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Comment: Enrico Bozzato's handful of tracks is a sublime blend of intricate cerebral techno and electro-spiked rhythms and more poppy (techno pop) flickers with exuberant synth hovers and bubbly cadences. It chimes and throbs like a highly functional biotechnical organism accommodated with a large scale of emotions and sensations. At times the artist's approach does extend beyond the technical side given that more atmospheric layers are deemed to be highly atmospheric and spatial. On the other side, however, as previously mentioned it is an intricate rhythmic output where cerebral and technical aspects come smoothly together. The voice parts undoubtedly do bring legendary Kraftwerk in mind. This mesmerising outing is a bit in the discography of Ekar Records.

Kryshe – Continuum (2019)

Serein

Bandcamp

Art pop
Alternative pop
Modern classical
New Age
Post-classical
Avant-pop
Organic electronica
Ambient pop

Comment: Kryshe's 10-notch whole is a marvellous insight into those remote areas of pop music where tenderness and subtlety used to prevail in an artsy way like it happened to Talk Talk and David Sylvian after their temporary stints with synth-pop. The listener hears spatial flutes and silent whiffs of woodwinds and elliptically rounded piano improvisations and minimal electronics and a small scale of glockenspiel-based orchestrations to cheer you up with some more space, gentle breeze and bittersweet hope. From minor intimate glass bead plays to more large scale compositions to bring forth a dynamical drift. This great work is a part of the discography of Serein.

Inaequalis – Beach Bum (2017)

Free Music Archive

Neokrautrock
Electro-rock
Alternative dance
Avant-pop
Electronic

Comment: this handful of tracks is a dynamic/motorik blend of 70s German inspired rhythms and churning guitar riffs and electro vibes of the 80s and its derivatives. You know by listening to a part of these beats in another context may be a bit cheesy as if getting a déja vu sense of the sleazy 90s Europop and German trance but the wall of those tightly mixed intertwined guitar riffs and key changes and twisted analogue electronic effects and shimmering keyboard harmonized lines do absorb all possible inferior tendencies into an ennobling whole. All the aforementioned elements and balance between them remind me some first albums by Swedish combo Joxfield ProjeX. On the other side, it is neither clinical nor dry. Great music by any means.

11/12/2019

Elizabeth Joan Kelly – Farewell, Doomed Planet! (2019)

Bandcamp

Ambient pop
Art pop
Experimental pop
Synth-pop
Electronic music
Ambient
Electro pop
Post-pop

Comment: it is nice to hear Joan Elisabeth Kelly's sonic experiments and poppy expressions at full sway. Undoubtedly it is a blissful, groovy and heady view on pop music at its best sense. Since the times back in the beginning of the 10s with the onset of such genres as chillwave and witch house the status of ambient music has been changed from the so-called design music to a subject for more melody and harmony-trodden endeavours even if the main theme was dark. Yeah, this 11-track outing hits the way cruising somewhere between profound ambient and more recognised, more comfortable themes. In its most ultimate potentiality – the listener can perceive it during some spans of a few seconds – it could have been ended at a nightmarish threshold over which line unsound fantasies come into one's mind. The aforementioned comfortable themes are all but cheap, self-indulgent ones because they do have intrinsic potentiality for transgressive, ominous mutations. Given the topic of the album it refers also to the doings by a human being both individually and collectively – we have potentiality to build up something beautiful and on the other side we can all screw up. It is full of determined noises, intriguing dynamic rhythms and vivid sonic effects which together make up an irresistible punch of sonic waves. For instance, listen to a track, the favourite of mine, Harm, by giving contemplation about a time to come when such a sort of song would hit the charts.

11/08/2019

[Teaser of the day] Cartel - Into The Dark Sky by Mallz and Cartel Ft Julian Lima

Jamendo

Hip-hop
Urban music
Grime
Autotune
Trap
Rap

Artist: Cartel

Release: music inspired by the HBO series, Insecure

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Gilman Mom - The Revisionist

Chilltronica
Lo-fi
Organic electronica
Ambient pop
Downtempo
Trip-hop
Vaporwave

Artist: Gilman Mom

Release: Revisionist History

Label: Macaque/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Postcode - This Day Will Come

Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Psych-pop/rock

Artist: Postcode

Release: Year Of The Zebra - Part Two

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Zeffon - Cash in the Bag

Jamendo

Electro-acoustic
Avant-dub
Avant-garde
Avant-blues
Improvised music
Electronic music
Dub blues
Experimentalism
Crossover

Artist: Zeffon

Release: Manipura 4

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2019

10/29/2019

[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - 299792458

Jamendo

Dark wave
Ethereal wave
Darkgaze
Avant-metal
Drone doom
Post-metal
Doomgaze

Artist: Dereleech

Release: Deadspace

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Alisu - Solitaria

Electronic music
Ambient dub
Dub techno
Ambient techno
Chilltronica

Artist: Alisu

Release: Un azar diseñado por mi

Label: Tropic

Year: 2013

Jankenpopp – Candy Marx (2006)

Jankenpopp

Electro pop
Breakcore
Experimental electro
Drill and bass
Electronic music
Breakbeat
Abstract electro
Chiptune
Bitpop
Crossover

Comment: it is one of the first issues by a French musician/activist and hacker, Jankenpopp being released in 2006, however, the artist's sound is thoroughly timeless because all the three temporal dimensions invented by us – the past, the present and the future – used to reflect on each other and through one another. Firstly, it is playful and puckish based on unstable yet mapped rhythmic structures full of galvanized electro, primitive video game-alike and rough breakbeat-induced paces. A best moment on it happens relatively in the beginning when these angular and loose cadences are backed up by a lofty deep house synth layer. Later on, cut-up vowel samples are added to the mix to make up a more personal experience. All those predispositions the artist does have taken from the club scene are transmitted through a tongue-in-cheek attitude (of course, there is an exquisite veiled criticism/and irony behind it). One compartment within the set of 9 notches consists of more buried endeavours as if searching for a silent corner to take a rest for a while. Just for a while for to keep going over the ragged mountains and seas of a tumultuous sonic universe. Given that is a short-running issue and on the other side it embraces a lot of information and reflections it can be admitted as an accelerated musical course. Very nice.

Marco Lucchi – Se da lontano (2016)

Breathe Compilations

Bandcamp

Modern classical
Microtonal
Post-classical
Ambient
Drone
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Minimalism
Piano music
Ambient drone
Dark ambient

Comment: prolific Italian, Modena-residing musician Marco Lucchi's 5-notch outing is a bit different with one exception than some other albums I have heard by him so far. Of course, there is represented drone music, his profound minimalist approach inclined to reach profound, organic mysticism and otherworldly spirituality of dark ambient which is being characteristic to other Italian juggernauts like Ain Soph, Stefano Musso aka Alio Die, Gianluigi Gasparetti aka Oöphoi, and Lorenzo Montanà (just naming a few of the crowd) as well. Indeed, in some tracks like Shady and the title track spiritual dimensions are vamped up with the aid of vibrant drones being accomplished by immersive yet slightly awe-induced orchestrations as if walking around under the ground, in a catacomb somewhere in Southern Italy embraced by skulls, decay and the presence of centuries as an ennobling and frightening continuum. One can perceive the presence of Grim Reaper who represents both death and life, existence and disappearance (the counterparts can be evaluated and ennobled being placed side by side – there is no need to live forever, there is the need to be active/creative and contemplative and search for unity with the rest of Universe). At Psiche Abbandonata, the aforementioned exception, a listener can enjoy a skillful, expressive improvisation on an oboe by Paulo Chagas being accompanied on a sparse piano accompaniment by Matteo Marchisano-Adamo. The overwhelming, mind-broadening outing is a bit in the discography of the Mexican imprint Breathe Compilations.

10/28/2019

Lately Kind Of Yeah – Two Shades Of Apart (2006/2019)

Vulpiano

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Archive.org

Improvised music
Avant-rock
Experimental rock
Art rock
Noise rock
Electro-acoustic

Comment: this set of 14 tracks is just a fine dedication to guitar playing but nothing else by employing different techniques, timbres and colours. A listener can hear feverish chord changes, dynamic arpeggios, and arousing strumming here and there. At times the guitar seems to be "tortured" on prepared setups and arrangements full of slamming noises, elliptic sonic effects, electro-acoustic shrieks, warped chords and majestic wall of sounds. It is mostly all about the technical possibilities one could get out of the instrument. That also can be tagged as non-guitar music because its intention is to go far away from a weary imagination through phantasms, interruptions, filters, deviations. But not only. Beyond that melodic progressions and silent incantations used to surface in the middle of the tumult by balancing the result. Indeed, at times it chimes like a lighter version of Glenn Branca or Sonic Youth. For sure, emotive side is strong enough on it because it contains the earliest experiments by the artist then aged 15-16 years old only. Very accepted to waft the upstream of an ordinary guitar template; the album is being released on Vulpiano.

[Teaser of the day] Obasquiat - Killing of Shaimaa el Sabbagh

• Improvised music
• Experimental rock

• No Wave

• Avant-rock

• Space rock

Artist: Obasquiat

Release: Strugatsky
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cold Womb Descent - Approaching the Borders of Mortality

Dark ambient
Electronic music
Dystopbient
Ambient drone
Epic
Ambient
Space music

Artist: Cold Womb Descent

Release: Ldaovh Trilogy

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Betelmire - A Record Low

Rain Above

Alternative pop
Lo-fi
Bedroom pop
Singer-songwriter
Drone pop
Dream pop
DIY
Organcore
Indie pop

Artist: Betelmire

Release: 606 MPH

Label: Rain Above/Morgan Leah/Jigsaw

Year: 2005/2010

Hypnodial – Sub (2019)

Somniscope

Ambient
Organic electronica
Ambient drone
Musique concrète
Field recording
New Age

Comment: this issue consists of a pair of long, 27-minute, compositions, the first of them is the original and the second is a mix version of it. The original one is an ennobling blend of synthesized effects and a theme progression which a little reminds of Angelo Badalamenti's lead theme of Twin Peaks. But then now, all of that slowly and unremarkably fades away and will be traded for a solemn cathedral organ being backed up by raindrops which keep falling on your face. And then hushed industrial shrieks, amplified hisses, minimal vibrations, natural sounds (rain, sea waves) and a reverberant rhythmic pace are mixed up with each other to result in a sultry ambient composition which may resemble a sonic and imaginative jungle similar to one depicted by Estonian musician and globetrotter Tont. This sort of music I would like to tag “New-New Age” or “Meta-Dub”. Or it is a sort of ambient music which leaves behind abstract patterns to come over into the heart of a listener. It is really pleasant to hear such a thick, analogue-alike processing of sounds. The mix called Surface Mix is a bit dissimilar due to reconfiguration in sonic elements and some differently accentuated layers. However, similarly to the main track it is at least as powerful and suggestive and thereof convincing to my ears. In a word, it is a great issue for relaxing and stimulating one's brain. All the donations the Palma, Spain-based artist gets go to the support of Coral Reef Alliance. The issue is a part of the discography of Somniscope.

10/27/2019

[Teaser of the day] Light Leak - Beach Dream

Alternative pop
Electronic music
Ambient pop
Chillwave

Artist: Light Leak

Release: Graduation EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bob Bucko. Jr. - Inarticulate Particulates

Avant-garde
Brown noise
Lobit
Non-music
Noise drone
Psycho-acoustic
Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Micronoise
Microtonal
Live
Minimalism

Artist: Bob Bucko. Jr.

Release: Junior Nuclear

Label: Lurker Bias

Year: 2019

10/26/2019

[Teaser of the day] The Wind Whistles - Devil`s Cauldron

Jamendo

Indie folk
Alt-folk
Chamber folk
Folk indie
Canadiana
Art folk

Artist: The Wind Whistles

Release: Window Sills

Label: Aaahh/Jamendo

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - The Life of Repton

Jamendo

Ambient pop
Electronic music
Spoken word
Breaks
Kraut-techno
Art pop
Experimental pop
Progressive rock
Crossover
Chilltronica

Artist: Amitron_7

Release: Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel Feast

Label: Enoughecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive/Archive.org

Year: 2014

10/25/2019

[Teaser of the day] Taras Bul`ba - Rumore Bianco

Jamendo

Noise pop
Indie rock
Post-rock
Post-hardcore
Alternative rock

Artist: Taras Bul`ba

Release: Taras Bul`ba

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2000

[Teaser of the day] The Juliets - Ad-Lib

Indie pop
Baroque pop
Art pop
Chamber pop
Alternative pop

Artist: The Juliets

Release: Perfect Season

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

10/23/2019

[Teaser of the day] Juanitos - Perfect Disco 2012

Jamendo

Alternative pop
Funk rock
Alternative dance
Acid pop

Artist: Juanitos

Release: Mission Venus

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Chancius - Big Wave

Jamendo

Art pop/rock
Indie pop/rock
Singer-songwriter
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Chancius

Release: Bando

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

10/22/2019

[Teaser of the day] New Vogue - The Stranger Inside

Post-punk
Power pop
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Psych-rock

Artist: New Vogue

Release: S/T EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

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