Recent Music Heroes

Comment: before having any factual knowledge about this Uruguayan artist while having listened to this 13-track in a row for many times I rather would have thought of Dioxadol Borges as an artist from Chicago, the home city for pan y rosas discos. Chicago, Illinois, USA is being known due to many experimental music and improvised music scenes, one of them is improvised music/free jazz scene involving such artists as Isotope 217, Brokeback, David Grubbs, Chicago Underground Duo, Chicago Underground Orchestra if to name some well-known ones. In fact, all these artists are genre-fluid, and the same could be said about Dioxadol Borges. Roughly, it could be said the issue is heavily electronic keyboard-driven being accompanied by different sorts of rhythms. At times it is quite laid-back and New Age-y, sometimes driven by more aggressive beats and sonic effects and studio trickery. Those more placid moments remind of another South American (an Argentinian living in Brazil) artist Humberto Luis Schenone, and early albums by Dave Keifer aka Cagey House. Within those more tumultuous moments one can enjoy bold drumming and acidic keyboard beams and mutant, machine-repressed vocals engulfing you in an exuberant way (for instance, at tecnochipland). In a word, the result is somehow chill and mirthful to be adeptly reconciled. It depicts a balanced and graceful motion. Solid work.

1/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Farewell Stuart Hall

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Fuzz pop
Lo-fi
Psychedelic rock
Rockabilly

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Weird

Label: Self-released/Hirundu

Year: 1990

[Teaser of the day] Clinker - Charlie

Electronic
Alternative dance
Electro-rock
Acid house
Indie dance
Acid techno

Artist: Clinker

Release: Music for 'Charlie and Henry'

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2007/2015

Sound Meccano / Jura Laiva – Sireli Aeg (2016)

Crònica

Abstract
Experimentalism
Drone
Ambient
Field recording
Glitchtronica
Avant-garde
Sound art
Musique concrète

Comment: in the first place, I am very glad to be back at the discography of Portugal-based imprint Crònica of which releases seem to be something peripheral and idiosyncratic and stunning. For instance, by listening to this 4-track issue of clocking in at a 28 minute it is an amalgamation of found sounds and manipulated electronics/glitches which used to result in something dreamy and affording physical relief. All these compositions are titled by those places where the concrete sounds had been stored (Lake Mooste; Wind from Põlva; Song of The Lilac; Delta of the River Emajõgi). For me, it is a very special outing because these ones have been done in the south(eastern) Estonia, nearby my childhood places and the dispersion area of my relatives. Partly because of that and partly because of the grandeur of the soundscape it taps into my soul and brain. At Sireli Aeg one can enjoy subtle drones and bubbling electronics and Mira Tarvainen`s vowel effects and staggering chants. At Emajõgi Delta there are up glitched-out spatial dimensions being developed to perfection. Mostly the music is wondrous and sometimes sad at its core. In a nutshell, it is a great issue being related to a cultural laboratory, MoKS in Mooste.

1/25/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Innkeepers - Alaska

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Breaks
Hip-hop
Chilltronica
Sampledelic
Urban music
Mood music
Cinematic
Alternative

Artist: The Innkeepers

Release: Astronaut Delta (EP)

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom/Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Luurel Varas - Confuza

Breaks
DIY
Alternative
Hip-hop
Lo-fi
Urban music
Sampledelic

Artist: Luurel Varas

Release: Luurel Varas

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] f l o d - Tape 2 (Reprise)

Dark ambient
Post-industrial
Experimental electronica
Illbient
Leftfield
Experimentalism
Avant-garde

Artist: f l o d

Release: Eulogia II

Label: Radio Stalingrad

Year: 2014

Dumb Doctors – Singles 2013-2016 (2016)

Pomogite Community

Garage rock
Noise pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Psychedelic rock
Blues rock

Comment: although Charleston, US-based combo Dumb Doctors` music has been compared with the likes of Ty Segall, and Black Lips I have to admit the power of their soundscape to come forth from such legendary sources as an early The Rolling Stones, Motörhead, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath. Indeed, it is an invigorating mix of spellbinding blues-induced black energy, and a rough handling on guitars and drums through the diabolical rehearsal room. Furthermore, it is an example of the one and only rock and roll music. Yeah, it is mostly free from ambiguity and very striking in its straight punch. Holy shit for all of us. The issue is a part of the discography of Moscow, Russia-based Pomogite Community. All they do is cool. Absolutely.

1/23/2017

[Teaser of the day] Doc & Lena Selyanina - Neptune

Jamendo

Modern classical
Ambient
Post-classical
Space music
Synthwave
Piano music
Kosmische Musik
Ambient pop
Art music

Artist: Doc/Lena Selyanina

Release: Cosmic Lullabies

Label: Jamendo/Musictrade

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - Kristallihiekka

Jamendo

Ambient
Post-classical
Ambient drone
Soundscapes
Epic

Artist: Dereleech

Release: Valosade

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Richard Eigner – When the Days All Tip from Nests and Fly Down Roads (2016)

Crònica

Dark ambient
Electro-acoustic
Drone
Acousmatic music
Field recording
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Musique concrète
Ambient drone

Comment: this 31-minute buildup is of high quality being expressed both in composition and narrative and thereby constituting an intriguing trip for a choosy listener. More profoundly, it is made up of field recordings of a rainy day and eerie electro-acoustic clatter and monochromatic but lively drones slowly and elegantly lurking beneath and swaying atop. The artist exploits field recordings of his own, John Grzinich, Jim Haynes, Yirogis Sakellariou, Eamon Sprod, and Simon Whetham. The issue is a part of the discography of Portugal-based imprint Crònica.

1/18/2017

[Teaser of the day] Felixdroid - Pulse

Jamendo

Ambient
Electronic music
Space music
Epic
Soundscape

Artist: Felixdroid

Release: Odd Dots and Squiggles

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] san Hani - Mistoimubsiin

Hip-hop
Rap
Urban music
Electro-hop

Artist: san Hani

Release: SOLARIS 2016

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

s o u L O f m y S h o E s – Inciviltà occidentale (2016)

Bandcamp

Slowcore
Singer-songwriter
DIY
Indietronica
Art rock
Experimental pop
Post-rock
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock

Comment: this handful of tracks is a nice sway between poppy indie and slightly more experimental approach. For instance, Pins And Needles is a straightforward, chiming indie pop example, however, mostly Davide A., a musician from Turin, Italy likes to trudge between slowcore, indie electronica, and restrained post-rock developments. Honestly, the latter element is more likeable and intriguing. Indeed, at the time all the chords are boldly delineated where sheer guitar keys are accompanied by sublime electronic tingling and soothing storytelling thereof resulting in something majestic and epic though it had been done in a restrained way. I like these blissful build-ups being interwoven with stunning longing and beauty (in the first place, listen to such compositions as Aveiro, and Panamerica). By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Low, The American Analog Set, The Sea And Cake, Archer Prewitt, and Sam Prekop.

1/17/2017

[Teaser of the day] Tont - Dub Vice

Dub
Alternative dance
Electronic music
Post-psychedelic electronica
Sampledelic
Experimental electronica
Alternative

Artist: Tont

Release: Gerilja

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Aislinn - Cape clear - the greenfields of Rossbeigh

Jamendo

World music
New Age
Mood music
Celtic music
Medieval music

Artist: Aislinn

Release: The Bonny Swan

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] 4T Thieves - Rain

Enoughrecords

Chilltronica
IDM
Mood music
Ambient pop
Alternative

Artist: 4T Thieves

Release: Electro Cool

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Lokom - Jean Sinistre

Breakcore
Thrill and bass
Breakbeat
Crossover
Hip-hop
Sampledelic
Leftfield
Alternative
Electronic music

Artist: Lokom

Release: Nyctalope Ponies

Label: Abstrakt Reflections

Year: 2016

Matto Grosso – Blanco perfecto (2011)

Bandcamp

Noise rock
Hardcore
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Post-punk
Math rock

Comment: Matto Grosso is a collective from Santiago De Compostela, Spain whose 13-notch issue is a powerful blend of hardcore, noise rock, and post-punk. Some lyrics are in Spanish, some in English. By listening to these tracks one can perceive a certain sort of buildup within the quartet`s music – it frequently starts off in technical way, even mathematical sort of relations between instruments can be found out from there. However, many tracks will finally burst into noise torrents with apocalyptic echoes and primal bluesy energy of rock and roll. Yeah, it is a sophisticated and straightforward rock music example at the same time. It makes difference, it makes sense due to the combo's wise planning and impressive energy behind it. At times one can perceive similarities with the likes of Sonic Youth, and The Fall (more remarkably, at Positive). Stunning.

1/16/2017

[Teaser of the day] Erki Kasemets - Aprillo

VedelikuElektroonikud

Avant-electronica
Experimental electronica
DIY
Post-psychedelic electronica
Primitive electronica
Art music

Artist: Erki Kasemets

Release: VedelikuElektroonikud

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Kordian Trudny - Katowice

Avant-pop
Electronic music
Psych-pop
Motorik
Leftfield pop
Krautrock
Experimental pop

Artist: Kordian Trudny

Release: Katowice

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Burning House - Her Vowel No

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Noise rock
Shoegaze
Dream pop
Epic

Artist: Burning House

Release: VA - Colors Compilations - Red "Shoegaze"

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Matto Grosso - Waste

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Noise rock
Hardcore
Power pop

Artist: Matto Grosso

Release: Blanco Perfecto

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Camper Van Beethoven - Eye Of Fatima

Archive.org

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Alt-country
Live recording
Crossover
Psychedelic rock
Bluegrass
Blues rock

Artist: Camper Van Beethoven

Release: Live at Mississippi Nights on 1989-10-12

Label: Archive.org

Year: 1989

1/15/2017

Matthew Collings – EICV7" No.104 (2015)

EverythingIsChemical

Experimental electronica
Electro-acoustic
Post-classical
Chamber music
Improvised music
Alternative
Glitchtronica
Avant-garde
Art music
Experimentalism

Comment: this handful of compositions is a consistent blend of rough electro-acoustic, rugged chamber music, and more sublime ambient and volatile electronic progressions. Musically it is intriguing to listen to it because electronic music is seamlessly mixed up with sounds of natural instruments. For charlatans I guess it would be a good fare to describe their view of outer space through the aforementioned elements, of how masculine and feminine genuine/primal matter will meet each other, of how energy will have been lead in a proper way. They might be right, by the way. You can not wave off odds and ends within it because it is the main ingredient to lift the whole up to the next level. A Smashed Up World is the final issue on it and being the right choice for it. The composition will expand epically due to fine-grained glitches and the dense orchestrated drone which is going upwards again and again. The outing is a mote in the discography of EverythingIsChemical.

Liz Chidester – Otter Hill (2015)

Noisetrade

Bandcamp

Singer-songwriter
Americana
Indie folk
Alt-folk
Folk indie

Comment: Liz Chidester is a new singer-songwriter from, Chicago, Illinois, USA who is adept at storytelling to bring forth oldie traditions through music, lyrics and memories told once and now by one generation to next ones. It seems the tradition is something extraordinary seminal which enables new galaxies of indie folk/alt-folk and also mainstream folk and country artists to be cropped out. In a word, it is the seminal soil for singer-songwriters today and in the future. The outing of Liz is austere but poignantly accentuated to fill one's soul with emotional coverage and suggestive touch. She says these five songs are the most intimate she has ever written. It had been created during the worst winter storm in Chicago in 2014. All in all, let it be a boosting engine for your world of imaginations.

Jeff Bennett – Doubting Faces EP (2004)

Epsilonlab

Tech-house
Club dance
Alternative dance
Deep house

Comment: I am sure it was a happy period of time in the beginning of the 00s when such labels as Epsilonlab, Thinner, Kahvi Collective, Autoplate, and Monotonik started off to develop a new, net label-based platform for the club oriented scene. For example, there is up Jeff Bennett with three compositions full of trance-y magic being conjured up by monotonous yet enchanting techno influenced beats in the vein of house music. Frequently the techno influenced vibe will be jettisoned for more deeper and nocturnal vibrations. It is far more than just a collection of tracks - it is the feeling, it is the mood. It is the superimposed quality of variegated beats and sublime softened synthesised chords and synergy pouring out of it. For me, it reminds of those times approximately 20 years ago when club music, especially deep house, and drum and bass were those styles which would influence me profoundly. Top tier, for sure. The issue was the first release in the discography of Montrèal-based imprint Epsilonlab.

1/13/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Kettering

Archive.org

Indie pop/rock
Art rock
Space pop
Glam pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Live recording
Psychedelic pop

Artist: The Antlers

Release: Live at Bowery Ballroom on 2011-05-20

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Godspeed You Black Emperor! - improvisation

Archive.org

Post-rock
Improvised music
Avant-rock
Post-classical
Drone
Chamber rock
Experimental rock
Live recording
Minimalism
Leftfield

Artist: Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Release: Live at L'Échangeur (chaviré) on 2002-01-22

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2002

Daniel Barbiero / Ken Moore – Frequency Drift (2016)

pan y rosas discos

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Electro-acoustic
Live session
Experimentalism

Comment: a first thought of mine was it is music for cello, and live electronics. However, I was totally wrong because instead of a cello Daniel Barbiero plays a bowed double bass, and Ken Moore employs a tam-tam (it is a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a soft-headed drumstick). It embraces seven improvised compositions full of space, and time, full of different frequencies and changes within it. Even if one used to think of it to as an austere one because of a minimal amount of instruments it is in fact a far more than a sum of its initial parts. It is saturated with grayish delay effects, achromatic reverberations, some gong-induced slams and mournful drones beneath it. In the terms of metal as an element, it is filled with different sort of clattery, rusty grinding and reddish-tinged rattles. It must be called synaesthesia, if you hear colours or at least the spectra of them. This could be a good soundtrack for a contemporary gothic motion picture, at least to depict some (horrendous) scenes within it. As I understood the tracks are not recorded in one and the same place, not during the one tenure. The issue is a part of the discography of Chicago, US-based experimental imprint pan y rosas discos. Very intriguing outing indeed.

1/12/2017

[Teaser of the day] Skyjelly - The 6 Is Silent

Noise rock
No Wave
Experimental rock
Trance rock
Psychedelic rock
Alternative rock
Live session
Avant-rock
Indie rock

Artist: Skyjelly

Release: Boston Hassle Listening Party - May 22, 2015

Label: I Heart Noise

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Funky Drunk

Dustin Must Die

Funk house
House
Electronic pop
Acid house
Electro pop
Alternative dance
Electro-house

Artist: Pollux

Release: Sound Collage

Label: Dustin Must Die

Year: 2008

Brother Saturn – Unstable Lands (2016)

We Are All Ghosts

Bandcamp

Dreamwave
Abstract
Ambient drone
Space music
Kosmische Musik
Indietronica
Alternative
Synthwave
Ambient
Electronic music
Post-rock
Ambient rock

Comment: sometime in the first half of the 90s when Sun Ra left Earth for Saturn forever, to arrive at his birth place he also left vacant his place on the blue planet. By listening to spatial music by Colorado, US-based artist Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn, and enjoying the quality and quantity of his sound he could be an excellent candidate to replace the legend. Unstable Land is a beatific progression through extended and stretched chords and drones being saturated with vibrations. He exploits both guitars and apparently modular synthesisers to fortify the soundscape. At times there can be drawn parallels upon Slowdive's abstract development Pygmalion, at times upon M Geddes Gengras, at times upon the most hazy moments by Ducktails, at times upon epic still life by Pan American at Quiet City, however, the artist does have his own subtle touch and sublime approach among the other ones. I guess Miller's proficiency used to come forth through a dense creative act while drifting between the formalism and sensual (emotive) music. Indeed, one element does not exclude another one in his theoretical setup. Maybe there is also up invisible magic needed to unify the both elements into an enchanting whole. The finishing track Nature`s Reckoning is more mundane in comparison to the other compositions due the stomping mid-tempo rhythm which is accompanied by a distinct guitar pattern. All in all, the result is worth to be added to a list of the best albums in 2016. It was announced Unstable Lands to be his last issue on We Are All Ghosts. By the way, in recent times the artist issued a couple of brand new ones called Descent Into Madness, and Light! Joy! Ascent! I See The Stars In Your Heart.

1/11/2017

[Teaser of the day] Glenn Sogge - Part 2

Avant-garde
Musique concrète
New Age
Electronic music
Crossover
Acousmatic music
Field recording
Experimentalism
Post-classical
Art music

Artist: Glenn Sogge

Release: The Once And Future Dystopian

Label: Studio 4632

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Liike

Textural Healing

Abstract
Illbient
Soundscape
Microtonal
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Sound art
Minimalism
Experimentalism

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Reuna EP

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2016

1/10/2017

Sean Nicholas Savage – Magnificent Fist (2016)

Arbutus

Blue-eyed soul
Alternative pop
Indie pop
Soft rock
Singer-songwriter
Psychedelic pop

Comment: I can remember for it happened approximately 4-5 years ago at a small indie festival at Killingi-Nõmme, Estonia called Schilling nearby the natural environment when I was enjoying a performance by the Canadian troubadour Sean Nicholas Savage. It was fascinating because of seeing barefooted Savage walking and at times sitting down while singing at the stage in late night being predominant and staggering with his voice which used to expand everywhere being just accompanied by one guitar. It was one of the most impressive gigs I had ever seen. And it is true to recent days. The Montrèal-based artist is being sonically active to have released CDs, LPs, tapes and digital items under Arbutus Records. Yeah, SNS does have his own idiosyncratic style to have expanded and developed over the years. His ascetic and spartan blue-eyed soul is full of emotions and enchanting soulful resonances and one can perceive his flickering longing while singing about love and his love towards music /Music saved my life that's why I wanna spend all my time doing music/music gets me high that's why I wanna spend the rest of my time doing music/music saved my life so many times/. Indeed, I guess Music is one of the finest direct dedications to a most exquisite branch of art. In truth, your own thoughts and experiences get transmitted back to you in a spirited way. It touches very closely all those of us being addicted to music and sonic design. However, this is just one great ditty among others within the outing. Maybe it is even more honest to conclude about the albums of him as wholesome fists of compositions which used to hit the listener (by the way, Montrèal-based artists like to employ the fists in their music, even if those are the skinny ones with regard to GYBE!). It will live up to your expectations even given that you could expect from it before to start listening. It could be said he is one of those contemporary indie stalwarts with Connan Mockasin and Soft Hair and partly Kevin Parker from Tame Impala and in recent days even Kurt Wagner from Lambchop who have developed soul mannerism and added new threads and twists to it within the indie music scene. In a word, it is a subsequent great listening session by him and support him by buying his vinyls, tapes and CDs and digital files.

[Teaser of the day] Kevin Lyons - The Tractate Middoth

We Are All Ghosts

Ambient
Avant-garde
Soundscape
Sound art
Abstract
Experimentalism
Space music
Electronic music
Electro-acoustic

Artist: Kevin Lyons

Release: Curious Warnings

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Trains Are Cool

Art pop
Indietronica
Easy listening
Alternative
Electronic
Mood music
Post-pop

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Today`s Embrace

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Calla Soiled – Lucoq (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

Bandcamp

Chilltronica
Alternative dance
Yacht pop
Electronic pop
Electro-house
Deep house
Crossover
Mood music
Nu jazz
Balearic house
Design pop

Comment: it have always felt myself delighted while coming to a Japanese imprint, this time to Bunkai-Kei. This issue of 11 compositions by Calla Soiled is a true beast due to fairly exquisite modes on chill out, electronica, design pop, jazz, and (Balearic) and electro and deep house and even drowsy yacht pop elements are also represented over there. On the other side, all these elements are not represented in pure way and even not in a sectional way but instead of it with intention to think off something which could be considered an example of universal contemporary music. An example of electronic music without the borders. And the artist reaches the goal in doing it. I have been listening to it since early morning today but the result is getting even more woozy and hazy. It is not because the structure and configuration of these songs is filled with microscopic flaws one could find out after an intense listening session but rather it is zipped in a sophisticated way full of alchemically sticky elements which used to react with one another after a while. On the other hand, it might be I caught the level of nocturnal and deep house-inflected hours within it (for instance, at Rainfall; at Pellucid). By considering the blanket of the issue and the music pouring out from within it you could imagine eine Lichtung /a clearing/lighting to be seen within the ragged top of a volcano in Heideggerian way. Top standing indeed. For your soul, for your body, for your dream, for your reality, for your transcendental mind.

1/09/2017

Erzs-bet – Y2062 (2014)

Radio Stalingrad

Dark ambient
Illbient
Ambient noise
Post-industrial
Leftfield
Electronic music
Dystopbient
Ambient drone
Avant-garde
Drone
Experimentalism
Sound art

Comment: either to understand is this issue decoded or encoded it depends on the viewer`s perspective and keen ability to imagine. For instance, the compositions on it are titled in the following way: Y2022, Y2042, [-1-], [-2-], [–Tran-Sition–], and Y2062. This issue of 13 minutes is produced by the Aussie Reuben Petrovski and being released on an experimental music-oriented imprint called Radio Stalingrad which face to face with the aforementioned titles would freely be denoted as the Battle (of) Stalingrad. At least it could be imagined as a battle between the ghosts of the soldiers who succumbed during it. Indeed, emotionally these six wiggly compositions chime in a morbid and ghastly way because desolate spatial droning of empty fields and fluffy anti-gravitational sensations are followed up by clattery dissonant noises wherein one can make difference between black and brownish noise, between the soil and air. Later on, the artist exploits ghastly sounds as if being lead through the aether to convey a secret message. Is it from one dead ones to other dead ones or is from the dead ones to the living ones? Or vice versa? Emotionally it is remarkably more overwhelming than an average pop song. Aesthetically it is a case where one could see a sort of beauty through gruesome progressions and fascinating ugliness.

1/08/2017

[Teaser of the day] Broken Moods For House Kites - The Shout

Kift Flipper

Indietronica
Post-rock
Avant-pop
Alternative
Art pop
Indie
Post-pop

Artist: Broken Moods For House Kites

Release: There There, Their Not

Label: Kift Flipper/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] SiJ - Birth of Life

Ambient
IDM
Chilltronica
Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Ambient pop
Mood music
Alternative

Artist: SiJ

Release: Way To Dream

Label: Hidden Vibes

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chebov - Story About How Two Farmers Fights Against The UFO

Subwise

Electronic music
Broken beats
Nu jazz
Sampledelic
Cinematic
Leftfield
Downtempo
Hip-hop
Breaks
Alternative

Artist: Chebov

Release: Noise For Summer

Label: Subwise

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Derek Clegg - Cause They See Us

Indie folk
Americana
Alt-folk
Baroque pop
Singer-songwriter
Folk indie
Chamber pop

Artist: Derek Clegg

Release: Left Side From My Right

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Marco Cella - :seven:

Phonocake

Post-classical
Soundscape
Ambient
Modern classical
Epic
Alternative

Artist: Marco Cella

Release: You`re here

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2016

Distopia – Enter Change EP (2014)

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Mood music
Chilltronica
Alternative
Live
Ambient pop
Ambient trance
Psybient

Comment: by following the thread at Bandcamp about the Atlanta, Georgia, US-based project this might be the debut issue of the artist. More profoundly, stylistically it is an exquisite mix of chill out, moody electronica, dub-inflected sprawling and trance-y psychedelic softness. One composition is recorded live. At times it might remind of The Orb (especially Orblivion, 1997) because the artist constitutes a broad space to create a trance-y psychedelic metaphysics within it. The result is elegantly resonant being saturated with different colours and dynamic penumbras. Jokingly, it is such a sort of universe where the lovers of trance music will go afterlife. Seriously, I hope it is true because the result is rich of fabulous images and bucolic spellbound.

Comptroller – 1̠̙̟͓̯͉͈͘0͏̹͍͇͕̼y̟̤̟̱̙̦͠r͕͔̖̩̱̯͡ͅs_͙̯̥͖̫͉͡十年_̜̘̥̫̥̮̘1̣̟͕0̯̗̭̦̣́y̠͕͈̹r͇s͚͡ (2016)

Bandcamp

Chiptune
8-bit
Tracker music
Electro
Bitpop
Electronic music
Chipbreak
Alternative

Comment: it is said this 8-notch track is a collection of unreleased/lost/weird stuff, marking 10 years of Comptroller since 2006 to 2016. So yes by watching the row of released albums by Edinburgh, Scotland-based artist it could be said he has reached aesthetically much during this span of time. Musically he has revitalised a Commodore 64 and Amiga and game console-based tradition, called chiptune/8-bit/tracker music. With regards to most nowadays electronica traditions it could be said that the tracker music legacy is more about to create an electrically loaded field around the listener. In other words, one can perceive thick, loaded electric flows coming out from the both stereo channels. So yes, you can perceive those awkward, rough tiny muscles being constrained behind those electro chords (at times being quite close to the electro-punk/indie attitude). In a word, it is a nice retrospection of the artist.

1/07/2017

[Teaser of the day] Nasienie - Insomnia

Webbed Hand

Soundscape
Minimalism
Experimentalism
Glitchtronica
Epic
Ambient
Avant-garde

Artist: Nasienie

Release: Blackwood EP

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Photophob - Find Him, Kill Him

Laridae

Breakbeat
Electronic music
Breakcore
Jungle
Spoken word
Electro

Artist: Photophob

Release: Wasteland Vibes

Label: Laridae

Year: 2012

Azevedo Silva – Autista (2008)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Indie folk
Singer-songwriter
Alt-folk
Folk indie
Art rock
Fado

Comment: Azevedo Silva is a 34-year old troubadour from Lisboa, Portugal and it is his third issue being issued 8 years ago. At Bandcamp one can find out 8 albums in total. All these songs are in Portuguese and because of having no knowledge in this language I have the only chance to concentrate on sounds and harmonic and melodic aspects. All the concept used to focus on smouldering guitar play (even if it contains more acute and incisive dodges) with soulful singing being accompanied by some becalmed rhythms, affecting glockenspiel chords, spatial sonic and reversed effects, and some compelling arpeggios here and there. Although it does not contain much effects while being embedded within a calm cast those effects makes more difference because of it. For me, it is a quite genuine listening session because this Portuguese version of indie folk music does mean poignant guitar chords being intermingled with some fado undercurrents. Let`s call it a Portuguese version of Americana to draw parallels with bands over the Atlantic Ocean. In a word, it is a very fine listening time.

1/06/2017

Kalix Necralia – Crionecròpolis (2009)

Gorrion de Miga

Ambient
Experimentalism
Sound art
Illbient
Avant-garde
Soundscape
Leftfield
Dark ambient

Comment: this handful of compositions is a fine listening session because it chimes like a soundtrack for the wind blowing over the empty fields. Indeed, it is precise because it feeds one`s imagination about a cold winter, secondly it is crafted in the manner to masterfully accentuate a certain range of sonic odds and ends and thereof exquisitely arouse one`s emotive centres in heart and mind. By the way, at Archive.org it is tagged as dark ambient, and polar ambient in a poignant way. On the other side, it searches for connection either with the deceased world or the world of the deaths or for connection with both of them. It could deliberately be imagined as an accompaniment to documentary motion pictures depicting catacombs and graveyards. Yet, In a word, listen to it and be ready to participate in a lonely and desolate world. Additionally, by listening to these long compositions one can imagine the abduction of Persephone by Hades and the follow-up to it – when Persephone leaves the Earth to go down to the underworld to her husband and then a great part of the nature either will be deceased or freezed for a long time. However, sometime all will be born again. There is up hope, there is the expectation for a better life. Undoubtedly it is a purging experience. The issue is a mote in the discography of Gorrion de Miga.

1/05/2017

Static Masks - Goosebumps

[Teaser of the day] Will Bangs - Stealing Beauty

No Source

Singer-songwriter
Lo-fi
Folk
Americana
DIY

Artist: Will Bangs

Release: I Want To Grow Old With You

Label: No Source

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Summer Homes - Dismantled String Quartet

Post-rock
Experimental rock
Epic
Art rock
Chamber rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Summer Homes

Release: Found

Label: Futurerecordings

Year: 2016

1/04/2017

[Teaser of the day] Erik Mowinckel - Fire

Post-rock
Indietronica
Art rock
Alternative
Electronic

Artist: Erik Mowinckel

Release: Erik Mowinckel

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] il Russo - 2.2

MAV (0 KBPS)

Electronic music
Synthwave
Alternative
Cosmic synth
Kosmische Musik
Ambient
Epic

Artist: il Russo

Release: 2

Label: MAV (0KBPS)

Year: 2016

ion ghOST – And The Sky Fell (2012)

Swishcotheque

Electronic music
Breakcore
Breakbeat
Alternative
Drum and bass
Breaks
Alternative dance
Nu jazz
Synthwave

Comment: this 11-track issue is a part of the discography of Swishcotheque. It is as colourful and arousing and involves as much penumbras and shades as the cover print of the outing. In fact, it is quite puzzling to grasp the main flow of it because it includes the beats with different frequencies and disparate timbral suits and gleaming synthetic progressions on top of it. Because of that I would like to exploit such general stylistic tags as breakcore, and synthwave, respectively. The sensitivity of nu jazz, and nitid cadences. It might be that my question is posited in a wrong way because music needs no borders in any cases possible. Thereof it is almost impossible to say what it is but being a staggering release anyway. Additionally, one can enjoy more generic aspects on it – the clarity of sounds and subtlety with regard to the production. And that makes sense in the first place.

1/03/2017

[Teaser of the day] Alex Schaaf - Idioteque

Conceptual
Modern classical
Cover
Post-classical
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Artist: Alex Schaaf

Release: Radiohead's Kid A : Re-imagined

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Edgeist - Subterranea

Jamendo

Rhythmic noise
Post-industrial
Leftfield
Powerelectronics
Avant-garde
Electronic music

Artist: Edgeist

Release: Septentrion

Label: Enough/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Agnès Pe – Rob Herwig (2013)

MAV [0kbps]

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Freeformfreakout
Electronic music
DIY
Lo-fi
Improvised music
Lobit

Comment: this 9-notch issue will be finished off before it could embark on basically. Indeed, it consists of short snippets though full of different colours and stylistic dodges though the common line between the tracks is its inferior quality. For sure, it is a mind-provoking issue as if produced by a deranged madam who has gotten some sound panels of electronic music at her disposal to depict her seriously disturbed state of mind. She is freaked-out, she is psyched-out, she is maniac, she is angry and she tries to get the better of it by playing free jazz and improvised music on her own terms. At least she tries to do that because the result is remarkably more unsound and crazy. Thereafter I guess she feels herself a bit exalted and high-minded and calm. As the issue proves he does have success while representing something single and refreshing. Agnès Pe is an artist from Spain and the issue is a bit of the discography of the MAV [0kbps].

1/02/2017

[Teaser of the day] Martin Rach - Slaughterhouse 00.13

Post-classical
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Chamber music
Experimentalism
Leftfield

Artist: Martin Rach

Release: Works For Imaginary Orchestra

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bleep Bloop - Deadman

Soundcloud

Industrial-hop
Avant-hop
Glitch-hop
Noise-hop
Experimental hip-hop
Leftfield
Urban music

Artist: Bleep Bloop

Release: The EP With Five Eyes

Label: Self-released/Soundcloud

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Luis Marte - Tell Me

Pueblo Nuevo

Kraut-techno
Alternative dance
Electro pop
Minimalism
Electronic music
Post-industrial

Artist: Luis Marte

Release: Routier

Label: Pueblo Nuevo/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Erick Upheaval - Mind Rot

MNMN

Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
IDM
Epic
Alternative
Dubstep
Downtempo

Artist: Erick Upheaval

Release: Devouring Lugubre

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Neurotic Wreck - The Rain

Vulpiano

Electro-indie
Alternative pop/rock
Electronic
Acid rock
Indie pop/rock

Artist: Neurotic Wreck

Release: Various Artists - Vulpiano Records Sampler EP: Vol. 7

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Shaun Blezard - Bedroom

Earth Monkey Productions

Synthwave
Drone
Electronic music
Alternative
Soundtrack
Conceptual

Artist: Shaun Blezard

Release: Commissions

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2008

1/01/2017

Andy Kirk – I Used To Dance, Now I Romance (2006)

Earth Monkey Productions

IDM
Electronic music
Alternative
Toytronica
Glitchtronica
Experimental electronica
Downtempo
Epic

Comment: undoubtedly it is a fabulous 8-notch ghost from the past from the mid-00s when electronic underground music was still set up in the way to stand against the mainstream pop. There were up axial record labels like Mille Plateaux and Morr Music of which purpose was to disseminate IDM and glitched-out music and they succeeded in that. This album can be considered the magnum opus by Andy Kirk, because one could not find out other issues by the artist. The result is mind-blowing, catchy and just beautiful and thereof it used to evoke those cute memories which had existed 10-15 years ago while I was listening to artists who used to dwell between electronica, indie and glitchy beats. Furthermore, it reminds of advertising flashes at night while blinking and casting the light and neon shadows around and upon you. At times Andy Kirk's music sounds a bit infantile though it is obviously an affirmative moment by showing up the artist's ability to laugh at himself and drift more loosely in disparate ways. The issue contains a bunch of tracks which would throne the pop charts in an ideal world. Indeed, I like the kind of idealism which is presented in the artist's music. In fact, it is quite weird to experience such sort of a feeling as if you are foretold the future while you are listening to an issue from the past. The more you listen to it the more it opens up new angles and dimensions, at times one can feel it quite unfathomable. In a word, it is a mandatory listening for anyone who considers himself/herself to be a music fan. The issue is a part of the discography of Earth Monkey Productions.

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