Roberto Daglio – THE ROOMS (part 1) (2015)

Jamendo

• Nu jazz 
• Mood music 
• Easy listening 
• Lounge 
• Yacht pop 
• Smooth jazz 
• New Age

Comment: a couple of weeks ago I posted a teaser of the day, Obsessive Synchronization from the Italian Roberto Daglio`s THE ROOMS (part 1). It is a great track but by listening to it with the rest of 3 tracks it is a seamless flow of very similar tracks. In a word, it does mean that one and the same elements are represented in all the tracks just providing difference within the configuration of each composition. It seems to be so serene and cloudless as if am arousing glimpse from a hyper-realistic universe. It could even be considered a new appearance of New Age music though its roots are based on different jazz and yacht pop facets. For sure, nonetheless its laid-back nature the issue is apparently ambitious inside its core and thereby propelling a bit more further than just an average moody issue. So yeah, practically and functionally I guess it is a remedy for your soul and mind, it helps you cope with exhausting problems and conveys a perspective to move forward. What else I could add but just take your time to listen to the second part of the issue. Just wait a minute...there is no second part of it (at least I couldn't find them). Instead of it I recommend listen to other issues by the artist then.

[Teaser of the day] George L Smyth - Forest And Clearing

• Modern classical
• Art music
• Epic
• Cinematic
• Post-classical
• Ambient

Artist: George L Smyth

Release: Winterfylleth

Label: We Are All Ghosts/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Monopole - Walking Away From Them

Clinical Archives

• Ambient techno
• Electronic music
• Deep techno
• Glitch techno
• Experimental techno
• Microtechno

Artist: Monopole

Release: Sleepless Mind

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] HeAD - Expose

Tape Safe

• Electronic music
• Ambient
• Motorik
• Leftfield
• Alternative
• Kraut-electro

Artist: HeAD

Release: Prélude d'un son imaginé

Label: Tape Safe

Year: 2016

Pete Um ‎– Look Sharp! And Hear The Difference (2011)

Chinstrap

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Electronic music 
• Dada music 
• Freeformfreakout 
• DIY

Comment: this 10-notch issue was released exactly 7 years ago at Chinstrap Music, Ergo Phizmiz-led imprint but in fact there is no difference by listening to it 7 years before the year of 2011 or 7 years after that because this kind of music is ageless. By the way, it is the same date when the Chernobyl`s reactors exploded. Peter Um`s music is recorded by using analogue-based, reel-to-reel recorder and stylistically it is a wealthy, further pushing mess of dadaist sounds and dizzy effects. I have also had a similar experience in producing music by manipulating with the tapes only. This is a world with restricted possibilities which in fact is a good premiss to cut off innumerable possibilities and get a spot on certain, tangible things. Indeed, there are up 10 slices of uncompromising pop music with droning electronics and marching rhythms and pitched-up vocals (for instance, Slice 1, and Slice 10) though I guess for the most of people it is not pop music at all. They may right because I guess Peter Um`s purpose is not positive, I mean to produce pop music on its own. It may be more just embracing elements from it and infect them with a frenetic, dadaist fever. In fact, he hijacks primitive melodies and harmonies and change them even more into a simplistic one which is one of the practices to ridicule this pulpy mass culture. On the other side, Um adds experimental, even a bit aggressive facets to emphasize the ridiculousness and unsustainability of it. In general, however, the result is positive because there are up 10 tracks which could not be forgotten and will have surfaced many decades later in the blogs of obscure music unless the servers would not blow up due to insignificant information to be contained within them in the most part.

NB! I do not know was the album presented at yamanotedreams or not but I am very glad that rajsank is back again after a two and a half year hiatus to promote releases from the webaudio world (and especially Japanese issues). The reason of the blogger`s hiatus was he could not be remembering his password. Very dadaist indeed.      

[Teaser of the day] Sann Gusmão - Imagens Frágeis; do inconsciente e Tatilidade

Enoughrecords

• Ambient rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Drone rock
• Guitar ambient

Artist: Sann Gusmão

Release: Emaranhado

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Soundcloud

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Hurricane

Cratediggers

• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Psych-rock
• Acid rock
• Avant-prog
• RIO
• Experimental rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: Archives EP 1 - Pling Plang

Label: Cratediggers/Folksoundomy

Year: 2013

Mountain Cloth – The Pony (2016)

Bandcamp

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-punk 
• Art rock 
• Noise pop

Comment: today Bandcamp is the best platform to find out the best recent music. I am disillusioned to find it from within major labels whose policy toward the artists has reportedly been disgusting and unnatural. Especially hypocritical used to be those aficionados who pretend to be independent. Bergen, Norway-based Mountain Cloth is one of such artists who showcase of how to cross guitars with sublime studio trickery regarding electronics and slightly bent songwriting. Their aesthetic reminds me of Echo & The Bunnymen a bit. By listening to their 4-notch outing it is like driving along sonic rollercoaster. From silent, immersive chords and artsy atmospheric synth and guitar mixed lofty developments to hirsute guitar outfits and incisive noisy outbursts. Furthermore, between the layers one can feel something which sets the music free. And it is a great value and virtue in this hopelessly fucked-up, quasi-technological world (we pretend to fly to Mars while having no real premises to do it). Instead of the miserable dreaming, just enjoy this decent rocking span.

River Carnival – Ep (2012)

Redstarcommunity

Bandcamp

• Alternative pop/rock 
• Indie pop/rock 
• Fuzz pop 
• Lo-fi 
• Electronic 
• Chamber pop

Comment: indie as a genre is something which used to have a little to say today. In restricted sense. On the other side, today many genres are considered parts of indie like vaporwave, many kinds of electronic music which used not to be so years ago. In a word, we would abandon the stylistic restriction as superficial and excessive. OK, it could be used in retrospective sense, though. River Carnival's 7-notch embraces old and new, and frequently at the same time. At Streets of Gold Remix one can hear 80s eurodisco pop being mixed up with fuzzed-out guitars. I suspect the remix is made by Desiree. It's joke but not a forlorn one. Its original version is an enchanting blend of gothic, death pop alike reverberant female and male mixed vocals, minor piano chords and cinematic orchestrations atop. Top notch (if you watch the official list of the tracks of the release one cannot see the additional mix track but by downloading it you will get it). However, the same description can be ascribed to the rest of the tracks either. There are up both catchy melodies and compelling dynamics. On the other side, it is a simple example of music without excessive bombastic load and annoying artsy burden. Of course, it is artsy but in a sublime way. Outstanding composition by any means. It is a discography of an excellent Swedish imprint, redstarcommunity.

[Teaser of the day] Evolv - Darknot

• Post-classical
• Experimentalism
• Glitchtronica
• Experimental electronica
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Post-rock
• Crossover

Artist: Evolv

Release: Hawk Moon Records: Volume V

Label: Hawk Moon

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Carcass Brook - Too Little Too Late

Death Roots Syndicate

• Dark folk
• Americana
• Gothic folk
• Singer-songwriter
• Bluegrass
• Psychedelic folk

Artist: Carcass Brook

Release: Carcass Brook

Label: Death Roots Syndicate

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Eddie Cantor - Cheer Up! Smile! Nertz!

78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings

• Oldie music
• Singer-songwriter
• Big band music
• Music hall
• Jazz
• Vaudeville
• Swing

Artist: Eddie Cantor

Release: Collected Works of Eddie Cantor

Label: 78 RPMs and Cylinder Recordings

Year: 1931

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - Sandy

• Dream folk
• Ambient folk
• Electronic
• Art folk
• Post-folk

Artist: Violeta Päivänkakkara

Release: Love In The Mist

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Pedro Parque - Eva en No menor

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Post-punk

Artist: Pedro Parque

Release: Impresión Señora

Label: La Gramola

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Music For Your Plants - Terra

• Dubstep
• Breaks
• New Age
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Music For Your Plants

Release: PAN EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Dust

• Post-classical
• Nu jazz
• Downbeat
• Epic
• Art music
• Crossover

Artist: Walt Thisney

Release: Single-o

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Stringtronics

Comfort Stand

• Disco pop
• Sampledelic
• Synth funk
• Mashup
• Plunderphonics
• Sound collage
• Crossover

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: The Lotus Opus

Label: Comfort Stand Recordings

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Lucas Arc Part 2

• Electronic music
• Dubstep
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Crossover
• Indietronica
• Alternative

Artist: Muhr

Release: Lucas Arc 

Label: Laverna/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nick R 61 - Olimpiyskiy Mishka

Fusion

• Electronic music
• Glitchtronica
• Alternative
• Crossover
• Breakbeat
• Ambient techno
• Drill and bass

Artist: Nick R 61

Release: Bilet v SSSR

Label: Fusion

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Ready for Men - Weekends Away

Upitup

• Synth-pop
• Electro-indie
• Alternative dance
• Dance pop
• Electro pop
• Alternative pop

Artist: Ready for Men

Release: Two Young Boys   

Label: Upitup/Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

Multi-Panel – Rekordgate I (2018)

Bandcamp

• Folktronica 
• Indietronica 
• Post-rock 
• Indie pop 
• Duyster 
• Dream folk 
• Electronic 
• DIY 
• Epic

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

[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

[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.

[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

[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.

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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.

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.

[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

[Teaser of the day] Kroma - Horisont

• Kosmische Musik
• Electronic music
• Krautrock
• Alternative

Artist: Kroma

Release: Suund

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[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

[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

[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.

[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.