reveals the
combo to be at their most acidic and dynamic. The other tracks might
be more restrained, at times veering into the intonation of sordid
blear-eyed blues/boozy rock (at Today I Lost My Job), at times
making up more raga tinged incantations, at times just jolting and
rattling through fluttering wah-wah guitar effects and linear chord
manipulations being at times stretched out, being at times pitched-up
therefore creating a psychedelic effect. At times it does not reach a
magical effect, especially at the time of more acoustic moments, but
mostly it succeeds and acts upon the listener. Especially in such
tracks as I Don`t See It In You, and Dark Side. Minute
Songs exploits some grunge-y riffs but fortunately it evades the
borders of grunge music by straddling on a blackened layer of blues
rock. Given that you shall have to listen to it to decide whether is
it your cup of tea or not. For me it is a cup of coffee. Tunnelbirds
is a combo from Utrecht, The Netherlands and the issue is a part of the discography of 2419 Record Label.
9/02/2016
[Teaser of the day] Nangdo - Spinning
- Sampledelic
- Cinematic
- Alternative dance
- Urban music
- Breaks
- Disco
- Soul
- Mood music
- Funk
- Hip-hop
- Rap
Artist: Nangdo
Release: Chrome
Label: Planet Terror
Year: 2010
9/01/2016
[Teaser of the day] Theodor Zox - B.Script
- Microhouse
- Minimal
- Dub house
- Funk house
- Clickhouse
- Tech-house
- House
- Alternative dance
Artist: Theodor Zox
Release: Pastels 1-4
Label: Thinner
Year: 2004
[Teaser of the day] Jeff Bennett - Displaced
- House
- Club dance
- Dub house
- Dub
- Alternative dance
Artist: Jeff Bennett
Release: Doubting Faces EP
Label: Epsilonlab
Year: 2004
[Teaser of the day] Charles Tone - Das Haus im Wald
- Electronic music
- Alternative
- Field recording
- Alternative
- Tech-dub
- Crossover
- Found sounds
- Dub house
- Dub techno
- Minimal dub
Artist: Charles Tone
Label: Pentagonik
Year: 2005
[Teaser of the day] Mataharibisu - At That Time We Faded
- Electronic
- Ambient pop
- Indietronica
- Post-rock
- Art pop
- Alternative pop
- Indie pop
Artist: Mataharibisu
Release: Chorion Apolysis
Label: Inmyroom
Year: 2011
[Teaser of the day] The Jakesperiment - Scwarz
- Psychedelic
- Post-classical
- Modern classical
- Lo-fi
- Experimental pop
- Electronic music
- Alternative
- DIY
Artist: The Jakesperiment
Release: Scwarz
Label: Bad Panda
Year: 2010
[Teaser of the day] Moses Luster and the Hollywood Lights - I Got You
- Singer-songwriter
- Americana
- Folk indie
- Alt-folk
- Indie folk
Release: The Hangman`s Door
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015
(Null_) – (Null_)EP (2013)
- IDM
- Organic electronica
- Alternative
- Indietronica
- Primitive music
- Glitchtronica
- Art music
- Post-classical
Comment:
before listening to the recent issue I got caught up in listening to
the Russian Messer Für Frau Müller`s Happy End Dead (1992),
and the English post-punk legend The Fall`s Sinister Waltz
(1985) on tapes, both of these issues could be considered cynical and
misanthropic ones. In any cases, it influenced me enough to look at
Null`s 5-track from a perspective of cynicism. More profoundly, the
release is being without any words, and there are represented
soothing piano chords, some blissful orchestrations and dreamy
harmonies and lead motives. However, it is “ruined” with rugged
glitched-out rhythms, clockwork and movie camera-alike pastoral
sounds and almost tangible interactions between the stereo channels.
At the moment I am representing the view from a perspective of a
mainstream critic though I would rather prefer the recent issue
coming out the mainstream scene. The only cynicism and laziness I
cannot stand for with regard to the outing is that the guys behind
this issue have not been able to manage the rest of the catalogue of
Hand Craft. What the heck, is it really hard for you guys to upload
it at Archive.org, for instance? It is a crime against the music, you
know.
8/31/2016
[Teaser of the day] Robert Avellanet - The One And Only
- Soul
- Rhythms and blues
- Funk
- Singer-songwriter
- Balladry
- Pop
- Crossover
Artist: Robert Avellanet
Release: Heart & Soul
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2014
[Teaser of the day] Matti Paalanen - Morphing
- Post-classical
- Ambient pop
- Darkwave
- Alternative
- Neoclassical
- Mood music
Artist: Matti Paalanen
Release: Darkwave
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2009
[Teaser of the day] Roman Panatela - Are You Randomly Generated
- Minimal techno
- Avant-techno
- Experimental electro
- Tech-electro
- Minimal electro
- Avant-electro
- Experimental techno
Artist: Roman Panatela
Release: March 2006 EP
Label: 17 Sons/Archive.org
Year: 2006
Alexander Strung – Party (2009)
- Indie pop/rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Indietronica
- Synth-rock
- Art rock
- Post-rock
- Electro-indie
- Singer-songwriter
Comment:
although Alexander
Strung`s 9-track issue Party
was issued lately
on the verge of the 00s the
influence of some parts of
the
epoch could be heard
throughout these 26 minutes. It
seems to me that these
slightly restrained indie
pop songs
are influenced both by the Rhein-area indietronica/neo-krautrock
scene by the likes of To
Rococo Rot, Pluramon, Kreidler, Tarwater,
Lali Puna and
the US-based post-rock scene by the likes of Mice Parade, Mercury
Program, Sea And The Cake, Jim
O`Rourke, The American Analog Set. It is
the balanced sway between
the guitars and synthesizers,
between sensual vocal
lines and programmed stomping
drums and
hovering pastoral orchestrations on a
minor scale.
On the other side, the
artist is searching for relaxed
balance between
technological luxury, and
emotive susceptibility.
Given that the technological
luggage embraces an innumerable amount of possibilities it is
arguably not
easy task altogether. In a
word, the artist demonstrates adeptly its musical skills being not
separated from emotions fortunately.
The favourites of mine are
Olympic Twin,
Black Rabbit,
Party (What's The Point),
Valley Forge.
There are up both Alexander
Strung`s issues via The
Gifted Children. In a
nutshell, it is an astonishing one.
8/30/2016
[Teaser of the day] Florian Wahl - Cyberpunk Atlantis
- Electronic pop
- Soul
- Screwed and chopped
- Urban music
- Autotune
- Avant-pop
- Singer-songwriter
- Alternative
Artist: Florian Wahl
Release: 14
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2016
[Teaser of the day] The Foxholes - Goldminer Song
- Psych-rock
- Alternative rock
- Indie rock
- Hard rock
- Angst rock
Artist: The Foxholes
Release: The Foxholes
Label: Bestiar
Year: 2009
[Teaser of the day] RAKTA - Apenas mais um
- Krautrock
- Space rock
- Acid rock
- Psychedelic rock
- Avant-rock
- Leftfield
- Neo-psychedelia
- Experimental rock
Artist: RAKTA
Release: Rakta em transe
Year: 2015
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