Recent Music Heroes

Comment: this handful of tracks is dedicated to one of the greatest, Alexander the Great who similarly to other outstanding rulers and generals spilled blood to fasten his name in the annals of the history. In fact, as a person he was driven by inferior characteristics like low self-esteem and later megalomania, he probably hated everyone and everything, obviously the teachings and ethics by the greatest one Aristotle didn't reach him. The people around him were just pawns to fulfil his own ambitions. Conceptually the purpose of the Swedish musician Henri Summanen's purpose is to fantasise about the feelings Alexander felt in these crucial moments while occupying new countries, territories and civilizations. Musically it is an epic expression through the mix of ennobling droning and shimmery stringed instruments and reverberant applications behind the sound. One can hear extended chords being stretched over the drones thereby building up an impressive mystical milieu. Furthermore, variegated sunshiny and shadowy elements allow a propulsive, dynamical sensation which overwhelms the course. Inevitably it goes beyond the borders of the aforementioned styles by straddling on more technical (and less emotive) approaches like sound art and electro-acoustic music. The enchanting outing is a part of the discography of a Russian, Svetlogorsk-based imprint, Østpreussen.

May HD – Sonho Dobrado (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Electro-acoustic
Electronic music
Improvised noise
Turntablism

Comment: I definitely like this handful of tracks being released on a Chicago-based avant-garde/experimental music imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos. An artist called May HD who exploits turntables and a microkorg synth builds up a whole imbued with some kind of dark matter, debris, crackles, sonic effects, haphazard samples and faint sounds. At times it is about abysmal ambient undercurrents, at times about black-hued yet quite light noisy incantations, at times about convulsive electronic and vowel-based iterations, at times about electro-acoustic music with obvious live touch (in fact, all the whole is improvised at a live session in Brazil). There is even up something which can be considered an off-kilter sort of hard/psych-rock. For Zappa or Captain Beefheart it would have been the case. As we have already experienced beyond the club culture turntablism as a sort of experimental genre is gloriously introduced by such agitated artists as Philip Jeck, Otomo Yoshihide, Janek Schaefer, Martin Tetreault, and Christian Marclay but May HD now with this outing could certainly be added to the noble list.

Alvin Curran – Reinier van Houdt – Dead Beats (2019)

Moving Furniture

Bandcamp

Modern classical
Contemporary classical
Piano music
Art music
Avant-garde
Improvised music
Experimentalism

Comment: piano music can be represented in quite disparate ways, one could find out different aspects and facets from within it. Given that a listener knows what he/she could expect from it the focus would be set up in a more straight way because the formal tissue of piano sounds is austere and may be even irritating (I have seen a research with the result the piano has the most irritating sound among the instruments). Because of that the role of represented patterns and imaginations of the listener do have a huge impact. Alvin Curran is an acknowledged avant-garde composer from USA by having been experimenting with different instruments and concepts for decades. Piano as his very first instrument to be acquainted with Alvin Curran's relation is something between love and hate, between fondness and repulsion. As a premise before the album to be listened it is intriguing and thereby positive. A listener can perceive lots of slamming series of high, even cutting notes and key changes and superimposed chords which are then traded for almost gravity-free hypnotic explorations throughout long minutes. For a younger generation, or for the audience who like shorter formats like EPs the release may be a challenge due to compositions extending up to a 13 minute or longer. However, those more calm compositions provide something we are done out of – it is silence, it is internal incantation, it is something truly halcyon and pristine. As we see it is possible to create silence artificially. Artistically. Etymologically the words seem to be related on the word "art". And that's it. Furthermore, in the recent everyday situation a well-composed suite can be considered an example of silence. Furthermore, art is silence even if its format may be something noisy – paradoxically it comes out that a noise is not the noise (anymore). Give me (more) choice to get drowned in (more) noise! The 5-notch issue is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture Records (also providing home place for such luminaries as Merzbow, and Machinefabriek).

7/06/2019

[Teaser of the day] Rene Kita - Ouija Wart

Archive.org

Freeformfreakout
Dada music
Sound collage
Avant-garde
Non-music
Chamber music
Electronic music
Sampledelic

Artist: Rene Kita

Release: Freakland Gazette

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Discontinuation Of Treatment - Avoid And Retreat

Indie rock
Coldwave
Alternative rock
Darkgaze
Spoken word
Post-punk

Artist: Discontinuation Of Treatment

Release: A Deep Remorse

Label: In Your Ears/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Won - Emptily

Nowaki Music

Acoustic pop
Art music
Improvised music

Artist: Won

Release: Emptiness

Label: Nowaki Music

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Skala - Sea

Jamendo

Post-rock
Improvised music
Art rock
Fusion
Crossover
Free jazz
Avant-rock
Experimental rock

Artist: Skala

Release: Skalkulator

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2005

Takahiro Mukai – Gently Close The Mouth (2019)

Mahorka

Bandcamp

Experimental electronica
Experimental techno
Glitchtronica
Abstract electronica
Kraut-techno
Minimalism

Comment: there has been around one proverb by a nation: speaking can be considered as silver but muteness is gold. Indeed, if you have nothing reasonable to say then gently shut up your mouth and produce something even more beautiful – music. The Japanese artist's 6-notch release is a blissful touch of refined techno rhythms and more abstract pulsations and general electronic explorations. Indeed, minimalism as an approach and methodology is predominant over there. Takahiro Mukai takes enough time within the tracks for himself to fulfil his introverted ideas – indeed, it seems to me that his ideas are directed inside, it is rather contemplative than manipulating overtly with listeners' emotions. On the other side, one cannot exclude different sort of impressions either. He exploits custom-built circuit-bent devices to build up at times abrasive, at times more hushed compositions. There can be drawn parallels upon more abstract and cerebral (meta)-krautrockers like Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. For instance, #412, and #413 are krautrock-driven though in an indirect sense. Indeed, it is a best part of music if the forms and formats are not taken up directly but using secondary variables and different sorts of extractions. The outing is a bit in the discography of Mahorka.

Xavier Mussat – Provided for Courses (2019)

Eg0cide

Bandcamp

Electro-acoustic
Experimentalism
Musique concrète
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Abstract

Comment: this issue consists of 4 long-running compositions all of them are composed of abrasive and angular sonic details and open space around it. Such sort of music is called electro-acoustic, isn't it? More profoundly, he recorded abstract sound ambiances to be used as background sounds to accompany the work of his students during the intuitive drawing classes he gives. Xavier Mussat used the cheap internal microphone of his computer and several objects (bowls, balls, crumbled paper, table, and a prepared banjo), as well as remixed sounds taken from videos of snowy landscapes. Musically it is one and the same process from scratch to the very end – a permanent flow of greyish glitched-out and metallic cut-up sounds, some percussive sounds, explorations on concrete sounds. At times one can discern the sort of radiophonic play feel as if some ghastly semi-orchestrations and ascensions come to the pathway. The outing is a bit in the discography of Eg0cide.

7/02/2019

[Teaser of the day] suRRism - Descharge

Electro-acoustic
Improvised music
Psycho-acoustic
Art music

Artist: suRRism

Release: The Singles

Label: suRRism-Phonoethics

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Tzii - Fascinum 3

Abyssa

Dark ambient
Experimentalism
Epic
Crossover
Drone doom metal
Post-industrial
Avant-garde

Artist: Tzii

Release: Fascinum

Label: Abyssa

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] La Mansarde Hermetique - Melting Shimmer

Petroglyph

Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
Krautrock
Ambient

Artist: La Mansarde Hermetique

Release: Haunted Attic

Label: Petroglyph

Year: 2017

6/30/2019

M.A.K.T. Sono – Tinnitus Flowers (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Bandcamp

Abstract
Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Non-music
Psycho-acoustic
Improvised noise
Post-industrial
Micronoise

Comment: M.A.K.T Sono is a duo from France, the embodiment of Magali Albespy, and Kecap Tuyul who provide a long-running issue called Tinnitus Flowers. One can hear every kind of electronic (music) experiments and manipulations subjugated to different pitches and speeds and phase changes. It may be not correct to speak of it as the music given that the sound represented over there is overtly sparse and abstract. It seems to be more about sonic signals one can yield while extracting a sound at a sampler pad and then manipulating it within the scope of peripheral frequencies (which is just a fallout of the previous sound). However, as usual, radically built-up issues used to provide some interludes which create an intriguing counterpoint to prevalent debris. In the first part there are up some buffoonish melody progressions, however, which soon get warped and assimilated into the predominant madness of exploring the physical entities of the sound. Later on, there are also represented some droning whiffs resembling of some woodwind instruments and sonic blinking whose sound and handling otherwise could be quite extreme (but not in the case of a signal-spiked outing). I can remember for listening to an anthology of noise and electronic music by Sub Rosa which included such legendary composers as Konrad Boehmer, Ryoji Ikeda, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varése, Henri Pousseur and I guess in further future any of these three tracks would be considered as a part in a glorious history of experimental electronic music and noise. The overwhelming issue is a part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas Discos.

[Teaser of the day] Motor 166 - bih02hg

Noise-Joy

Noise
Experimentalism
Chiptune
Electronic music
Tracker music
Avant-garde

Artist: Motor 166

Release: Painkillers In My Coffee

Label: Noise-Joy

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Mikk Rebane - Strng

Phonocake

Ambient pop
Downtempo
Ulmetronica
Electronic music
Chilltronica

Artist: Mikk Rebane

Release: Between

Label: Phonocake

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Microloop - Thousands Of Little Pieces

Atro-Fact

Art music
Minimalism
Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Post-classical

Artist: Microloop

Release: Almost A Decade

Label: Atro-Fact

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Dust Mill - Weird

Sirona-Records

Electronic music
EBM
Electro-rock
Synth-rock

Artist: Dust Mill

Release: Post-Past EP

Label: Sirona-Records/Completely Gone/God Hates God/Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2017

6/28/2019

FuneralPhobia/Mal Aliento/ Scythes Of Evil – Dead Noise Raw (2019)

Skitnaste

Podreira

Bandcamp

Brutal metal
Black metal
Extreme metal
Trash metal

Comment: it is a bizarre triple format by Podreira Records and Skitnaste Records in embracing three artists, one of them providing five compositions, and the rest ones just one composition. However, the whole time set clocks in at a 15 minute. The point is that PersonalPhobia's tracks used to come up to one minute only. Scythes Of Evil's composition R - A - W is a 5-minute roundabout based on a virtually unchanged yet ominously enchanting drum machine pattern being adorned with reverberant shrieks and moaning. I would not surprised at all if it was produced by Steve Reich, or La Monte Young, for instance. FuneralPhobia's set is a convincing halfway between trash and black metal. Mal Aliento's Untitled Screams is the different story although relative to the two aforementioned artists. It is full of blasting noises and exaggerated screams and kit drums thereof ultimately producing some sort of inferior blackened secret rather resembling black metal in a quite bent way. It is like eating mud with the ears. Very mind-provoking.

La Houle – Première Vague (2017/2018)

Beko DSL
Bandcamp

Dream pop
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Shoegaze
Alternative dance

Comment: La Houle is the duo of Simon Sockeel and Geoffrey Papin though by listening to this 10-notch outing it would be honest to admit Clementine Blue's remarkable role by adding her enchanting female vocal to the mix. In overall, it is a gentle nugaze/shoegaze album with groovy keyboards and celestial guitar noises and the aforementioned female and male mixed vocals. All the lyrics are represented in French thus making definitely some difference and adding some welcome exotics. A strong thread on this release is to build up from quiet elements into an eargasmic tumult and some tracks result in overtly dance-appealed frequencies. In other words, its absolute sum is definitely bigger than the sum of its initial parts because one get hit by an invigorating synergy. At times it chimes in a kind of symphonic way. In truth, it is a modern counterpart of symphonic music. Truly beautiful in its bliss being released on Beko DSL, another indie stalwart from France.

6/27/2019

Khonnor – Lost Pets EP (2003)

Please Do Something

Indietronica
Art pop
Avant-pop
Electronic music
IDM
Experimental pop

Comment: inarguably Khonnor's magnum opus Handwriting was one of the best things what happened 15 years ago. It was a subtle blend of hiss-filled indie melodies, gritty programmed beats and somehow metallic/abrasive effects and lush synthesised orchestrations. In a word, the rough and gentle elements were seamlessly bound to each other while being effectively propelled by arousing harmonies and melodies. A year before it Connor Kirby-Long did release an EP called Lost Pets on Please Do Something. It can be said the predecessor of 6 tracks may seem a bit more unsettled yet maybe it is more righteous to consider it just an electronic issue, more profoundly, IDM-esque ticking embellished with some explosive moments being surrounded by experiments of hiss sounds and wide extended orchestrations and some vowel and singing undercurrents but it lacks a recognizable indie guitar element. In a word, it is a gentle release full of space, light and shades.

[Teaser of the day] Fucksia - Here I Am

Yo! Netlabel

Microtonal
Art pop
Minimalism
Drone pop
Electronic music
Ambient

Artist: Fucksia

Release: Il Piccolo Cinema Di Beseno

Label: Yo! Netlabel

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Nick Haggard - Total Harmonic Distortion

Torn Flesh

Cybermetal
Electro-metal
EBM
Industrial metal

Artist: Nick Haggard

Release: Glitch

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Buccc - Let Me

u|torn

Kosmische Musik
Ambient pop
Hip-hop
Electronic music

Artist: Buccc

Release: Five Minutes In Space

Label: u|torn

Year: 2010

6/25/2019

Leon – Philosophy (2018)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Nu jazz
Cinematic
Sampledelic
Acid jazz
Mood music

Comment: this bunch of 5 compositions seems to be suitable for listening to it on a hot summer day. The Mancunian Lofi.Leon (he describes himself in that way at Soundcloud) provides lazy, sun-stricken yet yawning trumpet whiffs being intertwined with dreamy female vowels and enchanting electric piano chords. At times the piano chords are traded for slightly warped string-based chords and as usual being supported by skiddy rhythmic patterns (if you wish it could be called lo-fi by their nature). There are up some funny titles like My Friend Went To South And Came Back With A Beard. Could you imagine such a sort of musical style with such a title? Thereafter you have listened to it for many times you will do it. Frequently it reminds me of another excellent artist called Mentz (who similarly likes to compose short-running tracks). The marvellous outing is a part of the discography of Dusted Wax Kingdom.

[Teaser of the day] Daniele Ciullini - Empty Factory

Post-industrial
Dark ambient
Epic
Avant-garde
Electronic music
Microtonal
Experimentalism

Artist: Daniele Ciullini

Release: Forgotten Monuments

Label: Statto Elettrico/Nostalgie De La Boue

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] back to Newc45tle - Transmission End

Electronic music
Kraut-electro
Synth-punk
Alternative dance
Art punk

Artist: back to Newc45tle

Release: Lost Causality

Label: COUCOU Micromusic

Year: 2014

6/24/2019

[Teaser of the day] Paul Minesweeper - White Swarm

Archive.org

Dark wave
Epic
Darkgaze
Ethereal Wave
Drone rock
Doomgaze
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Post-metal
Crossover

Artist: Paul Minesweeper

Release: White Swarm

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Mark Harp - Perfect

Micronoise
Clicks`n`cuts
Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Sampledelic
Psycho-acoustic
Minimalism
Avant-garde

Artist: Mark Harp

Release: Morning Tea (Various Artists)

Label: Genetic Trance

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Severo - Herança do Homem

World music
Dance rock
Tropicàlia
Art rock
Funk rock
Psych-rock

Artist: Severo

Release: Suor, Violento Precário

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

6/22/2019

[Teaser of the day] Die Stille - Time To Leave

45RPM-Records

Electronic pop
Ambient pop
Alternative dance
Chilltronica
Psybient

Artist: Die Stille

Release: Mirror

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Tiny Rockets - The Horror

Psych-metal
Space rock
Acid metal
Post-grunge

Artist: Tiny Rockets

Release: The Lost Machine

Label: Shotgun Charlie

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Home Stretch - Scream On

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Shoegaze
Psych-rock
Spoken word

Artist: The Home Stretch

Release: The Rake

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2014

Melmac – Rambo Rantanplan (2017)

Hinah

Archive.org

Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Improvised music
Free jazz
Drone rock
Space rock
Psych-rock
Trance rock

Comment: these 1339 seconds as one composition by a French quartet called Melmac used to unveil something mind-provoking and emotionally arousing through slow progressions on guitars, drums, saxophones, and electronics. However, one can hear multifold progressions and improvisations at the same time. It meets at a crossroad of space rock, free jazz, post-rock and knee-deep improvisations. Regarding jazz it provides many forms under the umbrella – from noisy frantic progressions to more complicated modal jazz developments. By rock music side it embraces many forms of experimental rock – from India-alike meditative droning and enchanting semi-orchestrations and repetitive magic and spaced-out psychedelic apotheosis. One can figure out parallels with such a wide scope of artists as Spiritualized, John Coltrane, Borbetomagus, GY!BE. This spellbinding outing is a bit of the discography of Hinah.

6/21/2019

Scanner – Lost At Sea (2019)

Bandcamp

Ambient
Conceptual
Spoken word
Electronic music
Musique concrète
Field recording

Comment: these long-running compositions – one of them extending up to a 25 minute and another up to an 18 minute – embrace telling stories by Scottish fishermen (with their own local English accent, of course) which in turn are surrounded by soothing ambient sounds which in turn consisting of layers of natural sounds, lofty trumpet whiffs, and resonant effects occasionally. At times Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner (also known from such a group as Githead) adds sublime treatments of ocean-related folk songs to the blend. He joined forces with pupils (who provide a part of voices additionally to a part of a local retired fisherman, Ronnie Hughes) of Waid Academy in Anstruther to create an accomplished memorial in sound for men of the East Neuk fishing industry once lost at sea. I guess it was a great honour for the local fishermen and their families to be rewarded by such a renowned musician. Top stuff.

6/20/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hanetration - Zygni

Electronic music
Contemporary classical
Piano music
Experimental electronica
Drone
Improvised music
Crossover
Micronoise

Artist: Hanetration

Release: Gavia EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Shaolin Dub - Destroyer

Free Music Archive

Hip-hop
Rap
Post-dubstep
Electronic music
Grime
Crossover

Artist: Shaolin Dub

Release: New Normals

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2019

Giuseppe Pascucci, Vito Pesce – Nikola, Was Right! (2019)

Plus Timbre

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Guitar ambient
Art music
Electro-acoustic
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Drone rock

Comment: it can be seen on the site of Plus Timbre that Italian duo Giuseppe Pascucci, and Vito Pesce did release a couple of albums (Humansaurs, and Nikola, Was Right!) on 3rd of February, 2019. The last mentioned issue can be admitted by straddling on a mindset of electro-acoustic and experimental rock and improvised music. These 6 compositions are imbued with reverberant echoes and abrasive guitar chords and playful guitar patterns (one can hear lots of iterative sounds, droning, and minimal phase shifts from one chord to be transmitted into another one). Both artists employ a guitar and effect devices around it. Otherwise one could think of electronics and synthesisers added to the mix. I can remember for another Italian guitar magician Gaetano Fontanazza whose album The Grandpa Lullabies (2018, Sucu Music) was also treated with guitars only though one can perceive electronic segments within it. In a nutshell, the whole is truly worth to be listened to. What could I add but let's listen to Humansaurs either.

6/19/2019

[Teaser of the day] Molven - Lights From Inside

Laverna

Electronic music
Ambient pop
Dream pop
Art pop
Shoegazetronica

Artist: Molven

Release: Network

Label: Laverna

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Ataraxia Rebel Force - Maximum Heat

Jamendo

Electronic music
Tech-house
Post-disco
House
Club dance
Techno

Artist: Ataraxia Rebel Force

Release: Big Shadow EP

Label: Jamendo/17 Sons/Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Rob Steady - Tremplin a chenille

12rec.

Glitchtronica
Sound collage
Sampledelic
Microhouse
Cut and paste
Electronic music

Artist: Rob Steady

Release: Ask No Lies

Label: 12rec.

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Monks Of Doom - Ukrainian Technological Faith Dance

NYCTaper

Alternative rock
Psych-rock
Blues rock
Live
Math rock
Indie rock

Artist: Monks Of Doom

Release: May 23, 2018 Berlin NYC

Label: NYCTaper/Live Music Archive

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Asian Women on the Telephone - Tooptsar

Avant-rock
No Wave
Krautrock
Post-punk
New Wave
Experimental rock

Artist: Asian Women on the Telephone

Release: SO WOT

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Cousin Silas – Memories Of A Journey (2016)

Batenim

Ambient
Soundscape
Microtonal
Drone
Minimalism
Avant-garde
Kosmische Musik
Experimentalism
Space music
Ambient rock
Ambient drone
Guitar ambient
Post-classical

Comment: the 60-year-old Englishman David Hughes aka Cousin Silas is being known as a guitarist who likes to create (and extend) soundscapes for wide and broad and profound. He has been a prolific artist whose number of works in frequency can only be compared with an Israeli artist, Wings Of An Angel. Despite the minimal nature of work his soundscapes seem to be filled in with an internal burning as if longing for something out of reach. One can move toward it yet one can never catch it. In a word, it is intimidating and appealing at the same time. Secondly, despite the minimal nature of work all the changes to have appeared during this long-running course conjure up tectonic changes in the listener's mood and imagination. Not only guitars have been managed to play tricks on a listener's mood and mind but also superficial dissonant flickers and beatific vibrations add a drift into another direction. At One Note it is not stylistically far away from such a genius as Robert Fripp. After such an issue it can be admitted the genius nature of David Hughes. By kindred souls it can also be drawn comparisons with such artists as Bing Satellites, Riccardo Cirani, Drew Miller aka Brother Saturn, Gaetano Fontanazza, Nick Nightingale, Stephen Briggs. This superb audio photograph is a part of the discography of the Batenim Netlabel.

6/18/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hardwired - For the dinner

Electronic music
Deep techno
Kosmische Musik
Chilltronica

Artist: Hardwired

Release: Liminal

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Dave Graham - Spacedrone

Earth Monkey Productions

Psych-rock
Experimental rock
Krautrock
Space rock
Avant-rock

Artist: Dave Graham

Release: Orion

Label: Earth Monkey Productions

Year: 2008

Daughters Of A Righteous Riot - Breaking My Heart Again and Again (2008)

Redstarcommunity

Hypnagogic pop
Indietronica
Art pop
Glo-fi
Electronic
Alternative pop
DIY
Ambient pop
Chillwave
Synth-pop
Indie pop

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

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