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9/19/2016

[Teaser of the day] Children Of The Drone - 31/05/04 ->14/01/04


  • Improvised music
  • Psych-folk
  • Ambient folk
  • Drone folk
  • Trance folk
  • Electro-acoustic
  • New Weird Britain
  • Free folk
  • Space folk
  • Live session
  • Avant-folk
  • Experimental folk
  • Weird folk

Release: Compilation no. 3  
Year: 2005

Grozny 93 – Dysproporcja (2014)




  • Harsh noise 
  • Brown noise 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Non-music 
  • Abstract 
  • Psychoacoustic

Comment: I am aware of the fact that a very great part of people are terrified possibility that they have to listen to noise music. Let’s imagine such a dystopic universe or planet where they have to deal with it. However, noise music was probably one of the first protest music genres stepping against war and decay in general within the Western culture area. It was very clever to attack the adverse phenomena of the Western civilization in a provoking manner and frequently with their own attributes in a slightly bent way. Furthermore, it is a kind of music because of being articulated and composed. For instance, let’s listen to this handful of pieces to make out of how much elements is going to happen throughout the course. This is a play on different levels, playing with intensity, playing with stereo effects and timbres, playing with terror and silence. More profoundly, it starts off with a brown-hued flow as if having no equilibrium between the two channels therefore by searching for it the soundscape begins to swing. In the third composition those brownish bits are all of a sudden saturated by more shrill and higher frequencies and subsequently timbres changing its course from muddy field to abandoned junk yard full of metallic garbage. I guess to be submerged by these sounds might have been very inspiring for such geniuses like Edgar Allan Poe, and HP Lovecraft if they had lived nowadays. At first glimpse one may see the austere formalism behind the sounds but by listening to it more carefully one can perceive fleshed out emotions and sensations behind those menacing developments. And there is also enough place for full-fledged fantasies. For instance, at times it chimes like an audible representation to depict a monstrous octopus moving on a the bottom of the ocean to find out the slot to surface and then devastatingly attack. The last piece is an intense chugging due to spasmodic bass frequencies, however, being buried and veiled appealingly. The mind-provoking issue is a notch in the discography of Azawad.

9/18/2016

[Teaser of the day] Bruno Susio - Due Passi Per Roma


  • Brass pop
  • Mood music
  • Yacht pop
  • Easy listening

Artist: Bruno Susio
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Oskar Hallbert - Moving


  • Organic electronica
  • Folktronica
  • DIY
  • Drone
  • Modern classical
  • Found sound
  • Lo-fi
  • Organcore
  • Improvised music
  • Field recording

Release: Doodling 
Label: Resting Bell
Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] This Heel - Hoag`s Object



  • Indie folk
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Alternative pop
  • Anti-folk
  • DIY
  • Lo-fi
  • Folk indie

Artist: This Heel
Release: This Heel III
Label: Small Bear
Year: 2015

So I'm An Islander – Stelheij (2016)


  • Modern classical
  • Ambient 
  • Post-classical 
  • Alternative 
  • Soundscapes 
  • Art music 
  • Mood music 
  • Piano music

Comment: the Danish producer Søren Nissen Jørgensen has been on the field since the May of 2011 being truly prolific since then. Similarly to his previous issues at Stelheij Søren Nissen Jørgensen is meddling the components of silence and still life, dealing with picturesque glimpses and unhurried progressions in texture and timbre. Piano chords get fleshed out with echoes and minimal chord changes for that are added exquisite orchestrations to be tightly around it going to live their own lives across the pathway to nowhere. But the nowhere is beatific and wondrous something which is strange yet enticing, somehow warm yet immensely superior. The chords are subtle at times getting dilated to the point just changing into water vapour and then merging semalessly into the Sun. The artist is panning the chords over and over to make the shifts within it look like a natural fare for your cerebral lobes. And it fosters well. Even if you would like to get more into the 5-track issue just stare at the cover print which probably will make you dizzy and eventually drugged-out. The world is a little bit better place after listening to this sparse set of 16 minutes. Indeed, the issue makes sense in the year of 2016.

9/17/2016

[Teaser of the day] Kol9remesez - Jodeisfiskeyz


  • Noise pop
  • Alternative
  • Leftfield
  • Experimental pop
  • Lo-fi
  • Drone rock
  • Psychedelic
  • DIY
  • Psych-pop

ArtistKol9remesez 
Release: Thasuyi
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
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
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
Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Deception Cost - Elysium


  • Hellectro
  • EBM
  • Alternative
  • Electronic music
  • Industrial dance

Release: Pandorum
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Let`s Bang Bang


  • Plunderphonics
  • Psychedelic
  • Sampledelic
  • Mood music
  • Sound collage
  • Covers
  • Mashup
  • Alternative

Release: X Rays 
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

Release: Sputnik in Love  
Year: 2005 

[Teaser of the day] Luarvik Luarvik - Walpurgi burlesk



  • Progressive rock
  • Avant-rock
  • Dada pop
  • Art rock
  • Fusion
  • Experimental rock
  • RIO
  • Yacht rock

Label: Bande/Bandcamp
Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Hox Vox - Lunesta


  • Progressive rock
  • Art rock
  • Funk rock
  • Alternative
  • RIO
  • Electro-rock
  • Dance rock

Artist: Hox Vox
Year: 2014

Worthy Eardrum Party – Lost Property (2010)



  • Alternative rock 
  • Indie rock 
  • Folk indie 
  • Psychedelic rock 
  • Noise pop 
  • Indie folk 
  • Blues rock 
  • Shoegaze

Comment: all these 11 songs are composed by Angus Rudd, and it is done adeptly and refreshingly for sure. However, this my understanding after listening to a couple of first songs. Even if it might be he did not succeed in vamping up the rock and roll tradition he did follow his own heart and soul to make up a good song-writing at his most earnestness. Moreover, it is an interesting creation through folk-littered guitar music which is spruced up with reverse effects, and psychedelic twists and feedback noises here and there. If one thinks of it as a retrospective one it is much more than just a bare copy of the rock and roll legacy. Angus Rudd is a contemporary man with the influences and visions and that is what makes possible to bridge different eras with one another. You could not find a chink in his armour. If you are listening to his more blaring, cellophane-alike compositions you could hear how it used to decompose and then elevate through the abrasion between those layers. At Watching the Spiral the listener can enjoy the electrification of blues rock which step by step is progressing into a psychedelic exaltation. It is not a case where you could see clinging to sidelong styles and charmless emulation. The self-ironic I Just Can't Write is a churning row of noisy bars and meshes within the auteur is immersed in the idea of a lopsided psychedelic shoegaze progression where beauty and pain are the different sides of the same coin. It is warranted by the churning power and in fact that is enough to get the indulgence for the track. Eventually I have to confess it is an outstanding issue and while would having had a proper place and time it could have had a ground-breaking influence. Listen to it and you will get understand the ennobling point of it. The gem is a part of the discography of Vulpiano Records.

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

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
Year: 2009

9/12/2016

Polygon – Dreamfishing (2010)




  • Drum and bass 
  • Psychedelic 
  • Jungle 
  • Breakcore 
  • Ambient trance 
  • Electronic music 
  • Breakbeat 
  • Ambient dub

Comment: behind these 16 compositions is Glen Burrows who is being known due to his dubstep explorations under the pseudonym Gravity and before that under the pen name Polygon, the recent issue is more about. Glen Burrows exploits disparate measures and patterns to shed light on some rhythmic combinations in contemporary club dance-related and chilled-out electronic music. It is fairly sympathetic to get part of his sultry aesthetic where he goes beyond bare formalism by saturating it with glitch-coated bits, microscopic noises and unstable, tectonic rhythmic patterns. Indeed, mostly those sulphurous and frantic jungle and drum and bass rattles lose the ground in front of their foots being immersed in a heady panning thereby resulting in a psychedelic outfit. For me it somewhat reminds of a period from the year of 1998 when I bought a tape copy of The Orb`s Oblivion (1997, Island), and that was a very frequent listening object then. Indeed, at times Glen Burrows likes to add a restrained and spacey and vocal sample-based relish to the mixture while containing the previous intensity and profundity in cadence and propulsion. At times being overloaded by those meaningful swaths of psychedelic impulses running on invisible border of your mind and body you can perceive like dwelling in a collapsing house. You will get lost completely and thereafter you feel yourself unwounded in the face of daily trash around your mind and soul. And you cannot be wrong as a mob of 21,466 music lovers who have downloaded it at Archive.org (under the leadership of Zardonic Recordings).

[Teaser of the day] Curious Inversions - Local Transportation



  • Ambient pop
  • New Age
  • Chilltronica
  • Psybient
  • Space music
  • Electronic music
  • Mood music

Release: Stone on Stone
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
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
Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Procedure Club - Indigineous


  • Shitgaze
  • Garage rock
  • Psychedelic rock
  • Electronic
  • Alternative rock
  • Acid rock
  • Indie rock

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

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
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Choke - Sheltering


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

Artist: Choke
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

Release: Unstable Lands
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chancius - Hologram King


  • Art pop
  • Chamber pop
  • Indie pop
  • Experimental pop
  • Baroque pop
  • Post-pop
  • Electronic

Artist: Chancius
Release: Bando
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] In A Sleeping Mode - Draft 4



  • Minimalism
  • Art rock
  • Avant-rock
  • Electronic music
  • Post-rock
  • Experimental rock

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

Comment: so after being finished of listening to Experim3ntus` Korruptio I opened the window of my living room again to get more air for the Mexican producer Gloss.`s issue Trophy. If to join these words together it could almost be pronounced as “catastrophe”. Luckily this 6-track issue is not catastrophic. It is the quite contrary. It is also an example of urban sound though being more synthetic, beat-oriented, acidic and psychedelic in comparison to the aforementioned issue. Mostly because of that these sounds do not have common part with those ones which do come from the street and natural surroundings. So you could open your window. Musically it provides pure joy from start to end – it is tight enough due to chilled-out and trip-hop-alike beats which used to vary in heaviness and at frequencies, acidic synthesizer undercurrents and flickers and a folktronic fabric. For one it might remind of the Beta Band due those sultry folk and electronica mixed developments, for an other person it might be similar to Portishead, and Massive Attack. For a third person Jimi Hendrix is going to haunt him/her. It is not surprising at all because the trip-hop combos leaned frequently and strongly on the tradition of rock music and even directly took samples from there. Otherwise you could hear those heart bleeding melodic progressions which induce the listener longing for something which inevitably is passed by and it might be even passed away (more evidently brought to the fore at New Destination, and Dry Land). This enchanting 6-notch issue is a chapter within the discography of Fusion Netlabel. Additionally to great music it is supported by the witty outer sleeve.

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

Release: Promise
Label: NoiseTrade
Year: -

[Teaser of the day] Alan Rèvolte - Quiero Ver Arder el Mundo


  • Hardcore
  • Punk rock
  • Singer-songwriter

Artist: Alan Rèvolte
Year: 2016 

[Teaser of the day] School Of Crystal Healing - Parallax Oasis


  • Psybient
  • Ambient trance
  • Electronic music
  • Mood music

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
Year; 2005

[Teaser of the day] Nobodisoundz - Marfa Light Machines



  • Ambient drone
  • Avant-garde
  • Minimalism
  • Drone
  • Ambient noise
  • Epic
  • Sound art
  • Micronoise
  • Experimentalism

Release: Tracks To Nowhere
Label: Format Noise
Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Norman Bambi - Ouah Ouah



  • Synth pop
  • Electronic pop
  • Electro pop
  • Comedy
  • Alternative dance
  • Electro disco

Artist: Norman Bambi
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
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
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

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

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

Release: `Sad Songs` 
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kirill Kara-Banchuk - Moon


  • Avant-garde
  • Field recordings
  • Experimentalism
  • Leftfield
  • Abstract
  • Alternative
  • Noise
  • Ambient techno

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 
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
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
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
Label: Inmyroom
Year: 2011 

[Teaser of the day] The Jakesperiment - Scwarz


  • Psychedelic
  • Post-classical
  • Modern classical
  • Lo-fi
  • Experimental pop
  • Electronic music
  • Alternative
  • DIY

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

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

Release: Heart & Soul
Label: Jamendo
Year: 2014