Florian Wahl – Naked Souls EP (2013)

Bandcamp

• Soul 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative 
• Urban music 
• Contemporary classical 
• Crossover 
• Art pop

Comment: Florian Wahl is a young and perspective artist from the Tallinn underground scene and probably the most fancy soul artist within the border of Estonia if his music can be considered soul of course. I guess it could be done at least the part of soul it is the biggest ingredient within it. Vice versa, it involves other stylistic elements like concrete sounds, loose piano improvisations, just airy pop. It is an artsy, pretentious pop example I would like to find out from the stage of Eurovision contest. With regard to songs of recent contests those ones used to suffocate the listener's subconscious layers through fake pretentiousness, softened banality and impotent bombastic ambitions and therefore creating a negative tension within the soul and mind. And these compositions do not stick in your brain. Could you remember them after a half year passed by? You would like to get an aesthetical event but you will get bare shadows of music on the wall of a cave. These 8 compositions do constitute a sublime harmonic whole without any pretenses and hollow statements. Moreover, it unites a recent human being with a primordial one who dwelled naturally in the middle of nature, in his/her utmost natural ambiance. The recent human being is decayed but not Florian Wahl-alike ones. He is a hero. Top notch indeed.

Sann Gusmão – Emaranhado (2018)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Ambient noise 
• Guitar ambient 
• Art music 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Epic 
• Avant-garde 
• Illbient 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient

Comment: imagine there would be such a kind of artist on the stage of Eurovision by poisoning the lousy taste of the present superficial audience. Hiss and microscopic noises coming through very huge loudspeakers would spread everywhere and conquering the senses of the audience on 120 decibels. This could be an apocalyptic, transcendental experience for them by indicating what would happen if they continue live a decayed life. Like standing face to face with the Grim Reaper who moves his scythe like an electric guitar and as a consequence cranking up the decibels. All would be bleeding – their ears, eyes and noses. Through pain and smell of blood they could experience majestic beauty of mixed machinery and lost humanity once generated by heroes. Indeed, this bunch of 9 notches is the ennobling chaos of a managed process. You can enjoy different sonic monoliths over there, at times more abstract, at times more emotions filled soundscapes. All of that sounds fairly in an elemental way. With regard to Portugal, it is the case indeed, because the artist comes out of Portugal and is a part of the discography of a Portuguese imprint, Enoughrecords. For sure, one of the most impressive and consistent and multi-layered issues in 2018 so far.

[Teaser of the day] Vonsuck - Rauchen

• IDM
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Galaktlan

Release: Enne und

Label: Bandcamp/Kohvirecords

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Lifecoach - Thousand Names

• Hardcore punk
• Stoner rock
• Crossover

Artist: Lifecoach

Release: Coach or Die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] cHelek - Anemia Or Tuberculosis

Free Music Archive

• Indie rock
• Art rock
• Post-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: cHelek

Release: e.p.

Label: Birdsong

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] This Lonely Crowd - Oneironauts

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Fuzz pop
• Dream pop
• Indie rock
• Noise pop

Artist: This Lonely Crowd  

Release: Pervade

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Franco Falistoco Araya - Tentáculos

• Spoken word
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Storytelling
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Electro-acoustic
• Microtonal
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Franco Falistoco Araya

Release: Phase IV

Label: Adaptador

Year: 2018

Tiiu Kiik – Lend ja tants (2010)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Dream pop
• Mood music 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Synthwave 
• Electro-indie 
• Alternative 
• Synth-pop 
• Chilltronica

Comment: it`s Eurovision time, it`s time for a horrendous freak show time which reflects upon the fact of how declined is the culture of Europe at the moment. And it does not depend on condition is Jean Claude able to drink it more beautiful or less ugly (as you wish). For serious music fans the contest is the synonym of a bad taste and nightmarish balagan which the intention to taunt the nature of music. I can remember for the Eurovision precontest in Estonia in 2010 when Tiiu Kiik with a song called The One and Only – Love competed there but did not get a high place. However, it is a brilliant song and for sure it is not a place to throw pearls before the swines anymore. Dreamy atmosphere and otherworldly harmonies with the swaying singer did create a fascinating milieu. It can be said at Lend ja tants it is one of the highlights. In general, the 14-notch issue contains dream-soaked compositions though there are up some exceptions either. For instance, at Õhtupoolik one can hear post-punk and synth-wave induced electro-indie stomps. Great track. At Üle kuristiku you can hear suggestive bagpipes being embellished with peaky rhythms. In a word, enjoy the album with great flow.

[Teaser of the day] Gurdonark - Morning Fields Cacophony

We Are All Ghosts

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Art music
• Microsound
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Gurdonark

Release: Open Spaces

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - In The Line

Bump Foot

• Electronic music
• Weird pop
• Avant-synth
• Experimental pop
• Art music
• Avant-pop

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Ratty Boo

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Walk II

• Post-classical
• Modern classical
• Avant-garde
• Sampledelic
• Ambient
• Experimentalism
• Art music 
• Conceptual

Artist: Cinchel

Release: Music For A Wedding

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Otra Carpeta - Vioglock 2

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Electro-acoustic
• Leftfield
• Experimentalism

Artist: Otra Carpeta

Release: Cero = ce ro

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] TT-ram - Urban Trip

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Avant-techno
• Breakbeat
• Sampledelic
• Leftfield
• Experimental techno
• Minimalism

Artist: TT-ram

Release: Movements at Night

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Kroma - Someone You Know

• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Alternative
• Yacht rock
• Synth-rock
• Art pop
• Crossover
• Synth fusion

Artist: Kroma

Release: Alpentor

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - Ever After

Clinical Archives

• Singer-songwriter
• Experimentalism
• Neoclassical
• Darkwave
• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Art music

Artist: H Stewart

Release: GenreLess

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2012

x3d5 – Binary Protection (2010)

Subwise

Fusion

• Electronic music 
• Ambient 
• Psybient 
• Alternative 
• Breaks 
• Chilltronica 
• New Age 
• Mood music 
• Glitchtronica

Comment: this batch of 10 tracks is like a raindrop reflecting upon the qualities of being embraced in the other raindrops either. I mean lots of breaks, ambient, cut-up debris, synth effects and psychedelic tendencies to be up there in many ways interspersed with one another. Moreover, it can be considered as a recent New Age music example as if sitting somewhere in the middle of rain forest and enjoying the play of shadows. Sultry rhythms and colourful synthesised shades used to flicker in a way to provide a magical, a bit otherworldly experience. As you can hear it is an organic listening experience. It a bit reminds of some albums of Estonian artist Tont. The cover print is black and white and depicting a place in nature by accentuating its distance from the civilised life. Great music by any means created by Russian artist Vitaliy Stromchinskiy. The outing is a joint release of the discographies of Russian imprints Subwise, and Fusion.

Jonassis O`Hara – A Sailor's Love (2007)

Redstarcommunity

• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Drone pop
• Psych-rock 
• Electronic 
• Organcore 
• Acid pop

Comment: this album was released 11 years ago and as much as possible I searched for additional information about the artist to find out other possible outings but it is the only one. It can be admitted the artist erected the sonorous monument for himself. And it is a fine issue being obviously concordant with some indie and underground tendencies of the 00s. One of the prototypes then was Ariel Pink with his amazing out of time issues. Jonassis O`Hara used to produce similarly in methodological sense though musically his sound is more hirsute and rough and one-dimensional and stylistically it trends toward droning acid rock with hints at noise pop, post-punk, and also electronic music in the sense as if it were produced on Commodore 64 (only My Molly EP 2006 by Ariel Pink can be compared with it as similarly rough and broken). At times the 12-notch outing reminds of the aesthetics of The Fall, and Clinic. The issue is a part of the Swedish imprint Redstarcommunity. Great listening for sure.

The Ears On The Trees – New Beginnings (2017)

Constellation Tatsu

• Drone 
• Ambient 
• Glo-fi 
• Electronic music 
• Musique concrète 
• Dreamwave 
• Organic electronica

Comment: although the issue involves seven different tracks the whole chimes like one lengthy track. More profoundly, you can hear lazily changing yet blissful chords, caressingly ebbing and tiding sea waves and joyous children shrieks from the kitchen garden. At times the chords are deliberately a little bit mutated and used to stumble but it adds an additional value to bring upon a more coherent and organic issue. As I mentioned before it sounds like a lengthy track yet it does not seem to be lengthy in fact because it transcends temporal and space-related dimensions. It is an ennobling experience. There it is, a fabulous issue for a sunny Sunday. The release is a part of the discography of Constellation Tatsu.

[Teaser of the day] Voodoo Tapes - Manman Drums

• Dub
• Electronic music
• Dubtronica
• Dub techno

Artist: Voodoo Tapes

Release: Colonial Blend Extra Bold

Label: A Quiet Bump

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Canoply Games - 10-00

Jamendo

• Electronic
• Electro-rock
• Synth-rock
• Acid rock
• Alternative
• Art rock

Artist: Canoply Games

Release: PM-AM

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Makunouchi Bento - Aphelion

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Electronic 
• Avant-rock

Artist: Makunouchi Bento

Release: Paquet Congo

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Nuthre - Third Time Chime

Panospria

• Glitchtronica
• Leftfield
• Abstract techno
• Microtechno
• Experimental techno
• Electronic music
• Avant-techno
• Glitch techno

Artist: Nuthre

Release: Saskatoon Shoes

Label: Panospria

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Rivəl - Stand Firm

• Dub
• Dancehall
• Hip-hop
• Urban music
• Crossover
• Electronic music
• Raggamuffin

Artist: Rivəl 

Release: Mashhall Dubplate

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Pete Da Clinker - What Were You Thinking Of?

• Noise pop
• Alternative rock
• Garage rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: Pete Da Clinker 

Release: Who Hell He?

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] EP Man - The Death Of Marry

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Electronic music
• Breaks
• Trip-hop
• Hauntology
• Urban music
• Sampledelic
• Hip-hop
• Sound collage

Artist: EP Man

Release: Short Horror Stories

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2017

Transvorder – Desmesuras (2012)

Bandcamp

• Indietronica 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Electronic music 
• Drone pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Electro-indie 
• Chillwave

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.

[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.

[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

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.

[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.

[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.