Pimpollo Fenicio & Pimpollo Persa - Música para Niños Leones (2011)

Bandcamp

9.3

/Noise, Drone, Sound art, Microtonal, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Minimalism, Non music/

Comment: "Noise", however, regarding strictly the sound processing is a somehow self-indulgent definition for itself. Indeed, having a hint at the lacking of any kind of borders encircling it, thereby you can see very diverse directions and levels and quality base in this realm so all of that will subsequently be determined on your profound intuition actually (in fact, how to discern it from such styles as sound art, drone, minimal industrial?). Of course, there might be represented some qualities somewhat "intrinsic" to the noise sound, for instance, harsh and very loud sounds, chopped and pitched sonic elements, hooting skeletons and hiss-based undercurrents. All of that is represented on this album of 9 tracks, moreover showing up the inclination toward an arty concept flirting with obscure drone-relied minimalism/microtonalism, and emotive sound art. By the way, this mesmerizing concept comes from Lima, Peru.

The Picturesque Episodes - Tokyo Pulse

Dream Mechanics - Screensaver

Matthieu Choux - Deux Pièces (2011)

Petcord

8.8

/Electro-acoustic, Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics, Sound art, Experimental electronica, Avant-garde, Minimal, Abstract/

Comment: Although this is an instance of dense electro-acoustic progression, however, it makes some difference from the most kinds of electro-acoustics thanks to its vastly evolved dramaturgical point of view. There are represented 2 long tracks which are intended to hit the listeners through the sudden dashes of tempo changes, unexpected treated vocal cuts and hauntingly dystopic milieus reminding of some kind of horror movies sometime seen. Silence is set against the noisy frames and clear-cut half tones-dark drones inbetween it are those essential algorithms searching for new intentions and purposes to be set up.

Jani Hirvonen: Field Recordings From India & Nepal (2007/2010)

OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM
Free Music Archive

7.5

/Field recording, Found sound, Audio documentary, Musique concrete, Non music/

Comment: This is an audio documentary based on one man`s wandering and recording in the Hindustan Peninsula and Nepal. Although not always used to be the best in the quality of sound, however, during those 103 minutes you can be a witness to the street sounds, temple incantations, wedding outtakes and nature sounds (birds and camels) surrounding you tightly right and left. Juxtapose it with an analogous yet more elaborated and purposed output by Oscar Coen Polack, titled as The Skipping Monk (Recordings Of Nature And Culture In India) (2009, Narrominded). Deserving thanks in any cases.

Bombay Laughing Club - The Golden Years (2007)

Peppermill
Lastfm

8.8

/Avant-blues, Improvised music, Avant-garde, Experimental indie, Psychedelic, Crossover, Experimental pop/

Comment: This is a off-kilter blues-based album by a loosely related Canadian treeplanters combo filling their resting time between the job. Most of the songs seem to run in the vein of improvised jams reminding of the Captain Beefheart and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion or The Doors`s La Woman at its more ordinary moments. Sometimes the combo`s experiments used to crisscross the borders of the blues music, reaching out the realms of krautrock, raga music, just a case of proper indie rock (You Want It All) and even the cases of humour (for instance, Blue Berry which sounds like a mocking version of the kind of Rednex`s eurobeat disco). Or Slippery Sleep which is an immense run on the Stereolab-alike art pop/experimental indie in the first part.

Winstonmcnamara - As the Majic Brain