8/28/2011
8/27/2011
Anastasia Vronski - The Kursk (2011)
9.2
/Noise, Drone, Lobit, Experimentalism, Conceptual, Found sounds, Electro-acoustic, Acousmatic/
Comment: The Kursk was in a modern way designed Russian submarine which drowned (or was drowned - at least it was claimed in one French documentary film seen years ago) in 2000. Anastasia Vronski used an analogue synth and underwater microphone recordings to create an illusion of the sounds heard by the sailors who perished in the wreck. The soundscape of this 29 minute track is rough and jagged, dense and abrasive. Inspite of being morally ambivalent conceptually, however, the goal is reached perfectly on its sonic side.
Grids/Units/Planes - Her Sound Became my Prayer (2011)
/Post-rock, Shoegazetronica, Electronic, Crossover, Epic, Indie, Emotive electronica/
Comment: While this 5-pieced issue embarks on with a depressive description regarding a woman talking about her child and pain and frustration, it manages to get soon transmitted into a flourishing towering consisting of the elements of shoegazing, post-rock, and chill electronica. There can be drawn parallels upon such kindred souls as M83, Dykehouse, Super Random Knowldege Porridge. Behind Grids/Units/Planes is Andrew Foley, a musician from Brisbane, Australia.
Psychic Enemies Network - P.E.N (1998)
/Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental rock, Epic, Avant-rock, Electro-acoustic, Sampledelic, Crossover, Experimentalism, Ambient rock, New Age, Improvised music/
Comment: This album is a monster. Firstly, its duration is about 90 minutes, on the other hand it veers from vibraphone and xylophone-driven post-rock (a la Mercury Program, and The Dylan Group) and sonic effect-loaded experimentalism to murky ambient patterns and bouncy, cinematic improvisations. More concretely, some chords and snippets are speeded up/slowed down/stretched out, there can be detected for reversed guitars and vocals, witty warped samples) Yet, all of that is somehow zipped through the distorting mirror. In Its Streets offers an unsettling yet highly epic storytelling covered with metallic grit (reminiscent a little of GY!BE). The last track is a remix of In Its Streets by aboombong aka Icastico, an unsung legend, who has been involved in numerous experimental music acts during the last 3 decades (visit the Pen & Mallet site/blog curated by him). In a nutshell, this 13-track album is a hidden and undiscovered yet distinguished chapter in the history of pop music.
Delayscape - Moments, Men and Places EP (2011)
Elpa
8.7
/Electronic pop, Downtempo, Chill out, IDM, Chilltronica/
8.7
/Electronic pop, Downtempo, Chill out, IDM, Chilltronica/
Comment: Delayscape is an experienced, profilic musician from Copenhagen, Denmark having been involved in industrial and electronic music scenes since the first half of 90`s. He used to exploit hardware devices only to conjure up lush analogue sound on its own. Picturesque, harmony-relied progressions and elliptically shaped synthetic chord progressions are up here to provide a loads of variegating backdrops for soothing electronica and billowy downtempo. Indeed, the issue can be considered an instance of chilltronica either.
8/26/2011
Mihkel Kleis - Muusika Lylian Meisteri näitusele 1001 (2008)
8.8
/Progressive rock, Conceptual, Musique concrète, Improvised music, Experimental rock, Fusion/
Comment: Mihkel Kleis was formerly known as the leader of Estonian prog rock combo Luarvik Luarvik (a chara taken out from the brothers Strugatsky`s Dead Mountaineer Hotel) and nowadays improvisational noise/lo-fi/black metal-tinged project EDASI (which line-ups are permanently changeable for every night - similarly to Damo Suzuki`s Network). Muusika Lylian Meisteri näitusele 1001 is the soundtrack for his art school faculty member Lylian Meister`s exhibition, called in 2008. Here are 6 compositions inspired and made up by horror films, 70`s Italian prog rock music, Edward Elgar, and H.P Lovecraft. Besides the main knitting of soft/hard-cored prog vistas and treacherous miasmahs around it he uses concrete sounds, fusion-like reverberations, samples, acute sonic effects and vowel experiments at times. Or just adding an amusing, uplifting composition to finish off the album in a positive pitch - burn the witch, burn the witch. Burn it out, then.
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