Recent Music Heroes

Comment: my first contact with Ludo G. Maas` music was probably related through No-Source imprint. The artist comes from the Netherlands and as it can be seen at the Bandcamp site the hiatus by the artist did last five and a half year. Welcome back again! This 8-notch outing is the first swallow of Maas´ three-part EP trilogy. Indeed, the whole embraces the extended play format because the compositions are quite short extending to the three minute exactly at their longest point. The Flemish indie, folk and electronic music mixed scene is sometimes conveyed with a loose term, duyster, and I can remember one artist (Wixel) from within it who did a similar trick. However, the music is great over there (it is not surprising with regard to Maas` previous releases, though). Firstly, the issue contains technically very interesting threads yet the result is boosted even twice due to an emotional and emotive impact behind it. I have to admit it must be considered even an epic and cinematic one here and there (for instance, Dielman, Lights of Tomorrow). It might be I have listened to albums of 2018 a little but it seems to be the first one for me to be a serious one (I could remember for System Morgue`s Distress, and Massimo Ruberti`s Granchite Yumtruso PT. II either). I even got MGMT`s Little Dark Age as a vinyl but it is just an eunuchised flicker (read it as a way too calculated product) in comparison to it. The emotion and the sense of freedom are one of the most important aspects with regard to the music. And as a consequence of it – the product does not have them or does have just a scarce bit. I guess Lao Tzu would have listened to it in his austere mountain hut. In a word, the start was very promising – let's wait for the next one.

[Teaser of the day] Eva Schlegel - Whisper Of Night Streets

Post-IDM
Hip-hop
Breaks
Electronic music
Alternative
Crossover
Trip-hop
Urban music

Artist: Eva Schlegel

Release: Broken Doll

Label: Southern City`s Lab/Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

4/18/2018

[Teaser of the day] Jared C. Balogh - Changes

Contemporary classical
Modern classical
Art music
Avant-garde

Artist: Jared C. Balogh

Release: Music (Pro Licensing) For Commercial Use

Label: Altered State Reflections

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] The Fucked Up Beat - Port Sinister/Anarchitecture

Sampledelic
Oldie music
Sound collage
Crossover
Post-psychedelic electronica
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Electronic music
Breaks
Trip-hop
Hauntology

Artist: The Fucked Up Beat

Release: Investigates Strange Weather Patterns and the UFO Cults of Cold War Nevada

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] The Echelon Effect - Distant Cities

Post-rock
Epic
Ambient rock
Art rock

Artist: The Echelon Effect

Release: Signals

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

4/17/2018

[Teaser of the day] Mikk Rebane - Enthralled

Indietronica
Electronic music
Post-IDM
Post-rock
Crossover
Art pop
Chilltronica
Alternative
Post-pop
Mood music

Artist: Mikk Rebane

Release: Deviations

Label: Bump Foot/Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Speculativism - Protecting Croydon from the Martians

Speculativism

Improvised music
Space rock
Art rock
Psych-rock

Artist: Speculativism

Release: Territory To Die For

Label: Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kreng - Alcyone 1

fant00m

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Jazz noir
Electronic music
Art music
Nu jazz

Artist: Kreng

Release: Pleiades EP

Label: fant00m/Humanworkshop/Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Marevick - Rosario

Acoustic pop
Art music

Artist: Marevick

Release: Personal Parkway

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

nula.cc – Fall To Earth (2018)

Bandcamp

Musique concrète
Microtonal
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Field recording
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Abstract
Microsound
Ambient

Comment: nula.cc`s East by Rail was one of the favourite albums in 2017. Concrete sounds were mixed up with artificial ones in a way to conjure up unforgettable synergy from within the initial parts. The sum of its particles was exceeded by the whole amount. Similarly to the Prague, the Czech Republic based project`s previous issue Fall To Earth should be listened in the mode while all nearby windows and doors are closed because otherwise the listener is foreclosed to evaluate the issue`s intellectual impact while its functional impact is implemented though. Because of getting well resonated with the surrounding ambient you have to admit the latter goal is fulfilled. In comparison to East By Rail the result seems to be more reserved and hazy, it is quite hard to find access to it. You can hear vague sounds coming in and out and then alternate unobtrusively and being traded for other hazy progressions. However, my senses got finally moved at Stigmata which is a vague yet haunting drone/ambient track being spiced up by remote clanks and an accidental tittle-tattle. But the listener should not forget the project`s goal as an organic chain of different representations. It is just an artsy shift from one point to another one. Indeed, points which came thereafter were Monumentum, and Points On A Map. In a word, map nula.cc`s trajcetory.

4/16/2018

[Teaser of the day] pandoras.box - Monomeet

Clinical Archives

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Dream pop

Artist: pandoras.box

Release: Monomeet

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Lycia – Tripping Back Into The Broken Days (2002)

Bandcamp

Projekt

Dark wave
Shoegaze
Alternative
Ambient rock
Dreamgaze
Epic
Neoclassical
Ethereal wave

Comment: I guess Tripping Back Into The Broken Days is a good start for beginners to make acquaintance with Tempe, Arizona, US-based combo. My first contact with Mike VanPortfleet led trio (though the recent one is created by Mike VanPortfleet, and Tara Vanflower) was in 2004 while I got an album by my friend and thereafter was listening to it with my bride in the bed in a darkened room. Yeah, the impression was powerful, I got dazed and I fell in love with Lycia. I think Lycia is one of the most underrated combos in the music history and the trio`s music should be immensely more appreciated. If there is up a topic about shoegaze then you could not find out any hints at Lycia in that regard. Indeed, Lycia as a combo is a juggernaut between shoegaze and dark wave, maybe even between post-punk, and neofolk/dark folk/neoclassical. For instance, at times Lycia, and Slowdive do have much in common. The formula of Lycia is quite simple – their music used to take off with reverb-drenched, extended guitar chords being backed up by murky atmospheric synthesisers and longing vocal lines and then progress slowly and then pertify in a sense. A perfect music example to back up your dreams and anxious minds. Lycia`s music may be considered a break to the other side, or at least something of reflecting shades and dim rays from that dimension. By watching the cover print and considering the title of this 12-track outing you can perceive hints at American gothic and magic realism. It is a place where the past comes into the present in a quaint way and start to dominate the latter. In the sense you can similarities with Morrissey`s lyrics. A mandatory release for sure. The issue was intially released on Projekt Records.

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Cagey House is a Big Sissy

Bypass

Avant-garde
Electro-rock
Art rock
Synth-rock
Avant-prog
Freeformfreakout
RIO
Crossover
Psychedelic rock
Improvised music
Electronic music
Acid rock
Experimentalism

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Calico Pastry Sunshine

Label: Bypass

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Ben Woods - Always

Post-classical
Ambient
Art music
Modern classical
Epic

Artist: Ben Woods

Release: Passing Intervals

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Antanas Jasenka - Denis & His Programme

Nishi

Experimental electronica
Drum and bass
Glitch techno
Crossover
Experimental electro
Jungle
Breakcore

Artist: Antanas Jasenka

Release: Car Music

Label: Nishi

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Least Carpet - Mirrors

Psych-folk
Raga music
Drone folk
New Weird Germany
Dream folk
Minimalism

Artist: Least Carpet

Release: Shahi Baaja

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

4/15/2018

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Sun`s Gone

Free Music Archive

Post-classical
Contemporary classical
Chamber music
Art music
Modern classical
Mood music

Artist: Walt Thisney

Release: Galactic Voodoo

Label: Murmure Intemporel/Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

Ilya i Alisa – Winter Invocation (2007)

Bandcamp

Micronoise
Avant-garde
Drone
Microsound
Experimentalism
Leftfield
Spoken word
Alternative
Acousmatic music
Electronic music
Field recording
Musique concrete
Art music

Comment: Ilya Bogatyryov aka Ilya i Alisa as his one-man-project can be considered as one of the most enchanting and mystical groups to have ever been existed in Estonia. Previously I have commented about How I Entered The Dark Forest (2010) which was a true miscellany of post-punk, drone, dream folk, ambient, progressive rock, spoken word but the recent case is more austere but it does not mean it is somehow less profound and more superficial. The aforementioned releases are issued on tapes by Trash Can Dance, a Tallinn-based underground imprint. Winter Invocation is a short release of approximately 20 minutes. I guess the winter in 2007 was fragile with regard to the title. Unfortunately I cannot remember it anymore. The issue consists of electro-acoustic noises and drones creating the background mostly for female singing and chants in this way. Yet the words are not sufficient enough to bring forth the depth of the release. For instance, if you listen to the abovementioned microscopic noise soundscape I assume Snow Queen also appears in the background. It is ennobling and somehow frightening at the same time. It's beautiful in its uncompromising, anti-pop bearing. It is beautiful, beatific ugliness. So yeah, listen to it and get a copy of the tape if possible which ultimately will cost much money.

Seedge – Assorted Selections (2016)

Bandcamp

Breaks
Electronic music
Nu jazz
Easy listening
Mood music
Cinematic
Sampledelic
Acid jazz
Funk

Comment: Seedge is an artist from Montréal, Canada whose 11-track outing is a miscellany of predominantly baggy beats and cinematic progressive horizons atop demonstrating stylistically its dwelling place somewhere between nu jazz, sampledelic/sound collage, and easy listening though the listener can experience detours into psychedelic, funk and yacht pop/rock either. Beyond that music is embellished with some mind-blowing tricks from a recording session set. In general, the result is uplifting and provides an additional space for the listener. Nice work.

Palancar – Shallow River Flowing (2017)

Emergent World
Emergent World

Ambient
Ambient drone
Soundscape
Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
New Age
Dreamwave
Dark ambient
Minimalism
Epic

Comment: Darrell Burgan (the founder of Earth Mantra Netlabel!) is an artist who has been releasing music since 2010 and at the moment his legacy is big enough to bring forth his genius. Indeed, the quality does not depend on the quantity with regard to the point of the previous sentence. The 8-track issue is influenced by reading poems and by one sentence being surfaced by a Japanese writer, Matsuo Basho. A good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed. Undoubtedly the outing is elemental in its calm drift yet on the other side it seems to be so well self-organised and natural and cloudlessly dreamy that the listener can just forget all around him/her. It is a sort of cerebral massage, a sort of ideal soundscape, a sort of intangible matter you could only imagine before you had not listened to it. At times the sonic glass resonates due murky dark ambient progressions (at Abendwind, for example), and more bold synthesiser, feedback driven and sonic effects backed appearances here and there (Essential Oil, and Tall Grass Their Monument, for example). Thanks to the opposite facets and subsequent tension the outing will be even more perfect. I used to have problems with New Age music considering cheesy and flimsy seeds coming to the mix yet Shallow River Flowing can be considered a perfect, seamless form of it. Additionally I am wondering if anyone could create more emotive music nonetheless its predominantly minimal nature. It is like the materialisation of Lao Tzu's thoughts full of profundity and space at the same time. Philosophy and music will come into one. The outstanding issue is a part of the discography of Emergent World.

Pigeon Breeders – Oblique Temperatures (2013)

Capital City

Bandcamp

Drone rock
Improvised music
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Psych-rock
Live session
Electro-acoustic
Post-rock

Comment: for sure, we have listened to such sort of music for a thousands of times yet any decent listening time is a particular one because by creating something spaced-out and moving something in the listener's head and subsequently in his/her heart. You have heard the releases of Vibracathedral Orchestra, Moonshake, Acid Mothers Temple, Grower, Jessamine, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Flying Saucer Attack and Natural Snow Buildings etc yet by listening to this handful of tracks you can feel yourself as you are born again. That's the effect of the music. What are the reasons? There seems to be a purgative effect due to immersing to the core of this half-improvised, half-determined nature and thereof getting rid of anxiety, tiredness and exhaustion. It is a remedy through change of the prolonged chords, feedback tension, metallic shrieks and clanging. It is like a template heading and shaping your minds and feels into a normal form and therefore doing away with residual noise in one's soul. The human being is an aggressive animal mixed up by his/her nature and social conditions and interactions and artsy music is a best way to tame him or even rebuild a new arrangement in his/her organism. By developing new virtues within him/her. Indeed, music can save you. This issue was recorded live with the intention of preserving music of local artists around Edmonton, Canada. It is a part of Capital City Records.

4/13/2018

[Teaser of the day] Суицидальное Быдло - худшее

Freeformfreakout
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Dada music
Spoken word
Outsider music

Artist: Суицидальное Быдло

Release: Чмо

Label: Immoral Basement/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Soletik - Swamp

Fusion

Electronic music
Industrial electro
Glitch electro
Experimental electro
Breaks
Noise electro
Leftfield

Artist: Soletik

Release: Directional

Label: Fusion

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mirth Naarc - Maths In Love

Free jazz
Experimentalism
Improvised music
Electronic
Jazz noir
Leftfield
Avant-garde

Artist: Mirth Naarc

Release: Jazx

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Red Trees - Wendy`s House

Indie folk
Alt-folk
Dream folk
Folk indie
Twee folk

Artist: Red Trees

Release: Give Love (side A)

Label: La bèl/Archive.org/Free Music Archive

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Uni - Radar vaatab taevast

Electronic music
IDM
Alternative
Mood music
Crossover
Post-pop
Ambient pop
Techno pop
Ulmetronica

Artist: Uni

Release: Kosmikud II

Label: Kohvirecords/Bandcamp

Year: 2007

4/12/2018

[Teaser of the day] Ryan Patrick - It`s Crazy Being Crazy

Kill Mommy

Delta blues
Lo-fi
Roots music
Americana
DIY
Singer-songwriter

Artist: Ryan Patrick

Release: Subsidized Living

Label: Kill Mommy

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Giraffe - Diet And Exorcise

12rec.

Indie folk
Alt-folk
DIY
Mood music
Folk indie
Dream folk

Artist: Giraffe

Release: There Is No Devil

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2010

4/11/2018

[Teaser of the day] Balùn - Sweet N Low

Aerotone

Indietronica
Electronic
Art pop
Alternative
Post-pop

Artist: Balùn

Release: Electronica unplugged 2

Label: Aerotone

Year: 2007

4/10/2018

[Teaser of the day] Roberto Daglio - Obsessive Synchronization

Jamendo

Nu jazz
Mood music
Big band
Crossover
Easy listening
Acid jazz

Artist: Roberto Daglio

Release: THE ROOMS (part one)

Label: Self-released/Jamendo

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Bryyn - Min Hakever

Jamendo

Indie folk
Alt-folk
Epic
Singer-songwriter
Americana
Folk indie

Artist: Bryyn

Release: In Hiding

Label: Self-released/Jamendo

Year: 2017

4/09/2018

[Teaser of the day] Bisamråtta - 3

Vulpiano

Ambient rock
Live session
Avant-rock
Post-rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Bisamråtta

Release: Life on Mars

Label: Vulpiano/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Nick R 61 - Belomorkanal

Fusion

Plunderphonics
Sampledelic
Electronic music
Mood music
Easy listening

Artist: Nick R 61

Release: Energy Invasion Soundtrack

Label: Fusion

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Oaks - Curling Stone Factory

Improvised music
Avant-rock
Avant-prog
Post-hardcore
Art rock
RIO
Experimental rock

Artist: Oaks

Release: The Sun Is Too Brilliant

Label: Lepers/Longrail

Year: 2017

Robin Rochdale – Candygram (2017)

Pilot Eleven

Experimental electronica
Avant-electronica
Abstract
Drone
Electronic music
Leftfield

Comment: as you know at the moment there is going on a local war between the USA and Russia in Syria. I am quite sure there are some guileful reasons behind it. Ultimately the very reason seems to be the annihilation of some Russian friends like Syria, and then Iran and in this way to surround Russia as a country by all the sides. Why it is important to the so-called democratic countries to excel at it? Because in the final fight the advantage could be given to the country who would have better preserved their resources and of which environment is less polluted and of which territory is less inhabited. For sure, it will not be the USA at least. Do you think of Elon Musk's idea to flight off to the Red Planet as a viable one? No, it is just a goofy talk with the intention to shuffle real traces. In fact, the human race as a species is a miserable one and is not able to fulfil it and the only solution to survive is to protect Earth. But it is not possible anymore because we cannot withdraw the hyped need to get more and more things and artefacts, to get a better feeling while shopping and consuming. Don't talk me about transporting democracy to such countries like Iraq, Libya, and Syria because all of that ended up and will end up in human catastrophes by having done in false-hearted reasons. Just providing lies, and the elite's nepotism to get advantage in having useless things on their own. At the same time people are induced to compete with one another yet this does not have sense at all. This has a little to do with the ultimate end, to protect our and other species` existence.

Just listen to this 4-notch issue by the Englishman Robin Rochdale whose music embraces abrasive and collisional elements with pessimistic allusions, it may be a post-apocalyptic insight without life, emotions and reason. All will be lower than the grass. Yet then there would be no signs about the existence of deceitful souls on Earth anymore. The time of heroes would come up. At Handicraft 2 one can hear a ridiculous yet compelling repetition which is a sign to perfectly illustrate the absurdity of the recent situation. The issue is a part of the discography of Pilot Eleven. Why we need new versions of mobile phones? Are they somehow better than my Samsung Galaxy S4 I have been using since the beginning of 2015? Eat why'self fitter. (Indeed, listen to the Fall instead of getting information from fake newspapers, as your choice).

(Disclaimer: it is a free speech not a hate speech with the intention to avoid mindless violence if someone did not understand.)

Circvlo – Beleza (2017)

Sinewave

Math rock
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Crossover
Post-rock
Post-metal
Art rock
Art metal
Mood music
Dance rock

Comment: this 2-notch issue is something of which can be produced in Brazil only. Could you imagine a dance appealed post-rock example with some metal adornments and beyond that it is mixed up with more easy sonic chips as horn sections which used to progress into bossa nova-alike flickers and beatific incantations. Additionally, if you hear an issue of consisting of a flow of permanent chord turns it seems to more resonate with the moody nature of the human being nonetheless all the chords are controlled in mathematical sequences. The outing is a bit in the discography of Sinewave.

4/08/2018

Colten Tyler Williams – Radiance of Resistance (2017)

Nulogic

Ambient drone
Post-rock
Post-classical
Crossover
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Epic
Electronic music
Chamber music
Post-industrial

Comment: this 8-track composition by a US-based artist is profound and multifold full of intriguing twists and epic dramas, of course all of that is represented in an artsy way. From big beat rhythm thudded hovering cello created horizons which in turn is subjugated to a minimalist industrial algorithm (Patient). It chimes like an issue of Penguin Cafe Orchestra were produced by Coil. In a word, the result can be murky and glowering at times. Furthermore, you can hear echo drenched ambiances and incisive, even harsh electronic developments being an accompaniment to guitar based quests including marred guitar orchestrated outbursts. And heavily stomped piano chords floating through the void. CTW is a talented guy for sure of how he can create a crafty crossroad between so many styles. Another side is related to emotions, more profoundly, to emotive impulses. Indeed, it overwhelming and arousing. It is music which may make you agitated, or maybe not. Indeed, the result is outstanding being issued on Nulogic.

System Morgue – Distress (2018)

DNA Production

Ambient drone
Post-rock
Shoegaze
Micronoise
Alternative
Avant-garde
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Dronegaze
Minimalism

Comment: System Morgue is a Sankt Peterburg, Russian one-man-project whose music could be categorised as meta-shoegaze because this 4-track issue opens up new perspectives from different points of view. Shoegaze as an approach has been developed by using techniques already known yet employed by other genres like ambient, noise, drone, minimalism, post-punk, melody hooks enriched easy listening. All these techniques were distilled within indie music to an extent until thereafter we could speak about it as a new genre. Since the 00s the coil started to close up because the aforementioned genres of which shoegaze as a genre was spurred by started to incorporate the genre's own distilled qualities to the mix. It can be admitted while listening to the release one can hear the aforementioned process in its beauty. More profoundly, you actually feel no need to draw the line between indie, and metal, between pulsating minimalism and distorted guitar and sublime synth induced ambient (rock), between atmospheric droning and watered-down yet still gritty noise. In a word, is it an example of abstract shoegaze? Top notch by any means.

4/05/2018

[Teaser of the day] Summer Homes - For Dena, From Guess Who

Ambient
Experimental rock
Post-rock
Spoken word
Art rock
Ambient rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Summer Homes

Release: Found

Label: Futurerecordings

Year: 2016

4/04/2018

[Teaser of the day] Kroma - Horisont

Kosmische Musik
Electronic music
Krautrock
Alternative

Artist: Kroma

Release: Suund

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

4/03/2018

[Teaser of the day] Volture - Brethren of the Coast

Speed metal
Hard rock
Crossover
Heavy metal

Artist: Volture

Release: On The Edge

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Oliver Houston - Tom Quad

Emo
Pop rock
Hard rock
Screamo

Artist: Oliver Houston

Release: Whatever Works

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hepamine - Myriapoda

Minimal techno
Deep techno
Electronic music
Experimental techno
Microtechno

Artist: Hepamine

Release: Non Orchestra EP

Label: micromod music

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Blues For Spacegirl - Phase Incoherence

Jamendo

Electronic music
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Post-rock

Artist: Blues For Spacegirl

Release: Alice Springs

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

4/02/2018

[Teaser of the day] Ibuku Yushi - Waltz For Coffee And Bookmarks

MiMi

Shibuya-kei
Toytronica
Alternative pop
Mood music
Indietronica

Artist: Ibuki Yushi

Release: Waltz For Coffee And Bookmarks

Label: MiMi

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Aurora - Bright Lanterns Flash

Mizou

Post-rock
Art rock
Epic

Artist: Aurora

Release: Occur outside of the binary field EP

Label: Mizou/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

Tarolin ‎– Ringe Raja 041 (2017)

Ringe Raja

Breakcore
Electronic music
Jungle
World music
Alternative dance
Gypsy music
Worldbeat
Breakbeat

Comment: this handful of pieces can be tagged as breakcore but with regard to the content it embraces remarkably more, especially with the spot upon gypsy themes in many kind of heavily beating electronic forms. Earlier I have heard gypsy themes in punk, folk and jazz music and film scores but such an explicit electronic example is something new to my ears. With regard to the Gypsies (Romas) as a nation native to India one can hear similarities with other Indian nations` motives either. And even some motives of Bollywood films reflect upon bygone days while having spent your time with the motion pictures by Raj Kapoor, and singing by Lata Mageshkar. For sure, one can also feel him/herself like staying in the middle of the dance place in a carnival. Even if there may be some woeful threads within the tracks the upbringing tempo melds all of those minor spots into an unstoppably winsome maelstrom. From the starting point to the ending point on end. For sure, it is not problematic to catch the artist`s drift because otherwise it would be imposed upon you. The delirious issue is a part of the discography of Ringe Raja.

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - Hostage Mouth Guns

Jamendo

Hip-hop
Urban music
Electronic music
Breaks
Rap
Alternative
Experimental hip-hop

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: F***lord Dragonfist

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ongaku2 - Osaka

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Sampledelic
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Electro-acoustic

Artist: Ongaku2

Release: Short Stories

Label: La bèl/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2013

4/01/2018

[Teaser of the day] Macronoise - The Sun Shined

Ambient pop
Alternative
Synth-pop
Art pop
Mood music
Chilltronica
Electronic music

Artist: Macronoise

Release: My Steps Lead Backwards

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2017

Massimo Ruberti – Granchite Yumtruso PT 2 (2018)

Nostress

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

New Age
Electronic music
Alternative
Improvised music
Smooth jazz
Synth-pop
Crossover
Krautrock
Kosmische Musik
Worldbeat
World music

Comment: all the music Livorno, Italy-based artist Massimo Ruberti has been creating is wonderful. On the other side, the quality is not changed worse while he has changed the nature and pace of his music over the years. It may be even more adequate to admit the changes have been organic and made step by step so one feels difference and an analogous appearance at the same time. While listening to this 4-notch release I have to assume Massimo Ruberti has added a clear pop inflicted tendency to his sound though doing it in his own particular way. It may be considered inevitable and organic if an experimental artist has explored many kind of finesse through the sound and thereafter tries to test his/her craftiness by creating a sublime pop sound. Here we are, at a sultry crossroad of world music, smooth jazz, ambient pop, sophisti-pop and synth-pop. Smooth jazz as a style is frequently signified as superficial and slight though in the recent context the aforementioned adjectives are turned off. A dominant thread is an adept employing of singing and vowel effects it is something I have a little encountered in the artist's oeuvre. Bombastic yet profound orchestrations used to alternate with loose Kosmische and psychedelic ambient drenched synths and at times more minimal rhythms play predominant role. Robots are also represented over there by denoting a transitional time span when Kraftwerk changed from a motorik krautrock combo into an electro and techno pop juggernaut somewhere between 1973-74. The other aspect is related to an esoteric impression as if one is dwelling in the middle of a rain forest and being a thousands of miles away from the civilization. Especially it can be heard at Wilderness. The release which undoubtedly makes difference is a part of the discography of Nostress, an Italian imprint.

Pam – Ah! (2008)

Petite&Jolie

Indietronica
Electronic music
Primitronica
Alternative
Lo-fi
Toytronica
Ambient pop
IDM

Comment: one will have a glass of water, one will have a glass of wine, one will have a half hour with Pam's Ah! These are ways of how to cope with daily trivialities, and even worse, with banalities. These 8 tracks are something outside of your usual listening experience because it is mostly composed of loose rusty bits, clockwork-alike erroneous bits and crackling noises as if coming from an abandoned toy factory. You could feel huge sadness while comparing the past and the miserable present status of the building. Furthermore, because it was issued under Petite&Jolie in 2008 it arouses bittersweet memories and partly because of that connecting the past with the present. The rest of the sonic appearance is remarkably more tranquil and bound to silence. It is also an example of the fact the time does have tendency to pass by extremely fast. In this case there is no need to invent the time machine to transport back in time. Just take a rest and listen to it.

3/31/2018

[Teaser of the day] nula.cc - Stigmata

Ambient
Art music
Field recording
Improvised music
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Soundscape
Musique concrète
Alternative

Artist: nula.cc

Release: Fall To Earth

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Kraut

Textural Healing

Electronic music
Alternative
Art music
Krautronica
DIY

Artist: Thuoom

Release: reCycle 2

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Arabia Saudade - Paranóico

Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Psych-rock
Dada music
Art rock

Artist: Arabia Saudade

Release: Americ

Label: Lepers

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] touch fuzzy get dizzy - Dream Gates

Avant-rock
DIY
Improvised music
Jazz rock
Art rock
Crossover
Post-rock
Lo-fi
Experimental rock

Artist: touch fuzzy get dizzy

Release: Drift EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Scant Intone – Victory Building (2004)

Panospria

Avant-garde
Micronoise
Leftfield
Post-industrial
Experimentalism
Abstract
Minimalism
Electronic music
Avant-electronica
Microtonal
Microsound
Drone

Comment: Constantine Katsiris aka Scant Intone's music is very specific in its highly austere yet sophisticated appearance. The Canadian musician's quest to find out more and more soul and life from the limited borders of a rusty and iron loaded universe deserves attention to be paid off. Katsiris' purposes to change the pace within the textural and rhythmic area are clearly discernible – one can hear iterative pulsating cycles coming from nothing and finishing off into nothing. Indeed, at times the artist sends off sounds and signals which almost cannot be heard and then they will crank up slowly in sounds and intensity. You can hear watery droning, crackling microsounds, and intensified electric current. The listener would think is it either a medium of reality or the abstract kind of music? Or mixed sort of stuff? This handful of tracks is a part of the discography of Panospria.

Sanchez Is Driven By Demons – And Friends (2007)

redstarcommunity

Noise pop
Alternative pop
Indie pop
Electro-indie
Remixes
Art pop/rock
Experimental pop
Post-rock
Organcore
Drone pop
Glo-fi
Ambient pop

Comment: the first post at RMH at the beginning of 2009 was about an album by Leafes being released on a Swedish imprint, redstarcommunity. Because of that it is very understandable to feel delighted being at the discography of the record label again. And the 12-track issue is truly worth to spend time with it. Musically it is a strong miscellany of experimental pop/art pop/post-rock tendencies with hints at organcore/ambient pop/glo-fi styles where droning organs and noisy guitars resonate with one another thereof creating flickering shadowplays and velvety soundscapes. Indeed, the main tone is rather dark than light though at times some sunbeams come into the room being hidden behind thick curtains. The result is truly invigorative and consistent to conceal one's broken soul. The artist is assisted by other imprint mates who have created remixes for some of the compositions (more profoundly, Tyrone Miller, Jonassis O'hara, PHerd Deconstructivists and The Late Virginia Summers).

[Teaser of the day] J-1792 - Lifestyle

Jamendo

Hip-hop
Urban music
Rap
Trip-hop
Electronic music

Artist: J-1792

Release: Lifestyle

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

Year: 2017

3/30/2018

[Teaser of the day] Cooloola Monster - 4 1

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
Improvised noise
Experimental electronica
Drone
Improvised music
Electro-acoustic
Experimentalism

Artist: Cooloola Monster

Release: Wavund

Label: Pan y Rosas Discos

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Ossalot - Face Again

Indie punk
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Ossalot

Release: Guardians

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot - Suvard

FYIAAR

Electro
Club dance
Tech-electro
Electronic music
Acid electro
Alternative dance

Artist: Fuck Yuo I Am A Robot

Release: Singles

Label: Self-released

Year: 2017

Alejandro Albornoz-Mika Martini – Two Chilean Blokes In The Soundhouse (2017)

Pueblo Nuevo

Abstract
Experimentalism
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Improvised music
Electro-acoustic
Avant-electronica
Psycho-acoustic
Micronoise

Comment: as the title hints at this 11-track outing the whole seems to be interesting or at least playful. By thinking of a soundhouse I can imagine a huge apartment filled in with massive analogue synths you need at times the ladder to implement all the applications of the machines. The two Chilean blokes provide a frantic blend of electro-acoustic progressions, gurgling and glitched-out noises, pulsating frequencies, vowel experiments, randomised piano chords and something else of which could be pigeonholed after you would have listened to it. It was recorded in one of the studios in Sheffield, the home town for such important avant and pop combos as Cabaret Voltaire, and Pulp, respectively. It is improvised music after it is edited, it is live music after it is cut into a bunch of 12 different tracks. Yeah, it is a shiny, mind-provoking outlet being issued on the Chilean Pueblo Nuevo.

x.y.r – Tourist (2017)

Ingrown

Bandcamp

Exotica pop
Glo-fi
Hypnagogic pop
Mood music
Avant-pop
Art pop
Ambient pop
Tiki lounge
Lounge pop
Organic electronica

Comment: this 9-notch issue is about sultry chords, sublime theme progressions, and just about a fine milieu to be created within one's cozy bedroom. As the cover print suggests it is outside our Western civilization it brings us to islands in the Pacific Ocean. To Hawaii, and Micronesia, and Polynesia all of those places which can be considered an earthly paradise. One sits down on the coast of a laguna and staring at unearthly beauty around her/him. Behind the project is a genuine creator from Russia, Vladimir Karpov, who was previously being known behind the project 2muchachos of which music can be described as more ambient and folk mixed and because of that having similarities with the New Weird movement. However, similarly to the previous project Karpov employs Russian analogue synths Formanta, and Alisa to create wondrous atmospheric layers and serene horizons. All his sonic tricks do make impact on the listener. More profoundly, iterative phrases, reverse sounds. At times it seems to be so unearthly that the beauty seems to be a bit spooky as if growing out like an offshoot of Leyland Kirby, for example. In a nutshell, it is a marvellous example of mood/lounge music. The issue is a part of the discography of Ingrown Records.