Recent Music Heroes

Comment: Transvorder is an artist from Argentina whose 7-notch issue reminds me of those blissful times approximately 10 years ago when many lo-fi and DIY musicians conquered the world. Actually I can remember for a netlabel with a short discography (4 or 5 items in total), Scribble Kite, which included an issue by Transvorder. Desmesuras would be created 4 years later but it brings forth the earlier milieu and sensitivity. Droning and a little bit abrasive synths, airy guitar chords used to create a dreamy and lazy terrain for those elegant slackers who do not believe in the utopian visions anymore and being disillusioned with real life and just trying to survive under physical and mental pressure or just trying to get rid of it if possible. The communism is a utopia on its own and the capitalism is predatory and self-destructive. By producing and listening to such sort of music it is a way to get outside the rotten situation. In a word, it is a nice release with such sort of memories one would do away with them. Let's listen to it and feel this masochistic pressure.

Lluvia Àcida – Ciencia Sur (2017)

Pueblo Nuevo

Synth-pop
Alternative
Electronic music
Techno pop

Comment: this set of 8 compositions is inspired by the beauty of Patagonia, the beatific southern joint part shared by Argentina, and Chile. Lofty mountain tops and deep crystal clear lakes are to be visualised through the electronic soundscapes. The artist combines the sounds of synthesisers with sounds coming from unusual sources (electromagnetic emissions of laboratory instruments, conversion into sound of fossil images by using a special programme). In reality, it is not an abstract result, instead of it you can enjoy poppy, catchy synthesiser led motives with organic yet not exaggerated electronic effects. It can be admitted the conceptual and initial premise is even more intriguing than the real, sonic output. One may expect more alien-alike, unusual sonorous experiences. In fact, all is finely balanced and integrated one cannot take part in very machine driven interruptions. The fine issue is a part of the discography of Pueblo Nuevo.

4/29/2018

[Teaser of the day] Alfredo Giammanco Dronescape - Gargantua

Nostress

Minimalism
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Art music
Acousmatic music
Glitch techno
Crossover
Drone
Illbient
Post-industrial
Leftfield
Experimentalism

Artist: Alfredo Giammanco Dronescape

Release: Musiche dal presente perpetuo

Label: Nostress

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - A Ship Made of Tears

Black Square

Drone pop
Sound collage
Leftfield
Experimental pop
Indie pop
Spoken word
Art pop
Organcore
Alternative pop
Sampledelic
Freeformfreakout
Dada music
Avant-pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Major Monk (plus three)

Label: Black Square

Year: 2010

V.A Christmas (2009)

Petite & Jolie

Indietronica
Art pop
Electronic pop
Conceptual
Improvised music
IDM
Folktronica
Drone pop
Organcore

Comment: today is the 29th of April, and it is a date quite far away from the Christmas but I have to admit it is one of the best Xmas compilations I have ever heard. It does not include traditional Christmas songs but new ones. Most of the songs used to chime and soar based on sublime electronic progressions and delicate chord changes, mutant frequencies and crispy beats. Additionally one can find out more technical and maybe less emotion arousing tracks either, for instance, two gentle improvised tracks by Makunouchi Bento. I guess it could be exciting, and at times ennobling and relaxing by listening to the whole while sitting with your family around the table. The compilation is a part of the discography of Petite & Jolie by including 13 tracks in total. There are up such artists as Makunouchi Bento, Julian Winter, Relative_q, QuasiMojo, Pam, Kaneel, Valzi and Blot, Windy Hill Mill, and The_Zwicker_Tone.

4/28/2018

[Teaser of the day] Abe Lyman - Oh How I Miss You

78RPMs

Oldie music
Big band
Swing
Jazz

Artist: Abe Lyman

Release: Abe Lyman Collection 1925-1935

Label: 78RPMs

Year: 1931/2018

[Teaser of the day] tay_ploops - hhhiii

Avant-folk
DIY
Free folk
New Weird Canada
Improvised music
Lo-fi
Experimental folk

Artist: tay_ploops

Release: spool oops

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Begging Bringing In

Ambient noise
Minimalism
Avant-garde
Drone
Acousmatic music
Microtonal
Ambient
Sound art
Soundscape
Ambient drone
Experimentalism

Artist: Cinchel

Release: A Sad Study in Temporal Dissonance

Label: Bandcamp/Patient Sounds

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Makunouchi Bento - Gymnopedie No 1

One

Conceptual
Experimentalism
Field recording
Dreamwave
Post-classical
Crossover
Modern classical
Musique concrète
Avant-garde

Artist: Makunouchi Bento

Release: Trcutu

Label: One/Bandcamp

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Shiftless - The Mailbox

Camomille

Ambient
Soundscape
Epic
Microtonal
Electronic music
Minimalism

Artist: Shiftless

Release: Cloudburst

Label: Camomille

Year: 2004

4/27/2018

The Hathaway Family Plot – Bethlehem Is Burning (2018)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

Art pop
Avant-pop
Alternative
Singer-songwriter
Noise pop
Experimental pop
No Wave

Comment: Kevin McFadden from Buffalo can be considered a most obscure artist below Star-Spangled Banner and he continues an occult way to pave on this 13-track issue either. The concept of the release is ghastly based on an imagination of a mentally fragile man who believes to be a new messiah born from the fire of Bethlehem. All of that is exquisitely supported by an incisive sonic set where dreamy progressions are interrupted by sharp noises and concerted glitched-out debris. One can hear uncanny marching music being craftily imbued with subdued noises and a bit pointed glitches. Yet you can be sure it is not neither noise nor dream pop at its core. You can find out similarities with the last album of David Bowie, with Robert Wyatt, with Tom Waits, with Scott Walker, with Mart Avi, with a late David Sylvian (Blemish) yet the artist`s handwriting is something fairly singular and extraordinary. For sure, it is an example of pop music in positive term (unlike its nature) because one cannot see destructive tendencies against the poppy structures (though McFadden`s music is filled in with swathes of impressive rage, i.e on emotional level here and there), all of that is positively constructed from scratch instead of manipulating with annihilated mainstream pop dictations and being based on deep-seated contradictions. In a word, it is not the kind of sound collage, it is an integrated, full-fledged composition. For sure, it will be put up in the list of the best albums in 2018 at Recent Music Heroes.

4/26/2018

[Teaser of the day] Trianov Maxim - The Morning After

Nexsound

Experimental electronica
Avant-electronica
Post-rock
Jazz rock
Improvised music
Fusion
Electronic music
Crossover

Artist: Trianov Maxim

Release: A Chance To Remember

Label: Nexsound

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Leões de Marte - Inverno Abaixo

Alternative rock
Psych-rock
Post-rock
Indie rock

Artist: Leões de Marte

Release: A Face Mais Vermelha

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Samarah - Strip Mall Romance

Nishi

Electro pop
IDM
Glitch pop
DIY
Electronic music
Alternative pop
Lo-fi

Artist: Samarah

Release: Robots Smile Too

Label: Nishi/Archive.org

Year: 2007

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.

4/25/2018

[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.

4/24/2018

[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.

4/23/2018

[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

4/22/2018

[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

4/21/2018

[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

4/20/2018

[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

4/19/2018

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

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

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