Recent Music Heroes

10/23/2017

Abisales – ABSLS (2017)

Bandcamp

Art rock
Jazz rock
Fusion
Progressive rock
Yacht rock

Comment: this swarm of 3 tracks is played by a quartet called Abisales who comes out of Còrdoba, Argentina. One chord is followed by another, gentle guitars are backed up by spacey synthesiser chords, the soundscape used to ascend and descend in a picturesque way.. Although it is tagged as psychedelic rock, space rock, and rock and roll at Bandcamp their music and intention remind more of progressive rock, and fusion. Their approach is based on the first mentioned tag, and the combo`s timbre is very fusion/jazz rock-alike. And yacht rock, of course, the style is quite nearby because for me the whole is an example of artsy mood music imbued with ambition, lofty feeling and craftiness. Predominantly a Pink Floyd influence is present over there. Great thanks to Fran, Nahuel, Pelado, Pablo, and Cristian. And of course, similarly to me you shall have to listen to the combo`s previous four issues either (in fact, XDCS (2013) was reviewed at RMH three years ago and mentioned as one of the best albums in 2013).

10/22/2017

[Teaser of the day] Chenard And The Sand - One-Armed

Free Sample Zone

Sampledelic
Plunderphonics
Breaks
Psychedelic
Sound collage
Crossover
World fusion
Alternative dance

Artist: Chenard Walker/The Sand

Release: C-Side

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Abandoned Asteroid - Space Journey

Cratediggers

Krautrock
Space music
Kosmische Musik
Avant-rock
Live recording
Experimental rock
Improvised music
Art rock
Electronic
Psych-rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: VoxLuxRabax

Label: Cratediggers/Folksoundomy: A Library Of Sound

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] fydhws - Surf Drone

Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Space rock
Minimalism
Drone rock
Psych-rock
Art rock

Artist: fydhws

Release: Lament for All Alive Rock Stars

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp/Future Sequence

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] edPorth - Unraveled Knot

Minimal techno
Experimental techno
Alternative dance
Electronic music

Artist: edPorth

Release: Static

Label: 51 Beats

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Romantic States - Take My Hand and Run

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Power pop

Artist: Romantic States

Release: Take My Hand and Run

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mike Cassells - It's In Here, Somewhere

Free jazz
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Artist: Mike Cassells

Release: Mike Cassells Power Quartet

Label: Catchy Name

Year: 2017

Noteherder & McCloud – The Tail (2008)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

Free jazz
Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Modal jazz
Live session
Electronic music
Leftfield

Comment: I am very glad to back again at WM Recordings, the imprint which has introduced me to many interesting artists like brunk, Chenard Walcker, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Keshco, Phil Reavis, Jared C. Balogh, The Hathaway Family Plot and many others. Beyond that the roster embraces such luminaries as the godfather of the home recording R Stevie Moore, and Russian dadaist sound collage and surf pop mixed madness Messer Chups. Undoubtedly The Tail is a highly complicated and mind-provoking one composed of three different live gigs by the two experienced musicians wherein you can enjoy many parallel running compartments based on the playing of a soprano saxophone, and on the other side it is undermined by poignant synthesiser-based bubbling and effects making an impact on a fastidious listener. And I am probably the demanding reviewer. And if you want to get a solid review of how to play the soprano saxophone in an intriguing way then this issue is for you. Synthesiser is a remarkably more broad instrument or it can even be considered a platform, however, this issue provides a little yet intriguing bit of it. It certainly touches on sonic qualities which remind me of electronic krautrock artists as Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. Use The Desk Lamp is the favourite of mine because it is absolutely fascinating in its overwhelming tempo and energy. For me, it is jazz punk. In a word, the result is great.

ps – Volatile (2017)

Enoughrecords

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Ambient noise
Drone
Ambient drone
Electronic music
Spoken word
Sampledelic
Post-industrial
Leftfield
Psychoacoustic

Comment: this issue of 11 tracks is psychotic, strongly filled out with desperate vocal samples and violent filled dialogues from different motion pictures being backed up by sinister yet blissful soundscapes being in turn filled in with glitchy "errors", and frequently interrupted static providing you a starkly disturbed sonic picture while paradoxically maintaining its picturesque image. By casting the light upon the titles it is mostly about blood and cuts and stillness. As if getting an audible, almost physically tangible bridge from within an unnerving psycho-neurological ward. If to compare it to the artist's release which was recently reviewed at RMH, Finding My Own Way Back Home, the recent one is not about the hiss imbued walls and supportive prodigious power dictating the whole, it used to lurk after you searching for your cerebral traces to overtake it and then modifying it into psyched-up ones. And then the past is going to come ahead of your present to govern the future of yours. Overwhelming by any means. Similarly to Finding My Own Way Back Home it is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

Ellah a. Thaun – Happy 30 Honey (2017)

Bandcamp

Indie
Drone pop
Experimental pop
Alternative pop
Avant-pop
Post-punk
Krautrock
Electronic
Alternative dance
Psychedelic
Art pop
Epic

Comment: Ellah. a Thaun is a contemporary indie artist from France whose method is to embrace many elements into her idiosyncratic mix. Obviously it is not the ultimate purpose of her. It is the way how her music must be made up. This handful of tracks surprises again with its frantic touch though by the sound and loudness all is controlled by Nathanaelle Hauguel. For example, the opening piece Part 1 progresses into a sort of indie techno based on an elliptical catchy loop. It is the favourite of mine though the rest of the whole is also very good. She has always been strongly influenced by post-punk music and the influence comes out in the second part. Rough post-punk germs are crossed with the dreamy higher chords of shoegaze thereof resulting in a bewildering while majestic avant-pop composition. Part 3 showcases Hauguel`s exposure towards the motorik, towards krautrock though the drumming is vamped up by digitally modified thin kick drums as if all of that were extracted either from a contemporary soul or electro pop release. Part 4 is the outing's slacker track being stylistically grunge which lazily continues at Part 5 as well though being strongly intertwined with droning organs and wah wah effects. As if an early Stereolab meets Spaceman 3 yet the comparison is my mirage because that results in something very originally spiritual ultimately. In a nutshell, undoubtedly one of the best issues in 2017, and probably the best indie album in 2017 so far. Amazing gal indeed.

10/20/2017

[Teaser of the day] Daniel James Dolby - A Warning

Murmure Intemporel

Dark ambient
Film noir
Illbient
Electronic music
Post-industrial
Leftfield

Artist: Daniel James Dolby

Release: Grimojo

Label: Murmure Intemporel/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Poros - Ter

MiMi

Post-punk
Experimental rock
Gothic rock
Alternative rock
Post-rock
Crossover
Indie rock

Artist: Poros

Release: Ter

Label: MiMi

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Torley - The Garden

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

Piano music
Contemporary classical
Modern classical

Artist: Torley

Release: Solo Piano 7

Label: Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

NNY – offear.ep (2004)

Enough

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Electronic music
Experimental electronica
Alternative
Drone
Minimal techno
Glitchtronica
Micronoise

Comment: this set of 5 compositions created by Portuguese artist Jerome Faria aka NNY is certainly the kind of electronic music but it is problematic to pigeonhole it in a certain way. Maybe it is just about a physical vibe, to get your change in mood through moving of the sounds from one channel to another. And vice versa. A traffic of gentle and noisy sounds to pass by each other. I couldn't find out any narrative of it. When you have stopped listening to it you could remember just a little bit about the whole. Maybe there were up some shrieks, some noises and glitches, some spans of silence, some kind of talking. You cannot remember nothing but the issue is intriguing and you have to listen to it again to figure it eventually out. It is uneasy to think it off. So your presence is essential for that outing. Without your experience it does not exist in fact. It is a mental terrain which is going to blossom at the presence of the listener. The release is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

10/19/2017

[Teaser of the day] Sekotis - Ravens

Bump Foot

Art rock
Indie rock
Math rock
Post-rock
Avant-rock
Alternative rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Sekotis

Release: For Your Weird Ears

Label: Bump Foot/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Scissor Lock - I Guess

Post-psychedelic electronica
Avant-pop
Experimental pop
Electronic
Leftfield
Art pop
Drone pop

Artist: Scissor Lock

Release: Churn

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Lackluster - Starcell U.K

Soulseek/Other Net.Label Artists

IDM
Alternative
Mood music
Electronic music

Artist: Lackluster

Release: Distance

Label: Soulseek/Other Net.Label Artists

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Blasphemation - Stomped Into a Sludge

Torn Flesh

Death metal
Crust punk
Brutal metal
Goregrind
Crossover

Artist: Blasphemation

Release: An Oath of Total Allegiance to the Black God

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Kogan Tribute Piece

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Art rock

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Today`s Embrace

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Bronze Eye - Hopfrog

Experimental hip-hop
Rap
Electronic music
Glitch-hop
Urban music
Avant-hop

Artist: Broze Eye

Release: Past Imperfect

Label: Bayshore

Year: 2014

10/18/2017

[Teaser of the day] Fabio Keiner - Charun

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
Minimalism
Drone
Experimentalism
Microtonal
Electronic music

Artist: Fabio Keiner

Release: Shidim

Label: Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cisne Sônico - Schwermut

Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Neofolk
Space rock
Neoclassical
Dark folk

Artist: Cisne Sônico

Release: Melancolia

Label: Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Broken Music Box - Achievement

Birdsong

Lo-fi
DIY
Bedroom pop
Improvised music
Drone pop
Avant-pop
Experimental pop

Artist: Her Highness

Release: Broken Music Box - Featuring Her Highness

Label: Birdsong

Year: 2004

ps – Finding My Own Way Back Home (2017)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Bandcamp

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Leftfield
Noise
Ambient noise
Microtonal
Drone
Ambient drone
Abstract
Illbient
Dark ambient
Epic

Comment: this batch of 10 compositions can be considered as one monolithic track because it consists of very minimally changed phases as if My Bloody Valentine were standing somewhere under a tremendous waterfall. Yet it is the album having nothing to do with shoegaze. Because My Bloody Valentine under an imposing waterfall can not be a shoegaze case at all. Glenn Branca to be set up under a waterfall? More profoundly, you are directed to a hiss loaded droning universe of energy where you can make decisions on sonic intensity, energetic consumption and burning and mere, almost invisible dodges only. However, it is enough to make difference. Furthermore, even if you thought of it as something excessively primitive at a first glance you soon got realized of it as quite sinister and totally overwhelming. At some point you are not reflecting upon it, it reflects upon you. That's the case. Behind visible sonic carpets one can perceive even more invisible ones which used to resonate with one another and thereof produce new templates again and again. There are connected the physical and mental power of music as a phenomenon. Real, existing sounds are created in the way to induce chimeras and phantasms. Vectors, inner impulses and inertia are seamlessly intertwined into ghastly landscapes. Call it hisswave on its own way. And although it seems to be ominous it is beautiful and wondrous either. This stunning release is a part of the discography of the enoughrecords, the legendary Portuguese imprint.

10/17/2017

[Teaser of the day] Eva on the Western Castle Island - Surfing Like a Guru

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Bubblegum pop
Blonde hair indie

Artist: Eva on the Western Castle Island

Release: The Wong Way

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nasienie - Walking Around

Webbed Hand

Drone
Ambient drone
Dreamwave
Glitchtronica
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Avant-garde

Artist: Nasienie

Release: Prevention of Sleep Disorders EP

Label: Webbed Hand

Year: 2010

Radj – 8 Tracks (EP) (2017)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

Lo-fi
DIY
Nu jazz
Sampledelic
Hip-hop
Breaks
Downtempo
Trip-hop
Electronic music

Comment: Radj is an artist from Canada whose - surprise, surprise - 8-notch outing is a tight mix of shambling rhythms, suggestive samples from motion pictures (many of them are in Russian), and cinematic synthesised sounds. The outing is a quite short-running one and used to be uniform from the very beginning to the end point thereby chiming like a total track eventually. Why it is so? Emotionally it is restrained, it deliberately avoids progressing into something boisterous and unleashed. One can encounter some flourishes here and there but all of that seems to be hindered or at least withdrawn anyway. It is strongly controlled in its simple and even primitive format (I mean it in a positive sense anyway). So you can perceive tension with regard to the represented elements and huge potential waiting to be realized to the ultimate extent. The outing is a subsequent release by Dusted Wax Kingdom, a netlabel from Varna, Bulgaria. The heaven is today apocalyptically eclipsed due to the remote consequences of the hurricane Ophelia and as a result it is enjoyable with this set of sound.

[Teaser of the day] Jan Strach - Wierzby (Willows)

DIY
Lo-fi
Space pop
Art pop
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: Jan Strach

Release: Jan Pierwszy Starszy

Label: Underpolen/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Smash Up Fun!! - Bo Fly Mambo

Latin music
Lounge pop
Plunderphonics
Avant-garde
Mambo
Dada music
Sound collage
Leftfield
Exotica pop
Anti-pop
Sampledelic

Artist: Smash Up Fun!!

Release: Fly, Not Fly

Label: Ubuibi/Big City Orchestra

Year: 2015

10/16/2017

[Teaser of the day] Death Tricheco - Contemporary Art

Avant-garde
Plunderphonics
Sound collage
Industrial
DIY
Freeformfreakout
Minimal synth
Experimentalism
Experimental electronica
Sampledelic
Electronic music

Artist: Death Tricheco

Release: Party Music

Label: Silent Method

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] No(Spin) - Queen of Blades

Electron Emitter

Breakcore
Drum and bass
Electronic music
Alternative dance

Artist: No(Spin)

Release: From The Vaults

Label: Electron Emitter

Year: 2017

Wings Of An Angel – Enter Your Horror Story (2017)

Bandcamp

Modern classical
Contemporary classical
Piano music
Art music
Drone
Ambient drone
Space music
Electronic music
Chamber music

Comment: the man behind Wings Of An Angel is a phenomenon. Maybe he is not man at all, no I am not inclined to say instead of a man there is an angel, maybe it is a hidden collective behind it. Why I supposed to think in that way? Because he has released more than 140 releases in recent years. It must be a prodigious exertion to reach it. Only very few chosen are able to do it. If to think of it this can be compared with the doings of the Almighty one. All what he said and did all would get realised immediately. All what Wings Of An Angel has thought all would have surfaced after a while. The recent one consists of a couple of tracks which are quite disparate by their format, composition and tonality. Danger Is An Imminent Reaction used to base on a spherical droning. I was running in a colourful, autumnal forest while I was listening to it for the first time. It is a track which suggests as if you are the only person in the world. There is no place for other persons. You have no need for other people at all because your own existence is tightly related to the surrounding nature which is your mother, father, lover, whatever. In other words, it is the rebuff of civilisation which is the source of decay and depression. The track clocks in at a 16 minute. The following track It's Too Hard To Teach A Daft Sun-Assaulter How To Make Raspberries Grow In The Dirt is as long as a 67 minute being based on piano chord shuffles and surrounded by an airy ambience. Its emotion and mood are more veiled and ambiguous and because of that it is problematic to relate to it on emotionally. However, I suppose I am barking under a false tree and instead of searching for overwhelming emotions (due to the opening composition) you have to set out to follow rigidly the format and the pattern of the composition. That's it. In a nutshell, listen to it for to stand under the shadow of the wings of an angel.

[Teaser of the day] Carbonates On Mars - Forest Canopy

Ambient
Ambient drone
Minimalism
Space music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Soundscape

Artist: Carbonates On Mars

Release: This Music Plants Trees 4

Label: Aural Films

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wings of An Angel - Only Love Can Heal The Wounds Of Time

Post-classical
Art music
Experimentalism
Contemporary classical
Modern classical
Electronic music
Avant-garde

Artist: Wings Of An Angel

Release: Odysseys Of An Idling Polar Sun (Musical Diary Of My Spiritual Journey To The Ukraine, Oct 2017)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

10/15/2017

[Teaser of the day] Uton - Diamond Hearts

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
Abstract
New Weird Finland
Avant-folk
Psychedelic
Improvised music
Drone folk
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Experimental folk
Forest folk
Noise

Artist: Uton

Release: Holy Burn

Label: Om Ha Sva Ha Ksha Ma La Va Ra Yam

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Full Load Of King - Medusa

Comfort Stand

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Blues rock
Psychedelic rock
Hard rock

Artist: Full Load Of King

Release: Normal

Label: Comfort Stand

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Snuff American Style - War Of Attrition

No Wave
Avant-garde
Avant-rock
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Electronic
Experimental rock
Alternative

Artist: Snuff American Style

Release: The Isolation EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Marylin Roxie - Raumschiff der Krautrock

Vulpiano

Krautrock
Electronic music
Psychedelic
Kosmische Musik
Alternative

Artist: Marylin Roxie

Release: Zug der Krautrock

Label: Vulpiano

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Toxic Chicken - dakterras at Gifgrond

Electronic pop
Alternative
Synth-pop
Poptronica

Artist: Toxic Chicken

Release: Into the hidden place

Label: Dog Park

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mortua Nix - Drained

Lo-fi
Avant-garde
DIY
Neofolk
Neoclassical

Artist: Mortua Nix

Release: Martyrs

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

The Bordellos – The Bordellos Underground Tape Vol 7 (2017)

Bandcamp

Indie rock
Lo-fi
DIY
Alternative rock
Outsider pop
Indie folk

Comment: since the end of the 00s I have had two great lo-fi and DIY acts from the very underground of the United Kingdom, more profoundly, The Hirundu, and Clinker. Since 2014 or 2015 I can consider The Bordellos as a third act in the list. Why I like the mentioned acts? It might be because of their cynicism in lyrics and in their music which in turn harks back to my personal experiences while listening to an early MES and The Fall, especially Perverted By Language (1983). Of course, I like the music of the recent ones because these influences cannot be heard as a copy paste version but one can hear unexpected dodges and tradition ruined appearances in music. The Bordellos is not a unit who somehow likes to be aesthetically repressed. They have been doing what they like to do. They have released a bunch of EPs and some albums so far. This 4-notch one is based on quiet and even buried incantations based on primitive chords and visions. Let's call it lo-fi jangle pop, primitive Americana, outsider folk music, tea cup sadcore. I have nothing left to do as they sing. Like The Fall has always loved rockabilly as an American influence The Bordellos has added Americana as an American influence to the latest releases. I have no regret while spending time with it though I would prefer the combo's previous ones because at times it is way too buried. But I understood their musical path to move on from one point to the next one. That's the logic, that's the dynamics.

Megahast3r – Low Level Security (2017)

Soisloscerdos

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Acid techno
Tekno
Electronic music
Acid house
Rave music
Alternative dance
Minimal techno

Comment: this bunch of 4 compositions is a bipolar outing with regard to involving restrained yet somehow neurotically loaded electronic progressions and an elegant minimal techno and then trading it for shamelessly stomping electronic dance beats getting obviously inspiration from warehouse parties from the end 80s and the beginning 90s. It is sparse and straightforward yet providing a huge impact on a listener. Indeed, it is truly rave-up. Paradoxically it does have an emotional impact upon me because the emotions are burned off over there a priori. That's the way I like it. The issue is a part of the discography of Soisloscerdos Records.

wk [es] – EXT-ME (2010)

Hz-Records

Abstract techno
Glitchtronica
Electronic music
Leftfield
Experimental techno
Minimal techno
Avant-techno
Experimental electronica

Comment: EXT-ME was the first issue being released in the discography of Hz-Records. It was also a predecessor of an issue called Deus ex machina. In comparison to the last mentioned issue it is more restrained and sparse because of circling around dry glitched-out techno patterns at times being variegated with faint melodic progressions and stoned noise explosions. However, the aforementioned elements are seamlessly integrated into the whole. That's the strength of this 5-notch outing. These errors are very fine ones for your bloody robotic brain. And for my fking brain even more. Debris is to be resurrected like Jesus Christ is to be recycled.

wk[es] - Deus ex machina (2011)

Hz-Records

Avant-techno
Experimental electronica
Experimental techno
IDM
Abstract techno

Comment: if to compare it to a nearby album review Parametic Delay's Love Song Before Sleeping (2011, No-Source) you can draw parallels on glitched-out sounds and IDM-esque cadences yet on the other side it is a disparate case for sure. It is not inflected by indie pop at all these five tracks get their power from outer space to bring it forth through mundane technical support and electronics. That's cool, that's intriguing. Deus ex machina. Although the first two tracks (Dialogue, Phantasm) are quite gentle by its nature the rest of the whole is remarkably more spaced-out and murky in its deliberatedly haphazard playfulness. It reminds me a bit of Autechre, the duo's abstract, mathematical techno. Debris and waste will be employed to the maximal extent. It sounds like a Poltergeist would play somewhere in the middle of a wasteland. This mind-provoking outing is a bit of the discography Hz-Records.

Parametic Delay – Love Song Before Sleeping (2011)

No-Source

Indietronica
Post-pop
Electronic pop
IDM
Plinkerpop
Glitch pop
Bitpop
Synth-pop

Comment: I can remember for the first half of the 00s while one of the most interesting sounds was related to the so-called duyster (from Belgium) and such labels as Morr Music, and Monika Enterprise. Such peripheral sounds and bits as glitches, noises, 8 bits and other wonky sounds were scraped to subjugate them to sub pop/gentle indie pop inflected harmonies and melodies. Within the netlabel world there have also been such kind of juggernauts who provided a platform to an immense number of artists. Error Lo-Fi, Aerotone, 12rec. and of course, No-Source imprint (unfortunately all these records are defunct now). All the aforementioned elements are apparently represented on this 5-notch issue coming out from Indonesia (the duo of Benk Robo, and Dittea). It is witty, it is poignant, it is charming, it is cerebral with regard to the choice of sounds and accomplished compositions. At the same time it is intact and not smeared with the burden of everyday life. We cannot be without adjectives while describing an astounding release. This issue makes that sense.

Random Forest – Panoramic (2016)

Bandcamp

Post-rock
Epic
Art rock
Experimental rock
Ambient rock

Comment: post-rock is a style which cannot be understood in one certain way. First, post used to refer to something which comes after rock music yet still having something common with the previous phenomenon. It is the kind of ontological explanation. However, such combos as Stereolab, Broadcast, Slowdive's Pygmalion can be considered post-rock in that transgressive sense. Mostly post-rock is understood as guitar-based music which used to meander on symphonic guitar progressions frequently from the silent starting point to reach loud and majestic crescendos. Like a powerful male to provide multiple orgasms to a female. Indeed, post-rock as a style is a drift between divine and mundane. Furthermore, the categorisations cannot be presumed as clear-cut ones between the ones there supposed to fifty one grey shades of...whatever. Behind the London, UK-based combo Random Forest is the duo of Aaron Gilbert and David Walters (The Echelon Effect). David Walters aka The Echelon Effect has grown an impressive following to his project through the social media and first of all thanks to his wondrous music. In fact, Random Forest as a minor brother of it continues to trudge the same path of atmospheric and dreamy guitars, and electronic beats and suggestive effects. Indeed, these guitars clearly imply their power to dominate and emit beauty simultaneously while the electronics used to support it in an almost invisible way. It can even be compared to The Smiths at The Queen Is Dead (1986) when Johnny Marr added a sampler/synthesiser (denoted as The Hated Salford Ensemble and Orchestrazia Ardwick at Strangeways, Here We Come) to complement guitars with more orchestrated sounds. Or My Bloody Valentine would have been doing since the Glider EP (1990) to give MBV's sound the panoramic touch. In a word, the result is astounding which should be employed as a remedy for patients with low a serotonin level.

10/12/2017

[Teaser of the day] Four Letter Word - Emergency Broadcast

Hardcore
Agit-punk
Punk rock

Artist: Four Letter Word

Release: Zero Visibility

Label: BYO/Bandcamp

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Santa Inferno - Marmalade

Imaginary Albums

Lo-fi
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Psychedelic rock
DIY

Artist: Santa Inferno

Release: Desert Music

Label: Imaginary Albums

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] A Problem Like Maria - Petrichor

Indietronica
Art pop
Dream pop
Singer-songwriter
Post-pop
Indie pop
Chillwave
Alternative pop
Electronic music

Artist: A Problem Like Maria

Release: Lagniappe

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

10/11/2017

[Teaser of the day] dml - Beta Testing

Broque

Tech-electro
Electronic music
Alternative dance

Artist: dml

Release: The Chemistry of Boredom

Label: Broque

Year: 2016

Tree No Leaves – Sacred Natives (2017)

Bandcamp

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Progressive rock
Art rock
Experimental rock
Psychedelic rock
Drone rock
Americana
Southern rock

Comment: I can remember for my first experience with this combo happened approximately 8 years ago with regard to such a great label as now defunct Modicum Of Silence, the Ohio, US-based imprint led by Nic Ross. For sure, you are having serious problems to find out the discography of the record label but many albums you can download from the rare albums section at RMH. Since then, since the first chords Tree No Leaves' music has been highly artsy due to its quest towards a perfect synthesis in rock music. And I think they have succeeded in doing it. For instance, Sacred Natives, the 4-notch outing is a fascinating match by putting together such styles as vehement indie music and on the other side adding to it more traditional yet still mind-provoking genres like Kosmische Musik, krautrock, psychedelia and progressive rock. Thirdly, you can hear American threads like Southern rock, Americana even if those are not always prevalently apparent. At times those freely floating and slightly acidic Hammond organ based grooves remind of such Manchester baggy juggernauts as The Charlatans, and Inspiral Carpets (especially at Emperor's Cyclical Disco). And The Doors is an obvious influence. As I said already it is the perfect match.

10/10/2017

[Teaser of the day] Soma - Oceano

MonoKraK

Ambient pop
Ambient techno
Space pop
Electronic music
New Age
Mood music

Artist: Soma

Release: Uno

Label: MonoKraK

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Pasqualino Ubaldini - Etn(i)a Maris

Jamendo

Drone folk
World music
Crossover
Big beat
Psychedelic
Art folk
World fusion

Artist: Pasqualino Ubaldini

Release: Metissage

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Jason Sposa - All Of Those Years

Hearthphone

Indie pop
Art pop
Singer-songwriter
DIY
Alternative pop
Dream pop

Artist: Jason Sposa

Release: The Olivia EP

Label: Hearthphone

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Gamardah Fungus - World Dying

Nocharizma

Ambient rock
Experimental rock
Minimalism
Post-rock
Avant-rock
Musique concrète
Art rock

Artist: Gamardah Fungus

Release: Nuclear Winter

Label: Nocharizma

Year: 2012

Quimper – Wake Up Gastone (2017)

Bandcamp

Modern classical
Electronic music
Post-classical
Dark wave
Leftfield
Indietronica
Ambient
Art music
Experimental pop

Comment: Quimper is a project from the United Kingdom who has released nine outings since 2012. In 2017, Wake Up Gastone is the artist`s third issue. Although it is a short issue many dodges and progressions are up there for the listener's sake. It starts off with the self-titled notch being imbued with lurking and droning synths being elegantly opaque by its nature and then the 4-track outing continues with a J-pop influenced pop number (Elephant). Years Out is the most epic track where electronic devices are jettisoned for lonely piano chords and longing female vowels thereby making the listener's soul to feel herself/himself somehow scarred and sadly reflective. The final track He Woke Up is also grave and somber though it used to base on an electronic progression. It is the most atmospheric, ambient and dark wave tinged example within it. By watching the silly cover at I have to admit it seems to be eventually harmonize with the music behind it. In a word, it does not seem to be so silly at all. All In all, the result is impressive and I have to discover more music from the artist.

[Teaser of the day] Captive Portal - Bread Crumb Trees

Mahorka

Electro pop
Autotune
Robot pop
Electronic pop
Alternative
Kraut-electro
Experimental pop
Art pop
Indietronica

Artist: Captive Portal

Release: Having A VHS For A Leg

Label: Mahorka/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mart Avi - Moses

Art pop
Indie
Alternative
Leftfield
Sophisti-pop
Avant-pop
Experimental pop
Electronic
Singer-songwriter

Artist: Mart Avi

Release: Rogue Wave

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

10/09/2017

[Teaser of the day] Invertebrata - Shake that tambourine, Mr Hall!

Electro-acoustic
Avant-garde
Improvised music
Alternative
Experimentalism

Artist: Invertebrata

Release: 5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] The Wagner Logic - Waiting For Snow

Fuzz pop
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock

Artist: The Wagner Logic

Release: VA - The Moon

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2017

Nuclear Biologist Rocket Surgeons – Better Music Through Research (2008)

Nuclear Biologist Rocket Surgeons

Avant-prog
Experimental rock
Art rock
RIO
Dada music
Improvised music
Zeuhl
Progressive rock
Leftfield

Comment: this handful of tracks is a frantic result by its compositions, concept and completion. First of all, the most startling effect is that theoretical premises and notes were translated directly into music by employing a special customised programme for it. Musically it chimes like a sequence to a legendary French combo, Magma. An innumerable swarm of turns and dodges throughout the course are clearly remarkable for the listener's pleasure. It can be considered roughly schizoid if it were something but music. And of course, it used to be overwhelmingly playful and amusing giving no fuck to serious cocks. For instance, those overtly bombastic orchestrations and highly pathetic operatic singing cannot be something but done with tongue-in-cheek attitude. Unfortunately the combo dissolved and it is their only issue. You must pay attention to this proggy beast. You have no choice anymore while reading the overview of this divine comedy. But unfortunately being without the cover print (it exists at the site of the release, though).

Radiomaniac – Radiomaniac EP (2017)

Mizou

Bandcamp

Shoegaze
Space rock
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Ambient rock
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Ethereal Wave
Dream pop
Post-punk

Comment: Radiomaniac is a combo from Russia and the quartet`s music is vamped up with traditional rock instruments (bass, guitar, the drums) yet their soundscape is remarkably bigger than the set of initial items. It is an instance of spaced-out rock where fascinating murky echoes and powerful delays used to move across the walls and ceilings to destroy them to break on through to the other side. Hovering elements are adeptly intertwined with more powerful yet still captivatingly dreamy sections (for instance, a highlight is Leaving (Покидаем)]. In fact, the words (in Russian) speak in pessimistic tones (about death – all will be dead stated in one song) and escaping across Outer Space yet on the other side it is definitely about life (life comes to all of you in the same track being aforementioned) and love-affirmative. Yin meets yan being a ground for this idiosyncratic issue. I have to admit it is one of the most mind-blowing issues in 2017. The issue is a part of the discography of Mizou Records.

10/07/2017

Fugenn & The White Elephants – Lycoris (2010)

Hz-Records

Nu jazz
Acid jazz
Electronic music
Glitchtronica
Alternative
Mood music
Experimental pop

Comment: it starts off with a mellow nu jazz/acid jazz progression to progress partly in other direction. More profoundly, you can be witness to glitched-out electronica, droning electricity yet at the same time preserving its sublime, poppy touch. This issue is a fascinating example of how once peripheral (and the very sounds of noise music) sounds are integrated into something which can be considered highly pleasant to one's ear and soul. Yet there is much time to go to get a world where such sort of music could be mainstream music. The 5-track outing is a bit of the discography of Hz-Records. Top tier.