Lebensjunge - Lebensjunge (der junge Tag) (2004/2009)

Accessory Takes
FMA
Bandcamp

9.3

/Noise, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Non-music, Rhythmic noise, Abstract, Powerelectronics, Cut and paste/

Comment: I have always loved to variegate my listening habits with listening to noise music-induced compositions because most of these proponents are intended to get rid of feelings and not being burdened with melodies and harmonies. For instance, this album with a handful of arrangements are about sonic explorations, showcasing its ability to think in the categories of pure mind and transcendent realms.I think Immanuel Kant would have loved it. On the other side, the album does have its more pop-appealed (or more recognizable) moments within it, though. For instance, Lebensjunge (a project from Moscow, Russia) involves the aspects of near-ethnic music at 9:17.58 and the issue will be ended up with a cut and paste-alike act by using the samples of highly suggestive library music (4:12.10). If to emanate from the point of view of kindred souls, however, the likes of Kanin Krusete, Dror Feiler, Psovod, and Edgeist should be mentioned at least. A highly convincing enterprise indeed.

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The Juliets - Perfect Season (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Indie pop, Alternative pop/rock, Chamber pop, Vaudeville pop, Art pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: The Juliets, a Detroit-based combo is back with their sophomore album, called Perfect Season, a follow-up to their vastly fascinating self-titled release, which was one of the most remarkable notches in 2010. While this 12-track set does not include such frenetic teasers as Sweetheart, Sunday Song, or Evolved Into, the quintet used to be still enough enjoyable, providing idiosyncratic, melodramatic yet a little bit more straightforward pop pieces, having some similarities with the likes of Arcade Fire, The Antlers, The National, and Beirut and Sufjan Stevens. For instance, it chimes even a little better than the last one by Arcade Fire. All in all, enjoy this lovely music made by lovely people.

Jayne Lakissova - Pam-Param

Vulcan Sessions - Vulcan Sessions (2011)

Clinical Archives

8.6

/Improvised music, Electro-acoustic, Experimental, Avant-garde, Free jazz, Live session, Dark ambient, Ambient drone/

Comment: before the listening of this album I had listened to If, Bwana`s (the project of Al Margolis) enthralling Assemble.Age (2010, Mutable) which is a microtonal, improvised noise/electronica/drone embellished with the elements of classicism (I shall have to say thank you to Tiit K, who allowed me the album). However, the Vulcano Sessions does have similarities with the abovementioned so I can admit the continuation of the same path. The album was recorded in Tenerife by the most eminent Spanish improvisers (including the members of Trio Antimanierista who, by the way, have appeared many times in the roster of Clinical Archives before it. More concretely, minimally "orchestrated" or squeaking strings (cellos) are intertwined with brass-wind instruments, and live electronics. The last two tracks (Mi Patio (third); La Particula) used to deviate from the usual template of the issue, providing a poignant vision based on a kind of sharp-edged electronica/droning, vowel experiments and dizzy phase and chord changes, and the washes of massive ambient drones, respectively. Ultimately the listener can conclude this album with 7 tracks is an asylum for old and modern, for traditional and innovative.

Anitek - Sae Yeon (2011)

Jamendo

8.8

/Nu jazz, Trip-hop, Urban music, Dub, Sampledelic, Chill out, Big beat, Crossover/

Comment: Anitek is a producer from Morristown, New Jersey, USA who has released approximately 20 albums at Jamendo. His influences involve Rachmaninoff, DJ Krush, Bonobo, and Fat Jon. Indeed, Anitek`s sound is profoundly eclectic and sampledelic, however, providing lots of warm memories and feelings appearing after many listening times. More concretely, it veers away the basin of nu jazz, shapes of dub and reggae, and the paces of smoky nu jazz and bold big beat. The lovely coverprint is there as well.

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