Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this handful of compositions sounds like it was driven by a vocalist who is seriously depressed and who sings in a muffled manner even if the adverse state of mood is tried to hide with digital filters and echo chambers. I did even hear the line - I am a worthless piece of shit (being sung impressively). However, the best part of pop music used to pop out due to the artist's distress and suffering. DOARR's music is craftily embellished with acerbic synths and dynamical beats and some speech samples full of coherent synergy and ennobling impulses. One can feel that these hypnotic loops create something curative and purgative. Musically it can be considered a part of the movement of chillwave/glo-fi/hypnagogic pop though it is not an average example within the genre. Funnily, at Discogs it is tagged as dub, and house. Maybe it is in this way. Of course, the music can be considered a sort of synth-pop though it has a little to do with classic synth-pop artists like Pet Shop Boys, and Erasure, for example because it is more acidic, it is more atmospheric, it is more technical. The overwhelming issue is a part of an excellent Swedish imprint, redstarcommunity.

AAVV – Otto Anni e non sentirli VOL 2 (2011-2019)

Ephedrina

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Ambient pop
Expermental electronica
Electronic music
Electro pop
Modern classical
Post-classical
Ambient
Post-disco
Bhangra

Comment: this batch of 10 compositions is released by Italian imprint Ephedrina and there are represented such artists as Whalt Thisney, Mutaform, Bist, LEON DER ROTE, Hypercube, Пёщ Ептгу feat ACRATEP, Wesqk Coast, Structure, GUMP PROJECT, FABER ONE & ELEX MAN. Musically it is a wide scope of electronic explorations, from modern classical and experimental electronica/glitch mixed sounds and angular ambient developments to bubbly electro pop, uncanny post-disco frequencies and even sultry bhangra vibes. In a word, this whole is a lovely accumulation of different styles and artsy intentions.

6/13/2019

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Cyclique

Free Music Archive

Ambient
Hauntology
Post-classical
Drone
Avant-garde
Electronic music

Artist: Pollux

Release: Lune Rouge

Label: Sirona-Records/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Stark`s Pond - Behind Every Turn

United Studios Corporation

Electronic pop
Synth-pop
Ambient pop
Dance pop

Artist: Stark`s Pond

Release: Life Track

Label: United Studios Corporation

Year: 2018

Auger Shell – Holdstill Ocean (2008)

Rack And Ruin
Soundcloud

Ambient rock
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Lo-fi
Drone rock
Glitchtronica
DIY
Epic
Post-rock
Electronic
Glitch ambient

Comment: nearby Detroit, US-based Pat Callow aka Auger Shell did have released all his three items under a cult imprint, the Netherlands-based Rack And Ruin Records, having been doing a decent promoting from 2008 to 2011, by the lead of Dean Birkett. Holdstill Ocean was the first and the longest issue of the three parted discography of Auger Shell under Rack And Ruin. Maybe one can find out a prescription coming out from the following sequence/number set in a queue – 037, 051, 073. Additionally to Holdstill Ocean, there are also up Bee Lions, and The Narrows to be listened to. A description by him, a blanket of evocative swirling sounds from one guitar and an arsenal of effects. The music teems with life, at times vacillating between tremble and pulse, shriek and wail, bite and grasp. Soul brother to Christian Fennesz, Kevin Shields and even Lee Ranaldo, his mostly improvisatory compositions are structured in layers and loops, sometimes stitched together with the aid of a computer. Indeed, by listening to this set of long compositions I felt to split the 4-notch issue into a disciple of My Bloody Valentine due to those slightly powerful tremolo guitar treads and lofty guitar transitions within a tangential blend of throbbing hiss and asymmetrical drone-drenched sonic bowl. The second, finishing part was clearly more about laptop and digital technology dominated experiments, it was clearly more about a contemporary laptop and digital processing-based shamanism (Tim Hecker, Pan American, Alva Noto/Carsten Nicolai, Vladislav Delay, Fennesz, Pan Sonic). More magnified loops and glitches pitched up to a higher extent. However, the more I listened to it, the more it seemed to be about magic and something transcendental. At times I feel like listening to an anthology of noise and electronic music by Sub Rosa. The artificial borders set up by me became hazy. Actually a listener can hear exalted (sic!) droning doom metal progressions as if providing some glimpses within a deadly greyish landscape. In a word, by the form it is somehow flawed yet blissful nonetheless (it might be, on the contrary, thanks to it). The beauty is not simply a state, it is the relation/move between/from an inferior/rough to superior/refined one.

6/12/2019

[Teaser of the day] Speculativism - Mars So What

Archive.org

Improvised music
Avant-prog
RIO
Dada music
Contemporary classical
Art rock
Psych-prog
Experimental rock

Artist: Speculativism

Release: War and Peace

Label: Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Emerald Park - Black Box

Jamendo

Indie pop
Ork-pop
Art pop
Alternative pop
Pomp pop

Artist: Emerald Park

Release: Black Box CC

Label: Jamendo/23 Seconds

Year: 2014

Osiris4 – Black Diamonds EP (2019)

Digital Diamonds

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Ambient techno
Electronic music
Techno pop
Synth-pop
Ambient pop

Comment: this 3-notch outing is a part of the discography of a Germany-based imprint, Digital Diamonds reflecting upon black diamonds through poppy rhythms and appealing synthesised panoramas atop. It is a transgressive issue being ostensibly strongly influenced by (deep) techno aesthetics yet branching away from the club scene. The element of synth-pop can be considered the reason of influencing the whole and the condition of moving away to a broader realm. Osiris4 comes out of Zurich, Switzerland.

Cutside – In Orbit EP (2019)

blocSonic

Archive.org

Acid jazz
Hip-hop
Funk rock
Breaks
Mood music
Sampledelic
Nu jazz

Comment: if you ask who would pretend to be the last musician who did start a distinguished hype I would say Steven Allison aka Flying Lotus (a member in the lineage of Alice and John Coltrane) whose relevant twitches from different styles of the past to be efficiently treated within his laptop arrangements as the fare of his musicianship embarked an enduring following. Cutside is an artist from Russia whose 4-notch outing is spiked with relaxing nu jazz incantations, psychedelic acid grooves and much more. For instance, The Last Days is a soaring funk fusion example based on a bit abrasive guitar glissandos. The counterpoint and at the same time the result of these different primordial sounds is mood which comes out as the synergistic essence by starting live its own life. Those discrete whiffs of wind instruments and plucked strings hold up somehow a cosmic yet intimate and warm feel. In the sense (by its circular comprehension and succeeded accomplishment) it is a perfect result. Beyond that categorization it could be interpreted as an album on its own and as a dynamic sound collage. The spellbinding outing is a bit in the discography of an imprint, blocSonic.

6/11/2019

[Teaser of the day] Monster Rally - Maori Mai

Exotica pop
Mood music
Post-pop
Easy listening
Sampledelic
Minimalism
Lounge music

Artist: Monster Rally

Release: EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Transient - Minty Fresh

Monotonik

Electronic music
Micro-techno
Minimal techno
Art techno
Deep techno

Artist: Transient

Release: Work/Play EP

Label: Monotonik

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Waves

Petcord

Avant-rock
Art rock
Downbeat
Experimental rock
Post-rock

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Ageless Calm in Times of War

Label: Petcord/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

6/10/2019

Stavros Gasparatos – Rage Park (2019)

Inner Ear

Post-classical
Piano music
Glitchtronica
Crossover
Micronoise
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Modern classical
Electro-acoustic
Contemporary classical
Art music
Ambient

Comment: Patras, Greece-based Stavros Gasparatos (born in 1975) has been tightly related to music as a composer, sound engineer, arranger, producer for decades. His 7-track outing Rage Park is an organic, "logical" yet exuberant mix of blistering and soothing sounds, traditional and modern sonic approaches. More profoundly, the whole body is based on a mindset of classical music (in turn based on brisk orchestrations and artsy piano sequences) which is interfered with or split into noises, glitched-out electronics, vivid drones, open space electro-acoustic effects, rare overdriven synth flutters and full-fledged beatific ambient and classical music mixed soundscapes if to name most of them. At times it reminds somehow of Penguin Cafe Orchestra by its mental grid and ideological grasp though technically Gasparatos' sound is more kindred to Eluvium, Tim Hecker, Hauschka, Stars Of The Lid, Max Richter. Indeed, wide panning and freely blossoming mood is the obvious reason for comparisons to be drawn with the mastermind of Simon Jeffes-led combo. Let's call it excellent breathing or combustion of the album. Given that as a compatriot of the artist said more than 2500 years ago that something could exist/begin existing within the borders only – in the case one can enjoy music which make drifts within the borders of contemporary/modern classical to a bit beyond the limits of it yet preserving its blissful face and dynamic nature effortlessly. In a word, it is a truly astounding output worth to be remembered within lists of the best albums in 2019. I am going to remember. Thank you, Stavros.

[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - Bloom

Jamendo

Ambient
Epic
Drone
Microtonal
Ambient drone
Minimalism

Artist: Dereleech

Release: Valosade

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Adamned.age - Die Mauer Im Kopf

Phonocake

Glitch techno
IDM
Ambient techno
Glitchtronica
Electronic music

Artist: Adamned.age

Release: Transit Berlin

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] iron like nylon - Do It Again

Avant-pop
Lo-fi
Art pop
Electronic music
DIY

Artist: iron like nylon

Release: iron like 70s

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

BANDWiDTH – Walking Ghost Phase (2011)

Ayan

Experimental electronica
Power electronics
Avant-garde
Noise
Drone
Abstract
Experimentalism
Improvised noise
Non-music
Psycho-acoustic

Comment: the Frenchmen David Vilayleck aka Ayankoko and Mathieu Garrouste do create a batch of nine compositions which is based on a couple of live sessions. Recently I saw a TV show about a ghastly event when a saleswoman dialed the telephone number of a man and additionally contacted with his woman who as later was figured out had already been dead/killed. Supposedly the ghosts can use energy for their own sake coming out from the wire. Of course, by dealing with such intentional experiments one must be very warned. On the other side, we cannot eradicate a possibility regarding our lack of knowledge, our prejudices, and some sort of manipulation. It just may be a case of belief. Musically the duo provides a tense experiment with phase changes, for searching a balance between silence and noise, between abrupt intensity and stepwise relaxation. Like it is quite common to noise music some phases are just switched on and some not, and vice versa (the so-called straight, one-dimensional approach). Paradoxically the least strange/hostile element are the voices which supposedly belong to ghosts. The mind-provoking outing is a part of the discography of Ayan Records, and Clinical Archives.

6/09/2019

[Teaser of the day] Riccardo Cirani - Primo Vere

Laverna

Progressive rock
Avant-rock
Improvised music
Flippertronics
Art rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Riccardo Cirani

Release: Intonazioni Serafiche

Label: Laverna

Year: 2018

Ancient Astronaut – Through the Tunnel of Love (2019)

Silent Flow

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Electronic music
Space music
Kosmische Musik
Chilltronica

Comment: there are up a bunch of questions. Did ancient astronauts exist or not? Did they visit our planet or not? Did they help us building huge objects like pyramids? Did they foster us with their know-how? Are they still here by supervising us with intention not allowing us destroy our divine planet? Are they ready to intervene as soon as possible after the faintest step is done to trigger the irreversible apocalypse (little apocalypses used to happen every day around us)? Earth is also a part of the huge cosmic village so everyone living within it should have very responsibility for defending it. Analogously parents have to supervise their children from harming themselves because as Jesus turned to Lord by saying they do not know what they are doing regarding adults though. Musically it is a blissful, I would like to say, a praiseful journey through tremendous, unfathomable horizons within Outer space. Yeah, it can be compared to Tangerine Dream's sound and the so-called Berlin School in general yet ultimately the fact says way too little about the album. So listen and enjoy this organic mode of warm synthesised chords and slightly propulsive cadences. Those static moments and dynamic spans being frequently inseparably intertwined with one another do constitute an extraordinary state of mind. The enchanting 12-notch outing is a bit in the discography of Silent Flow.

6/08/2019

[Teaser of the day] Knifepuncher - Misery Chords

Hardcore punk
Punk rock
Emo
DIY

Artist: Knifepuncher

Release: From The Capital Wasteland

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] High Heels - Night Shift

Garage rock
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: High Heels

Release: Low Budget Paranormal Sex Comedy

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Oo-Ray - Eagre

Luvsound

Shoegaze
Experimental rock
Ambient rock
Epic
Dreamgaze
Minimalism
Avant-rock
Art music

Artist: The Oo-Ray

Release: Magnifications

Label: Luvsound

Year: 2009

Globular – Entangled Everything (2018)

Entangled

Ektoplazm

Psybient
Electronic music
Alternative dance
Chilltronica
New Age
Spoken word
Psychill
Ambient trance
Organic electronica

Comment: this batch of 10 compositions is a sultry blend of psy-related styles with strong inclination toward New Age and other esoteric and transcendental practices, at least audible practices in the case. At times those skiddy rhythms and wobbly vocals add some exalting dub and reggae templates to the mix. As the title says – entangled everything (yet negative connotations of the word “entangled” and possible difficulties are naturally surpassed). Is this premise sustainable and could it result in an organic synergy? Indeed it does, at least in the sense of coherence between freely breathing beats and spacey and acid imbued upper layers. An additional flavour is added by slightly filtered vocals and spoken word snippets. Through the last mentioned elements it may remind of the music of The Orb. However, the more you listen to it the more you can hear elements coming from the bottom, from the left and right side. It is like a hidden reality which needs to be got aware of it (through the dimension of time and space), to be taken care of it. You will take care of it while listening to it again and again. Additionally, it does meet difficulties and possible conflicts and personal development in Heideggerian sense of Dasein. Entangled Everything is Morison Bennett's fourth album being released on Entangled Records and Ektoplazm. It is an outstanding issue worth to be added to best album lists of the previous year.

[Teaser of the day] The Lights Galaxia - Tokyo Metro

Luxus-Arctica

Electronic music
Post-rock
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Crossover

Artist: The Lights Galaxia

Release: Global ep

Label: Luxus-Arctica

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Multi-Panel - Let Me Sing a Song

Folktronica
Art pop
DIY
Epic
Ambient pop
Indietronica
Electronic

Artist: Multi-Panel

Release: Rekordgate III

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Entertainment for the Braindead - The Earth

Singer-songwriter
Indie folk
Psych-folk
Art folk
Alt-folk
New Weird Germany
Folk indie
Dream folk

Artist: Entertainment for the Braindead

Release: Postcard #7: Songs from the Dust

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

6/07/2019

[Teaser of the day] Japanese Large - Clubs

23 Seconds

Art pop
Electro-rock
Alternative dance
Dance rock
Synth-rock
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Japanese Large

Release: Superpositioned

Label: 23 Seconds/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Ping Pong Club - Skylight

Jamendo

Indie pop/rock
Soft pop/rock
Yacht pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Ping Pong Club

Release: Skylight (single from the album Retrospective)

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2019

6/05/2019

[Teaser of the day] Exodo a los Cayos - Extinción de los Gigantes de Agua

Gorrión De Miga

Epic
Ambient metal
Post-metal
Funeral doom
Avant-metal

Artist: Exodo a los Cayos

Release: Las Orbitas del Destierro

Label: Gorrión De Miga

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Dan Masquelier - Sleep Well, Darling

Jamendo

Singer-songwriter
Indie folk
Americana
Alt-folk
Folk indie

Artist: Dan Masquelier

Release: Wake Up

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Allison + 1 - Lying (in an Open Field)

Free Music Archive

Art rock
Indie rock
Downbeat
Psych-rock
DIY

Artist: Allison + 1

Release: Lying (in an Open Field)

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

6/04/2019

AKUSMATiC – System of Edges (2019)

Schallwellenmagie

House
Deep house
Club dance
Electronic music
Tech-house

Comment: this handful of tracks says something wonderful about house. About house music. Most of house albums I have listened so far say something wonderful...nuff said. A listener can enjoy reverie-imbued deep house incantations and then all the course will change into more angular techno-influenced house bubbling. However, it is at least as suggestive as deep house numbers. In fact, the aforementioned styles used to pollinate with one another so if someone is over there with intention to dissect one element or style from another it is a Sisyphean try. Why should he/she? The result is truly organic because those little yet influential elements used to reflect upon the whole and the configuration of the whole magnifies the minutiae. The enchanting issue is a part of the discography of Schallwellenmagie, all the artist's ten albums are part of the imprint (as a netlabel guy I guess he personally runs it). Regarding house and tech-house music and Germany it reminds me of the best days of such an imprint as Thinner. Oh dear it is pleasure those glory days to be reminded! The best house album of mine in 2019 so far.

[Teaser of the day] Julio Gutièrrez - Wicca

Mùsica Vermella

Electronic music
IDM
Breakbeat
Glitchtronica
Crossover
Alternative dance

Artist: Julio Gutièrrez

Release: About Magic

Label: Mùsica Vermella

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Terracid - Bleed Wood

Free Music Archive

Electronic music
Avant-garde
Freeformfreakout
Lo-fi
Post-psychedelic electronica
Improvised music
Experimentalism
Drone
DIY

Artist: Terracid

Release: GMOG

Label: We Have No Zen/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pete Um - Look Sharp Slice 6

Free Music Archive

Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Dada music
Improvised music
Motorik
Lo-fi
Electronic music

Artist: Pete Um

Release: Look Sharp! and hear the difference

Label: Chinstrap

Year: 2011

6/02/2019

[Teaser of the day] Híbrida - Paul Is Dead

Hamsterloco

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Art rock
Psych-rock

Artist: Híbrida

Release: Ho vam intentar

Label: Hamsterloco

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Humbra - As horas

Alternative rock
Indie rock
Space pop
Dream pop

Artist: Humbra

Release: 1/4 Para as horas (EP)

Label: Crooked Tree

Year: 2018

Olympic Smoker – Noises And Echoes (2009)

Bypass

Jamendo

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Breaks

Comment: undoubtedly this patch of 13 tracks is not an easy fare to be described although musically it is an enjoyable ride. Olympic Smoker is an artist from Russia who did start making music in the mid of the 00s. Lots of spiky rhythms, low frequencies and different tempos used to surface and fade away. Clangour is traded for silent progressions occasionally (even a couple of piano balladry stylised snippets are represented over there). I would like to call it post-breakbeat/post-techno/post-jungle music because it contains vague echoes of the aforementioned styles yet surpassing obviously their limits and thriving toward a wider comprehension. Some advantage of the album is a partial withdrawal at greater extent from the annoying contemporary post-dubstep and autotune/poptronic influenced (electronic) pop scene. There is no need to waste time on the aesthetics of softened artists and thin machines. All we need is more power, more jungle, more sweat, more pain, more sincerity, more natural feelings and organic consequences! We need more Barry Whites, Fausts, Sun Ras, Aphex Twins, Kraftwerks, Pulps, Joy Divisions, My Bloody Valentines, Scott Walkers, Johnny Cashes, CANs, The Smiths, Sonic Youths, Carpenters, Authechres, Lee Hazlewoods, Nina Simones, Diana Rosses! We need more obsessed characters and especially natured mavericks! The release is a part of the discography of Chinese imprint, Bypass.

6/01/2019

Nick R 61 – Into The Mind (2019)

Fusion

Noise-hop
Avant-garde
Art music
Field recording
Organic electronica
Experimentalism
Trip-hop
Avant-hop
Drone
Musique concrète
Lo-fi

Comment: as I assumed yesterday no one – neither Trump nor the Left – can save this world. In fact, it is truly childish to set up barricades against each other by the both sides. Something rational and viable can be found from views of the both sides. However, all the saving decisions must be done by us by ordinary people. Only we can bring to pass a silent and green revolution by minimizing our consumption and harmful habits. We shall have to get rid of our corrupted minds and beforehand of noises and wastes all of which is related to excessive consumption of materials and superficial informative content. We shall have to take responsibility for Universe, for us and all the living and yet unborn generations regarding humans and non-humans. Before to do it, before one could be able to comprehend the idea one should clear his/her mind. I guess we need some purgative practises to get out from this god-damned enclosed circle. Profound music examples may help us to deal with it. Most of music one can find from the charts is just a noise – it is not a thing on its own, it is just a product to fasten the aforementioned damned circle. Beyond that one's soul will be empty. Nick R 61's music is being free from this sin. It stimulates thinking of different aspects and spawns suggestive roundabouts in one's mind. Into the mind, isn't? He has been running an imprint called Fusion Netlabel and most of the catalogue is filled in with his own music. Regarding this it can be admitted his path has been long and the recent one is another step to accomplish his audible travel. Otherwise it is a perception of Hindustan and Nepal (the titles of the album are Kathmandau, Chomolungma, and Lhasa), a source of renewing spiritual practises for Westerners since the 60s (The Beatles, George Harrison, Angus MacLise). Nick R 61 employs samples from music/instruments of the abovementioned area and natural sounds to merge them with thick drumming of experimental hip-hop and trip-hop and less or more somber echoes and glowering drones. In a word, the short-running issue is highly poignant and mind-provoking.

[Teaser of the day] Julio y Agosto - La niebla y la autopista

Indie folk
Art folk
Folk indie
Alt-folk
Psych-folk

Artist: Julio y Agosto

Release: La niebla y la autopista

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mad Grinder - Shore

Doom rock
Alternative metal
Grunge
Stoner rock

Artist: Mad Grinder

Release: Boris

Label: Deserto/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Us - Save Me

Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Dream pop

Artist: The Us

Release: The Sky Was Open

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Bloodkin - Her Blues

Southern Shelter

Southern rock
Americana
Live
Blues

Artist: Bloodkin

Release: Bloodkin Live at Flicker on 2019-05-16

Label: Southern Shelter/Live Music Archive

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Bone Conductors - Bermuda

Luvsound

Art pop
Singer-songwriter
Post-pop
Baroque pop
Avant-pop

Artist: Bone Conductors

Release: Twitches

Label: Luvsound/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

Whalt Thisney – WalkThisWay (2019)

Batenim

Modern classical
Post-classical
Ambient
Art music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Piano music
Glitchtronica
Post-industrial

Comment: this handful of tracks is obviously one of the best albums I have heard in 2019 so far. Of course, it is not thoroughly innovative from scratch but the grid and substance and the ultimate impact of the album will haunt you even after you have finished dealing with it. The impact comes out from minutiae of the issue. Glitched-out abrasive microscopic noises sweeping around gentle slope of the piano built sonic mountains and exuberant atmospheric reverberations being steeped with dystopic industrial hisses do build up a magnificent whole. The listener can enjoy the immersive pace of the issue and easy impressionistic climaxes based on the aforementioned elements and fragile volatile piano chords as if a stunning example of meta polyphonic musical concept. It is a glorious part of the discography of Batenim Netlabel.

Globoscuro – 3+3+3 (2018)

Hortus Conclusus

Post-industrial
Avant-garde
Acousmatic music
Experimentalism
Conceptual
Psycho-acoustic
Electro-acoustic
Art music

Comment: the Italian musician Globobscuro has been around for a while with his stunning industrial and experimental sounds to provide an alternative point of view about music and life in general. Emiliano Pietrini's recent work of a couple of tracks is inspired about semi-mythological philosopher Pythagoras and his fancy against the number 3. Additionally, Pythagoras did live in Syracuse, Sicily (recently a part of Italy). Musically it is highly arousing due to vociferous guitar noises, elliptic patterns of tape manipulation, hazy electro-acoustic litters at bottom and ennobling atmospheric hovers in between. Even if the guitars are the most prominent element within the whole it is not about rock music at all because the instruments are not treated in that way. On the other side, it is really beautiful in a rare sense of this term. Beauty is not a thing on its own it is a fertile and organic relation between the aforementioned characteristics even if they are uncanny, provoking and destructive. I like the industrial musicians because they used to be honest because of having no urge to provide aesthetical and economic compromises. Instead of it they have been providing measures to undermine general models and instructions with ultimate intention to liberate the energy of sole parts. The outing is a bit in the discography of Hortus Conclusus. And the cover print is amusing and deep at the same time.

i AM esper – My Withering Life (2012)

Fall Into Void Recs

Post-rock
Art rock
Noise rock
Epic
Experimental rock
Avant-rock

Comment: the US-based artist's 4-notch outing is all about guitars, about clanging and shrieking yet elliptically running guitar patterns. The patterns used to repeat with a slight ambient touch. Of course, Justin Palmieri has been very prolific since 2009, since inception of the project so any minutiae and slightest details I guess is thoroughly developed and analysed. He uses clamorous noises and even melodic sequences atop other layers as if a (noise) poppy version of Glenn Branca's noise symphonies. Indeed, beauty can be perverse and ennobling at the same time – it is a radically indicative anthem for our recent miserable situation globally. Neither Trump nor the leftists can save us although there is up the brainless sort of messianism on both sides. There is no organic ideas and general consensus which could be promulgated within a society. There is no Jesus and Yeezus and will be no Jesus or Yeezus but just hunger and calamities can be seen to come in. All is torn apart. We are poisoning ourselves stepwise to death. Overpopulated Earth is the truly horrendous reality. At least at the same time we can listen to music and enjoy art like this. A party at the time of the plague.

5/23/2019

[Teaser of the day] Circadian Eyes - Our New Home

Post-rock
Post-classical
Epic
Art rock
Ambient rock

Artist: Circadian Eyes

Release: A Future Nostalgic

Label: Hawk Moon

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Derek Clegg - Straight Towards The Sun

Alt-country
Folk indie
Americana
Singer-songwriter
Indie folk

Artist: Derek Clegg

Release: Borish (Songs For L)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

5/19/2019

[Teaser of the day] Wood Spider - Elysian Vows

Balkan folk
Gypsy folk
Folk punk
World music
Ethnic punk

Artist: Wood Spider

Release: Decadence

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kilowatts - Ravioli Rave

Kahvi Collective

Deep techno
Electronic music
Breaks
Tech-electro
Breakbeat

Artist: Kilowatts

Release: Pasta EP

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2005

5/18/2019

[Teaser of the day] St Cheatersburg - Space Rider

Indie dance
Art pop
Psych-pop/rock
Alternative dance
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: St Cheatersburg

Release: We Are The Pigeons Of The World

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Moses Luster - The Past Is No Place For A Man

Singer-songwriter
Alternative rock
Art rock
Noir rock
Americana

Artist: Moses Luster

Release: The Pre-Apocalypse Years (2011-2015)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

Beelzebub Jones – A Good Day To Be A Bad Guy (2019)

Death Roots Syndicate

Speak Up Recordings

Gothic Americana
Singer-songwriter
Art blues
Noir rock
Art rock
Cinematic
Alternative rock

Comment: by following titles of this 13-notch outing (Working For The Devil, Sinners Last Request, Revenge Is My Only Friend, Nicotine, Liquor & Blasphemy, Never Take Me Alive) one can admit the dark, adeptly stylised nature of the songwriter who is obviously influenced by such artsy juggernauts as Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Johnny Cash whose aesthetics used to hark back to the blues music/delta blues at a more or less extent. On the other side, all these reclusive somber themes are appropriately backed up by sublime orchestrations, reverberant and sustained string chords and accentuated stretched singing manner with rich timbre as if providing an impressive depiction of the apocalypse. In fact, there is no difference either regarding personally or in general. One of the tags of the album is "cinematic" based on Spaghetti Western-alike/Morricone-esque exalted threads. I do not know is it the sign of the recent time and age but it fits in very appropriately to this ill-omened age with a little perspective to survive and evolve in an organic way and be in concordance with the universe. We can freely depict ourselves as a little cottage in Outer Space while being burdened with responsibility to tide it up and manage it rationally (we are subconsciously even more burdened by the alleged first sin and the fall of man). For still able to preserve our human-alike face rather than devolving to a fucked-up transgressive diabolical being (unfortunately I am a bloody dick by the way). However, one must not reclaim him/herself as a prophet to foresee hard times to come very soon when supposedly anyone must do very crucial decisions on the base of conflicting moral incantations and survival intentions. It may be happening like our beloved Johnny Cash sang at Wanderer /I went out walking/Through streets paved with gold/Lifted some stones/Saw the skin and bones/Of a city without a soul/. Partly because of that, it is a befitting listening leg and partly because of being somehow ennobling and purgative despite the doom-laden lyrics. The marvellous, schmaltz-free outing is a part of the discography of Death Roots Syndicate, and a part of the roster of Speak Up Recordings. By kindred souls, additionally to the abovementioned ones and artists from within the imprint, it is recommended the listening of Moses Luster.

5/17/2019

[Teaser of the day] The Marquis - The North

Synthwave
Alternative rock
Electronic
Art rock
Industrial rock
Cold wave

Artist: The Marquis

Release: the MARQUIS

Label: Jeunesse Cosmique

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Emily Plays - Baghdad Lover

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Ork-pop

Artist: Emily Plays

Release: The Fall & Rise Of Graeme Obree

Label: 42 Records/24

Year: 2011

KUNI – Effgenic (2019)

Digital Diamonds

Progressive house
New Age
Electronic music
Ethnotronica
Psybient
Downtempo
Chilltronica
Tech-house

Comment: KUNI (not to be confused with a Japanese hard rock guitarist) provides a variety of house, New Age, reverberations of ethnic music, psy-related vibes and something else more (which is stylistically enough crossed and littered to be not allowed to describe it more precisely) on Digital Diamonds imprint. Loosely it can be tagged progressive house though the impact must be pointed to the word "loosely". Benefiting the artist the soundscape of this 13-notch issue is vertically as deep as horizontally by providing bottomless ominous frequencies and sophisticated and mostly serene upper layers. At times such sort of ideals do fail because an artist's desired ambition to create simultaneously positively magniloquent and suggestive impulses do not magnify each other but interacting with one another by gnawing a possible synergistic set. It catches the listener's attention from the beginning to the very end. In the context of the issue the word "progressive" does mean technical in conjunction with the moody nature of the album. Kicking drums, slightly warped harmonies, profound echoes and poignant effects set up a fine party in a listener's head.

The Womb – An Introduction to The Womb (2017)

Danielle
Free Music Archive

Indie pop
Singer-songwriter
Art pop
DIY
Alternative pop
Funk rock

Comment: Alan Driscoll with her female friends are pushing forward another storytelling of The Womb. He has been active already for a couple of decades with a numerous of albums, compilations, and EPs all having been issued on his own imprint Danielle Records. Business as usual, this set of 15 compositions is discretely voluptuous and obsessive, it is all about huge egos and the so-called sperm wars and instrumentally it is accompanied by chalking guitars, programmed rhythms and electronic odds and ends. It is about the rise of self-awareness and self-indulgence and dominance through sex and relationships. Of course, this (partly) confessional set is incomparably much better than reading the bloody Co...an and more convincing than visiting annoying portals which dissect relationships because the aforementioned institutions in fact say nothing particular about you because they trying to say about everything. In fact, all this relationship stuff constitutes a quite adverse yet partly naturally, partly artificially determined horizon for a single human being. I guess the beasts are naturally more arranged because of following the call of nature and being not decayed and get obsessed otherwise than just dealing with survival (the most important thing is that they are smarter because of knowing of how to do it in the optimal way). And that's the very problem of the mentioned horizon by changing a human being into a foolish monkey. After all, does it really make him or her happier as a bunch of bones, vessels, muscles triggered by some chemical-physical processes? Rather it is called a state of affection. The very touch of this miscellany can only be found out from minutiae like funky rhythms, exhausted appearances in singing manner, exalting propulsions in guitar playing, more profoundly, by exploring gentle feedbacks and chopped chords and extended arrangements over here at times. Furthermore, it is an intelligently dynamic (inter)play between the main course and "exceptions" within it. A spastic and a bit interrupted sax development can be met at Sex Club. Suggestive melody progressions lead the listener at The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Ourselves, and at Don't Remind Me.

5/02/2019

Tracing Arcs – Waste Not, Want Not – Wasteland Remixes (2016)

23 Seconds

Jamendo

Archive.org

Electronic music
Remixes
Alternative dance
Breaks
Art pop
Ambient pop
Space pop
Chilltronica
Easy listening

Comment: Tracing Arcs is a British duo consisting of Fran Kapelle (vocal/lyrics), and Paul H. Addie (synths/guitar/programming) who have been active since the 90s and released music on such imprints as iD.EOLOGY, Mixedmode, Dusted Wax Kingdom, 23 Seconds. It is interesting that their albums would be accompanied by remix outings and their excellent Wasteland (2014, 23 Seconds) is not the exception in the case. Wasteland is a sublime mix of Fran Kapelle's seductive singing and love theme-ridden incantations and differing styles ranging from velvety downtempo, slowly flickering nu jazz and cinematic trip-hop beats to more propulsive big beat and synth-rock impulses. Let's call it a decent example of art pop. However, Waste Not, Want Not provides a difference due to stylistically more stable format. It may musically be less immersive and more volatile thereby there can be drawn parallels upon the like of Saint Etienne, another British charming combo. It is more straightforward due to be more cadence oriented. On the other side, some modes and paces are slowed down and magnified to provide some monumental seconds and profound minutes for a music lover's sake. Sultry rhythms, spaced-out flanges and ennobling progressions as motives are there inseparably around. In a nutshell, the result of nine tracks is thoroughly enchanting.

Meti Edoc – Microb (2018)

Raw Coffin Rec.

Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Drone
Dark ambient
Experimentalism
Abstract
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Psycho-acoustic
Power electronics

Comment: what else could you hear in between the layers of this handful of compositions but at times angry yet always ominous growling of drones and microscopic noises which are all about to depict a microbe – the horrendous microbe. The ghastly growling of serpentine drones is embellished with eerie gongs and metallic clanging, catty squalls and raving howling as if foretelling us something unpleasant which is going to happen in the future. About something invisible yet dangerous with the intention to destroy remarkably much bigger and slightly complicated as similarly as the human race used to stepwise yet permanently destroy a blue oasis called Earth, the gift by Lord for us. However, sometime in the future our descendants will be gifted by something truly unpleasant like it did happen in the middle of the 14th century in Europe. It will be as overwhelming and uncompromising as cancer but in terms of an infectious disease or diseases. It may be happening in a more adverse way as if the very example of contempt – imagine as if the disease was drafted in the human being and the next step by him and her is to have disseminated nothing else but death. Like the effect of King Midas in a different way. Let's call it dead touch. It ultimately may result in something which could be an enormous suicide machine. However, the third album by Meti Edoc on Raw Coffin Rec. is highly vital and uncompromising to convey an apocalyptic vision, a danse macabre. For the sake of our sober mental health to be endured. Thereafter I recommend listen to Pulp`s seedy and voyeuristic classic Different Class.

5/01/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hule - En el museo de cera

Trastienda

Noise pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock

Artist: Hule

Release: Qué está pasando

Label: Trastienda

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - Don`t Remind Me

Danielle

Indie pop
Art pop
Alternative dance
Singer-songwriter
Electronic
Indie dance
Alternative pop

Artist: The Womb

Release: Bang - An Introduction to The Womb

Label: Danielle/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Tracing Arcs - Unravel the Thread (Mr Whippys Small Muff Mix)

Jamendo

Electronic pop
Indie pop
Art pop
Alternative pop
Ambient pop
Remix
Alternative dance

Artist: Tracing Arcs

Release: Waste not, Want not - Wasteland Remixed

Label: 23 Seconds/Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2016

Dead Month – In The Eyes Of The Beholder (2019)

Raw Coffin Rec.

Minimalism
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Abstract
Drone
Ambient
Experimentalism
Ambient drone
Dark ambient

Comment: this issue consists of a couple of temporally uneven compositions being released on Raw Coffin Rec.. The opening track is about a 5 minute and the subsequent of it is about a 21 minute. More profoundly, one can hear muddy, and lifeless waves rolling from one point to... nowhere. Maybe lifeless is a bit wrong adjective because these abstract drones enthral me, it is enchanting and anemic at the same time. It is all about microscopic changes in tonality and pulsations and greyish landscapes to hold up an ennobling background for the whole. These 26 minutes are thoroughly abstract because they cannot be related to any temporal and spatial entities. Ultimately it can be corrected – anemic yet thoroughly alive. May it be about (starving) vampires? Such a sort of restrained format can be very vigorous like trying to expulse a black flame with white flames. Or vice versa. There is inside a ghastly power.

Nodding By The Fire – The Forest Knows (2015)

Bandcamp

Indie folk
Avant-folk
Alt-folk
New Weird Spain
Folk indie
Art folk
Experimental folk

Comment: some examples of Spanish folk music are quite interesting because of adding something refreshing to the worldwide body of folk music (Ataque Escampe, Bacanal Intruder, XO, árbore & apenino). One of such instances is also Nodding By The Fire who have issued three releases so far. Their music is instrumental and it is a dynamic staples as if moving from one slope down to another or wandering across an immense prairie surrounded by a majestic, a bit mystical forest on one side. As if the forest could know and feel more than it seems to a walker. Such acoustic instruments as acoustic guitars, the percussion, a harmonica, a banjo, a flute, an oboe make up cinematic, spaghetti western-alike drifts over there at times. Especially the harmonica gets justified again as an arousing instrument (as Bob Dylan, and Spiritualized have already proven). A bit extrinsic (in a more experimental sense) elements to the 9-track mix are some gentle drones, found sounds and ambient experiments, however, they resonate well the rest. Similarly to their earlier issues The Forest Knows is issued by the group on Bandcamp.

Vincent DeVine – Wer von fernen Menschen träumt (2012)

Sirona-Records

Digital hardcore
Cybergrind
Electronic music
Spoken word
Cover

Comment: this batch of 13 tracks (clocking in at a 24 minute) can be interpreted differently. Given that the lyrics are in German and the music is highly intense and energetic this can be interpreted as the world view of an average German who is born after the WW II being imbued with shame and angriness and anxiety. However, for German culture and for all of us in general it would turn out as a positive consequence thanks to the appearance of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and krautrock. The first of them showed how the recording and studio technique must be employed for future poppy and artsy juggernauts like The Beatles, Pink Floyd and the latter as a liberatory artsy sonic movement to have influenced post-punk, ambient, electronic music, hip-hop and indie music. For instance, the alien-alike aesthetic of Kraftwerk did provide an outlet for oppressed afro-Americans to take a next step forward. However, it seems to me Vincent DeVine has produced the album with tongue-in-cheek attitude as well because it is exaggerated in lyrics and sound and shouting singing through unexpected yet funny samples. In a word, the intention of an artist can not be underestimated. At times it is deliberately kitschy and campy, but it can be taken seriously only with humour and fun. Otherwise it may be as bad as shit. Moreover, some clichés are fixed to blow them to a ridiculous extent. It may be as punk as your granny behind the bongos. This wild ride is a part of the French imprint Sirona-Records.

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