[Teaser of the day] Bruno Susio - Heaven Here

Jamendo

• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Lounge pop

 

Artist: Bruno Susio

Release: Chill out with Bruno 

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2019

Leyland Kirby – We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives (2017)

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Post-classical 
• Ambient 
• Electronic music 
• Art music 
• Epic 
• Contemporary classical 
• Hauntology

Comment: Leyland Kirby is one of the most enchanting composers today, especially thanks to the project The Caretaker which is a platform to unite oldie ballroom music elements with modern aspects and technology in a haunting manner. We have a loads of the so-called modern classical composers worldwide who either mingle piano music with electronic music and ambient or turn it into ambient music with electronic flavours. However, there is the one and only Leyland Kirby whose solo project has been managed to differentiate between past-driven flashbacks and contemporary classical music though the task is not easy at all to show up. Elements of hauntology are still represented over this course with the windy progressions of ambient music and a loose, rather exhaustive rhythmic backbone. By having visited a graveyard some hours before the experience of mine thereafter places the music to the right place (especially after seeing two graveyards of women who recently are gone being slightly older than Leyland Kirby). It is somehow somber and haggard under its burden of experience of time and space, past and present, upcoming decay and knowledge of having no knowledge at least. The last part may be a person's first explicit premise of living. On the other side, an instance of original music and art in general is certainly something more stately and autarkic in its entirety and independence. That mystical spark is an immersive melancholic flow through an artsy, classy form of music. Great stroke indeed.

Ataque Escampe – A alma (2019)

Bandcamp

• Krautrock 
• Art rock 
• Space rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Cinematic 
• Dub 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Noise pop 
• Soul

Comment: Ataque Escampe comes out of the region of Galicia, Spain being physically and culturally nearby Portugal and Portuguese, respectively. My first meeting with the combo did happen through an imprint, Aregueifa which purpose was to promote music from the aforementioned region. Since then, a decade on, quite much has been changed in the sonic palette of the combo. From an alt/indie folk template into a quirky pop touch like the recent one happens to be. This handful of compositions starts off with an evergreen cinematic touch which then goes on churned-up guitar/noise pop convolutions to ultimately progress into an artsy scope, more profoundly, showcasing hints at spacious dub and exquisite kraut and experimental rock explorations on space and soul (indeed, the word "Alma" used to be translated as soul). One can hear bright guitar hooks and elaborated guitar electricity and transcendental echoes and effects wrapping up the rhythmic backbone. Additionally, one can hear either some sort of outlaw vibe in the vein of spaghetti western or ennobling anxiety in singing and aching and shrieking and intoning as if coming out of Outer Space – from our lovely Outer Space. That's simply amazing. Very pro by any means due to all the aforementioned elements are seamlessly integrated and spiced up. One of the best releases in 2019. Perfecto.

Aboombong – AGNOSIS (2019)

Pen & Mallet

Bandcamp

• Ethnotronica 
• World fusion 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Modern classical 
• Avant-garde
• Krautrock 
• Minimalism

Comment: this batch consists of 3 tracks of different longitudes from a 21-minute one to a 10-minute and an 8-minute one. Aboombong is a project by a mystical musician J.C Thorne who is also related to such combos as Psychic Enemies Network, ¡para!helion, The Jonny Cats and Anxiety of Silence and some other groups one could find out on Pen & Mallet site. Musically aboombong is the most prominent project of him having based on mystical droning, ethnic drumming and skewed ambient progressions. However, many other stylistic elements can be found from there. Similarly to the previous ones AGNOSIS is an astounding issue by playing on iterative hypnotic rhythms of ethnic and kraut-induced motorik which are interspersed with exquisite electronics, high octave singing relied on sole and multiple voices and spatial vowel layers. One of the spans is filled in with airy progressing piano chords which ultimately develop into an immersive cathedral drone which is also suitable for listening in Christmas time. Indeed, the predominant milieu is solemn and epic as if have spent time in an old, weary cathedral (it adds some awe and a bit ghastly feeling to the mix). Top notch in 2019 and other times. No doubt about the fact at all.

Memorymusic – Up (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music 
• Fusion 
• Jazz 
• Post-rock

Comment: this patch of 5 tracks is composed and arranged by a guy known behind nom de plume Memorymusic – keyboards, production; Ujstin Echno – electronics, album artwork; and Tommy Carroll – drum set being released on Pan Y Rosas Discos, an imprint from Chicago, Illinois, USA of which purpose has been over the years to promote cutting-edge music of jazz, improvised music, experimental rock, electronic music and synergistic crisscrossing between them. By adding to it a conceptual measure frequently, as in the recent case, more profoundly, memory and relentless passing of time and permanent changing, it adds some kind of extraneous theoretical dimension to music or just keep amplifying it in an unusual way. An album is something one can listen to at any time the outing is always physically over there yet one's perceptions may change (remarkably) over the years. However, emotive elements within it do work as steady anchors by letting threads in one's memory even if you later would forget about technical minutiae of the album – some sort of polyphonic and modal music by each of them starting alone and then growing stepwise together and into a seamless one. Lonely bouncing piano chords, scruffy drumming, faint electronic accents and dusty keyboard strands used come together sometime, I mean being decelerated by playing music in a laid-back and thoughtful manner. Reminds of a little bit Tortoise but having premiered in a more academic manner.

[Teaser of the day] Sanedrin - The Lost Faith

• Synthwave
• Post-punk
• Lo-fi
• Synth-punk
• New Wave

Artist: Sanedrin

Release: Sanedrín (EP)

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Damian Villegas - Circunstancias

• Acoustic pop
• Art music
• World music

Artist: Damian Villegas

Release: Sonrisa

Label: Green Note

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Amitron_7 - Galaxy M-12

Jamendo

• Avant-pop
• Folktronica
• Ambient pop
• Experimental pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Amitron_7

Release: Karma 10/04 Japanese Summer Edition

Label: Enoughrecords/Jamendo/Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Ulla Mölder - Koputus

VedelikuElektroonikud

• Avant-electronica
• Experimental electronica
• Sampledelic
• Electronic music

Artist: Ulla Mölder  

Release: VedelikuElektroonikud

Label: VedelikuElektroonikud

Year: 2012

The Jerusalem Mules – Pulling Out of the World (2019)

Death Roots Syndicate

Archive.org

• Americana 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Roots music 
• Blues

Comment: it is obviously one of the most austere releases I have heard so far under an immersive imprint, Death Roots Syndicate. The group consists of Matt Borczon, and Steve Brown who together play old time music with raw punk energy. A navy sailor cigarbox guitar and a cookie tin banjo used to conjure up rotely running tunes emitting a highly blank glimpse coming out of the eyes of the players. As if a slave playing in front of other enslaved ones at those few idle moments. There is no the aforementioned raw punk energy in direct sense though on the other side it is certainly something about blues as a musical style and tradition has handed down its tortured ideological tradition and tough standpoints to a subsequent contemporary artist. Thorough simplicity and the feeling of transience. As if a reflection of people being trampled down by unrighteous ones but ready to stand up again and again. Nice.

[Teaser of the day] Talking To Sophie - Lights, Trees, Animals And Me

Jamendo

• Indie pop/rock
• Electronic
• Alternative pop/rock
• Indietronica
• Art pop/rock

Artist: Talking To Sophie

Release: In Technicolor 

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] NuLix - Jammin' With Mr.Carrot

Groovecaffe

• Deep house
• Electronic music
• Dub house
• Disco house
• Club dance

Artist: NuLix

Release: Toggle The Earth

Label: Groovecaffe

Year: 2006

Caustic Reverie – Splinter (2019)

Bandcamp

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Avant-garde 
• Microtonal 
• Abstract 
• Post-industrial 
• Micronoise 
• Drone

Comment: Bryn Schurman aka Caustic Reverie has been active for a little bit more than the decade while creating a pair of albums per year. Aesthetically he has been following his own (dark) star (as we all do more or less successfully), and the formula of his music is to create possibly profound, ghost-filled ambiances with the aid of few sounds and some reverberation applications to be pushed through it. In most cases, the listener hears remote sounds imbued with rusty noises, watery echoes, hollow and faintly feedback-trodden drones and some other sounds which may as well be imaginative to appear in one's head because alternately silence-nigh moments and trickling and vibrant microscopic noises come in and go out or just slip away along more or less subliminal lines and twisted orbits. It is like a sonic counterpart to behaviour of primordial Buddhist being ferocious for raw meat while searching for personal integrity through extreme exercises and transcendence allowing mantras. Profound stuff indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Liz + kkfs - Is It Real

Menthe De Chat

• Avant-garde
• Sampledelic
• Experimentalism
• Lo-fi
• Electronic music
• Trip-hop
• Film noir

Artist: Liz + kkfs

Release: Never Ending Love Affair

Label: Menthe De Chat

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Science Man - Hawkins

• Punk rock
• Rockabilly
• Alternative rock
• Post-punk

Artist: Science Man

Release: Science Man

Label: More Power Tapes

Year: 2018

Bleak House – Outwardly (2019)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

• Improvised music 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Post-classical 
• Minimalism 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Post-rock 
• Chamber rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock

Comment: it is always being the privilege to explore the discography of a Chicago-based imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos, the imprint of multifaceted music. This time the British trio Bleak House (the members of it are involved in Keshco, a represented and praised group at RMH) blesses the listener with a 13-notch issue either imbued with watery smooth piano shapes full of hypnotic iterations with the aid of varied discreet electronic music and beguiling orchestrations or improvising on hoarse yet artsy guitar chords which also have been managed to establish round orbits in one's perception. However, the abovementioned elements and details make up lots of different combinations in balance and intensity inclined variations throughout the pace. Alternately the instruments get along well, it seems to be even complementary to swap an instrument for the other one. By listening to either guitar or piano playing one can hear profound serpentine layers of the echo flickering relentlessly behind playful chords. Additionally, those repetitive chords have been set up and bridged with one another in the way to ultimately result in brilliant flashes of the music. In other words, the formative side is saturated with the emotive side. For instance, enjoy a track called Repaired Swing Set. All in all, it is one of the most enchanting releases I have heard during this year. And the issue is a good example of recommendation how the energy of a human being should creatively be transformed for. There can be drawn disparate parallels upon the artists, from kindred souls like Hauschka, Max Richter and Lubomyr Melnyk to chamber rock/post-rock acts like A Silver Mt. Zion to vagabonds like John Fahey, and Vic Chesnutt to post-progressive acts like Penguin Cafe Orchestra.

[Teaser of the day] HOCICÓN - Harto de Ti

• Art rock
• Space age pop
• Exotica pop
• Lo-fi
• Psych-rock

Artist: HOCICÓN

Release: Y Su Rítmo Distorsionado

Label: Saucepan

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] C.Scott - Leave It All Behind

• Sampledelic
• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Ork-pop
• Lounge pop
• Sunshine pop

Artist: C.Scott

Release: Something Comes Over Us

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Misuto – Rainbow EP (2018)

Totokoko

• Electronic pop 
• Toytronica 
• Alternative pop 
• Art pop 
• J-pop 
• Shibuya-kei

Comment: as it is well known to a wide audience the Japanese weblabels and related artists enjoy an exceptionally huge popularity within the homeland and beyond the borders at a lesser extent. Night clubs gather thousands of participants if there is the time up to celebration. One of such imprints is Totokoko, an imprint penchant for acoustic and electronica mixed issues for an approximately 10 years. Misuto's two track record is a gentle amalgamation of gracefully rolling piano chords, jangly acoustic guitars, faint and even naive electronic endeavours and angel touched glockenspiel chords being underpinned by upbeat carnival-drenched rhythms and thriving Japanese singing imbued with a decent joie de vivre and moderate articulation. Very nice.

Auger Shell – The Narrows (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• Drone 
• Drone rock 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Experimental rock 
• Minimalism 
• Ambient drone 
• Abstract

Comment: Detroit, US-based Pat Callow under the nom de plume Auger Shell did have released all his three items under the Netherlands-based Rack And Ruin Records which has been activated in a span of 2008-2011. At RMH Holdstill Ocean is previously reviewed as a wondrous drift between experimental electronic/glitched-out developments, shoegaze/post-rock, minimalism and ambient music. The Narrows as the title suggests got more narrow or restricted. Mostly it chimes like a hard rocker who finally got sick of his lengthy, honoured career as the player of decent riffs and moderate gears being played day after day decided to develop more naughty and experimental offshoot. Indeed, all those gears and riffs are proudly represented over there yet played heavily through echo chambers and effect/control panels (it looms as if the guitar was pushed to a remote distance). At times (at its more austere and abstract moments) it is just a pure example of drone and ambient when the format is overwhelmed by a pulsating, coil-alike pattern, at its more exuberant moments the 3-track outing can be described with the prefix “rock”. Sometimes the artist opens the door to let the more or less determined sounds go out and mingle with surrounding ambiance. At times the soundscape gets more blurred due to swapping the accents with hisses and noises. For sure, the outing is enough a struggle to get through (for the listener it does mean many subsequent listening times). You can find out this issue under the number 073 in the discography of Rack And Ruin Records.

[Teaser of the day] Down Team Up - Track 4

Believe In Billy

• Electro-rock
• Avant-rock
• Synth-rock
• Experimental rock
• Electronic
• Art rock
• Techno-rock

Artist: Down Team Up

Release: Give And Take

Label: Believe In Billy

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sindy - Lagoon

Cian Orbe

• Electro pop
• Ambient pop
• Techno pop
• Electronic music
• Glitch pop

Artist: Sindy 

Release: Lagoon 

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - Freak Flag Fly

Danielle

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Rock`n`roll
• Psych-rock
• Singer-songwriter

Artist: The Womb

Release: Flee The Scene

Label: Danielle 

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Keith Doom and The Wrecking Crew - Dead Byrdz

• Punk rock
• Blues rock
• Hardcore

Artist: Keith Doom and The Wrecking Crew

Release: Malt Walter party (EP)

Label: Spettro 

Year: 2018

P.P. Roy – Watch The Dough Nut Not The Hole (2014)

Upitup

• Sampledelic 
• Plunderphonics 
• Lo-fi 
• Electro pop 
• Acid 
• Chilltronica 
• Easy listening 
• Avant-pop 
• Electronic music 
• Mood music

Comment: to peel this 14-notch properly away there are many possible ways to go. Just let it go, many listening times in queue, to get a vague impression in your heart. And thereafter you can get a chance to analyze it more properly. The same effect may be coincided with such plunderphonic luminaries as Vicky Bennett aka People Like Us, Pogo and Ergo Phizmiz, however, any new case is extraordinary (indeed, the crucial question is about how to handle this enormous set of informative bits which used to succeed rapidly to each other). At times those lysergic wry synth progressions used to keep the pace with the assistance of wonky, a bit weary rhythmic shuffles, and then the previous hectic stylistic element will transition into a laid-back, easy-running development which is up there to create a stunning gravity-free atmosphere. And then the artist blends seamlessly all the lines between genres. In fact, P.P. Roy fulfills it all the time. A widely used deed in last years within the experimental music scenes has been the sampling of ballroom music and other elderly, slightly haunting sounds – here are also represented high-pitched female vocals and exaggerated yet flair orchestrations. I can see nothing else but every element lives up to the expectation. The impressive outing is a bit in the discography of Upitup.

Cinema Perdu – Amsterdam CS (2018)

Moving Furniture

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Space music 
• Drone 
• Micronoise 
• Dark ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Acousmatic music

Comment: this batch of 6 compositions is a conscience widening aural experiment with the aid of vibrant peripheral drones, sheer sonic layers and humming static, orchestrated noises and concrete sounds. In fact, Martijn Pieck aka Cinema Perdu is behind the concept based on recording at Amsterdam Central Station though his purpose was not to create a pure audio document. Instead of it he has managed to arrange more abstract, more artificial, more intriguing soundscapes even if you hear fast trains passing by and incisive loudspeakers to announce the schedule. That's good because the pure natural sounds used to mount the perspective for a listener in the middle of artificial sounds of natural origin. The release is a part of the discography of Moving Furniture.

Dereleech – Deadspace (2012)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Ambient drone 
• Drone doom metal 
• Avant-metal 
• Minimalism 
• Dark ambient 
• Dystopbient

Comment: we are living at the time of stupidity and degeneration, we are dealing with pseudo-concerns and excessively evaluating political correctness instead of dealing with the real facts and concerns which in reality create even more inequality and madness and misunderstanding as a result. Every sort of buffoonish social and psychological experiments and formal and informal prescriptions for behaviour have all but healthy outcome – one of the results is that the people of Hungary and Poland have chosen the different way and some other countries are also on the road to right in the EU. The United States also did it and obviously will be keeping the same pace after the 2020 election. The population in many countries is hopelessly divided and full of hatred of each other. One can operate with such empty words and terms like "post-truth" today though which does not have no value in terms of history and politics (because the twisting of truth has been a favourite deed from the beginning of times). The situation is simultaneously ridiculous and ominous and because of that it may be sober to get into such sort of music like the Finnish artist Dereleech's Deadspace. The music which veers away from solemn yet ghastly ambient and suggestively vibrant droning to overwhelmingly powerful drone doom black metal. It is free from inferior spasmodic and hectic leaps, it is all about a stubborn, logical progression both on the structure and emotive side. Could you see a light at the end of tunnel?