Recent Music Heroes

Comment: the duo of Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström aka Ecovillage's music has been changed a bit in comparison to one of their first outings since the beginning of the 10s. While the complicated formula they did have established then can be superimposed upon the recent sound as well. The influences obviously come from intellectual rock and experimental music scenes like krautrock, progressive rock, and Kosmische Musik. For instance, some rarefied extractions you can map out on this 5-notch issue used to hark back to Manuel Göttsching's experiments on atmospheric guitars and spaced-out electronic treatments in the beginning of the 70s. Howerer, at times one must go further back in time by getting to the exuberant flickers of tiki and exotica music. Thirdly, though, it is an example of contemporary indie music being a part of chillwave, glo-fi and hypnagogic pop movement. Undoubtedly, you are not going to have objections by drawing parallels upon the likes of The Real Estate, Ducktails, x. y. r., Tont, and Monster Rally. From the aforementioned line apart an album called With Fragile Wings We Reach The Sun (2013, Parallax Sounds) was more a poppy case of shoegaze, baggy and dream pop amalgamation. More profoundly, in comparison to one of their first issues being released on EverythingIsChemical, and Beko DSL, those heavenly sonorous bows of droning strings are traded for blissful laid-back flute whiffs and sultry field recordings, and trance-y tanpura meanders chiming as if the parable of having been living with the world at peace for a while. Musically it used to be more than ever before in concordance with the term "ecovillage" due to sustainable and contemplative intentions and accomplishments. I also added the term "post-rock" among the tags though it is similarly as conditional as it is related to late period Talk Talk' music (in the sense the phase of the style is left behind or followed it just with the purpose to get rid of it). The masterpiece is a bit in the discography of Constellation Tatsu. For me, alongside with Joxfield ProjeX, another duo, the most blistering Swedish act now.

Gnaw Their Tongues and Crowhurst – Burning Ad Infinitum (2018)

Bandcamp

Post-industrial
Avant-metal
Black metal
Death industrial
Noisecore
Abstract
Power electronics
Grindcore

Comment: this collaborative act between two cult one-man-projects (of a very prolific extent by Maurice de Jong, and Jay Gambit, respectively) obviously seem to base on the storm and stress effect. Intense greyish and blackened noises, painful drones juxtaposed to merciless screeches and indecipherable chaotic nuts imbued with an endless pool of desperation do externalise an overwhelming issue being very far away from the borders of mainstream music. I can not fancy it otherwise but a perverse dream to ruin the mood of contemporary half-fledged soul(less), rap and poptronica stars. On the other side, some black metal artists are emblematic of having ridiculous credibility (let's pass without names at the time). This cannot be attributed to the current issue of making up a trajectory from deadly industrial drones and disorienting black noise to be loaded with high voltage to more contoured, even noble-minded black metal boasts to trudge to the area of hardcore, grind and noisecore mixed noodling. A kind of sway from earthly matters to heavenly matters. Could you imagine the sound of your domestic refrigerator is magnified up to 50 or even 100 times by showcasing (mostly unpleasant) sounds you haven't heard before? It seems to the listener it is the case at times. Last but not least I am being impressed by the visual aesthetic of the aforementioned harsh styles. The one is not an exception by providing warning ideas of impending doom. It is an example of ominous religious music at its very core by my humble opinion. It is a case as embarrasing as watching for hours the mostly religious works of painters from the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe (the experience I have had at Museo del Prado in the capital of Spain). In a word, let's take more responsibility and act reasonably as much as it is temporally given to all of us. That may be an ethical point of the issue. Fairly pro.

8/27/2019

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Teknical Devolpement

Jamendo

Hip-hop
Sampledelic
Experimental hip-hop
Urban music
Rap

Artist: Anitek

Release: Extraordinary Intelligence

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Furtherset - Kweil

Microtechno
Electronic music
Micronoise
Experimental techno

Artist: Furtherset

Release: Veilles EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Kaneel - La Pink Note

Petite&Jolie

Glitchtronica
Electronic music
Chilltronica
IDM
Vaporwave
Post-pop
Glitch techno

Artist: Kaneel

Release: La Pink Note

Label: Petite&Jolie/Netlabel Archive/Bandcamp
Year: 2008

8/21/2019

[Teaser of the day] SciFi Lullaby - Abejas del Desierto

Pueblo Nuevo

Glitchtronica
Electronic music
Drone
Ambient techno
Minimalism
Experimental electronica
Experimental techno

Artist: SciFi Lullaby

Release: Granular Moon

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Aleksi Eeben - Return To Forever

Monotonik

Demoscene
Electronic music
Primitive electronica
Electro pop

Artist: Aleksi Eeben

Release: Music Box (Converted)

Label: Monotonik

Year: 2002

Aires – Naturalismo (2017)

Bandcamp

Colectivo Casa Amarela

Ambient
Noise
Avant-garde
Microtonal
Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Musique concrète
Microsound
Abstract

Comment: this bunch of three long-running compositions starts off with a scorched noise torrent full of loudness, abrasive and penetrative sonic bits and then it will be farrowing with natural sounds, inverted drones and subtle ambient and faint hiss explorations throughout the course. And then all of that turns back to the beginning with rough brownish sonic masses full of power, life and intensity. One can easily extrapolate to the formula of move between zero and one or between silence and noise. Undoubtedly it is an example of the classical representation of the noise music though for the sake of more overwhelming provoking mindset some stoned, absurd, and freaked-out seeds would have been added to the mix (or actually not – I am being partially under the extravagant influence of Big City Orchestra at the moment). Aires is the project of Portuguese Vitor Bruno Pereia and the outing is a bit in the discography of Colectivo Casa Amarela.

ii – ii (2007)

Digital Kunstrasen

Krautrock
Indietronica
DIY
Art pop
Hip-hop
Lo-fi
Drone pop
Organcore
Post-rock
Experimental pop
Post-pop

Comment: ii was(?) the duo of Edh, and Nicolas Jorio (both of them singing in French throughout the course of 12 compositions) who had issued a couple of releases on Digital Kunstrasen. Regarded a combo with predominant female singing and artsy pop approach one cannot be without drawing parallels with Stereolab, especially since the period the combo did start making collaboration with Sean O'Hagan from The High Llamas and John McEntire from Tortoise, and The Sea And Cake. Since then Stereolab's nature would have changed from quite straightforward and simplistic intense droning acid/kraut-tinged noise/psych-pop to more elaborated electronic and lounge mixed sonic bliss (especially at Dots And Loops; 1998, Duophonic). This 12-track outing is quite uncanny by its format due to lion share of tracks of extending less than the 2-minute span. All in all, it is an engrossing kraut-tinged pop and gentle post-rock issue being occasionally embellished with suggestive scratches, blissful semi-orchestrations and poignant beatific melodies. The only difference pulling the duo off Stereolab is their lo-fi/DIY approach. It was tagged as chanson on the ensemble's site at Discogs, however, it is a truly superb listening.

8/19/2019

Paul A Rosales – Wonder Wheel II (2018)

Bandcamp

Chillwave
Indie pop
Alternative pop
Lo-fi
Singer-songwriter
DIY
Hypnagogic pop

Comment: Paul A Rosales is a multi-instrumentalist from California, USA who has issued a thread of releases under the pseudonym Wonder Wheel. My first meeting with his music did happen sometime 10 years ago due to a single release on French imprint Beko DSL. The single was an excellent example of a bit blackened cinematic shoegaze obviously influenced by the likes of Joy Division, and Siouxsie & The Banshees. This bunch of 6 tracks is an outtake from the years 2008-2011 (although recorded a few years later). Fortunately one cannot hear exactly the same sonic example of the Beko DSL single instead of it the whole is more DIY-oriented and creates rather a chain between Ariel Pink bedroom magic and hypnagogic and chillwave music. Anyway, the attitude of the releases is the same and a beatific bliss from the beginning of the 10s is guaranteed.

8/18/2019

[Teaser of the day] Фиорд - Запасной

Chamber pop
Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop
Art pop

Artist: Фиорд

Release: Невзялазь

Label: Southern City`s Lab

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Nihilore - Behind The Mask

Electro-rock
Electronic music
Art rock
Alternative pop
Synth-rock

Artist: Nihilore

Release: Without Fear They Flew

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Carl Phaser - Puppet Mechanics

Free Music Archive

Electro-house
Post-disco
Italo disco
Alternative dance
House pop

Artist: Carl Phaser

Release: End Of The Dark

Label: Catnap

Year: 2009

8/17/2019

[Teaser of the day] Smooth - Screaming Stars

Cyan Music

House pop
Electronic music
Dance pop
Alternative dance

Artist: Smooth

Release: 2009/2019

Label: Cyan Music

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Machine Place

Clinical Archives

Krautrock
Experimental rock
Electronic
Alternative dance
Avant-rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: Smorgasbord - Oddities and Rarities 2005-2010

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Latent Chaos - Noise Damage

Bob Chaos

Space rock
Improvised music
Krautrock
Lo-fi
Psych-rock
DIY

Artist: Latent Chaos

Release: Discordia Concours

Label: Bob Chaos

Year: 1984

8/16/2019

[Teaser of the day] Dragon - Les Hommes Bleus

Free Music Archive

Art rock
Psych-prog
Prog-rock
Zeuhl
Hard rock

Artist: Dragon

Release: Kalahen

Label: Golden Pavilion

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Linear Bells - This Is Where All Started

Ambient
Electronic music
Experimental rock
Electro-acoustic
Post-rock
Avant-rock
Organic electronica
Ambient rock

Artist: Linear Bells

Release: Esther

Label: Bandcamp/TwiceRemovedRecords

Year: 2012

Scott Lawlor & The Flesh, Full of Black Sand – Unseemly Sequenced Conscience (2019)

Bandcamp

Dark ambient
Drone
Ambient drone
Abstract
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Minimalism

Comment: a path is formed by laying one stone at a time – it could simply be concluded after the listening of this composition of a 75 minute. By employing the same words the Giant said to the agent Cooper it is very poignant to see how the composition is moving forward stepwise by adding and subtracting some layers and then turning into ominous whirlpools and thereafter reflecting upon faint sunshiny glimpses (the synonym of hope) which have arrived from a tremendous distance and in fact it does not exist on its own anymore. It is called collapse, it is called annihilation. It will happen to us either and even much sooner than an average of us could expect to happen. And the most pathetic is the fact it will be executed by no one else but by ourselves. The listener feels bittersweet sensations about a beautiful, blue oasis which once blossomed to allow the miserable scumbag come to fruition. It happened because Lord gave the freedom of choose to an ape, the stupid beast. More literally, it is known divine comedy to result in an embarrassing tragedy.

8/14/2019

[Teaser of the day] Lee Rosevere - Submerged In Blue

Free Music Archive

Electronic music
Ambient
New Age
Ambient pop

Artist: Lee Rosevere

Release: Music for Malls

Label: Happy Puppy/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Betama - Yamamoto

Synth-pop
Electronic music
Alternative pop
Techno pop
Kraut-techno

Artist: Betama

Release: Designers

Label: EverythingIsChemical

Year: 2015

Crowns in the Rain – Ashes from the Past (2018)

Hortus Conclusus

Bandcamp

Post-rock
Art rock
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Epic
Live

Comment: this bunch of 11 compositions comes neither from The United States of America, Great Britain, Canada nor any other outstanding post-rock countries but instead of it an Iranian quintet is behind this masterpiece. Fortunately the music (and recent double album embracing a couple of recuperative live performances as well) is not succumbed to the sanctions (much thanks to Italian imprint Hortus Conclusus). The nucleus of these long-running tracks is based on slow picturesque developments as if depicting a full-fledged autumn full of bright colours and contrast between warmth and chill. And if there is the autumn around there is also some sort of purgative sadness around. The purpose of post-rock, I mean the main branch of it, consisting of massive guitar-induced sound masses and flirtation with eargasmic crescendos, has rarely had to deal with sonic alchemy on its own. It's purpose has been to provide tour de forces, it is like achieving happiness as a process comprising movement from one point to the next one and so on until once one will feel nirvana and absence of suffer in his/her mind and spirit. Yet clarified sadness and light melancholy may be important premises in achieving ennobling happy sensations. Technically post-rock is a multifaceted genre where one can perceive rolling and orchestrated guitars, bold bass lines and rumbling drums to create new ways to fasten and sometime start destroying and rebuilding them. In some ways it is a sort of polyphonic music where instruments are played and modified in their own way yet all the stuff ultimately will constitute a sublime coherent whole even though all of that may run at different speeds at a time. Additionally to happiness as mentioned already above beauty as a phenomenon either seems to be a compound one – one beatific sensation is magnified by another until one can consider it to be overwhelming. It can freely be discerned in music, probably at most. This is an enchanting pickup by including many layers emotively and artistically.

8/13/2019

[Teaser of the day] Matador de Senador - 1

Noise rock
No Wave
Avant-rock
Improvised music
Dada music
Experimental rock
Freeformfreakout

Artist: Matador de Senador
Release: Matador de Senador
Label: Seminal

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Sebastian Albrecht - Drop

Techno
Deep techno
Electronic music

Artist: Sebastian Albrecht

Release: Panorama EP

Label: Micromod Music

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Wasa - Artù

Post-hardcore
Emocore
Alternative rock

Artist: Wasa

Release: Corteccia

Label: Longrail

Year: 2019

Erich Schall – No.7 (2017)

Phonocake

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Ethnotronica
Deep house
Musique concrète
Organic electronica
Dub house
Minimal techno
Tech-house
Minimal synth

Comment: this bunch of 8 tracks contains lots of sublime moments throughout the vibrant course because a prolific German producer called Erich Schall (also being known from a group, Drehkommando) provides different patterns and mixtures though mainly based on house, techno and dub-induced frequencies and combinations. Additionally he plays with concrete sounds, most evidently and in the most exuberant way at Club Birds; the album embarks on an elegantly messy piano chord shuffle at Static Ram where a bit of aggressiveness dissolves to transform into profound nocturnal house vibes with remote dub reverberations at Night Prism. Gentle noises to be panning here and there used to add an extra gritty ingredient to the whole. At Usha Flute he mixes the predominant minimal, even obsessive techno treatment with ethno-tinged female singing and New Age-y flute whiffs. Contra Vs. Melo is a dynamical, catchy sway between obsessive tech-house and minimal synth(-pop) developments. Anyway, all the aforementioned dissents do not balkanize the whole, on the contrary, one can perceive of how the whole keeps growing on you with any next listening time due to its unfathomable depth based on the aforementioned omnium-gatherum. Erich Schall has done lots of tenures under different imprints, mostly being involved in the discography of such ones as basic_sounds, Der Kleine Grüne Würfel, Insectorama, and INFEKTUS yet this one comes out of another respected and senior weblabel called Phonocake being active since the beginning of the 00s. These decent compositions remind of those old good days with regard to the activities of such imprints as Thinner, Epsilonlab, and Humanworkshop, the releases of the ones still stand up 15-20 years on.

KieLoBot – Hounds of Darkmoor (2017)

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Krautrock
Psych-rock
Art rock
Funk rock
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Indie rock
Pop rock
Lad rock

Comment: KieLoBot is a Göppingen, German group (Lobo Loco, and Kieli Cat) who has issued a handful of releases so far. They sing in their native language being mostly backed up by easy arrangements as if set up on the next day followed by a heavy booze-up night. Not yet ready and having no intention to provide something serious and profound but instead of it doing joyous lad pop/rock numbers with occasional hints at funk, reggae and smooth jazz. As if getting billed somewhere in a pub to gig a careless stint. Later on, let's take some steps further, regarding impressive Krautrock progressions over there it will remind of some late performances by CAN where additionally to the music and the band were also represented a joggler on the stage. Something similarly inconsistent feels can be felt throughout this course of 11 tracks. However, Wirklich Wichtig Electromix, self-titled track and Tanzen are true gems with analytical approach more depth to be added and gone into both hypnotic funk and spaced-out spheres. You can find out the combo's albums at Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp.

(029) – Black Files (2019)

Soisloscerdos

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Electronic music
Alternative dance
Industrial techno
Dark electro
Tech-electro

Comment: ...white files...blue files...black files. Indeed, rhythmic algorithms to be brought life with a blackened accent being superimposed upon an austere and minimal techno idea, which separately on its own way is all but merry either. It is pessimistically mechanical, i.e determined on programming as if emitting the sort of dystopian sadness followed by the grasp of impending apocalypse and havoc depending on the human being at long last. Industrial machine, otherwise it can also be called industrialised death/suicide machine goes on and on with people having neither wish nor hope to stop it. We continue talking about the rates in economy, about market situations and business speculations which in nature do have no matter anymore. All what is going around it is the final danse macabre, the smart and cynical ones have figured it out, the dumb ones not yet. At Dirty Hands a listener can imagine the silent snarl of Grim Reaper who is immediately ready to finish final seconds of dancing with the human being. At the end of the tunnel one can see grayish light regarding the cover print yet it is even more dystopian than getting into blackened light. The outing is a bit in the discography of Soisloscerdos.

8/09/2019

[Teaser of the day] Insula - Carry

Post-hardcore
Screamo
Angst rock
Post-rock
Crossover

Artist: Insula

Release: s/t

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Concrete Swords - Fifty Four

Dystopiaq

Electronic music
Ambient techno
Downtempo

Artist: Concrete Swords

Release: Unbalanced EP

Label: Dystopiaq

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Provote - Il' je vedro il' oblacno

Faturenet

World music
Drum and bass
Breakbeat
Ethnotronica
Electronic music

Artist: Provote

Release: Feed the Devil, Make a Deal EP

Label: Faturenet Recordings

Year: 2010

Cousin Silas – Twang 002 (2018)

We Are All Ghosts

Bandcamp

Ambient
Drone
Microtonal
Ambient drone
Progressive rock
Dark ambient
Epic
New Age
Art music
Electronic music

Comment: the Englishman Cousin Silas (born 1959) who does have a solid post-punk and new wave background continues to put up his magical alchemy consisting of gentle reverberant drones and extended ambient soundscapes which at times come close to atmospheric glimpses of progressive rock either. More detailedly, it does mean more vivid and picturesque guitar arcs have been drawn on top of soundscapes. At times the script of the artist changes into a more New Age-y nature with intense colours of northern lights and smouldering flames of implacable music following some sort of glass bead game. Thirdly, Dimension X is the distinctive exception of electronic and electro-acoustic obsession as if put out through warped wires and defective coils. That enchanting glimpse in Cousin Silas' vast discography is also a subsequent part of the one of We Are All Ghosts (by the way, in the very recent days a next brand new one was created and issued by the two, respectively).

Scouts Of Uzbekistan – Aimless And Drifting (2018)

Year Zero

Kosmische Musik
Plunderphonics
Sampledelic
Electronic music
Avant-rock
Krautrock
Sound collage
Noise rock
Experimental rock
Spoken word

Comment: it is another heavily synthesiser and an old Akai-driven transgressive album to get commented over there today yet it does have a little to do with the genre called synth-pop. Similarly to The Flaming Lips who used lots of uncanny electronic applications and synthesised stuff to create marvellous Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002), or Primal Scream's outstanding ones Vanishing Point (1997), and Evil Heat (2002). Two previous releases by Scouts of Uzbekistan (Mark Carolan, Johnny Zchivago) being represented earlier at RMH, the self-titled outing (2011), and Hate Is Our Religion (2016) were stylistically from a different section, however, with regard to their cutting-edge method and intention of course I don't dare to bet though. At times it chimes like an obscure example from the downright tape underground of the 80s, for instance, regarding such a combo as Big City Orchestra by turning the initial meaning of spoken word samples upside down by giving them an ambivalent meaning or emitting a disorienting madness. At times it rings like a Kosmische Musik tinged shuttle ready to start into a heavily iterative and blissful chaos of squeaky sounds and undulating space. Behind the chaos fractals start to appear as soon as one can digest this whole of 10 compositions (it does mean a listener must do at least a couple of revs across the enchanting orbit).The title track is about Lord, about its characteristics in human terms and then stepwise progressing into a creepy guitar-induced noise symphony. The mind-provoking release is a notch of the discography of Year Zero. A best one of 2018.

8/03/2019

Chin Yi – Sanguinem Mitto (2013)

Miga

La Gramola

Bandcamp

Post-punk
Avant-punk
No Wave
Dance punk
Art punk
Electroclash
Electro-punk
Electronic
Alternative dance

Comment: this bunch of 6 tracks released by a Granda, Spain-based combo (Pablo Medina (guitar and voice), Vicente Jiménez (bass and guitar), Carlos Gimeno (drums) and Marta Corchs (synths) on Miga Label, and La Gramola Netlabel is a smooth drift between the raucous, insinuating spirit of Mark E Smith (especially at tracks like A Vissen, and Unus through the singing manner, voice timbre and more experimental, dissonant compositional approach), and a synth-punk and electroclash (indeed, the past being externalised through such combos as Searchers, Tuxedomoon, Devo and The Screamers which foresaw its future, and now both temporal categories on their respective sonorous appearances are organically crystallised at one and the same place). Paradoxically, it is great that MES`s spirit and legacy continues living through a thousands of ensembles though the Mancunian legend would certainly hate the cases of similarity based on The Fall. On the other side, all the aforementioned back then in the 70s went on uncompromisingly experimental and artsy rather than poppy and hedonistic. All that power and intriguing arrangements can be heard from within this whole. Very pro.

8/02/2019

[Teaser of the day] Guitarrorism - If Hope Is Burried In The Vorgarten

Clinical Archives

Improvised music
Avant-garde
Experimentalism

Artist: Guitarrorism

Release: Gretchen

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Muhr - Dessous le mur de planck

Archive.org

Art music
Experimental pop
Electronic music
Ambient
Avant-pop

Artist: Muhr

Release: Farewell Anthology

Label: Free Music Archive/Archive.org

Year: 2009

Momus – Voyager (1992)

Ubuweb

Synth-pop
Alternative pop
Art pop
Singer-songwriter
Electronic pop
House pop
Alternative dance

Comment: Nick Currie aka Momus had released six long players in the while of 1987-1993 for Creation Records and some decades later decided to upload them at Ubuweb for free download. I can remember for listening to a Creation Records compilation of two discs and I could not find out any tracks from the three most important artists from the roster – My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, and Momus. At least the first two ones have proven to be historically the most influential (the impact and reverence to them), their albums are not being articles in second hand shops like the albums of a poor man's Beatles as it strikingly happened after the mass hysteria had been calmed down in 1997. Nick Currie was way too sophisticated and ironic and contemplative to be somehow a mainstream pop icon. Especially if his music could be compared with Pet Shop Boys as if reflecting it through a twisted mirror and on other hand because Momus' sound was more profound, catchy and providing more credibility. In a word, the ideal appearance of PSB. Furthermore, Nick Currie can be considered one of the most honest and prophetic artists at all. Voyager was the penultimate within the discography by offering glimpses into different topics like virtual reality and digital revolution, mirthless life situations and expectations and impending apocalypse. Implications of diving into simulacra, and alienation and silly escape on drugs and frantic behaviour are still relevant and will be more desperate in the future. Great (pop) work.

7/30/2019

dessktop – Selsey Bill EP (2008)

Rack & Ruin

dessktop

Organcore
Lo-fi
Drone pop
Improvised music
DIY
Bedroom music
Electronic
Psych-pop

Comment: Selsey Bill EP was the first sonorous appearance by Robby Massey aka dessktop, an artist who did have like to record in the bedroom (or at least at home). Later on, he would have released such issues as Kirpi EP, Galleon Quilt, and Voicemeal EP and also the Split EP in liaison with Tiny Feathers all along at Rack & Ruin Records, one of the most important imprints who (in the embodiment of Dean Birkett as the head of the records) picked up grassroot/home recording musicians to be allowed to get some focus on them. If you wish one can find out my interview with him on this site. Fortunately almost all the outings of the imprint are still nicely up on the home site (unlike many other imprints from the period of the end of the 00s/ beginning of the 10s who and whose artists have just tracelessly disappeared. For instance, Holiday Records and its artists as Bonfire Kids, Young Michelin, Victory VIII etc). This handful of primitive compositions (RRR012) is something being conjured up on such instruments as a xylophone, an Indian flute, an Indian bass drum, toy accordion, a couple of acoustic guitars, a melodica, a Casio synthesizer and his vocal. I guess most of the instruments can be distinguished from one another over there to create a frantic blend of drones, glockenspiel plays based on an awkward yet charming scale of notes and key changes. At times it is emotionally heated up, then he gets calmed down and at times the sound disappears as if a river meandering inside the desert just vanishes at one moment. Robby Massey once mentioned that he had been improvising for hours on different instruments to discover and conjure up new motives. Regarded I can only agree with him the music is hard thing to get ultimately accomplished. Secondly, it seems to be a fight between managed songcraft and free improvisation to have provided welcome tension within the creative process. Yeah, it is a little bit more than just an intriguing lo-fi release (although the following outings did it even more) it is also a worth legacy of the aforementioned frenetic era.

[Teaser of the day] I/DEX - Arc_06

Ambient rock
Experimental rock
Glitchtronica
Electronic
Improvised music
Post-rock
Avant-rock

Artist: I/DEX

Release: ARC

Label: Foundamental

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] My Bubba & Mi - I Will Never Love A Young Boy Again

Jamendo

Folk
Oldie music
Appalachain music
Indie folk

Artist: My Bubba & Mi

Release: How it’s done in Italy

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sarah June - Brand of Bitterness (shoegaze mix)

Silber

Experimental rock
Post-rock
Ambient rock
Avant-rock
Shoegaze

Artist: Sarah June

Release: Beneath Black Robes

Label: Silber

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Mart Avi - Here Future Smells Like Perfume

Singer-songwriter
Post-pop
Experimental pop
Ambient pop
Electronic music
Art pop
Avant-pop
Sophisti-pop

Artist: Mart Avi

Release: OtherWorld

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Lowpines - Heavy hander

Indie pop
Alternative pop
Dream pop

Artist: Lowpines

Release: Give Me A Horse

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Jacquy Bitch - Les Enfants damnes

Zorch Factory

Post-punk
Alternative rock
Gothic rock
Coldwave
Indie rock

Artist: Jacquy Bitch

Release: Zoundbies Vol.1

Label: Zorch Factory

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Sonic Deadhorse - Boring Song no.353

Art rock
Progressive rock
Ambient rock
Post-rock

Artist: Sonic Deadhorse

Release: Hard Works for Shits - Film score & Remix select Volume1

Label: Sociopath

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Wilco - Box Full of Letters (Live at Solid Sound '19 - Night 2)

Nyctaper

Live
Rock
Americana
Folk rock

Artist: Wilco

Release: June 29, 2019 Solid Sound Festival

Label: Nyctaper

Year: 2019

Whalt Thisney – ThisIsNotThis (2019)

Aumega Project

Modern classical
Post-classical
Epic
Experimental electronica
Ambient
Glitchtronica
Avant-garde
Art music
Experimentalism

Comment: by bicycling today (30 kilometres in total, 24.1 km/h avs, cross-country and asphalt) I was thinking of how important it is to keep pace in life with different kind of activities like sporting, making and listening to music, reading books, eating etc. Additionally and pertinently, to find out perfect symbiosis between the doings and decisions with enough power to back it all up it could be a formula of happiness. However, before riding the bicycle I was listening to the prolific Portuguese artist Whalt Thisney's subsequent outing ThisIsNotThis, a sequel to WalkThisWay (2019, Batenim) which was a smooth bound of glitches, lone piano chords dropping around here and there, atmospheric layers of electronics and orchestrated music constituting lofty arcs atop. At times a listener can perceive ominous tectonic waves to be scaling throughout the rest of the sound from the bottom . It was a sort of ideal music where moody impressions and artsy ambitions were perfectly counterbalanced at large. In fact, the former did grow out from the latter and then both did supplement one another. All the same can be said about ThisIsNotThis with some exceptions. The recent one is devoid of chanting/spoken word interventions and provides instead of organic/concrete sounds a little bit more vivid glitches in depth and more glitched-out overdrives to variegate the soundscape. Do we need split hairs, though? ThisIsNotThis is a bit less dreamy and soaked in reveries. In any case, deeply rooted in its previous releases with a dollop of changes on a new album this is the way of how an artist could crystallise its oeuvre. It is called the path of an artist. What else could be added but to make acquaintance with the artist's very brand new one This Imagination Machine being issued a couple of days ago. Top tier by any means being released on a German imprint, Aumega Project.

Stillborn Blues – III (2018)

Eg0cide

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Improvised music
Avant-garde
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Art music
DIY
Experimentalism
Avant-blues

Comment: it is said at Lastfm site that Stillborn Blues isn't blues but minimalist, awkward, melancholic and lo-fi prepared/detuned guitar pieces played in the dark with too much delay and reverb. Even if it is a honest (self)-confession a listener can find out many layers and gushes of emotions bursting out of this 12-track outing. Musically the whole can be compared with such a cutting-edge guitar juggernaut as Loren Mazzacane Connors whose music is also not being considered blues yet by the experimental musician's own words all he owns musically is due to blues. And also obsessive, dissonant guitar treatments by Fred Frith appear to come to mind after the endless of flow of variegated moods and emotions – from laid-back and halcyon to highly tumultuous, aggressively spaced-out threads. All of that is a dynamical format of dichotomy between chaos and fining, between pain and endorphin-enriched peace. The artist eschews some natural characteristics of experimental music, for example, avoiding progressing into drawn-out improvisations. However, even without it, all these short compositions constitute a dynamical, seamless whole. Although being truly wrung out and stoned for the listener it chimes somehow very archetypical and deeply rooted in the tradition of rock music and because of that I dare to call it a sort of blues as the initial spore of it. The artist's music is anchored over there yet he deconstructs it in different ways. It is all about downright experimentation and invention, about simplicity and intention of giving no damn. No self-indulgence. Some sort of massiveness. It is an instance of true black power which leads the c(o)urse. The impressive outing is a notch in the discography of Eg0cide.

7/28/2019

[Teaser of the day] Atlas Sound - Modern Aquatic Nightsongs

Southern Shelter

Indie folk
Avant-folk
Americana
Improvised music
Ambient folk
Singer-songwriter
Folk indie
Experimental folk
Art folk

Artist: Atlas Sound

Release: Athfest Main Stage 2012-06-22

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Violeta Päivänkakkara - Minä Myös

Dream folk
Lo-fi
Folk indie
New Weird Finland
Forest folk
DIY
Singer-songwriter
Experimental folk
Indie folk

Artist: Violeta Päivänkakkara

Release: Pimeässä

Label: elementperspective

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Virt - Put Out A Fire And Get Stoned

Peppermill

Chiptune
Tracker music
Bitpop
Electro pop
Nintendocore
8-bit
Electronic music
Chipbreak

Artist: Virt

Release: pm08

Label: Peppermill

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Plumerai - Mortality

Silber

Indie pop/rock
Dream pop
Alternative pop/rock
Slowcore
Noise pop

Artist: Plumerai

Release: Marco Polo

Label: Silber

Year: 2012

Baradit – Revolución Tecnológica (2019)

Pueblo Nuevo

Synth-pop
Alternative pop
Electronic music
Electro pop
Kraut-electro

Comment: On the sleeve of this 8-track outing being released on the Chilean imprint Pueblo Nuevo is depicted a stylophone, the miniature stylus-operated keyboard which was invented in 1967 by Brian Jarvis and introduced by such luminaries as John Lennon, David Bowie and Kraftwerk. In principle, the instrument conjures up a buzzing, thick drone-drenched sound. Additionally, the old and analogue electronic keyboards undergo a renaissance. All what is closely related to the music I guess it can be considered acceptable regarding technological progression and mechanical triumph. Or can we in fact? For instance, in the USSR the military complex built up synthesizers at idle time. It is like laundering money to have a spotless, moral outlook. By philosopher Lewis Mumford the aforementioned mechanical triumph has gone on side by side with social distraction regarding a historical horizon. We are subjugated to such confused pragmatic abstractions as money and credit and certain kinds of political systems we used to think of them as things on their own or as clear realities though they are strictly human related and thereby contingent. All that bad happened because of having no counterbalance to the technological triumph. We ardently used to believe in that by avoiding thinking of possible adverse effects. The sort of inferior stuff which is considered superior than the phenomena deserve to be. It is the reason why the moral life and principles deteriorate because the people are stupid enough by having no common sense to distinguish the real entities from the sphere called doxa if to employ the terminology of Plato. Indeed, we are still living in a cave where shades overwhelm our senses. Could it be said about the music as well I would like to say no. Music and the art in general leap over the progressions and regressions, over the ebbs and tides by avoiding instrumental values of which final purpose and real nature may be quite unclear and even self-destructive at worst. Baradit's release is a fine example of poppy tendencies and smooth compositional threads by getting formally inspiration from the 80s synthetic aesthetic and on the other side being cranked up by the stimulus of krautrock, the style of being analogous to the belief in an endless motion. Of course, the real idea can be perceived by listening to old krautrock releases, today's formats and ideas are quite petrified just by following some remote echoes of the idea of the style. In a word, it is a retrospective, enjoyable listening.

7/27/2019

Discontinuation Of Treatment – A Deep Remorse (2019)

GufoRecords

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Post-punk
Synthwave
Alternative rock
Gothic rock
Experimental electronica
Art punk
Electronic music
Avant-garde
Spoken word
New Wave
Radiophonic art
Avant-punk
Experimentalism

Comment: Discontinuation Of Treatment, the combo from Italy, represents a cutting-edge vision and format and natural thought of post-punk music for the pleasure of genuine melomans. Differently from punk as the stemming genre post-punk as the branching movement (but catalysed by krautrock) was determined to keep changing by embracing different styles, unconventional rock instruments, an unlimited bunch of more or less frantic ideas. This whole of 10 pieces starts off with clear-cut yet majestic reverberant guitar-induced patterns full of longing and dreams being supported by heavy drumming and bold bass lines as something as very well-known being once created by Peter Hook, and Michael Dempsey. At times it turns into a bit more electronic mould thanks to fast beat of a drum machine. However, it is a case of new wave which arguably started off with Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division (I do not agree with it, though, because it was being quite far away from the light-hearted synthesised music of the 80s New Order would embark on). The crucial turns as immanent appearances of the genre are represented through a jungle of exaggerated glitches, digitally bent noises and uncanny iterative algorithmic emergents, littered spoken word snippets which eventually will be externalised as a sort of radiophonic art within a post-punk case. And these freaks may be vile and diabolic as if the main antagonist Killer BOB at Twin Peaks who gets fed up by his victim`s pain and sorrow. For someone I guess it may sound as analogous as seeing confused freaks at a distance. Like Leland Palmer at Twin Peaks. Listen to the ominous final track She Felt Deep Down tif you did not get the idea yet. The spellbinding outing is a part in the discography of GufoRecords.

7/26/2019

[Teaser of the day] Mitoma - Triangle Gemini

Ambient rock
Experimental rock
Electronic music
Avant-rock
Ambient techno
Crossover

Artist: Mitoma

Release: Formless:EP

Label: Section 27

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Human Parser - Night Vision

MNMN

Electronic music
Ambient
Epic
Glitchtronica
Experimental electronica
Glitch ambient

Artist: Human Parser

Release: ITS GONNA GRAIN

Label: MNMN

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] The Royal Landscaping Society - Pictures Of You

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Cover
Post-punk

Artist: The Royal Landscaping Society

Release: Disintegration Revisited

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Sleeping Policemen - Good Guy (Girls Night Out version)

Twee pop
Indie pop
Alternative pop

Artist: Sleeping Policemen

Release: Sleeping Policemen - ePop028

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2012

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