Sobre A Máquina - Areia (2011)

Sinewave

9.2

/Fusion, Post-metal, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, Improvised music/

Comment: Sobre A Máquina is a Brazilian experimental combo delivering their second issue Areia, a follow-up to Decompor. Their instrumental approach is built on massive guitar dominance poisoned with piano chords, resonating mazes of noises, programmed beats, altogether gathering the enthralled ambience around those abovementioned sonic constituents. Yet, it goes far beyond the borders of post-rock and industrial rock, permitted to land somewhere inbetween post-metal and fusion (saxophone!) and dark wave. I recommend listen to Flora`s Trip (2010), and Wreck And Reference`s Black Cassette (2011) as well.

Alpha Couple - A Walk In Central Park

The Stalactites - Dark Matters (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Instrumental rock, Post-rock, Chamber rock, Experimental rock, Epic/

Comment: instrumental post-rock embellished with the fringes of chamber rock/classical/symphonic music. 11-track issue does have lots of festal moments crafted by Johnny Benoit, Sophie Hebbelynck, and Rudy Hellio. Guitars, drums, and violins are their friends.

Adriano Orrù – Hèsperos (2011)

La bèl

8.7

/Chamber music, Improvised music, Experimentalism/

Comment: Adriano Orrù provides six tracks all played with the help of a double bass and some additional devices. Actually it is much more above you than usual chamber music used to represent cutting edges for. More profoundly, it is filled in with frenetic jam sessions which ultimately seems to be intricate and highly energized.

Lullatone - Growing Up

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Marc Broude - Noise Improvisation

Catherine Corelli - Take Da Jive (2011)

Jamendo

8.8

/Art pop, Crossover, Downbeat, Hip-hop, Symphonic metal, Soul, Electronic pop, Pomp pop/

Comment: Catherine Corelli from Moscow, Russia is back again. Her new release is a frenetic hotchpotch of diverse genres veering away gothic symphony-induced mist and and fragile soul and swinging funk and whimsical art/chamber pop. Some downbeat and jazz-like numbers are settled over here either. Certainly CC`s tricky and variable (vocal) timbres are highly enjoyable and filled in with vast passion, however, frequently manipulating with her own listeners. The closure track C#Stars is well elaborated and sensually expressive. All in all, it is a spectacular 12-track enterprise thought principially for everyone.