Recent Music Heroes

Comment: Maxim Trianov is a musician from Kharkov, Ukraine whose 7-track issue (clocking in at a 48-minute) is predominantly an immersive thought through electric and acoustic guitars and electronics induced effects. Undoubtedly the main heaviness is set up by the guitars in different forms – at times it is set out as organic, subsequent progressions through the chords, at times it involves more incisive interruptions based on effects unit and effect control devices. As if getting obsessively into the essence of a sonic minutia to be explored. At times there are set up a dialogue between the guitars and a lurking atmosphere as if lashing the ghosts around and inside him. Electronic music is foremost set forth at The Morning After which is a platform to meld together glitched-out electronica and slamming electronic beats with broad progressive rock sweeps. The finishing track Outro is the electro-acoustic example. What I should say – imagine Slash were partly abandoned his rock star ambitions to play guitars in a more experimental mode. Of course I do not complain at all – Slash is a great guitar hero, and this case is an album of Maxim Trianov, who is also a great artist. This mind-provoking issue is a part of the discography of Nexsound, a Ukraine-based experimental imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Marisol Celestia - All Throughout The Night

Sirona-Records

Alternative rock
Singer-songwriter
Slowcore
Indie rock

Artist: Marisol Celestia

Release: A Never Ending Promise

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Souvenirs (Ceox Legal Edit)

45RPM-Records

Electronic music
Downtempo
Crossover
Glitchstep
Ambient dub
Glitch-hop

Artist: Pollux

Release: Souvenirs

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2010

7/29/2018

[Teaser of the day] So I`m An Islander - Træj Faue (Three Colours)

Indie pop
Drone pop
Baroque pop
Post-rock
Epic
Chamber pop
Art pop
Ork-pop

Artist: So I`m An Islander

Release: Fle'e Mælo'die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Hammerhead

Synthwave
Alternative
Electronic music
EBM
Industrial electro

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Vases EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Takeshi Nakamura - Base

Nocharizma

Glitchtronica
Avant-electronica
Abstract
Electronic music
Experimental electronica
Clicks and cuts

Artist: Takeshi Nakamura

Release: Eros, Grotesque, Nonsense

Label: Nocharizma

Year. 2005

VA – Gauchito Gil contra Colocolo (2010)

Los Emes Del Oso

Free Music Archive

Electro-acoustic
Space pop
Musique concrète
Field recording
No Wave
Drone pop
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Experimentalism
Improvised music
Lo-fi
Avant-pop
Psychedelic
DIY
Progressive pop
Tropicàlia pop
World fusion

Comment: Gaucho Surrealista, Un Festin Sagital, Radikal Satan, Manuel De La Pileta, Onda Bidón, Tomates Rocky, Los Siquicos Litoralenos, Manuel J. Grotesque, Musicos Del Metro, Kellies, Dadalú, Caballo Loco, Collectivo No, Ø+yn, Pibes De Merlo, Los Pastores De Gelatina, Radio Chilena, and Oso* Y Los Mongos Freneticos are the names represented on this compilation of a fairly broad extent. Thanks to an imprint, Los Emes Del Oso to whom some glimpses from Chile, and Argentina are represented over there. Lots of improvised and immediate sounds (as if straightly from the street and a carnival) make me feel alright, although the processed sounds presented over there are also fine and freely floating – from Os Mutantes-stylized avant/prog mixed Tropicàlia pop (indeed, music does not recognize the geographical borders) and old school radio chirping to murky drone and darkwave flickers to deranged psychedelic addressing and spacey theremin/analogue synth-based developments and warped ethnic/world music extravaganzas. Undoubtedly you can find out much different attitude and parochial approach (in a good sense, of course) you are not allowed to discover in Europe, and the USA. Top notch which makes me psyched out.

Masato Abe – Author (2017)

Elementperspective

Free Music Archive

Post-rock
Modern classical
Art music
Ambient
Epic
Post-classical
Crossover
Piano music
Contemporary classical

Comment: In fact, in the previous year I decided not to send my review about the best albums to a public magazine because it should be the closed case. Yet it is ridiculous to expect to have a good review about the albums having been published during an annual span. If there is any possibility to represent it dynamically (via Internet) then do it. Let's consider this excellent Tokyo, Japan-based Masato Abe`s Author (also known from the duo Swan Kid Sue). I have been listening to it for hours today and there is no doubt it should be added to the list of the best albums 2017. It is the case. More profoundly, it is as easy as feather, it is as heavy as honey, it is as dreamy as your most dreamy reveries. This 8-track adept colossus does not distinguish the borders between contemporary classical, and majestic, chamber-tinged rock swathes. At times the course is amended by vocal glimpses, concrete sounds, and sublime piano tenures. All is floating slowly over your fragile soul and affected mind. There is no hurry and a listener should not rush. If you are listening to it this whole makes impact on you anyway. All is blossoming and inevitably wrapping around you. Like me too. Just hear at Small Window Shows So Many Delight those effortlessly rolling violins and charming orchestrations to make up your blissful Sunday. The release is a bit in the discography of elementperspective. So it can be said the case is Japanese wholly.

nula.cc – Trilogy (2018)

Bandcamp

Drone
Electro-acoustic
Avant-electronica
Abstract
Sound art
Experimental electronica
Microtonal
Microsound
Non-music
Post-industrial

Comment: nula.cc, a Prague, The Czech Republic-based artist is back with three tracks based on friction, and involving such materials as wood, metal, skin, water, and air. For many years ago such a sort of concept would have been interesting but I would soon realize that either the sound used to self-organize itself or there are certain limits for the sound to push the sound into a before existed form or forms. Or maybe human ears are way too weak to get into true new sounds. Or maybe your imagination begins to work in a way to produce sounds of having no existence in reality. It already enters into the philosophical question of phenomenon. However, it is yet interesting to listen to it even though it consists of off-white hisses, vaguely pulsating microscopic chips, exquisite electro-acoustic effects. I guess the artist has exploited contact microphones to provide the essence of the aforementioned materials and mediums. All in all, it is an intriguing whole which feeds your imagination and broadens some listening experience.

7/28/2018

Luca Calcagno – La Pioggia Rinfresca L’Estate (2017)

In Your Ears

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Pomp pop
Pop rock

Comment: it is nice to be back at the discography of an Italian imprint, In Your Ears Netlabel (for instance, I can remember such a great release as Drunkeninstrumentcorporation`s Always The Same 10 Fucking Songs (2016). Luca Calcagno is a self-taught musician who is working in a music store. There are represented a couple of tracks, the first of them, the self-titled track is a straightforward, deeply ploughing guitar-based composition without any adornments and magniloquent overstatements. OK, the whole adornment is embraced by the key changes on the guitar. It is an example of AOR and regarding the emotions it is more suppressed in comparison to the subsequent track. It is a decelerated chamber/soul/pop rock example with bombastic sweeps on the guitar and full-fledged fringes on synths. It is a rock balladry without growing into disgraceful sensations and embarrassing feels. All the lyrics are sung in Italian.

The Womb – Heavy Ghosts (2017)

The Womb

Free Music Archive

Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop
Indie pop
Art pop
DIY
Synth-pop
Ambient pop
Bedroom pop

Comment: the Englishman Alan Driscoll used to have been having always something to say although the song theme do rotate around one and the same – sex. Of course, he is artist and all the theme is coated with the curtains and veils to reflect upon the seedy light from behind it. More profoundly, one can discern drive, expectations, yarns, pain and pleasure coming from within the 10-notch whole. Its ideological side is punctuated by Driscoll's compelling singing and storytelling and the guitars and synths mixed background. It should be added, at times a female affected loon can be mapped out from songs as a warning example of how a male can lose himself as the purpose on his own. One should keep going on instead of dealing with one's regrets. I like heroes but real heroes are a bit thugs. Western Civilization is a bit poisoned by having been insinuated the sense of guilt and at the same time fostering the human being to be an apex predator to survive. These contradictory, schizoid tendencies do enervate the human race. Indeed, with regard to his discography Alan Driscoll has kept to a narrow territory to have an incisive spot on it with purpose to magnify it to the highest standard. He was born in the beginning of the 80s so his teenage years were partly amended by Britpop artists (because one of his self-issued releases was entitled Britpop), I guess by Jarvis Cocker's voyeuristic and sexually lurking themes, and by willful maverick Nick Currie aka Momus. All of that makes sense to me though there are up a couple of stark exceptions like Flirting on Your Deathbed which mirrors an irreconcilable state of mind by a dying man backed up by singing manner almost pushed to tears. The final track Every Little Tree Must Fall is the musically totally disparate case - it is a darkened, a bit low resolution ambient venture with speech samples and guitar-based echoes developing and slowly moving across the space.

Thorn – Solace Of Noise (2018)

Pen & Mallet

Noise pop/rock
Avant-rock
Psych-rock
No Wave
Experimental rock
Art punk
Garage rock

Comment: as much as I have figured out so far some groups you could find from the site of Pen & Mallet a person called J.C. Thorne got involved in them (aboombong, Dustdevil & Crow, ¡para!helion, Psychic Enemies Network, Azwarm, Icastico). The same case is related to this 3-piece collective and 3-track release. Oh well, it is a striking artsy punk and noise pop/rock tinged No Wave release. More profoundly, you can extract much madness due to many deranged hooks, amplified noises coming from the bottom to the top, from the left to the right. It is sort of a sun-stricken yet loud rehearsal room-based issue with all the brutal energy and propulsive rock and roll optimism getting obviously inspiration from such juggernauts as MC5, Sonic Youth, Motörhead, The Stooges, and Glenn Branca. And I believe in that and the trio. In fact, it is or at least it seems to be a very simple approach but rock and roll as a predominant case of guitar music would never die. I am absolutely convinced in the fact after seeing a gig by Guns'n'Roses some weeks ago.

7/27/2018

[Teaser of the day] Naoto Taguchi - Untitled Fragments #002 (Reprised Remix)

Test Tube

Glitchtronica
Experimental electronica
Microtonal
Avant-electronica
Minimalism

Artist: Naoto Taguchi

Release: Untitled 9 Fragments Ordinaries Sound Materials ‎

Label: Test Tube

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Macchiato Funky - Godere Supremo

Funk
Acid rock
Psychedelic
Alternative rock
Math rock

Artist: Macchiato Funky

Release: Bugella 20-50

Label: La bèl

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Batard Tronique - Katr'lett

cOmaRecOrdz

Breakcore
Electronic music
Jungle
Breakbeat

Artist: Batard Tronique

Release: Old Works (2008 - 2013)

Label: cOmaRec0rdz

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Indr0 - Micromundoconstante

Pueblo Nuevo

Ambient drone
Avant-garde
Electro-acoustic
Post-rock
Crossover
Drone
Experimentalism
Drone rock
Minimalism

Artist: Indr0

Release: Los Cuerpos Recuperados

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Forsaken Shadow - It All Looks The Same To Me

Death Roots Syndicate

Singer-songwriter
Americana
Acoustic pop
Folk pop

Artist: The Forsaken Shadow

Release: Home Alone Sessions

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] NODAmasanori - Dancing With The Sunlight

Alternative dance
Electro-house
Acid house
Electronic music

Artist: NODAmasanori

Release: EPV_081

Label: Elementalperspective

Year: 2011

7/24/2018

[Teaser of the day] Giku - Aion

Miasmah

Ambient techno
Electronic music
IDM
Glitch techno

Artist: Giku

Release: Palsecam (itoa) - We Are Just Borgs III EP

Label: Miasmah

Year: 2003

[Teaser of the day] Montgomery Clunk - Sink The Clunkmobile

Free Music Archive

Electro
Electronic music
Electrostep
Alternative

Artist: Montgomery Clunk

Release: Superbus

Label: Error Broadcast

Year: 2010

7/23/2018

[Teaser of the day] Fall Baby - Coastal Sweats

Indie pop/rock
Art pop
Exotica pop
Crossover
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Fall Baby

Release: Coastal Sweats

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Sick Rat - Street Corners

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Sampledelic
Breaks
Hip-hop
Trip-hop
Jazz
Mood music
Cinematic

Artist: Sick Rat

Release: Black And Noir

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2018

Jon E. Erkkila – Every Man Needs A Mexican Mistress (2011)

Kill Mommy

Bandcamp

Lo-fi
Country
DIY
Americana
Singer-songwriter

Comment: Jon E. Erkkila is a transgender female/shemale person who is proud to be the first transgender country superstar in the USA. Indeed, it is a huge honour, isn`t? Every Man Needs A Mexican Mistress is the country music case with DIY/lo-fi attitude. Sloppy banjos, and accidental harmonicas, and loose-fitting yet somehow charming (male-tinged) singing used to constitute an intriguing whole. I would like to call it a sort of country-exploitation issue because she used to manipulate with hillbilly and country clichès while having a tongue-in-cheek attitude. In truth, could you imagine a glamorous, vamped shemale standing over there and singing seriously the country songs. Although it embraces 11 tracks it will clock in at a 27-minute only but it is not problem. The issue is a part of a short existed Italian label, Kill Mommy. Additionally to the release she would have issued even more 14 albums. Let's discover them under the name Slow Groan) through Bandcamp.

[Teaser of the day] Sleepdealer - Home

Sampledelic
Mood music
Cinematic
Hip-hop
Cloud rap
Alternative

Artist: Sleepdealer

Release: Homesick

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

7/22/2018

[Teaser of the day] Etterem - ECtBF 05

Nostress

Experimental folk
Spoken word
Celtic music
Crossover
Epic
Post-industrial
New Weird Italy
Avant-folk

Artist: Etterem

Release: Etterem's Catching the Big Fish

Label: Nostress

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Cinema Noir - Hopelandic

Nostress

Post-rock
Art rock
Alternative rock
Epic

Artist: Cinema Noir

Release: Children Kill Ants

Label: Nostress

Year: 2012

The Pad Foundation – Variations On A Theme (2010)

Swishotheque

IDM
Electronic music
Synth-pop
Mood music
Ambient pop
Chilltronica

Comment: these 47 minutes do create the impression of a cohesive release while listening to it the listener can feel common parts coming from one track and then transmitting into another. By the way, this is the method of this 9-track album by using one and the same element in different tracks, so it can be admitted it is an economical approach and effective result at the same time. On the other side, although one can perceive some commonness between the tracks there are also up disparate peaks. For instance, at Scotch Mist the track is built up on revolving piano chords, dreamy female vocal samples, and synthesised orchestrations and something else even more and all of that will be evolving and co-operating through the course in an irresistible manner. It is called synergy, isn't? The following track Elastoplast is remarkably more spastic and nervous – the beats are cut-up, and glitched-out yet being backed up by a beatific sloping upward. At times there are represented slight echoes, and vague sonic effects atop the algorithm of IDM-tinged rhythms. Undoubtedly it does not suffocate the spacey keenness of the release. It reminds me of some Estonian IDM/experimental electronic romantics like Uni, and Myrakaru for the beginning of the 00s. The issue is a part of the discography of Swishcotheque. Top slab.

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r - Into The Wild

Exotica pop
Lounge music
Electronic
Dreamwave
Glo-fi
Mood music
Avant-pop
Post-pop

Artist: x.y.r.

Release: Mental Journey To B.C.

Label: Not Not Fun/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

7/21/2018

[Teaser of the day] Massimo Ruberti - Tycho

Elpa Music

Contemporary classical
Modern classical
Art music
Chamber music
Mood music
Conceptual
Soundtrack

Artist: Massimo Ruberti

Release: Autour de la Lune

Label: Elpa Music

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Dioxadol Borges - Tecnochipland

Free Music Archive

Improvised music
Synth fusion
Avant-pop
Electro pop
Crossover
Art music
Electronic music
Alternative
Experimental pop

Artist: Dioxadol Borges

Release: Siconauta Tourist Class

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2016

The Sand – Deck Honey (2005)

Free Sample Zone

Plunderphonics
Alternative dance
Sound collage
Mashup
Sampledelic
Electronic music

Comment: it is a real pleasure to be back by one of the reincarnations of Chenard Walcker who is here to exploit the voice of Helen Merrill and her album A Shade Of Difference (1968) and mingle it with rough yet funky electronic beats, propulsive brass sections, and Motown-led male voices. In truth, a theme called My Funny Valentine has been one of the most well-known themes worldwide for years being created by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart in 1937. Yeah, I am sure you will get your rocks off on that handful of tracks. Of course, similarly to a very huge part of his other issues the release is a part of his own imprint Free Sample Zone (some albums or tracks are related to such imprints as WM Recordings, Comfort Stand Recordings, and Laboratoire Moderne). In a word, look for a Valentine. For example, yesterday I looked at My Bloody Valentine.

[Teaser of the day] Take Pills Die - Elna Mixre

Take Pills Die

Electro pop
Alternative dance
Plinkerpop
Ambient pop
Electronic pop
Kraut-techno
IDM

Artist: Take Pills Die

Release: 06.08.08 Happy Homeless

Label: Take Pills Die

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] (029) - Busted

Soisloscerdos

Electronic music
Experimental techno
Industrial techno

Artist: (029)

Release: Net

Label: Soisloscerdos

Year: 2018

7/20/2018

[Teaser of the day] Oskar Hallbert - Fractal

Zymogen

Lo-fi
DIY
Modern classical
Electronic
Post-classical
Improvised music
New Weird Sweden

Artist: Oskar Hallbert

Release: 1123581321345589

Label: Zymogen

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] dgtldrmr. - In Limbo

Vaporwave
Electronic music
Seapunk
Cloud rap
Chopped and screwed
Urban music
Hip-hop

Artist: dgtldrmr.

Release: Random Acts Of Faith

Label: Monster Jinx

Year: 2017

7/19/2018

[Teaser of the day] Буерак - Портреты

Gothic rock
Alternative rock
Coldwave
Post-punk
Indie rock

Artist: Буерак

Release: Портреты

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Ringo Deathstarr - Kaleidoscope

Nugaze
Shoegaze
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: Ringo Deathstarr

Release: Colour Trip

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

7/14/2018

The Sway - When Worlds Collide

Karl Frank - Red Eyes

Artist: Woodworkings

Release: I Tried To Write You A Letter (One Sided Cassette)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Awake In The Dew - The Light Hope

Tranzmitter

Rhythmic noise
Electronic music
Chilltronica
Breakcore
Crossover
Power electronics
Alternative

Artist: Awake In The Dew

Release: Sounds To Ascension

Label: Tranzmitter/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Camp - No Fun

Panospria/No Type

Electronic music
Post-rock
Crossover
Experimental electronica
Micro-house

Artist: Camp

Release: Mean

Label: No Type/Panospria

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Alex Mason - A Quiet Place

enoughrecords

Post-classical
Dark ambient
Neoclassical
Cinematic
Epic
Dark wave

Artist: Alex Mason

Release: The Exorcist

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Flady – Leave (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

Electronic music
Breaks
Experimental electronica
Alternative
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Comment: I am back again by digging up in the discography of the Japanese imprint Bunkai-Kei. Some days ago I had listened to an album of being an amalgamation of J-pop, and Western disparate influences resulting in a truly aesthetic entertainment, however, this case of handful of tracks seems to be analogous though revealing its virtue on a bit other premises. It may be a bit less moody and more complicated through its strongly accentuated slamming rhythmic patterns, uncanny samples, glitched-out debris. It is a sort of dance music though standing discreetly apart from well-known styles like house, techno, electro, dubstep. I especially like those string-based samples as if suggestive snatches taken from a cello and woodwind instruments and thereafter magnified and modulated. And of course, it reminds of unforgettable Arthur Russell. All in all, it is a superb selection again. It injects much serotonin into the listener's brain. That's all what we need to get. And the cover print is suggestive for sure.

NAMM – L'Arte dei Rumori (2018)

Ephedrina

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Electronic music
Indietronica
Ambient pop
Post-classical
Modern classical
Synth-pop
Electro pop
IDM
Kosmische Musik
Drone pop

Comment: just before listening to this set of 10 tracks I had listened to GYBE!'s Luciferian Towers (2017, Constellation) which paradoxically introduced L'Arte dei Rumori because the album also involves some orchestrated semi-symphonic post-rock/chamber rock/post-classical opuses yet it is just an angle within the whole (especially a track called La mar). Conversely, predominantly it is driven by adeptly carved synth threads, acidic drones and exuberant rhythmic progressions indicative of lo-fi aesthetics due to those shaggy beats a bit. I guess such a sort of alloy will have been producing for centuries (because it does have a potential on its own) but it is right now and here to be enjoyed. It is a vibrant crossroad for synth-pop, indie electronic and IDM. Saltamontes provides a renewed insight into Kosmische Musik/Krautrock. The issue is a bit in the discography of Ephedrina Records. Very good.

7/11/2018

[Teaser of the day] Dark Frequencer - Hypnotica Part 1

Ambient techno
Organic electronica
Experimental techno
Electronic music
Dreamwave
Kraut-techno
Avant-techno
Minimal techno

Artist: Dark Frequencer

Release: Hypnotica

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Flowers And Fire - Hanging Garden

Gothic rock
Post-punk
Cold wave
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Cover

Artist: Flowers And Fire

Release: THE CURE Pornography: The CVLT Nation Sessions

Label: The CVLT Nation Sessions

Year: 2017

7/10/2018

[Teaser of the day] BOLGA - Microscopio

Alternative rock
Post-rock
Epic
Power pop
Art rock

Artist: BOLGA

Release: From Such a Cloud of Fire Came Earth / 2

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Soma - Soma Nubes Rojas

MonoKraK

Electronic music
Alternative
Deep house
Ambient house
Club dance

Artist: Soma

Release: Uno

Label: MonoKraK

Year: 2015

7/09/2018

Kanabun – Open The World EP (2011)

Bunkai-Kei

Electronic pop
J-pop
Alternative pop
Cinematic
Hip-hop
Art pop
Shibuya-Kei
Ambient pop
Rap

Comment: it is not surprising to have a talk about the Japanese webscene as one of the mightiest if not the most mighty worldwide. Even there was once up an article by Pitchfork by describing those massively populated parties in Nippon. One of the groundsills is an imprint called Bunkai-Kei wherefrom you can discover a loads of great electronic music and Japanese heritage mixed albums. Yeah, Kanabun`s 4-track Open The World EP is one of them. Of course, one could not underestimate the influence of a style called Shibuya-Kei which strongly flourished in the 90s by its cut and paste method and on the other side by adding cutting-edge easy listening, jazz, and bossa nova and exotica pop styles from the Western cultural sphere to create something truly cinematic and floating. For instance, Link is obviously the most cinematic notch within these 23 minutes, Decillion is a joyous Japanese rap backed up by a sultry beat and enchanting carillon. From experimental, glitched-out noises, vowel effects and sound manipulations to full-fledged artsy pop examples and semi-ochestrated moody hedonism in the self-titled track. In a word, the result is superb, enter the party!

7/08/2018

[Teaser of the day] Pablo Pavlo - Eléctrico balneario

E.P.A Sonidos

Electronic pop
Alternative pop
Indietronica
Mood music

Artist: Pablo Pavlo

Release: Open Plaza

Label: E.P.A Sonidos

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel - The Jack Of Hands

Cabaret
Avant-garde
Music hall
Art music
Leftifeld
Experimental pop

Artist: Amanda Palmer & Edward Ka-Spel

Release: I Can Spin A Rainbow

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

getdizzzy – Long Normal Dream (2017)

Etched Traumas

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Experimentalism
Crossover
Downbeat

Comment: undoubtedly it is very problematic to categorize this issue. Furthermore, after the first round of listening I did have problems to identify it somehow because of having so many stylistic references within it, and because of changing permanently throughout the course. I guess the most proper tags to pigeonhole it might be such generic tags as electronic music, and experimental music, improvised music. By listening to such a track as Unfortunate the case will be even more complicated because the beat represented over there can ideologically be considered a thread from hip-hop music but in reality it is more a downbeat case. Walkwalk is an example of psyched-out electro-free jazz. It is not surprising at all with regard to the fact he comes out of Chicago, Illinois, USA which has been a fertile platform for amalgamation and flourishing of different styles, from improvised music, post-rock, to free jazz. The issue is a bit in the discography of Etched Traumas.

[Teaser of the day] Low Points - No Place

Alternative rock
Indie punk
Slacker punk
Prog-punk
New Wave

Artist: Low Points

Release: Feels

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Dead Suns - Secret Ocean

Psych-rock
Indie rock
Alternative rock
Power pop

Artist: The Dead Suns

Release: New Days For A Better Man

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

7/07/2018

AAVV – The Other Sound Of The Light (2017)

Ephedrina

Anti-Demos-Cracia

Jamendo

Electronic music
Breaks
Space disco
Kosmische Musik
Alternative
Disco-rock
Electro pop
House
Downtempo
Deep techno
Kraut-techno
Glitch-electro

Comment: this is a joint miscellany of 12 tracks by Ephedrina Records, an imprint from Italy, and Anti-Demos-Cracia, an imprint from Portugal. There are represented such artists as Mutaform, CRPTC, Fingerflood, Hypercube, Electric Dreamers, Hist, Overdrive, We Hate All These Liberals, Guta Project, Hesskhè Yadalanah, Errors Alternados, and Orquestra Popular De Paio Pires. I guess most of these names may be unknown to you, however, being an ardent follower of the imprints then you should have made acquaintance with the artists. Let`s have some thread about the compilation which will be clocked in at a 54 minute (indeed, it is an accepted longitude for a compilation). Undoubtedly it is a variegated issue with flourishing accents and exuberant shades. At times it is rhythmically obsessive just consisting of different rhythmic combinations to following one another or establishing new mutations within the rhythmic matrix. Some tracks are broadened with progressions toward atmospheric spheres and extracting an enchanting quintessence from synthesiser. All in all, I could not mention any weak track within the whole so I have to admit it to be a classy, mandatory compilation. Get it, support it.

7/06/2018

[Teaser of the day] The Bordellos - Marianne

Alternative rock
Indie rock
DIY
Art rock

Artist: The Bordellos

Release: The Bordellos Underground Tape 10

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - To Be Given The Glum Job

Sampledelic
Lo-fi
Hip-hop
Crossover
Sound collage
Glitch-hop
Alternative
DIY
Avant-hop

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: The Girl In The Purple Painting

Label: Rack & Ruin/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Graphic Antics - Party Crasher

blocSonic

Rap
Hip-hop
Underground hip-hop
Urban music

Artist: Graphic Antics

Release: What Does It Mean?

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2017

Deicida 69 – Vocem For Atonal Wave (2015)

Plataforma

NKS International Muzakillabel

Cieliro Diystro

Deicida 69

Bandcamp

Crust punk
Art punk
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Avant-rock
Psychedelic rock
Spoken word
Post-punk
Electro-punk
Crossover
Sampledelic
Jazz
Plunderphonics
Hardcore
Electronic music
Dada music
No wave
Non-music
Jazz punk
Cold wave
Ambient
Leftfield

Comment: this set of 22 tracks consists of a couple of joint albums, more profoundly, Côte, and Ntoa. The combo comes out of Mexico and provides something truly refreshing and mind-altering within the rock (and roll) genre. First of all, it is incisive and harsh by its formal shape and certainly dadaist and postmodernist by its conceptual approach. Of course, the discoloured terms “postmodern” and adjective “postmodernist” do say a bit little about certain phenomena but it can be mapped as a bastard of different genres and exploitation of different genres. It may be tagged as an example of exploitation punk by ranging from art punk/post-punk/electro-punk to hardcore, psych-punk, cold wave/gothic punk and crust punk with hints at spoken word, jazz, electronic music and downright plunderphonics/sampledelic art. But I can guarantee you could find out more cues to even more phenomena and stylistic/stylized pops. Frequently the guitars chime like an angle grinder. One more fact I can admit the artist is obsessed with more or less implicit sexual (under)tones (being inspired by the oeuvre of Marquis de Sade). Undoubtedly one can partake in a frantic pool of very different experiments and combinations. As it is explicated at the site of Plataforma Records their modus operandi is the constant violation of the rules of harmony which dictates the Orthodox Music. At times, at Barbichuettes Night (A Tribute) one can enjoy a submerged, schizoid dialogue being savoured by spacey synthesised atmospheric lines and scruffy analogue synthesiser effects. It comes from nowhere, in the sense that I have no idea of how to localise it. As if being everywhere, it does mean having no place at all. However, at the same time it does not chime in a cheapo and vacuous way altogether. By possible kindred souls it could be compared with the St Petersburg, Russia-based dadaist surf/punk/lounge/avant/sample/psych/fetish-pop combos Messer Chups/Messer für Frau Müller. But I am very sure they have listened to This Heat, Bauhaus, Throbbing Gristle, an early Cabaret Voltaire, Velvet Underground, The Fall, and many artist from within the No Wave pigeonhole either. The overpowering issue is a part of the discography of a French imprint, NKS International Muzakillabel, a part of the discogrpahy of Brazil-based imprint Plataforma, and a part of the discography of the Chilean Cieliro Diystro.

7/05/2018

[Teaser of the day] Erkki Hyva - Kummaline uni

New Weird Estonia
DIY
Singer-songwriter
Art pop
Bedroom pop
Lo-fi
Avant-pop

Artist: Erki Hyva

Release: Varjust rambini

Label: Õunaviks

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] ENKIL - The River

Ephedrina

Electronic music
Alternative
Synth-industrial
Dark synth
Synth-pop

Artist: ENKIL

Release: Blak Garden

Label: Ephedrina/Jamendo

Year: 2015

System Morgue – Gegenstrom (2013)

DNA Production

Drone
Post-industrial
Abstract
Ambient drone
Dark ambient
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Sound art
Drone doom

Comment: elementally I have reviewed Russian-based artist System Morgue`s brand new albums like Froid (2017, Frozen Light) and Distress (2018, DNA Production) but Gegenstrom is a thread from earlier years and aesthetically there are up some distinct features regarding comparison. The recent issues are more polished and structured (yet not suppressing its enchanting magic) and by its structure come into the experimental/avant/post-rock genre, however, Gegenstrom is conversely more hazy and foggy and subsequently oneiric. At its nucleus all of that is being headed by a ghost-alike drone which is galvanized and impelling by its physical and emotional appearance. It is like the maelstrom or black hole governing all the matter coming into their realms. For sure, it is not a sort of rock music with regard to the artist`s latter albums, it is more like a decent manifestation within the dark ambient, drone and partly sound art genre. Yet the self-titled track is the exception because it is the sort of drone doom rock by flourishing through oscillating pulses and lofty apexes. At first glimpse, it may seem the listener is trudging across a barren landscape where all is thoroughly destroyed and eradicated yet the more you listen to it the more you will see interesting echoes, glimpses, flickers, vibrations, even colours to come out of these five compositions. I cannot be wrong by bounding it geographically to northern, even subarctic hemisphere being generally dominated by northerly airflows and lengthy darkness. In a word, it is an outstanding work on a Russian imprint, DNA Production.

7/04/2018

[Teaser of the day] Leisure Walks - Empty Room

Dream pop
Alternative pop
Indie pop
Shoegaze
DIY

Artist: Leisure Walks

Release: Seaglass EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mystified - Frosted Tundra

Treetrunk

Drone
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Illbient
Soundscape
Minimalism
Experimentalism

Artist: Mystified

Release: Frigid Radiance Remastered

Label: Treetrunk

Year: 2013

7/03/2018

Radio for the Daydreamers – Denouement (2012)

Black Square

Bandcamp

Indie pop/rock
Art pop/rock
Folk indie
Alternative pop/rock
Crossover
Indie folk
Jazz
Space pop

Comment: I have been watching like many of you the World Championship of Football In Russia. While being a big sport fan since my very childhood I shall have to admit my relation and attitude toward the sport has been changed over the years. Let`s take a good extraction about it in comparison to the art (music, literature, visual art, motion picture). My relation to the art is based on partaking in art by enjoying it, by actualising it, by creating a value/virtue. Indeed, the art refracts your life because it is frequently bigger than the life and always it is more ennobling and powerful. My relation to the sport is simply affective, it is not based on creating a real value and virtue. It is just an obsession or a psychosomatic trace in my brain. Furthermore, given that by following medical terms I would like to add that football seems to be a highly autistic act. An event of the sport used to have a bare, confined value at a time while you are watching it. It does have no value later. I guess there is no value altogether on its own if someone would be watching the competition between Columbia-England, on July 03, 2018 some years later, for instance. It will change into a mere historical fact but it is not an event anymore. Because of that all kinds of the art used to be more superior on their own. There are many other aspects else to be added to this list (for instance, regarding monetary, financial aspects the gap between them could be even more catastrophic). I am here to always listen to the albums of the The Smiths, Cagey House, My Bloody Valentine, The Fucked Up Beat, Tim Hecker, The Fall, Miles Davis, Stereolab, Cocteau Twins, CAN, Faust, GYBE!, Kraftwerk or read the poems by Edgar Allan Poe, William Somerset Maugham, or H. P. Lovecraft or whoever else (but I do not really care of sport events being happened 5, 10, 20 years ago). It certainly broadens your mental and psychic world instead of playing on your mean instincts. Given that the music is a part of the art, it may be the most layered art with regard to discrete experience by a person because one could always discover new aspects distinctly and in accordance with the previous immense vestige. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US-based Radio for the Daydreamers is over there to cope with this immense vestige. Denoument as a word and as the title of the album refers to a problematic process. The result would come out as a coherent and convincing one, though, yet you could pin down the problematic aspect within it. It is a premise of how to integrate indie and jazz into a vivid, self-perpetuating whole while doing away with any exaggerations and overstatements. The issue is a part of the discography of Black Square. In a word, the value of this issue is certainly more worth than the victory of the Stanley Cup in the combo`s home city. Ars longa, ludus brevis.

[Teaser of the day] Evgeni Rogozin - Thoughtforms

Abstract
Micronoise
Avant-garde
Sound art
Microsound
Non-music
Leftfield
Experimentalism
Minimalism

Artist: Evgeni Rogozin

Release: 卌

Label: Haze

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Buben - Burning All Over

Clinical Archives

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Sampledelic
Epic
Martial industrial
Leftfield
Musique concrète
Minimalism
Electronic music
Post-industrial

Artist: Buben

Release: Lock, Stock and Barell... - ep

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2008

Dunai – Illdot0 (2017)

Humanworkshop

Breaks
Alternative dance
Post-IDM
Hip-hop
Nu jazz
Crossover
Digifunk
Indietronica
Ambient pop
Rap
Remix

Comment: this set of 7 tracks (clocking in at a 33-minute) composed by a Russian artist, Alexei Kalinkin is a fine blend of crystalline rhythms, warped synth manipulations somewhere in the middle and spacey synthesised orchestrations atop. More profoundly, those rhythms are fragile running in the vein of post-IDM, and digitalized funk progressions. Undoubtedly the album has no remote distance with specific spokes from indie electronic, hazy electronic jazz/nu jazz/acid jazz and ambient pop either. Even if you do not have a direct reference to it you could perceive it indirectly being laid behind the aforementioned styles. Indeed, many kinds of rhythmic variations are mobilized and activated over there resulting in a sublime flow. There are up a couple of remixes either – one of them is a remix on Atomar Sense (Leisure-B`s remix) by adding a hip-hop component to the blend, the second one is Julian Winter`s remix on Clever. The solid issue is a part in the roster of Humanworkshop.

7/02/2018

Útidúr - Fisherman's Friend

[Teaser of the day] Pangea - Comet

Enoughrecords

Ambient
Experimentalism
Sound art
Ambient noise
Dark ambient
Epic
Radiophonic art
Micronoise
Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Illbient

Artist: Pangea

Release: Latimeria

Label: Enoughrecords/Free Music Archive/Jamendo

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Syndrôm - Celestial Objects

Electronic music
Breakbeat
Alternative
Dark wave
Breaks
Crossover
Glitch-hop

Artist: Syndrôm

Release: Sans Artifices

Label: Pavillon36 Recordings

Year: 2016

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