Damo Suzuki & Magical Unicellular Music: WHNZ:17:SUM (2011)

Free Music Archive

9.0

/Improvised music, Jam session, Avant-rock, Krautrock, Experimental rock, Live session, Psychedelic, Psych-rock/

Comment: CAN`s Tago Mago (1971) has been one of the strangest albums I have ever heard, an album which extended the borders of my consciousness. Moreover, it was the first album of CAN where was made appearance by Kenji "Damo" Suzuki who used to sing in a hell-ish mix of psychedelia, articulated/unarticulated incantations, fixing up recognized and fictive, self-contrived languages. Approximately 10 years after his leaving from the Cologne-based quartet he started off his solo project as Damo Suzuki`s Network, rambling around the world and perfoming with a wide array of local artists (so-called Sound Carriers). However, this time the Japanese legend is assisted by the magnificient Russian/Belorussian combo Magical Unicellular Music (for instance, listen to their albums at the Clinical Archives). Their set lasts up to a bit more than one hour, all the sound is wrapped up in a highly mantric section of the trialogue of bass-drums-guitar. Actually it is penetrated with psychedelic synths at times. A charming improvised psych-jam session indeed. This man can previously punch and groove.

Björn Ganzer - Love is the Rebel (2011)

Bakery Allstars inc
Lastfm

9.1

/Art-pop, Experimental indie, Electro-pop, Crossover, Electronic pop, Power pop, Synth pop, Experimental rock, New Wave, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: Obviously one of the most unique issues of 2011 so far. Stylistically, it is neither pure representation of synthetic pop and art-pop nor clear-cut occurrence of psychedelic pop and indie rock, yet on the other side having lots of juncture points regarding the sound of the Doors and early shoegaze-influenced Stereolab and such off-kilter solo musicians as David Sylvian, Scott Walker, and Thomas Dolby. Indeed, he is harnessing the potence of lustrous synthesizers with subtle singer-songwriter-ism, drifting between solemn and worldly, between a kind of glossy insight and abrasive patterns and powerful explorations. Indeed, it is a mesmerizing path to go alongside. Love is the Rebel is released on Bakery Allstars inc, an intriguing Swedish label.

Suhov - Naha

Alexandre Bilodeau - Veins-tu (2006)

Epsilonlab

9.3

/Deep house, Dub house, Tech-house, Club dance, Electro/

Comment: This release is a truly classic one even if it is not unsung to it yet. Coming out from Montrèal, Quebec, Canada, it shows up the chunky beats and drilling-ness of electro, bubblegum-ism, hypnotic repetition-relied house rhythm patterns - veering from dubbed house to deep house, and over to tech-house. The value of the issue is universal, i.e being hidden in its ambivalence - it is thought for the stages of the music clubs and for listening in the cozy ambience in the late night hour somewhere. In any cases, it coils your very mood up.

Thomas Truax - Lost On The Moon In June (2011)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Synth pop, Experimental indie, Baroque pop, Chamber pop, Electronic pop, Alternative, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: This is another notch of the annual array of 2011 by this US-based singer-songwriter who used to be armed with a loads of weird custom-mastered instruments. In comparison with his previous single Free As Fireflies In May, this time guitars (or at least similarly chiming instruments) are replaced with the electronic approach. More concretely, it is a very nice song orchestrated and embellished with breaking sounds and crooning vocal lines.

Keroøàcidu Suäväk - Keroøàcidu Suäväk (2010)

Bandcamp

7.6

/New Weird Brazil, Free folk, Improvised music, Weird folk, Freeformfreakout, Experimental folk, Primitive music/

Comment: Those five long-running improvisations come from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Primitivistically freaked out, at times giddy, at times high-tempered folk-based experiments do chart the extremities of pop music, reminiscent of such artists as Hipsu Jänis, Vierivä Viiksiportieeri, and Xarhope. "Lyrics" consists of unusual symbols, some of them having nothing to do with the phonetic syllabies.

Dirtblonde - The Hangmen