Recent Music Heroes

8/06/2017

Malicious Wonderland – Wasteland (2017)

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Leftfield
Post-industrial
Drone
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Industrial techno

Comment: since reading the artist's name and the title of the album I got aware of a possibility that wonderland can be malicious and the scene of the play can be performed in the middle of the wasteland. Indeed, it is a serious play with blackened, ill-omened soundscapes and varied rhythms where austere, rusty noises are amplified to an extent where the changes in the quantity used to redound in the quality. In a word, post apocalyptic metallic shrieks and steely lurking and iteratively emitting diabolical orchestrations do constitute the predominant layer within the 12-notch course. By exploring the discography you can see the artist is inclined to focus on darkened, murky themes like dystopia, and darkness veiled within our hearts. Behind the project is the same artist who is being known as Reflections From Nowhere.

Lezet – Intimate (2017)

Etched Traumas

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Improvised music
Alternative
Primitive music

Comment: I am quite stricken of how and at which degree Igor Jovanovic decided to change his mind and path in comparison to his previous outing Aether (2016, Kermesse). He abandoned his way of previously walking along modern classical, drone, chamber music pieces to recently provide something which can be described as if slow burning in improvised music on a helium-filled keyboard which sounds due to relentless tooting quite similarly to a treated bagpipe. It seems to be so primitive and gawky it will make fun to a listener. Is it the music of the free jazz musician who lost the gravity? May it be way too intimate being only understandable to the composer only? The only exception in the row of short-running compositions is Teeth wherein one can hear remarkably cranked-up sound yet the formula is analogous. This 7-notch outing is a bit in the discography of Etched Traumas.

8/03/2017

[Teaser of the day] Parametic Delay - Depict the Dream

No Source

Indietronica
Electronic pop
Electro-indie
Mood music
Chilltronica
Alternative

Artist: Parametic Delay

Release: Love Song Before Sleep

Label: No Source/Nowaki

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Lehans - Amparo

Chillwave
Hypnagogic pop
Glo-fi
Art pop
Electro-indie
Synthwave
Dream pop
Shoegazetronica
Alternative
Indie

Artist: Lehans

Release: Amparo EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] NOW - Women And Men

Clinical Archives

Alternative
Folktronica
Indie
Avant-rock
Electronic
Art pop
Experimental rock
Indietronica

Artist: NOW

Release: Sudden Bursts/Normal Breaths

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

8/02/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - In Two Places At Once

Danielle

Alternative pop
Singer-songwriter
Indie pop
Electronic
Soul

Artist: The Womb

Release: Where The Lemon Meets The Teign

Label: Danielle

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Tree No Leaves - Caveman`s Delight

Krautrock
Experimental rock
Psychedelic
Electronic
Space rock
Trance rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Tree No Leaves

Release: Sacred Natives

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bing Satellites - Sunrise, South London, June 2016 part two

Ambient
Field recording
Electronic music
Minimalism
Post-classical
Crossover
Musique concrète
Organic electronica

Artist: Bing Satellites

Release: Sunrise, South London, June 2016

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Isabel Nogueira – Hybrid (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Experimental electronica
Sound art
Avant-garde
Noise
Avant-electronica
Experimentalism
Spoken word
Piano music
Drone
Electro-acoustic
Abstract
Leftfield

Comment: if to compare this 7-notch outing to H Stewart`s Letter to Kansas City (2011, Folksoundomy) being commented yesterday at RMH one can find out some gross similarities. First of all, it involves chords induced by a keyboard and this in turn is being wrapped up by austere, glitched-out noise clouds wiggling and wobbling like an outing by a rabid composer of having gotten back his/her inspiration recently and now he/she is very enthusiastic to flood a track with a bunch of different bits and methods. Gaga over. Lady Gaga over? No, it is a different, more subtle story with regard to the superstar. On the other side, if Letter to Kansas City can be considered the songwriter album of H Stewart so far then Hybrid does not provide focus on lyrics. There is up one track which chimes like a record from a nightmarish comedy session being backed up by gruesome electronic music and at times there are up some snippets of spoken word. However, having your ears to be set on these compositions more closely you can feel true richness of the album. Furthermore, this album is to set different parts against each other thereby establishing a dynamic contrast. Calmness and silence created through the aforementioned piano and clavichord chords and pulsating, piercing droning, intense electronic bubbling and torrents of modest white noise on the other side are adeptly juxtaposed. However, at Inner Voices one can surprisingly perceive of how those intense signals can be emotive and gentle in a way. In a nutshell, listen to it and get wowed away with it. That's invigorating and exalting. The outing is a part of the Chicago, Illinois,US-based imprint Pan Y Rosas Discos. Isabel Nogueira is a female musicologist-artist from Porto Alegre, Brazil whose music can be compared with the likes of Big City Orchestra, Maja Ratkje, Laurie Anderson, Zoviet France.

8/01/2017

[Teaser of the day] Fortadelis - Signal From The Core

Jamendo

Kosmische Musik
Alternative
Synth fusion
New Age
Electronic music
Cosmic synth
Krautrock

Artist: Fortadelis

Release: Analog

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Lava Divers - Done

Noise pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Fuzz pop

Artist: Lava Divers

Release: Lava Divers

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - Quite Mutual

Unfoundsound

Techno
Electronic music
Alternative
Ambient techno
Experimental techno
Glitch techno

Artist: Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

Release: Coffee Beans

Label: Unfoundsound/Archive.org

Year: 2017

H Stewart – Parker Square (2011)

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

Singer-songwriter
Electronic music
Piano music
Alternative
Avant-pop
Experimental pop

Comment: this handful of pieces are composed by an American artist, H Stewart and released by an imprint, Folksoundomy. She is being known as vowel, sound poetry artist dwelling deep in the avant-garde/experimental music scene first of all. This time she releases her emotions and memories. Indeed, you can partake of those flickering sparse undulations being tapped out on a cheap Casio keyboard and being surrounded by austere sonic effects coming out from a laptop. The result is impressive in its heartbreaking longing and ennobling soul pain showcasing H Stewart is also a solid singer if needed. Indeed, the strength of the outing is that her intimate incantations are delicately stripped down and addressed because of that showing up its inner magic and power. This is music I would like to listen to during late and lonely hours.

7/31/2017

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - the approaching flock of birds on the horizon..

Ambient
Experimental electronica
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Drone
Experimental rock
Post-rock
Glitchtronica
Ambient rock
Epic
Electronic music
Avant-garde

Artist: Cinchel

Release: Do Better

Label: Lurker Bias

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Ganesh

World fusion
Electronic pop
Ethnotronica
Psychedelic
Sound collage
World music
Alternative

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Peach Tree

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sleepy Eyes Nelson - Goin` Down Slow

Folk
Singer-songwriter

Artist: Sleepy Eyes Nelson

Release: Shake off the Terrors

Label: Cheap Wine

Year: 2017

Wacky Southern Current – 6 (2016)

Bandcamp

Indietronica
Art pop
Post-pop
Cinematic
Alternative pop
Indie pop
Baroque pop
Chamber pop
Progressive rock

Comment: Marco Cervellin`s set of 8 compositions is a fairly corroborant flow of pastel-alike string chords and synthetic glimpses and hovering orchestrations which have been presented either in a linear way or in a iterative way. Both ways are to make sense while making difference from each other. He has been producing his music in the Italian countryside because of that I guess the result is so organic and picturesque and cinematic. On the other side, behind him is an immense experience and wisdom of the Italian history in music and especially in film scores and Italian turn of mind while avoiding to be an excessively sugary outing so let's sum up all of that to ultimately get the recent result. The more I listen to it the more I am losing the stylistic borders of his music which in turn of course, is the sign of universality in his music. There must be that compelling essence to come out from the tracks. You can draw parallels upon the likes of Ennio Morricone, and The Pink Floyd yet Cervellin`s does have its own way to go forward. You will not search for gems for a long time. A cut above.

7/30/2017

[Teaser of the day] Bansheerie - Dead Kingdom

Neofolk
Avant-garde
Neoclassical
Field recording
Apocalyptic folk
Dark folk
Musique concrète
Post-industrial

Artist: Bansheerie

Release: Daughters of the Twilight

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Archive.org

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Larz - airwaves / SUN ONE / insinuation

Lo-fi
Art pop
Electro pop
DIY
Crossover
Electronic music
Alternative pop
Indie pop

Artist: Larz

Release: ...But Yet Confused

Label: Narrominded

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Ulnar - Volcanic Ash

Ambient drone
Dark ambient
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Crossover
Musique concrète
Drone doom
Abstract
Soundscape
Post-industrial
Doomgaze
Avant-garde

Artist: Ulnar

Release: Dreaming of Sailing Further West

Label: Zigur Artists/Colectivo Casa Amarela

Year: 2017

7/29/2017

TNKS – Nostalgic Happiness (2017)

Sucu Music

Jamendo

Chillwave
Mood music
Glo-fi
Art pop
Indietronica
Post-rock
Plinkerpop
Electronic music
Alternative
Chilltronica
Post-pop
Ambient pop

Comment: by listening to TNKS`s sophomore outing Nostalgic Happiness you may perceive it as if a watered down post-rock issue is put in front of your ears. In fact, the explanation is way too simplistic and little saying to the listener. From these 28 minutes in the set of 7 pieces in total there used to emerge enough elements to tickle your cerebral synapses in a breezy way. Indeed, sun is shining and gentle gusts are stroking your cheeks and dishevel your hair while you are spending your time in the middle of a picturesque meadow in the countryside. Throughout the course you can perceive the intact bucolic feel which of course could closely be related to fairly nostalgic pictures from one`s remote past. These 7 tracks constitute a platform to put off your memories toward the childhood. Toward something you cannot reach anymore because physically we have no possibility to overcome the burden of entropy (if we would get it would we wish it?). Musically and stylistically the album`s touch harks back to the chillwave/glo-fi/hypnagogic movement. Indeed, hypnagogic pop as a stylistic phenomenon is closely bound to falling asleep, dreaming and memories. There are bands up within the style who exploit the corresponding intentions (Memoryhouse, Memory Tapes). Jokingly, The Smiths was obviously a pre-hypnagogic combo due to conveying such tracks as Back to the Old House, This Night Has Opened My Eyes, and Asleep (even if the latter one focused on suicide). Exuberant yet gentle guitar chords used to draw its elliptical lines across the synthetic terrain and IDM-esque crispy beats while being coloured by sublime saxophone beeps and colourful orchestrations at times. By the way, I tagged it as mood music as you can see above but it does not mean it is either somehow simple-minded or "lazy". More profoundly, you can hear easiness in timbre and mood pouring out from the sophisticated instrumental compositions. The wondrous outing is a part of the discography of Sucu Music. Additionally I recommend listen to the debut release Gate One. By kindred souls you should listen to Brother Saturn

Grupo Porco - O Procrastinador do Futuro @ Studio Verde

[Teaser of the day] Go Ask Alice - Morning

Alternative dance
Synth-pop
Electro-indie
New Wave
Synth-rock

Artist: Go Ask Alice

Release: Perfection Is Terrible

Label: La bèl

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Frau Holle - Chasing Rainbows

Toucan Music

Poptronica
Alternative dance
Chillwave
Mood music
Dance pop
Electronic pop

Artist: Frau Holle

Release: Ascending Souls EP

Label: Toucan Music

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cisne Sônico - Post scriptum III: A melancolia e como aprendi a amá-la

Plataforma

Dark ambient
Illbient
Spoken word
Drone
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Ambient noise
Experimentalism
Post-industrial

Artist: Cisne Sônico

Release: Post scriptum (ou Melancolia - Parte II)

Label: Plataforma/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wings Of An Angel - Lazy Masking Tape

Ambient
Soundscape
Space music
Electronic music
Minimalism
Epic

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: I Am A Heaven And A Controversial Authority On One World (Euphoric Ambient Anthology)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

The Hirundu – Telemachus (2017)

Hirundu

Bandcamp

Experimental rock
Lo-Fi
Ska
Jazz
Electronic
Art pop
Alternative pop
Electro-indie
DIY
Ambient
Mood music
Indie
Leftfield pop
Post-rock
Crossover

Comment: it happens approximately in the mid of 2008 when I discovered more closely then such a great platform as lastfm and mostly due to it I discovered a huge, independently existing sonic world called the webaudio/netlabel scene. Of course, there were up an immense amount of artists who had been existing on their own way. One of the most magnificent artists was The Hirundu from Blackpool, UK; firstly John Crewdson-led combo/or John Crewdson only had been so productive though his tenure as the combo's frontman started off at the end of the 80s, secondly The Hirundu's sound was being so variegated and provoking yet being technically in accomplishment a cut above in comparison to most other combos around. From incisive lo-fi/DIY/post-punk madness to kinda radiophonic and plunderphonics art and broken psychedelia to an idiosyncratic electronic music and stoned dance act which later on evolved into a dark ambient branch. Telemachus, the 12-notch outing is a step further within the discography showing up Johnny Crewdson's ability to create potent ditties. These can freely be entitled pop songs of certainly deserving to be played on respected indie/alternative pop radio shows. Or maybe it is way too radical and unpredictable to be presented through the air because one can feel a tongue in cheek attitude in these wonky pop songs. However, it is a part of the credibility of the Hirundu we used to adore and jealously defend for because of being a hallmark of our own strong identity. On the other hand, I have had no time and wish to listen to The Fall's last albums for a while because I know what I could expect by MES and it does not cheer me up anymore. What you could get by Johnny Crewdson it is being a cheerful expectation due to a cornucopia of seminal ideas. From murky experimental rock to moody jazz standards to a blissful ambient progression to a funky ska number to a chopped-up yet exuberant electronic/ post-punk to something indecipherable and the description goes on and on. Top tier by any means. Hail to The Hirundu. By the way, Johnny Crewdson has also been a member of another combo, Golf Harris. Pitch And Putt has been the unofficial imprint for The Hirundu's music for all these years.

MediaData – Submersion (2017)

Abstrakt Reflections

Ambient
Downtempo
Breaks
Ambient
Shoegaze
Electronic music
Breakbeat
Alternative
Art music
Post-classical
Remix
Space music
Kosmische Musik
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Ambient techno
Soundscape

Comment: I am truly glad to be back at the discography of the Argentina-based record label Abstrakt Reflections of which soaring has been impressive since its starting point. Yesterday I felt myself a bit nauseous with regard to softened values in music today actually I do not. A human being's life is full of contradictions it might be even better not to thoroughly analyse yourself and your doings from one day to another. I can feel this huge bunch of 16 pieces includes some softened elements too though in overall it is the balanced whole of crispy rhythms and spaced-out synthesised orchestrations which will take you far away, bringing you out somewhere there is no place for distress and pain. You are allowed to see a big picture. Indeed, beauty saves the world. There are up enough examples of the kind, for example, Symptomatology. With regard to the title and on the other hand relying on the otherworldly feeling of the outing it can be compared with the doings of such adventurous heroes as Hans Hass, and Jacques Yves Cousteau who had spent much time of their life spans under the water. However, is it either the sound of underwater or Outer Space? I guess the both variations are right because the music over there is thoroughly immersed in divine touch. From highly lofty plateaus to going down into mystical abysses. By listening to this thoroughly balanced and organically multifaceted set you can think of heretical thoughts of having no necessity for music criticism as a phenomenon. Indeed, the words are excessive to convey it. Some tracks are remixed by such producers as Huron, r.roo, and c0ma. Denis VAs is a mastermind and these 49 minutes and 20 seconds constitute a best outing in this year.

7/28/2017

[Teaser of the day] Beach Craft Bonanza - Unsafe At Any Speed

Surf rock
Alternative rock
Psych-pop
Punk rock
Indie rock

Artist: Beach Craft Bonanza

Release: Cradle To Wave

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mogwai - Killing All the Flies

Archive.org

Post-rock
Epic
Art rock
Live recording
Indie rock
Electronic
Alternative rock

Artist: Mogwai

Release: Live at Grünspan on 2006-04-25

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - Please Don`t Kill Yourself

Noise pop
Shoegaze
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: Mauve

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Art School Jocks - Inside Joke

Quote Unquote

Indie punk
Alternative rock
Riot grrrl
Indie rock

Artist: Art School Jocks

Release: Art School Jocks

Label: Quote Unquote

Year: 2016

Tracer Flare - Glass House

N3rgul – Rave Leviathan (2017)

Elegant Elephant

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Witch house
Hip-hop
Drag house
Electronic music
Trip-hop
Post-industrial
Crossover
Synthwave
Leftfield pop
Urban music
Vaporwave

Comment: such albums as this one the world needs for now and much more in amount. Aside the vaporwave style nowadays music is way too gentle and dodgy being emotionlessly tapped out on cellphone apps of music making and having little blood and life within its veins. Undoubtedly it is predominated by softened values of the generation of contemporary youth of the so-called snowflakes. We need again the generation of heroes to be arrived at. The veins are meant to be the rhythms of it. Approximately 6-8 years ago there was up a style called witch house/drag house getting inspiration from magic realism, coldwave and synthwave, industrial music, but also darkened hip-hop and trip-hop music of such juggernauts as Tricky, and Massive Attack. With chillwave which had been existing approximately at the same time the style makes sense and provides hope. It was the beginning of a new launch. The South Korean artist's 7-track outing conveys the credibility of the aforementioned elements' best parts. Furthermore, one can hear those damned soft values within the mix being craftily integrated with more glowering and provoking elements. By contemporary artists one can hear the influences of Death Grips sometime. It is like an instance of pop music seeping out from the castle of the Count Dracula. The release is a part of the discography of Elegant Elephant.

7/27/2017

[Teaser of the day] Gabriel Vitel - New New World

Broque

House pop
Electro pop
Sophisti-pop
Art pop
Alternative pop
Electronic pop

Artist: Gabriel Vitel

Release: New New World

Label: Broque

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Boys Age - A Sacred Day After Everything Has Gone

Indie pop
Sunshine pop
Acid pop
Alternative pop
Psychedelic pop

Artist: Boys Age

Release: A Sacred Day After Everything Has Gone

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Frank Baker - Untitled

Post-rock
Art rock
Hard rock
Crossover
Soul
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Frank Baker

Release: White EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Synflict – Tetraphobia (2016)

Nostress

Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Sound art
Abstract
Drone
Art music
Electronic music
Avant-electronica
Illbient
Dark ambient

Comment: this 4-notch outing by Leipzig, German artist Olliver Wichmann aka Synflict is a classical post-industrial one with slowly progressing sonic terrains being culminated atop with spiky, metallic sparks and hollow echoes and spoken flickers the last of them at a time may be perceived as the playground for sanity and madness to get tightly interacted. By focusing on the titles of the issue you can meet such ones as Unrest, Exhaustion, Flashback, and Void. Each of these compositions used to be truly long yet they constitute a coherent solar system with one another. It does say quite much about the issue. By moving along this path you will be discerning uncanny, strange sounds surely of not coming from your safe and secure world. Additionally, at the foot one can hear sounds being inclined to the so-called Klingklang aesthetic being also closely related to German electronic circles. Besides the predominant electronic manipulation one can partake in guitar induced flows and because of that there are up a bunch of intriguing combinations, mind-provoking interactions to be interrupted by short circuits (read it as incisive sonic effects). On the other side, it is a subtle drift between emotions and the repulsion of them. This disturbingly awesome issue is a part of the discography of an Italian imprint, Nostress.

7/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] 1414E08 - Steelworker 2

Electronic music
Minimal house
Alternative dance
Tech-house
Minimal techno

Artist: 1414E08

Release: Midnight Radio Compilation 79

Label: Midnightradio Compilation

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Yumiko Ueno - Hakuraku

MiMi

Shoegaze
J-pop
Noise pop
Indie rock
Riot grrrl
Alternative rock

Artist: Yumiko Ueno

Release: Roar

Label: MiMi

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Must Wave - Desire

MNMN

Electronic music
Tech-house
Alternative dance
Club dance

Artist: Must Wave

Release: Self-Control

Label: MNMN/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Trillion Catz - All Unicorns Afraid Of You

Enoughrecords

Electro-indie
Neokrautrock
Coldwave
Motorik
Electronic music
Alternative

Artist: Trillion Catz

Release: Rainbows Weapon Store: Part One

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Avara

Textural Healing

Experimental electronica
Kosmische Musik
Avant-electronica
Space music
Electronic music
Minimalism

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Circadian

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Echo Chamber Rope Trick - Montezuma

Free Music Archive

Psych-rock
Trance rock
Singer-songwriter
Improvised music
Experimental rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Echo Chamber Rope Trick

Release: Some improvised tunes

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Radiomaniac - Inversion (Перевёрнуто)

Space rock
Indie rock
Psych-rock
Avant-rock
Alternative rock
Trance rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Radiomaniac

Release: Radiomaniac EP

Label: Mizou/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Simple CUT – Stay (2016)

blocSonic

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Electro pop
Alternative pop
Dance pop
Remixes
Electronic pop
Synth pop

Comment: the last two issues of blocSonic being commented on Recent Music Heroes were rap/hip-hop related (Graphic Antics` What Does It Mean?, and Headsnack`s Alternative Facts) but this one being preceded to them is coming from Russia and stylistically it is a blend of synth-pop, indie pop, and electro pop. Of course, what kind of segment is more pre-dominant than other ones it depends on a certain track. Either hovering synthesised orchestrations are backed up by thudding drum beats or the sugary yet earnest lyrics is subjugated to the autotune effect or heavily chopped-up it depends on a certain composition. It is a solid love balladry for a contemporary AOR. Additionally, listen to the project`s other issues as well (In Your Arms, All About You).

7/24/2017

[Teaser of the day] Moth Equals - Foreign Fruit

Post-dubstep
Trip-hop
Electronic music
Breaks
Chilltronica
Alternative
Mood music
Sampledelic

Artist: Moth Equals

Release: Honey Trap

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Crier

Free Music Archive

Post-rock
Art rock
Ambient rock
Indie rock
Epic
Avant-rock
Electronic
Experimental rock
Alternative
Dream pop

Artist: Muhr

Release: Farewell Anthology

Label: Soft Phase/Free Music Archive/Archive.org

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Datassette - Zigzag

Monotonik

Robot pop
Electronic pop
Electro pop
Alternative dance

Artist: Datassette

Release: Maintenance Werk

Label: Monotonik

Year: 2005

Jazznoise – Obra Sintètica (2017)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Free Music Archive

Noise
Avant-garde
Drone
Sound art
Abstract
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Experimental electronica
Non-music

Comment: there are up 28 and a half minute which can be considered either a dream or nightmare from very deep of your subconscious mind. Indeed, beautiful compartments in the beginning will get interrupted by varied noises with different timbre, tonality and intensity. Even worse, the borderline between the beauty and ugliness is substantially blurred and thereby being guileful and dangerous for your inviolate mind. And you are going to get even more disturbed and messed up because the crowd noises you arguably cannot stand for in every day's life may sound pretty good in the face of fucked up machine humming and reverberating echoes of harsh steel. While listening to this span I was thinking of how relative all the things around us seem to be though we are seeking to find out absolute truth and things on its own. And how much and how quickly all is changing around us. Pertaining to experimental/avant-garde /electro-acoustic/noise music/improvised music/jazz music within the netlabel scene earlier on it was being headed by Moscow-based imprint Clinical Archives but now as it is being defunct for almost three years it is being led with the same intensity and rush by an imprint from Chicago, Pan Y Rosas Discos. There is no slots just to be let free in the scene.

[Teaser of the day] PEOPLE//TALK - People Talk

Indie pop/rock
New Wave
Alternative pop/rock
Post-punk

Artist: PEOPLE//TALK

Release: Transient Scenes

Label: Hail Hail/Bleeding Gold

Year: 2013/2017

[Teaser of the day] Frank Baker - Mbira AFX

Techno pop
Electronic music
Minimal techno
Ethnotronica
Alternative dance
Art music

Artist: Frank Baker
Release: Unused Electronic Works II
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Leisure Walks - Strobo Acceleration

Post-pop
Art pop
Cover
Dream pop
Psych-pop
Neokrautrock
Avant-pop
Space pop
Indie pop
Alternative pop

Artist: Leisure Walks

Release: Stereolab in, Metronomic Underground Versions

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hellscion - Into The Light

Faturenet

House
Club dance
Electronic music
Deep house
Alternative dance

Artist: Hellscion

Release: Season of Change

Label: Faturenet

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Candycoveredclown - Hex

Clinical Archives

Experimental electronica
Avant-electronica
Leftfield
Powerelectronics
Sound art
Abstract
Experimentalism
Avant-garde

Artist: Candycoveredclown

Release: Xemmoreah

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Bengalfuel - Eyes

Resting Bell

Ambient pop
Electronic music
Space music
Shoegazetronica
Ambient techno

Artist: Bengalfuel

Release: Neely

Label: Resting Bell

Year: 2012

7/23/2017

[Teaser of the day] Get- Effect - Giant On The Hill

Kraut-folk
Alternative
Epic
Experimental folk
Avant-folk

Artist: Get- Effect

Release: Trick Ladders

Label: Vanguardista

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Hitman's Lovesong feat Paola Graziano

Brass pop
Punk folk
Art pop
Burlesque
Folk punk
Vaudeville music

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Tales Of A Dead Fish

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive/Jamendo

Year: 2011

Cinema Noir – Fernweh (2015)

Nostress

Post-rock
Alternative rock
Epic
Electronic music
Indie rock
Indietronica
Remix

Comment: I am back again at the discography of Nostress Records though it is the first step of mine to Cinema Noir, a combo from Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Allegedly this 6-notch issue is their first step (partly) into electronic music. More profoundly, it includes majestic and blissful progressions through guitar buildups and synthesizer-based clouds, respectively. Indeed, the listener gets wrapped up in hazy, hiss soaked clouds and sublime dynamics of sonic abysses filled in with unknown surreal creatures because it chimes so beautifully and blissfully. Its beatific touch does have a remarkably more tremendous impact in comparison to every day's life. If you get stricken by the Sun then you may experience a similar feel. Frequently it reminds of a Mogwai's turn into electronic music (at Happy Songs for Happy People) though Cinema Noir's turn seems to be more overwhelming and crucial both mentally and physically. For example, listen to a track called Miles Davis, the most irresistible composition over there. You can hear many themes and progressions of running simultaneously in one and the same track. At Persepolis the music turns into something to get its power from the roots of minimalism. It chimes as if a post-rock track being produced by Steve Reich. There is up one track being remixed by another Italian combo Veivecura. In a nutshell, it is a sonic leviathan which must be heard.

Thuoom – Fokus (2017)

Textural Healing

Electronic music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Sound poetry
Minimal techno
Improvised music
Minimalism
Microtonal
Abstract
Microsound
Glitchtronica
Drone
Experimental electronica
Electro-acoustic
Avant-techno
Post-psychedelic electronica
Clicks'n'cuts
Leftfield
Forest folk

Comment: a Finnish musician behind nom de plume Thuoom is back again with his brand new one. His last three or four albums (most of them had been issued in 2016) were quite abstract ones as if recorded with the onyx-tinged needle and cartridge. Fokus resembles more his earlier records at the end of the 00s where he did employ instruments and non-instruments colourfully to set out his aesthetical pieces of cake. In fact, it is a platform wherein much used to happen throughout the course due it seems to be cursed. I am wondering by myself is it either improvised music or determined sound. The term "Fokus" should be related to the last one though you cannot be thoroughly sure because playfulness is an essential part of the 12-track issue. And that's very pro. More profoundly, microscopic schemes are set up to constitute a macroscopic sonic universe and therefore revealing a perfect circuit as the whole. The butter between the parts to be functionally fulfilled ultimately is the aforementioned curse. Or magic. Or witchcraft. Furthermore, Thuoom as an artist represents the idea that all the kinds of sound are music or at least all these sounds could be morphed into music. From inferior crackles, signal-alike humming and cut-up vowels to wondrous droning and elliptically shaped electronic grandeur and techno pulsations at the most minimal extent. It can be considered as a next level within the so-called forest folk scene. On the other side, you can perceive similarities with another Finnish masterminds like Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. Get it and try to crack the core of this gem.

Moses Luster – The Pre-Apocalypse Years (2011-2015) (2017)

Bandcamp

Singer-songwriter
Art pop
Film noir
Alternative pop

Comment: it can be said without reservations the LA-based artist Moses Luster is on a full sway on this 15-track outing even though these tracks as residual ones did not appear on his previous issues. In fact, all the Moses Luster's albums released so far are being on full sway. He is being an artist who has made up dirty locals and murky human characteristics so elegantly irresistible through his expressive singing and tough man attitude. Indeed, you can perceive his ambition to change other persons' lifes (I'm the Lion). Sorrow and desperation are his arms to convey hope rather than a burden from every day's life to kill you slowly and painfully. He conveys hope through sorrow, blood, sweat being immersed in tight cigarette smoke and whiskey smell. Some filthy secrets add an extra flavour to the whole. And if you don't like it yet you are going to love it. But not only these facets are represented over there. Shadows Of A Past To talks about the relativity of time, in fact about the question of whether does time exist or not. But some things are not going to change ever, for example the whiskey and the need for it. At times it chimes kinda modern Gospel music (at The Past Is No Place For A Man, for instance). His compelling baritone is backed up by soaring orchestrated sounds, synthetic chords, lonely piano keys wherefrom cinematic swallows emerge to draw epic lines in front of the horizon. Top tier.

Luis Marte / Poltamento – Movil/Inmovil (2017)

Pueblo Nuevo

Archive.org

Modern classical
Alternative
Electronic music
Jazz
Crossover
Improvised music

Comment: a Steinway grand piano meets electronic software setups on Movil/Inmovil, the collaboration between the Chile and Argentina-based artists Luis Marte, and Roger Delahaye aka Poltamento, respectively. A huge, real instrument meets a virtual, physically nonexistent one. Yet strangely they do meet each other without any complications. The piano chords are predominant leading this subtle 5-track course being accompanied by volatile electronic bubbling, reverberant glitches and the breakable space between these compartments. Call it an instance of a drift between modern classical sensitivity and a (cool) jazz music formation. Given that electronic music is an essential part of modern classical music anyway. Pueblo Nuevo, a Chilean imprint proves with it to have an important place in the world of a thousands of record labels.

7/20/2017

[Teaser of the day] Plaistow - Yap-Yap

Improvised music
Bebop
Modal jazz
Experimentalism
Post-bop
Avant-garde
Free jazz

Artist: Plaistow

Release: Do You Feel Lucky?

Label: 12rec./Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Meme Vivaldi - Kitty Music III

Electronic music
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Crossover
Classical music
Weird pop

Artist: Meme Vivaldi

Release: Kitty Music

Label: NYAPSTER

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The New Mystikal Troubadours - Sly Foxes Tripping

Free Music Archive

Psychedelic rock
Indie rock
Alternative rock

Artist: The New Mystikal Troubadours

Release: Another Soul Kiss

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] jjoth - Sexpop

Rejected

DIY
Vaporwave
Experimentalism
Drag house
Avant-garde
Alternative
Witch house
Electronic music
Coastgoth

Artist: jjoth

Release: Zumrub

Label: Rejected

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Drink It In

Synthwave
Industrial rock
Darkwave
Electro-goth
Alternative
Electronic rock

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Ghost Of Muses

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Glenn Sogge - Aether I - Winter (Original Version)

Minimalism
Ambient drone
Experimentalism
Sound art
Dystopbient
Drone
Abstract
Avant-garde
Dark ambient

Artist: Glenn Sogge

Release: Theme Music From The Aether

Label: Weareallghosts

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Drehkommando - Zombies Heimfahrt

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Kraut-techno
Minimal techno
Motorik
Electronic music
Avant-techno
Experimental techno

Artist: Drehkommando

Release: Namenlose Welt

Label: Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Year: 2016

Phasetron – 7=5 (2013)

Daydream Generation

Bandcamp

Alternative rock
Blues rock
Hard rock
College rock

Comment: at the Daydream Generation (it is a whole universe of very intriguing combos) site it is admitted this album is quite unusual with regard to differentiation in style. Indeed, these 11 compositions are quite far away from more and less quirky folk genre being extensively represented via CLLCT, Quixodelic, and Daydream Generation (all these sites have frequently been or had frequently been joint platforms for the same issues). Phasetron's issue is enough hirsute and powerfully galvanised to get instant attention. It harks back to classic rock tradition of getting energy from muddy and dirty blues rock even if many songs are balladry inflected and slowly paced ones. On the other side, it can stand for contemporary college rock influences which used to water down a little bit its ferocious facade. Instead of it I would like to hear more stoned and demented garage and garbage induced madness. However, the combo's choice can be understood as a possibility of realising slots within the music. Moreover, it will open the doors to enter into AOR stations. So partake of something.

7/19/2017

[Teaser of the day] Robot Speaker - Space Signal

Electronic music
Alternative
Chilltronica
Breaks
Space music

Artist: Robot Speaker

Release: EICV7" No. 109

Label: EverythingIsChemical

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kriipis Tulo - Lite On

Sutemos

Minimal techno
IDM
Alternative
Glitch-techno
Electronic music

Artist: Kriipis Tulo

Release: Ujuja

Label: Sutemos

Year: 2002

Etterem – Catching the Big Fish (2016)

Nostress

Post-punk
Electronic
Crossover
Celtic music
World music
Mash-up
Avant-pop
Spoken word
Art music

Comment: indeed, David Lynch has been back for a while through his music (The Big Dream (2013)) and the revitalisation of Twin Peaks in 2017. However, he is also over the place thanks to tributes paid by others to him. For instance, the recent 13-notch outing by Etterem which in turn is directly inspired by Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish (2006) by arguing on how to suppress negativity and bring forth more positivism in one's life. The main idea is to do it through meditation. On the other hand, it should not be messed up with Dale Carnegie-alike books of which quixotic appearance to hold on the main theme provides no viable duration. Musically it is a very interesting issue extending from plunderphonics and mash-up elements to sultry post-punk thudding and the most pre-eminent thread, Celtic music progressions in many variations, through microscopic noises, provoking sonic effects. At times those numbers chime in a mind-blowing, majestic way as if The Pogues or The Dubliners were produced by Simon Jeffes himself. Furthermore, there are also up more roots related numbers full of minimalist beauty and austere yet uplifting magic. The aforementioned post-punk and electronically induced numbers do demonstrate specifically Lynch's mystical, dreamlike nature towards the art. By citing Lynch the issue shows up contrasts and turn on the lights (read it as music in the recent context) and darkness goes. The release is a part of the discography of an Italian imprint, Nostress. No stress.