Shirubi Ikazuchi - Fantom City from Elina Kasesalu on Vimeo.
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Gurdonark - Seven Virtues (2009)
Comment: Robert Nunnally, a 52-year-old musician/netaudio activist from Texas, USA had released his first album approximately 10 years ago. Additionally to the creation of music he runs Negative Sound Institute, a record label co-founded with Verian Thomas, another musician. Seven Virtues includes...surprise, surprise... seven tracks which at the first glance seem to be way too tedious and sparse. Yet, the more you are getting into it the more approval it gets. Actually its minimal undertones within ticking electronic progressions and more swelling visions and some propulsive forays and barely perceptible pitch and phase changes start to function finally demonstrating its strength and huge affinity. Indeed, the release is the kind of grower, and the whole seems to be bigger than its parts on their own.
˦eS‡∆iSL & Zoom-on-a-Kill - ∆uthentic Sexual Liberation (2011)
Bandcamp
9.4
9.4
/Witch house, Newbreed, Avan-garde, Avant-electronica, Drag, Trianglecore, Experimental electronica, Dark pop/
Comment: crosses and triangles. This 12-track album is as sharp as the razor blades on your face or on your ... . The collaboration act comes out from Mexico, providing truly angry and demented and on the other side some peculiarly soothing appearances running in the wake of witch house/newbreed/drag aesthetics. More concretely, hardcore, grindcore, (post-)dubstep, dark wave, ethereal sequences, and even some such sort of examples reflecting upon the aesthetics of cut and paste/sound collage - all these styles are seamlessly mixed up with each other showcasing the outlet as essentially convincing - however, outreaching the realm closely related to hipsters`bounce. Louder than bombs indeed. The instance of nowadays punk music for sure. I am sure Malcolm McLaren would have liked it.
Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino - Live at WFMU on Transpacific Sound Paradise October 8th, 2011 (2011)
FMA
9.4
9.4
/Ethnic music, World Music, Live session/
Comment: captivating ethnic music-tinged incantations and colourful wassails by a septet from Salento, Puglia, the southern part of Italy. By listening to it am not wondering at all about the fact that they were awarded as the best Italian World Music group in 2010. These 7 tracks are laced together from diverse influences from different places of the world, however, which used to swing and stomp and exult incessantly or on the other side taking on more brooding (Questa Matina) or droning (Tira Cavallu) gears. The songs are variegated with female and male-sung voices and more instrument-relied endeavors (Indiavolata). At Indiavolata the combo gets quite close to the sonorous yet pensive aesthetics of Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Great
Simon Piler and The Atom Band - Lo Swing of the Earth (2011)
Quixodelic
9.2
9.2
/Psych-folk, Weird folk, Indie folk, Alt-folk, New Weird America, Psychedelic, Spoken word, Avant-folk/
Comment: these 8 pieces by Simon Piler and Brendon Hertz, Scarytoes, Def Mute, Emerson Betchkal, and Lt. Spark are all about folk music, though, the combo used to outreach the average, stereotype-obscured understanding of it. Strumming guitars are blended with chanting, at times even hysterical sort of singing. All of that is present within the open-ended yet somewhat warped atmosphere. Indeed, it symbolically hints at a vast array of possibilities so characteristic to this publication. The group`s guitar works are used to come across close to the aesthetics of John Fahey, Leo Kottke and other representatives of American Primitivism and on the other digging out lots of inspiration from the tradition of 60`s hippie and psych-folk seeds. At times these chants are variegated with spoken word interludes and found sound records. In a nutshell, all these projects related to the umbrella of Quixodelic and Daydream Generation do not disappoint the listener.
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