Recent Music Heroes

Comment: Alan Vargas aka Alan Rèvolte is a musician from Mexico whose 10-track issue is an attention-getting blend of Spanish-sung lyrics, intense acoustic guitar strums all of that predominantly being managed in a straightforward approach. The straightforward approach over there does mean it is played with great fervour and infectious Latin temperament though wherein one can discern many changes in chords and timbres and rhythms. Sometimes his guitar play involves more spacey patches with the slowed-down rhythm (at Réquiem para un Poeta). Here and there he used to employ female voices to add extra tones and moods to the mix. The final track La Marcha de los Árboles makes also difference because of exploiting immersive, and minor tones to accentuate his ability to embrace a more wide spectre (thereby reminding of such experimental folk acts as Ben Chasny`s Six Organs Of Admittance, Espers, and Akron/Family, and through aesthetic predecessor lineage the artists of the so-called American Primitivism, for instance). The cover print is cute and nice because of resonating with the substance of the music. There is no need to added the animal-based drawings in minimal mode used to make sense at any time. These solid 24 minutes are a part of the discography of Naciòn Libre, the Mexican imprint of which stylistic range is quite broad (from hardcore/punk to stoner and doom to cyberpunk and crust).

[Teaser of the day] Pablo Ribot - Post-Hitchcock

Acousmatic music
Avant-garde
Post-classical
Film noir
Sampledelic
Experimentalism
Alternative
Electro-acoustic

Artist: Pablo Ribot

Release: Invasive Tones

Label: Plus Timbre

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mogadiscio Ensemble - The Italian Secret of the Spider Silk Violin

DIY
Electronic music
Leftfield
Crossover
Outsider house
Lo-fi
Electro
Alternative

Artist: Mogadiscio Ensemble

Release: Rejected Ambient Works 2009-2016

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Non Dolet - Varya

Post-classical
Alternative
Electronic music
New Age
Art music
Experimental pop
Toytronica
Ambient pop

Artist: Non Dolet

Release: Nameless Lake

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Cuubik. - French Girls

Lo-fi
DIY
Fuzz pop
Alternative pop/rock
Dream pop
Indie pop/rock

Artist: Cuubik.

Release: to James

Label: Trash Can Dance/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Yes Chef! - _Huffing

Magyar

Avant-garde
Experimental electronica
Ambient
IDM
Noise

Artist: Yes Chef!

Release: The Ropes, The Ropes

Label: Magyar

Year: 2009

4/12/2017

[Teaser of the day] Aporia - Celestial Castles

Alternative
Indietronica
Electronic
Ambient pop
Shoegazetronica
Dream pop

Artist: Aporia

Release: Almost Tropical

Label: Cosmic Compositions

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Coyote Clean Up - Dream Slapp

Outsider house
Electronic music
Deep house
Hypnagogic pop
DIY
Club dance
Alternative dance

Artist: Coyote Clean Up

Release: Hormones And Horoscopes Volume Three

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Syndrome WPW – American Gospel: 5 Songs (2017)

Midinette

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Indietronica
Electronic pop
Acid pop
Robot pop
Dub
Comedy

Comment: this notch issue is a fair killer due to a sultry blend of electronic styles and an incisive touch of acidic beats and spaced-out debris and poignant humour. Could it be ever the best American gospel? I guess it could be though it is not the kind of American gospel in the usual sense of this word. It is not related to churches, black Americans, and high-spirited music. Stop! Wait! Yet it is high-spirited, it also involves some dub(step) and suggestive reggae vibes all of that tightly revolving around the slightly veiled melodic progression. In fact, it is all about Heartwork, the central track within the album. It is a great success and deserves to have a chart place in an ideal world. Aces High, and I'm Alive are obviously more humour riveted progressions chiming as if reflections from the head of a creative schizophrenic being previously exposed to cheesy balladry, cloying gay pop, mawkish eurobeat. All the aforementioned facets are absorbed in his deranged, acidic, and a bit aggressive mind. Where is a fifth song, in truth? The issue is a part of the discography of Lausanne, Swiss imprinte Midinette Records.

4/11/2017

Nuno Maltez – Improvised Acoustic Guitar (2011)

Rejected

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Art music

Comment: in fact, the title says everything - it is all about the acoustic guitar and improvised kind of music throughout the course of a 17-minute. It is based on canorous guitar twangs, spacey guitar's resonance in the surrounding room and the counterpoint of it are reversed, ellipse-tinged guitar loops to establish the raspy rhythmic point to it at a time. Despite its experimental approach the outing is gentle by its nature and even revealing exuberant facets within its mood. For me, it is a sort of moody music either. And the actual course of it seems to be even a bit shorter than it actually is. I guess it is an implication of qualitative music. The outing is a mote in the discography of Rejected Netlabel.

4/10/2017

[Teaser of the day] Worhs - Rat

Black metal
Neofolk
Epic
Dark folk
Brutal metal

Artist: Worhs

Release: Partir / Détruire

Label: Dipsomaniac Distilleries

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Skism - Stodj

12rec.

Easy listening
Sampledelic
Trip-hop
Chilltronica
Alternative
Mood music
Hip-hop
Breaks
Electronic music

Artist: Skism

Release: Skism EP

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Global Goon & Captain Johnson - Hyper Sleep

Upitup

Electronic music
Trance
Tekno
Alternative dance
Crossover
Electro

Artist: Global Goon/Captain Johnson

Release: Kepler Odyssey

Label: Upitup

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Carmelo Amenta - Grandine

Barbie Noja

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Folk rock
Singer-songwriter
Avant-rock
Art rock

Artist: Carmelo Amenta

Release: La Gioia Ostentata Di Una Notte Che Recita

Label: Barbie Noja

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Green Gerry - Pupil Patterns Are Crazy

Indie pop/rock
Slowcore
Avant-rock
Dream pop
Experimental pop
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Green Gerry

Release: Egg Nog

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

4/09/2017

Mato Grosso – Tea Party EP (2010)

Bandcamp

Hardcore
Alternative rock
Power pop
Post-hardcore
Psych-rock

Comment: this set of 6 pieces is an amalgamation of a hardcore punk bottom and a blackened power pop vector. Indeed, it is not the music for puritans of those styles only. It is not hardcore by numbers. It is playful, cheeky and loving to go beyond. Those slamming drums and some irregular journeys on it, dynamic joint vocals and galvanised hirsute guitars are to constitute a formidable whole. Undoubtedly Tea Party EP is a disparate form of hardcore because it does not associate with certain tight predictable borders, it is not only about anxiety and rage, it is not a big fish in the creek, it is a big fish at the sea. Say yeah to the outing by the Spanish-based quartet..

Niko Niko! – ePop029 (2012)

EardrumsPop

Bandcamp

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Twee pop

Comment: the first remark of mine about this 4-notch outing is related to its tamed and silent nature. The listener should remarkably crank up volume to partake. Musically its roots seem to come out from the cute, twee pop-tinged Swedish indie pop scene (Acid House Kings, The Concretes, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, The Mary Onettes) which was particularly popular in the 00s. Earlier influences used to hark back to the 60s folk music. Cute male vocal lead, retrodelic keyboard sounds and droning, chiming guitars and bubblegum-ish bass patterns which purpose was to entertain the listener. On the other side it is unpretentious to develop indie music as a phenomenon. It is not the sort of Stereolab and Tortoise-alike ambition to cross its borders with every subsequent outing. However, those ditties are solid ones, for example A Lifetime in the Sun is a blissful shimmer dedicated to the spring. The outing is a bit in the discography of the Norwegian-based EardrumsPop. Niko Niko! Is the solo project of Bergen, Norway-based Nickolai Nilsen.

4/06/2017

[Teaser of the day] First Dress - The Melancholy Of Brittle Stability

Dark ambient
Illbient
Ambient drone
Neoclassical
Dystopbient
Power electronics
Ambient noise
Drone
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Artist: First Dress

Release: A Forest Beneath The Waves

Label: Big Pharma

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kirk Cosby - Stimuli Unconsciously

Vaatican

Sampledelic
Plunderphonics
Avant-garde
Sound collage
Spoken word
Minimalism
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Electronic music

Artist: Kirk Cosby

Release: Dreams In The Absence Of Oxygen

Label: Vaatican /Cratediggers

Year: 2011

Macaco Bong – Macaco Bong (2016)

Sinewave

Post-rock
Alternative rock
Dance rock
Funk
Math rock
Psych-rock
Stoner rock

Comment: just before I started to listen to this Brazil-based combo's music I had listened to the Smiths' second issue Meat Is Murder in f..king vinyl format (joke!), by many considered as the band's most funky issue (the central composition undoubtedly is Barbarism Begins at Home). The change was not the discontinuation, it was a natural succession from one album to another though formally they are different but you can find much common due to these dance-appealed appearances here and there. At least it happened in my head. Formally it is an instance of post-rock with the danceable bubblegum guitar and the tricky bass guitar and the sustaining drums to showcase something different in the post-rock scene. Of course, I should not be misunderstood - it is not a dance pop in the definition of eurobeat and even post-disco. It may be the trio`s roots come out from the No Wave scene, Funkadelic/Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Sly And The Family Stone instead. The scaffolding of the album is bold, slightly rough but it builds up slowly to reach its impressive climax. For me it is an unusual case because those sophisticated math rock developments are imbued with enchanting grooves and cheerful twists (for instance, listen to Distraiidos Venceremos). At Baiaro De Stoner one can be a part of a high-spirited audible universe through those frantic and exuberant overdrives on guitars. Yet there are up enough numbers where one can perceive more oppressive elliptical patterns moving from one side to another from the bottom to the top as an ominous vapour. Undoubtedly such a clever and crafty combo must be consecrated because of the structure of the tracks and intriguing and profound guitar timbres and sounds. Let's just call it guitar-induced alchemy for all our well-being. This outstanding issue is a part of the discography of the great Brazilian imprint Sinewave.

[Teaser of the day] Gogo Yubari - On The Subject Of Humans

Hardcore
Post-hardcore
Alternative rock
Avant-rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Gogo Yubari

Release: The Yes Yes Sound Of Gogo Yubari

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Frägil - Lost My Soul

Trastienda

Indietronica
Alternative pop
DIY
Bedroom pop
Lo-fi
Electronic pop

Artist: Frägil

Release: Premiers Symptômes

Label: Trastienda

Year: 2005

4/05/2017

[Teaser of the day] Low - Fye - Symptoms

Singer-songwriter
Lo-fi
Alt-folk
Folk indie
DIY
Indie folk

Artist: Low - Fye

Release: You Keep Them

Label: Dying For Bad Music

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Vansire - Pale Blue

Indie pop/rock
Jangle pop
Alternative pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: Vansire

Release: The Rolling, Driftless North

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Everything Is Transendent

Happy Puppy

Indie
Alternative
Art pop
Electronic
Experimental pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Five Times Through

Label: Happy Puppy/Archive.org

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Deftechnixks - How to Leave Your Scales Home?

Experimental rock
Art rock
Indie rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Deftechnixks

Release: Reliefless

Label: Underpolen/Archive.org

Year: 2015

4/04/2017

SISTERS – Christy Canyon EP (2014)

Diabetic Koala

Bandcamp

Avant-garde
Lo-fi
Post-industrial
Goth-trap
DIY
Witch house
Drag house
Experimental music
Leftfield

Comment: SISTERS is a project from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, USA whose 4-track issue is dedicated to Christy Canyon, a retired famous porn actress who had been involved in more than 100 adult motion pictures. I like the phrase "Heaven is Christy Canyon falling in love with me" from the song Heaven Is by English synth pop/art pop/post-punk collective Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. I hoped maybe the outing does have a thematic sequel but there is no issues dedicated to Monica Roccaforte, Simona Valli, Erika Bella, for instance. Love seems to be dead in classical sense and all is virtually stimulated and filled in with simulacra. And it is propagated by the mainstream TV. Musically it is a thick, and lo-fi experiment full of stomping witch house and mutant hip-hop and ominous trap rhythms. I will give it the positive valuation especially in those tracks wrapped up in lethargic, vaporous noises as if coming out from different media and thereof providing a shamanic effect on a listener. In truth, this issue strengthens the tradition of industrial music with regard to such famous cases as Cosey Fanny Tutti as being a porn actress and porn as a part of her performance art, Genesis P-Orridge (another member from Throbbing Gristle) as a transgender human being and artist, and Jhonn Balance, and Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson (the core members of Coil) propagating a voluptuous (gay) sex through their music. The issue is a bit in the discography of Diabetic Koala.

[Teaser of the day] Accent Aigu - Mymindisviralismymindismad

Tape Safe

Drone
Drone pop
Organcore
Electronic music
Indietronica
Alternative

Artist: Accent Aigu

Release: Casse-tête Tricolore

Label: Tape Safe/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mirth Naarc - Geometry of Strings

Free Music Archive

Alternative
Avant-house
Breaks
Avant-garde
Crossover
Post-dubstep
Electronic music

Artist: Mirth Naarc

Release: FX

Label: Free Music Archive/Folksoundomy

Year: 2016

4/03/2017

C.J. Pizarro – Snow Crabs (2004)

Imaginary Albums

Electronic pop
Comedy
Urban music
Hip-hop
Rap
Indie pop

Comment: it happened quite recently when I discovered such a label as Imaginary Albums which in fact had been in action in the first half of the 00s. The roster of the imprint involves such artists as Corpus Callosum, The History and Civilization of the Great Black Swamp, Laura Palmer, Hubre, Procrustes, Blasting Trout Overbite, Cookie Jar, Santa Inferno, The Harvey Girls, Swain, Tiny Creatures (the artist also being known from the roster of the Israeli imprint Birdsong. Thanks to it I discovered Imaginary Albums), and C.J Pizarro. The two first tracks (Dark Black Semen, Going To Die) apparently mock the violent gangsta rap philosophy and culture gravitating towards sex, guns, and dope. Of course, the rest of the tracks (or at least the most of them) have been managed to focus on these themes but they abandon the apparent stereotypical approach though carrying on a tongue-in-cheek advance and involving black humour (for instance, at Look! I'm an Angel!). Frequently comedy aspects are intermingled with experimental pop elements. For instance, at Alpacas R Us the artist exploits repulsively desperate vowel effects and chants and a battle of sonic effects being counterpointed by sublime a cappella and soulful singing here and there, However, there are up some tracks which used to distance from rap/hip-hop music. For instance, the final track Heaven and Milk running in the vein of artsy indie pop by employing sliding sonic effects and twanging guitars and exuberant singing.

[Teaser of the day] The Vaselines - Slushy

Free Music Archive

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Live session
Fuzz pop

Artist: The Vaselines

Release: Live at Primavera Sound Festival 5/28/2009

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Aairria - Between Then And Now (for Edgar Froese)

Kosmische Musik
Space music
Electronic music
Ambient
Avant-garde
Soundscape

Artist: Aairria

Release: Music For Xenology

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

4/02/2017

Ollie Cram – Firm (2016)

Bump Foot

Electronic pop
Alternative pop
Synth pop
Electro-indie
Poptronica
Indietronica
Mood music
Chilltronica

Comment: this instrumental set of 3 tracks while clocking in at a 10 minute used to provide a considerable appeal where one can hear sweet-natured synthesised developments being backed up by stomping mid-tempo cadences. The favourite of mine are Lena`s Flag, and Rust where the listener can partake in catchy indie-influenced harmonic gears, glaring timbres, and ebullient rhythmic shuffles (alternatively, one could call it kraut-electro). At Rust those synthesised improvisations are impressive enough to be denoted separately. However, Huh is a solid track by any means as well though paving its way with a more laid-back attitude and a tranquil mood because of being subjugated to a controlled rhythmic algorithm. All the elements are seamlessly linked with one another and thereof consisting of a welcome whole. However, the aforementioned moody difference between the tracks is slight. This positive issue by the experienced Bristol, UK-based artist (being active since the first half of the 00s) is a bit in the discography of Bump Foot.

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - Track 2 Mister July

Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Singer-songwriter
Avant-pop
Ambient
Electro-acoustic
Art pop
Post-classical
Electronic
Americana
Experimental pop

Artist: H Stewart

Release: Parker Square

Label: Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - Shirts Off Dudes On 3

Take Pills Die

Electro
Alternative dance
Electronic music
Post-disco
Electro pop
Robot pop

Artist: Take Pills Die

Release: 07.07.07 JESUS SLAVES

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2007

The Woozy Speakers – Nonlinearities (2011)

Bandcamp

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Garage rock
Noise pop

Comment: The Woozy Speakers is a combo from Massachusetts, USA and they play mostly booming guitar music though apologizing that some tracks from with n the 10-track issue are out of tune and may not be in-time. Maybe it is so, maybe it is not exactly that way but the most important aspect is that the result makes very sense because the flow of fair noise rock is constant and coherent pouring out of much energy and power from the loudspeakers. Additionally, one of the strengths of the issue is related to emotive side as well. For instance, Medicine is a fine love song with sublime profound echoes and an emotive blanket. At Walt The Hound Dog they (ironically) sing that “country music is in my blood” but one can hear certain influences coming from the East coast indie scene (The Pixies, and Dinosaur Jr.), and Scottish indie popsters such as The Vaselines, The Primitives, and The Pastels, and even some vibes of an early My Bloody Valentine (especially at If You Were You). Musically it is a quite linear alternative pop example but it is focused on a certain style and exploiting different penumbras to amplify the final result. And it fulfils a listener.

4/01/2017

[Teaser of the day] Syndrome WPW - Heartwork

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Post-dub
Electro pop
Post-reggae
Digital hardcore
Alternative

Artist: Syndrome WPW

Release: 1970 American Gospel: 5 songs

Label: Midinette

Year. 2017

[Teaser of the day] Pulso - Caneta Sem Tinta

Hip-hop
Rap
Sampledelic
Urban music

Artist: Pulso

Release: Gillettes, Papéis e Outros Objectos Cortantes

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Autumn Grey

Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Sadcore
Dream pop

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordello underground tape vol 5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Linear Bells - To The Moon

Glitchtronica
Epic
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Post-classical
Ambient
Leftfield

Artist: Linear Bells

Release: The Stars Will Shine

Label: Soft

Year: 2014

Mjatnaya Lovushka – Mjatnaya Lovushka (2015)

101.io

Space pop
Lo-fi
DIY
Alternative
Indie
Electronic
Post-punk
Psychedelic
Avant-pop
Minimal synth

Comment: by listening to this 11-notch outing it reminds me of those times when I was listening to Devendra Banhart (it probably happened in the second half of 2003), and Ariel Pink (it was probably up in the beginning of 2005). It does not mean that Mjatnaya Lovushka, and Ariel Pink are stylistically very similar but it is all about do-it-yourself attitude, about home recording, about self-esteem to create something special and distinguishing (even if it is partly rehashed and borrowed from obscure, forgotten traditions of the underground music scene. In fact, we have no chance to exceed previously established cultural layers beneath and around us). The whole starts off at Melting Light Among Leaves with a soaring riff-o-rama being accompanied by clumsy stomping beats at the bottom and dreamy synthesisers and singing atop. While I was producing the sound of Autharktos I sometimes liked to exploit one of such a prepared rhythm on my synthesiser Casio Tonebank Sa-1 with intent to slightly modulate and change its initial pace. Later tracks, however, will reveal the artist`s more introverted nature even he likes to use hirsute guitar sounds and employ minimal and monotonous yet predominant post-punk/and minimal synth tinged drumming. It is because the Kosmische Musik/cosmic synth induced aspect is strongly presented within it. His soundscape is sometimes wrapped up in enchanting hisses to provide an additional value to the soundscape. You can find out many gems from within it (Komari, Melting Light Among Leaves, Drawings, Pink Flakes, Poison In Your Bag) but the whole is devoid of fillers and weak compositions. This spellbinding issue is a bit in the discography of Cologne, Germany-based imprint 101.io.

Nieva Sobre Dioses – Ecos de Otros Mundos Sospechad (2008)

Gorriòn de Miga

Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
Alternative
Synthwave
Darkwave
Industrial electro

Comment: these 46 minutes are up there to disclose a stunning issue based on masterful synth-based works filled in with poignant rhythmic turns, sublime harmonic progressions while being saturated with murky timbres. As the result it seems to be enduring and majestic because all these 6 compositions seem to be seamlessly followed by one another. However, it does not mean at all it lacks enough elements to be intriguing and thought-provoking. Musically it could be tagged as an instance of synthwave and Kosmische Musik while being baptized by a dark ambient/darkwave priest. It chimes like a living, autarkic universe of whom breathing can be perceived in all directions of the universe. Emotionally one can discern slightly repulsive loneliness/nothingness being subordinated by immanent mastery. This universe is embraced by another universe called Gorriòn de Miga Records.

3/30/2017

J. Oskura Nájera – Phil Spectrum (2016)

NYAPSTER

Dada pop
Electronic pop
Leftfield
Dance pop
New Wave
Synth pop
Art pop
Neoclassical
Avant-pop
Alternative dance
Surf pop

Comment: this 12-notch issue clocking in at a 27-minute only is a witty comment on electronic pop music. It involves a loads of “obligatory” styles as synth pop, (electronic) dance pop yet there are represented more post-punk/rock/New Wave-tinged numbers as well. In truth, the styles are not represented in pure format. Furthermore, the artist is inclined to find out supportive points from darkened/neoclassical electronic music, uncanny cabaret and art pop styles. In such a track as La niebla acecha BSO one can draw parallels upon the likes of Messer Chups/and Messer Für Frau Müller, and Man or Astro-man? because those ghostly synthesised high frequencies and sheer electronic effects and surf pop-based elements (especially at torbellino de ostias 02) are intermingled with a tongue-in-cheek attitude. The latter fact of the last mentioned sentence can be admitted about The Facts In The Case Of The Hypnocoin BSO because the frantic first half of the track on synthesisers is merely followed by austere bleeps in the second part. Indeed, music is united with the manifestation of nothingness though all the impression comes into a mind-provoking substance. Indeed, it could be said some seeds of dada pop are represented over there. The issue is a part of the discography of Barcelona, Catalonia-based imprint NYAPSTER. Fairly fine.

3/29/2017

[Teaser of the day] Aitänna 77 - September`s Coming

MoonSwing

Folktronica
Lo-fi
Alternative
DIY
Glo-fi
Chillwave
Electronic

Artist: Aitänna 77

Release: L`avventura EP

Label: MoonSwing/Cratediggers

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Wes Leslie - May Day (Union Song)

Soul
Indie pop
Alternative pop
Americana
Singer-songwriter
Indie soul

Artist: Wes Leslie

Release: Bedroom Soul

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Miseryslims – EP.1 (2017)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Fuzz pop
Jangle pop

Comment: Miseryslims is a trio from Manitoba, Canada who plays a simple yet sensitive sort of rock music on their debut outing. It is based on fairly chiming guitars and expressive male vocal to express sublime longing and slightly changing moods throughout the tracks. One may find out an additional value from the fact that this 4-track outing was recorded in a cabin somewhere nearby a shallow swamp lake. Indeed, the guitars still have power to be a predominant bottom within the indie music scene. The favourite track of mine is Cloth Deity. Very nice success indeed.

3/28/2017

[Teaser of the day] Sobaki Kachalova - Cvety do Utra

Clinical Archives

Post-punk
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Jangle pop

Artist: Sobaki Kachalova

Release: Gryazniye Botinki

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Heezen - Fractura

12rec.

Glitchtronica
Post-rock
Avant-rock
Electronic music
Folktronica
Avant-folk
Crossover
Post-folk
Experimental rock
Electro-acoustic
Alternative

Artist: Heezen

Release: Secret Speech

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Nonima - Schesis

Experimental electronica
Electronic music
Ambient
Musique concrète
Micronoise
Abstract

Artist: Nonima

Release: Recur

Label: Section 27

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Antoni Robert - Train Piece #4 (Fab Four Piece)

Hazard

Abstract
Field recording
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Musique concrète
Conceptual
Minimalism
Glitchtronica
Experimental electronica

Artist: Antoni Robert

Release: Train Pieces (Final Mix)

Label: Hazard

Year: 2016

Wings Of An Angel – Eccentric Addictions (2017)

Bandcamp

Drone
Avant-garde
Minimalism
Electronic music
Epic
Modern classical
Experimentalism
Post-classical
Dreamwave

Comment: I can only agree with the statement that Wings Of An Angel`s 80-minute long issue is something very eccentric and addictive. You shall have to take time to get into this endless, tremendous drone of being provided with slightly varied tones and lysergic penumbras which eventually progress into truly epic and fascinating. I cannot be without the aforementioned adjectives because other words may sound way too faint to express the impact of a subsequent album by the Israeli musician. It sounds as if a tremendous current getting by and a the same time seducing a listener with its soothing vibes and silky timbres. Oh yeah, it is a great success by a very prolific artist who knows how to maintain the quality regardless. I am going to add it to the list of the best albums in 2017.

3/27/2017

[Teaser of the day] Cannaya - Raumfaltung

Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Industrial electro
Leftfield
Experimental electronica

Artist: Cannaya

Release: Klangwerk

Label: Format Noise

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Maude

Cratediggers

Post-classical
Art music
Avant-garde
Film noir
Alternative
Chamber music

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: Montauk

Label: Cratediggers

Year: 2001

The Gifted Children – Open Windows (2009)

The Gifted Children
Bandcamp

Indie pop
Alternative pop
Art pop
Noise pop
Chamber pop
Epic
Electronic
Jangle pop
Americana
Baroque pop

Comment: it seems the only shortage of this 7-track outing is related to its shortness. It chimes as if there were represented one track only though the track with different facets and magnetic fields. From lofty chamber pop glimpses and luminous Americana induced developments to catchy jangle pop instances to a more tumultuous noise pop explosion (Here Comes The Flood) and dreamy piano driven numbers to a sublime, restrained electronic instance (Niblick). But it is not an instance of indie by numbers. It is a dynamic drift between the different genres and because of that many the so-called indie groups do have much to learn from it. It might be by using the word "indie" for that it is a pejorative case. It is highly sympathetic of how the soundscape of these songs used to soar and reach fairly blissful points eventually (for instance, at A Forest). Top notch by any means by the Rochester, NY, US-based combo. Give your valuable time to listen to it.

3/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Boogich Bulgar

Free Music Archive

Ethno punk
Balkan music
Brass pop
Punk rock
World music
Gypsy music

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Wild Goats and Useless Heroes

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Runway H

Third Worlds

Electronic music
Alternative
Leftfield
Industrial-hop
Avant-hop
Experimental hip-hop
Urban music
Instrumental hip-hop

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Fashion Week

Label: Third Worlds

Year: 2015

Noise Machine – Disturbing Sensitive Ears (2013)

DreamNoise

Noise
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Non-music
Leftfield
Psychoacoustic

Comment: undoubtedly the relations between music and noise is a topic on its own. Firstly, how it should be categorised, is it a part of music or a deviation from it? One of the first noiseniks were Italians and they created their soundscapes to protest against the war and atrocities which ravaged Europe despite the lofty ideas and profound thought being predominant in science and philosophy in the first two decades. Noise music as a composed art of powerful, devastating sounds was an incisive sign reflecting on decayed and collapsed ideas regarding humanity. The Brazilian Noise Machine as a project started off in the mid-90s to create overwhelming soundscapes providing no mercy and grace. This 4-track outing is a mind-blowing ravage based on brownish noises, "erroneous" frequencies being thrown over the four soundscapes. Indeed, a listener is the subject to partake from these "errors" as a musical component. At times one can suspect is it alright with his/her stereo system or headphones. Is it a terrible mess for you? I really hope you will not perceive it in that way because of not being that shit altogether. Although it is not easy ride at all one can figure out many intriguing sounds, hisses, effects and eventually a whole behind it. It plays tricks on your sacred mind. The outing is a part of the discography of DreamNoise imprint.

3/25/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Shining Men - The Cretan Way of Life

Jamendo

Alternative
Electro pop
Minimal electro
Tech-electro
Alternative dance

Artist: The Shining Men

Release: Mediterrean Explorations EP

Label: 17Sons/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Norton - Pleased To Get Home (And Me Remix)

Aerotone

Indietronica
Acid pop
Electro-indie
Remix
Electronic
Alternative
Indie pop

Artist: Norton

Release: Kersche Remixed

Label: Aerotone/Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] S'ur - Paradise

Clinical Archives

Art rock
Alternative rock
Musique concrète

Artist: S`ur

Release: Quadro EP

Label: Clinical Archives/afmusic

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Djokovic - Caligula

Alternative pop
Indie pop
Nugaze
Glo-fi
Dream pop

Artist: Djokovic

Release: Pady/Caligula EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

3/24/2017

Junya Nishimura – Vitality In The Blank (2016)

Totokoko

Modern classical
Minimalism
Avant-garde
Post-classical
Piano music
Improvised music
Mood music

Comment: I am glad to be back by choosing out from the discography of a Japanese imprint, Totokoko. This set of 16 tracks is a simplistic one by its format and accomplishment because of consisting of sparse and silent piano chords. It chimes like it would have been played by a lone piano player in the corner being depressed for a while but yet ready to come out from that mentally deranged hole. Indeed, you can hear silver lines and waking mood on the album especially when the artist employs faster chords in his playing. Furthermore, despite being simplistic by its format and outer shape its inner qualities are superiorly arousing and suggestive full of invisible touch and intangible magic. It reminds of the simplicity of the music of Steve Reich, and Philip Glass but it is in that way at the first glance. Less is more in that context because Junya Nishimura can handle the lonely chords in an improvisational manner. By kindred souls I recommend listen to such artists as Lubomyr Melnyk, Oskar Hallbert, Nils Frahm, Bosque De Mi Mente, Ólafur Arnalds, Jacaszek, Max Richter.

Monkey Warhol – EP3 (2016)

Bandcamp

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Electronic pop
Alternative pop

Comment: Monkey Warhol is an artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA who have released 4 EPs so far. If to cite the electro-catchy ditty Desperate Measures “the rhythm is your mysteries” and it says all in fact. All these 5 tracks clocking in at a 12 minute is a lush rhythmic Moloch full of propulsive electro beats and iterative phrases of word. I guess Andy Warhol would like that because of music and because of the history (in fact, the legend behind it) of Monkey Warhol used to deface other historical facts either. For instance, the artist was inspired by Bob Dylan’s loud and abrasive Metal Machine Music. Additionally the artist must be quite old because he (or she) was born in late-1800s. And of course, Monkey Warhol partly hijacked the identity of Andy Warhol which has been a practice by the counterculture for a while to employ the symbols of the mainstream economic-driven culture and then deface and ridicule them. Yet it is a new level because Andy Warhol was a prominent figure within the counterculture. Never mind, the outing is a top tier.

Infraaudio - Prana (2016)

Sinewave

Bigorna Discos

Alternative rock
Screamo
Epic
Emo

Comment: in fact, it is hard to describe this couple of tracks being a part of the discography of Sinewave, a Brazilian imprint. It might be it is the firm sound of the label because it used to drift somewhere between some styles of metal, straightforward alternative rock and massive post-rock. Its content is elegantly slamming and flowing at the same time being accentuated with Portuguese singing. By listening to Antena it can be said it is overflowed with emotions yet not being cheesy and annoying. It is massive yet not being lame. It is like a fine spectacle of rolling guitar torrents and desperate manhood. That's is a way to depict the world around us. And a listener can perceive warmth pouring out of it. Additionally to Sinewave, it is also a bit in the discography of another Brazilian imprint, Bigorna Discos.

3/22/2017

[Teaser of the day] Soul Bliss Productions - If Only We Tried

Tachyon

Electronic pop
Chilltronica
Easy listening
Synthpop
Alternative pop
Mood music

Artist: Soul Bliss Productions

Release: The Sun In A Vial (EP)

Label: Tachyon

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Dubrajah - Chitwan

Dub
Reggae
Alternative
Crossover

Artist: Dubrajah

Release: Reprise

Label: Dub-O-Phonic/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Servant Girl Annihilator - Cemetery Sojourn

Torn Flesh

Death metal
Deathgrind
Grindcore
Brutal metal

Artist: Servant Girl Annihilator

Release: Enemies Ov God

Label: Torn Flesh/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Slo-Blo - UtAL02

Crna Zemlja

Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Noise
Electro-acoustic
Abstract
Leftfield
Post-industrial

Artist: Slo-Blo

Release: Unknown Time And Locations :

Label: Crna Zemlja/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

The Hathaway Family Plot – Mechanics In The Age Of Artistic Reproduction (2017)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
No Wave
Art pop
Noise
Experimentalism
Experimental pop
Freeformfreakout
Post-industrial
Drone pop
Improvised music
Avant-pop

Comment: it is not surprise at all I have been fascinated with the aesthetics of The Hathaway Family Plot for a while because every step by a Buffalo, US-based artist called Kevin McFadden is worth to be parsed and thought off. It is interesting and intriguing. In comparison to his previous albums he used to incorporate new elements and axial aspects to the mix and making it in the way to change the paradigm being set out by him previously. The current 14-notch issue is overwhelmed by stomping noises, designed deranged noise sculptures (Dymaxion; Not Gonna Leave), gentle yet uncanny improvisations of having neither time nor space and some mutilated vocal lines and if to compare it to the artist previous issue Having No Alternative it is more inclined to be a successor of No Wave music and the aesthetic of beatniks. Its purpose is to to be set free from oppressive conventions and annoying traditions being an effect of a society of having no future and certain plan to transcend recent economic and survival understanding. At least it seems so while Kevin McFadden likes to manipulate with it and finally destroy it by deconstructing it into something new and challenging. Indeed, one part of the whole it is made up of thought-provoking sounds but the rest of it reveals a huge emotional impact on one's weary sensations and resigned soul. It can be concluded it is ultimately a positive plan to be set out for the sake of all of us. Indeed, by listening to the whole I can imagine it as if a sonic counterpoint of a beatnik text being converted into. But it does not mean the artist dislikes silent moments. For instance, Elegy for Thomas Kincaid The Younger (1661-1726) is a sublime number of a droning organ and a dense harmonica (?). However, The Locks reminds of the art of Robert Wyatt. In general, Mechanics In The Age Of Artistic Reproduction is a fine outing which is a chapter along the path paved by Kevin McFadden. Alarms are up there everywhere but we need more and more surprises to cope with them. Digital simulacra and the simulacra of real life are just nugatory objects to deceive himself/herself thoroughly. It is not the solution at all.

3/21/2017

Vincent Casanova – Cosmic Bikini EP (2005)

Epsilonlab

House
Tech-house
Club dance
Electronic music
Electro house

Comment: first of all, it is quite annoying to review house and club music related issues because those ones are quite orthodox by its nature except if a style is still in the beginning of its formation. For example, Vincent Casanova's 4-notch outing is a strong statement through electro house and tech-house pathways. All the mandatory elements which make music loveable are nicely represented over there - catchy rhythms, iterative rhythmic patterns, hovering synthesisers atop. At times you will forget yourself in the midst of those trance-inducing gaits. What else to add? I like the title. Even more I would like to know who is supposed to wear the cloth? The outing is a bit in the discography of Montrèal-based imprint Epsilonlab. Solid work.

3/20/2017

[Teaser of the day] Franq - Modern Rites

Zimmer-Records

Electronic pop
Italo disco
Electro pop
Electro-disco
Alternative dance

Artist: Franq

Release: Anxious States EP

Label: Zimmer-Records

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] M-Pex - Varmiton

Enoughrecords

Post-rock
Post-classical
Experimental rock
Chamber music
Crossover
Avant-rock
Electro-acoustic

Artist: M-Pex

Release: Carinae

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] HS - $HELL

Tape Safe

Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Cosmic synth
Synthwave
Cosmic fusion
Ambient pop
Alternative

Artist: HS

Release: DARKSHINIZER (Sylphides/HS)

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2016

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