Recent Music Heroes

Comment: let's go back in time for about five years when a duo called TÜNEL recorded an imaginary soundtrack for mountaineering and possible disastrous events tightly related to it. These seven tracks constitute a terrain where different influences and genres meet one another. Furthermore, it is a mind-provoking storytelling based on sounds which starts off with sprightly children shouting and then progressing into different kinds of electronic music and surprisingly into a noisy rock binge played flat out. It can be asserted it is the frenetic follow-up of disparate chapters full of loads of turns and dodges, exciting interfaces to connect and superimpose different parts on each other and imaginative buildups to show up this kinda audiobook as vivid and magical. Mostly its structure seems to be preset and determined yet at times the duo indulges in having more loose and elemental spans to be added to the mix. You can feel prodigious inner power and impulse oozing from different slots and pits which is not surprising because the intention and goal is to depict the mountainous, threatening landscape up to the listener. This astounding outing is a part of the discography of the Italy-based record label Nostress.

8/14/2017

[Teaser of the day] Max Jahn - Harmonic Blast

Broque

Electronic music
Dub house
Alternative dance
Deep house
Crossover
Club dance
Electro house

Artist: Max Jahn

Release: Skyrunner

Label: Broque

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Grid Resistor - 06_5162017_Three

Enough

Abstract
Micronoise
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Acousmatic music
Minimalism
Microtonal
Non-music
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Drone
Experimental electronica

Artist: Grid Resistor

Release: Beta

Label: Enough

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] I/DEX - ksren - v/a

Nexsound - Wayward Music

Minimal techno
Ambient techno
Glitchtronica
Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Crossover
Alternative

Artist: I/DEX

Release: I/DEX / h.h.t.p. / -ED - Micro_Motion

Label: Nexsound - Wayward Music

Year: 2003

Marrach – Swing With A Black Dog (2017)

Enough

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Jazz
Electronic music
Improvised music
Cool jazz
Film noir
Alternative
Mood music

Comment: Martinas Rakshtinas, the pride of the Lithuanian underground music is being known under a swarm of pseudonyms which in turn does mean he has been a prolific artist for the last 2-3 years. Lately I had reviewed one of the issues by him under the nom de plume Mirth Naarc and the outing was named FX (2016, Free Music Archive). The 3-notch issue entitled ominously Swing With A Black Dog and thereby tipping off about the parlous allusions with the Lucifer is a turn of 360 degrees in comparison to FX. The last mentioned release was techno, electro and experimental hip-hop blended one though which ultimately turned into quite oppressive by its mood and outfit. The album in consideration is musically slowed-down, smoky and noir tinged behind that sonic curtain the Devil is playing with human beings and their souls as marionettes. Bold minor chords on a piano are backed up with volatile trumpet played tooting and kit drum shuffles and superficial electronic effects atop and behind it. The predominant silence induced layers add seductive touch to get craftily immersed in the rest set of layers. Another impression is as lofty as well due to Miles Davis is playing woeful cool jazz numbers in front of the Fallen Angel himself. The outing is a part of the discography of a stalwart Portuguese imprint, Enough Records (or simply enoughrecords). In a nutshell, the whole impression is emotionally striking and at the same time showing us something coming out from the pit. Put a spell on you.

8/13/2017

[Teaser of the day] Smut - Still Growing

Fuzz pop
Indie rock
Garage rock
Alternative rock

Artist: Smut

Release: Some Things To Let Go

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Tunnelbirds - When Tomorrow Hits

Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Garage rock
Blues rock
Indie rock

Artist: Tunnelbirds

Release: Hohner Sessions

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kreng - Paris

fant00m

Sampledelic
Trip-hop
Electronic music
Crossover
Chilltronica
Cinematic
Big beat
Mood music
Breaks
Tango

Artist: Kreng

Release: Zomer EP

Label: fant00m

Year: 2008

Lorenzo Gómez Oviedo – Pasajes (2016)

Nowaki

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Noise
Art music
Experimental electronica
Post-industrial
Sound art
Drone
Spoken word
Musique concrète
Post-classical

Comment: without any doubt the previous year was being very fertile to Lorenzo Gòmez Oviedo while he had released 4 issues, a couple of them were released on the French imprint Nowaki Music. One of them, Pasajes consists of the long-running progression which is imbued with remarkably varied sounds, provoking intentions, arousing intensities and ear-catching phase-related changes. However, the aforementioned gadgetry is adeptly and wittily set up and thereby ultimately creating a dynamic pointed whole throughout the course of a 25-minute. Incisive droning noises in the beginning part are followed by a sublime rhythmic section and cathedral-alike chanting which in turn are followed by new mind-provoking ones including peppering with field recording drenched elements. The kind of electronic music presented by Oviedo is something special because of embracing wider borders to narrate an interesting, seemingly more loose story to all of us. Indeed, literally it involves some spoken phrases though it seems to be a shrewd measure but not the goal on its own. Maybe I am wrong to guess there is up somewhere the ultimate culmination to be reached. In fact, it consists of various flood tides therefore providing a chance to sustain the excitement and pleasure throughout. Is it the hedonistic one? Yes, in a way but first of all, it is the cerebral challenge with some bits for our soul and slightly a bit for the body. It pours out an immense amount of information yet the information is channelized in an appealing way. Top tier.

[Teaser of the day] Luis Marte - iv 3

Pueblo Nuevo

Ambient
Soundscape
Electronic music
Microsound
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Minimalism
Experimentalism

Artist: Luis Marte

Release: iv

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Mountain Goats - Heel Turn 2

Archive.org

Indie rock
Americana
Live recording
Folk indie
Alternative rock
Indie folk

Artist: The Mountain Goats

Release: Mountain Goats Live at the Fillmore on 2017-06-02

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Xiu Xiu - Crank Heart

Archive.org

Art rock
Noise pop
Experimental rock
Indie rock
Neo-psychedelia
Electro-indie
Alternative rock

Artist: Xiu Xiu

Release: Live at p.m.k on 2017-04-27

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2017

8/11/2017

Nasienie – Chasing The Fog (2011)

Webbed Hand

Ambient
Microsound
Minimalism
Electronic music
Microtonal
Ambient rock
Soundscape
Alternative

Comment: this set of 6 tracks (clocking in at a 28 minute) is viable to be listened to while you feel yourself sad for some bitter events, for instance, if you remind of your broken affairs though it is hard to figure out is it either the effect of it or a very arousing reason for doing it. While feeling an intense painful sense coming inexplicably out from very deep of your heart. On the other side, while driving across the foggy and very snowy highway you could see even more details in comparison to a usual cloudless day because you have to be more concentrated and you are tightly surrounded by a milky ambience to catch sight of other kind of details. Or you can experience the same feeling when you are driving the bus and your head is leaned against the window and watching drops running sinuously and at different speeds from top of the window. There are represented some audible characteristics which chime on their own and on the other side do interact seamlessly with one another. The aforementioned whitened sublime progressions include some reverberant sounds, some more light-hearted, clearly perceived as more crude, directly played and untreated, synthesiser played interludes (for instance, Microsound). For instance, the track called Undertone sounds almost in a psychedelic way. The following composition Mute Witness changes the path of the course (back again) to thriving into something thoroughly thoughtful and beatifically frost-bound and charmingly immobile as if an audible example of an aporia by Zenon about moving and staying still (the second part of the track evokes your soul to crawl). At the finishing 21 experimental rock tendencies stepwise begin to emerge and swim and lazily produce sonic waves of different shapes and range. The fascinating outing is a part of the discography of Webbed Hand.

[Teaser of the day] Acid Mothers Temple - Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky

Archive.org

Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Space rock
Hard rock
Acid rock
Live recording
Indie rock
Trance rock

Artist: Acid Mothers Temple

Release: Temple Live at Soundlab on 2006-05-16

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Trillion Catz - Oceans

Soisloscerdos

Electronic music
Neokrautrock
Indietronica
Alternative
Experimental rock
Indie
Avant-rock

Artist: Trillion Catz

Release: Keep It Real

Label: Soisloscerdos/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] St Cheatersburg - Heaven-Bound & Holy Rollers

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Psych-rock
Jangle pop

Artist: St Cheatersburg

Release: We Are The Pigeons Of The World

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Go Ask Alice – Perfection Is Terrible (2017)

La bèl

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Art rock
Post-rock
Experimental rock
Epic
Synth-rock
Electro-rock
Cinematic
Ambient rock

Comment: La bèl is an Italian imprint having been releasing music since 2010. All their artists with some exceptions are being Italian even if the artist's residence has been outside the country's borders. Musically it has embraced a huge range of styles from witty electronica and subtle indie and folk mixed electronic music to artsy electro-acoustic progressions and epic post-rock driven ambience. Go Ask Alice's Perfection Is Terrible is a subsequent solid chapter within the discography by getting hold of different styles of the kind of synthesiser and guitar-driven music. Furthermore, the result is blissful thanks to some cinematic development as if being languished by the sun during a very hot summer day. You do not have enough power and verve but just lay back in the hammock. Let's call it the sort of guitar-based chill out music. With regard to exploiting or imitating such instruments as glockenspiel/vibraphone you can discern some similarities with such artists as Talk Talk, Mice Parade, The Dylan Group, Tortoise, The Mercury Program though Go Ask Alice's music is distinctively more hovering and volatile. Besides the aforementioned elements there are also magniloquent elements yet the result is pushed to the very limits of elegance. Last but not least – there is up a track imbued with a hook of great pop potential (Morning). In a word, it runs head-to-head with the best issues from the recent year. Behind the project are such musicians as Flavio Moro and Lorenzo Albanese, and Valerio Occhiodoro. Undoubtedly this sprightly 7-track outing is one of the most favourite albums from the recent year.

8/10/2017

[Teaser of the day] Dot.AY - Yo No Chero

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

Artist: dot.AY

Release: Specific Emotion

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Dolby - X 09

Thinner

Dubhouse
Deep house
Alternative dance
Deep dub
Club dance
Electronic music

Artist: Dolby

Release: Dub Expo EP

Label: Thinner

Year: 2002

[Teaser of the day] The Silent Partner - Dare Me

blocSonic

Hip-hop
Urban music
Motown
Rap
Electronic pop
Sampledelic

Artist: The Silent Partner

Release: Platters, Act 6: Plates From '08

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2015

Antiplano – Prohibido (2012)

Soisloscerdos

Experimental electronica
Alternative
Avant-electro
Electronic music
Drone
Minimalism

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions consists of minimally evolving tracks where glowering drones are tightly mingled with ever changing sinuous poly-rhythms being frequently subjugated to stereophonic effects and mind-provoking pitch trickery. Machines are keeping us from being the slaves of our own including listening habits. They introduce us to a universe being wondrous simultaneously due to its fidgety roughness and restless mysticism. While listening to the intense record you can catch your breath. Indeed, it is fortunately all but a mentally oppressive shit. Although it does not involve many layers it will get hold of our thoughts and secretive wishes in a linear way. Throughout the course the artist provides a steady feedback to the previous points passed by. The result is coherent nevertheless how serpentine and disjunct it may be perceived. This pre-eminent outing is a part of the discography of Soisloscerdos Netlabel.

8/09/2017

[Teaser of the day] Color By Numbers - Hyacinth Miasma

Autoplate

Ambient
Ambient rock
Post-rock
Electronic music
Glitchtronica
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Alternative

Artist: Jason Corder

Release: The Transitions

Label: Autoplate

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Krill.Minima - Holzwurm

Stadtgruen

Alternative dance
Glitch techno
Electronic music
Ambient techno
Deep techno

Artist: Krill.Minima

Release: Borkenkaefer

Label: Stadtgruen

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] iMMANENT. dOMAIN. - Kingdom Hearts

Vaatican

Hip-hop
Rap
Urban music
Experimental hip-hop
Avant-hop

Artist: iMMANENT. dOMAIN.

Release: persona non grata (Vaatican edit)

Label: Vaatican/Free Music Archive/God On Safari

Year: 2017

Arcane Waves – Atom Dust (2017)

Murmure Intemporel

Free Music Archive

Dark ambient
Sound art
Illbient
Acousmatic music
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Abstract
Conceptual
Musique concrète
Experimentalism
Drone
Electro-acoustic
Ambient drone
Experimentalism

Comment: these 53 minutes and 4 compositions are “dedicated” to nuclear accidents in the atomic energy plants around the world. More profoundly, at Lucens (1969), Chernobyl (1986), Kyshtym (1957), Three Mile Island (1979), and most recently at Fukushima Daiichi (2011). These are probably the most remarkable ones though smaller accidents may have been happening. Shit happens if people are doing things even if these processes are indispensable because of the mooch of the human induced economy is going to move on without possibility getting to decelerate the process. I do not think of it the nuclear reactors must be shut down just measures to avoid such sort of disasters should be even more enhanced and possible deviations to be foreseen. However, musically I tagged it as an instance of post-industrial music among the other classifications. Furthermore, one can figure it out in a very straight way. The music over there is to depict industrialized scenes being abandoned by human beings. Besides having gotten informed factually and chronologically about these highly clutch and events the audible result is staggering – lots of memory loaded hisses and glitches, arousing sonic effects, concrete music drenched glimpses, metallic drones at times being variegated with orchestrations and less abrasive electronics. These 53 minutes is a subtle play with shades between darkness and lightness, between a burden and redemptive freeing. The adverse effects are adeptly converted into a state of art. The issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel. Behind the nom de plume is Jean-Luc Hervé Berthelot, a prolific artist within the netlabel scene for many years.

8/08/2017

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Birds

Third Worlds

Avant-hop
Electro-hop
Industrial hop
Experimental hip-hop
Urban music
Rap
Leftfield

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Government Plates

Label: Third Worlds/Soundcloud

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Uppsala Solemne - Perdoa tu a fúria do vento

Modern classical
Art pop
Post-classical
Alternative
Indie
Mood music

Artist: Uppsala Solemne

Release: A fúria do vento

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Xhale - Middle Fountain

Miasmah

Ambient
Musique concrète
New Age
Organic electronica
Downtempo
Electronic music
Crossover
Glitchtronica

Artist: Xhale

Release: Ant Shaped Head EP

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2003

Mmöner – Training Saga (2017)

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Fantasy music
Mood music
Alternative
Primitive music
Avant-garde

Comment: the mystical creature named Mmöner is back with his/her sophomore outing called Training Saga. The artist describes it as old stuff about training skills. Because of that it can be admitted ideologically he/she has stepped out of the forest theme (Forest Eruption, 2016) to put the finger into a sport/training theme. Instead of glorifying and mystifying the forest as our very genuine home the new subject is remarkably more human-related and mundane, even dealing with obvious banalities (though I guess it is imbued with a tongue-in-cheek attitude). Yet musically the difference does not make sense because sonically the outings are tightly correlated. Continually you can visualise and thereby think off a kernel of sounds getting inspiration from the fantasy music soundtracks which in turn are mingled with primitive electronic developments and childish rhythmic patterns which eventually will result in the somehow hyper realistic flow of peaky, exalting, saturated chords. As if the set of three tracks being overloaded with a torrent of serotonin and being warped by the fairy-tales surfacing deep from your subconsciousness you had heard that in your childhood. Even if it's formal appearance is to be moody it's deeper intention is to enter into into the listener's brain and provide an immensely complex experience. Fir sure, it is an uncanny listening session at the recent times.

8/07/2017

Bing Satellites - Thanasphere

[Teaser of the day] gift - 野窓

Post-rock
Alternative
Avant-rock
Indietronica
Experimental rock
Art rock
Electronic

Artist: gift

Release: a EP

Label: elementperspective

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Strange Journey

Avant-garde
Sound collage
Electro pop
Cut and paste
Dance punk
Acid house
New Wave
Alternative
Plunderphonics
Sampledelic
Post-disco
Leftfield
Alternative dance
Acid techno
Mash-up
Synth-pop
Experimentalism
Outsider art

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Electrobebopbottomburpmix E.P.

Label: Pitch And Putt/Bandcamp

Year. 1987

[Teaser of the day] beat.dowsing - Bones

Noisy Vagabond

Downtempo
Chilltronica
Mood music
Electronic pop
Synth-pop

Artist: beat.dowsing

Release: Sydney EP

Label: Noisy Vagabond/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

Tree No Leaves - Lucy & The Fuzz

Mogadiscio Ensemble – Rejected Ambient Works 2009-2016 (2016)

Bandcamp

Post-industrial
Lo-fi
DIY
Avant-garde
Experimental pop
Art music
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Leftfield
Alternative
Outsider house
Jazz
Crossover
Post-punk
House
Experimental electronica
Avant-pop

Comment: if I can remember for the right way once there existed such an imprint as Milano, Italy-based Paragrafo Records which was reclaimed as having focus on weird, electronic and experimental music. One of the artists coming out from there was Berlin, Germany-based Mogadiscio Ensemble. Unfortunately almost all the traces behind the imprint are gone (just a couple of issues are uploaded at Bandcamp) though fortunately the combo is up there at Bandcamp to provide an immense set of 38 tracks. The amount of the compositions is big enough to write a solid column about it. First of all, it is huge enough to get enough material to feed your ears and brain. More profoundly, the average track within it is quite short of being approximately 2-3 minute long and containing a shitloads of diverse ideas. From old school industrial synthesised layers and rough yet vivid rhythms, deliberately clogged-up progressions of the lo-fi and DIY culture, appealing outsider house numbers, off-kilter, outsider jazz induced developments. It may resemble a bit an early Cabaret Voltaire which had provided different impulses and ideas on industrial and post-punk to further progress into a wider audience appealed compartment, more profoundly to trod seminally on dance music, post-disco, proto-house music. At times it chimes as if being channelized through some shitty filters and cables. Yet the result, however, is very elegant. On the other side, the title does have a clear hint at Aphex Twin`s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 which similarly did provide an episodic coincidence with the ambient style. In fact, there is no classical ambient structures within that whole, there are up only some fragments of reminding of the style. However, there may be behind a methodology of deconstructing the style. Anyhow the result is a top predator.

8/06/2017

[Teaser of the day] Transient - Can It Be Beautiful

Phonocake

IDM
Mood music
Minimal techno
Techno pop
Electronic music

Artist: Transient

Release: Chiquesalunga

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Jimmy Behan - Cathedral

Zymogen

Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
Crossover
Modern classical
Avant-garde
Post-classical
Experimentalism
Alternative

Artist: Jimmy Behan

Release: In the Sudden Distance

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Miami Slice - Illusions

Free Music Archive

Italo disco
Alternative dance
Electronic music
Club dance
Disco
Dance pop

Artist: Miami Slice

Release: Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn

Label: loveandtonicrecords/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Stealing Orchestra - Mujer

Free Music Archive

Avant-pop
Experimental pop
Sound collage
Leftfield
Crossover
Electronic music
Psychedelic
Chillstep
Sampledelic
Plunderphonics

Artist: Stealing Orchestra

Release: Stereogamy

Label: You Are Not Stealing

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Nor A Cage

Kaos Ex Machina

Rhythmic noise
Power electronics
Breakcore
Electronic music
Industrial techno
Digital hardcore
Leftfield

Artist: Buben

Release: Inch

Label: Kaos Ex Machina

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Aristotle Bombay

Nishi

Synth-pop
Acid pop
Electronic
Electro-indie
Psych-pop
Krautrock
Electro-rock

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Octopus Two

Label: Nishi

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Ivan Black - Sogonghu

Breathe Compilations

Ambient trance
Electronic music
Crossover
Psybient
Ambient pop

Artist: Ivan Black

Release: Somnium Hypnotic

Label: Breathe Compilations

Year: 2016

Mirth Naarc – FX (2016)

Folksoundomy: Music and Music Albums

Free Music Archive

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Urban music
Electro
Hip-hop
Glitch-hop

Comment: this handful of tracks is created by Martinas Rakshtinas aka Martin Rach, a prolific and talented artist from Lithuania. Mirth Naarc is one of the projects of him and this album of 22 minutes is tagged by him as techno, dance, and abstract hip-hop. More profoundly, spiky incisive drumming is tightly mixed up with an electro matter if to describe it in a gross way. Yet stylistically it is a case of contemporary hip-hop music where digitalised technology and a multi-faceted rhythmic approach prevail the course. A lot of different rhythmic shapes which either are followed by each other or used to be superimposed on each other partly. Emotionally its lightheartedness is beguiling because the ultimate impact of it can be quite dystopia-related and therefore depressive. The machines are governing over a human being mercilessly. Without any emotion, without any discrimination. The issue is released on Folksoundomy, and Free Music Archive.

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.