Cosmic Boxer - Everything Depends On You (Berlin Edition) (2011)

Cosmic Boxer
Lastfm

9.4

/Dream pop, Indie pop, Alternative pop, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Poptronica, Dream folk/

Comment: dream-heavy longing based either on ethereal piano based chord drops or more floatingly drifting string-relied alternative/dream pop which is prone to demonstrate sphere-related topics and blissful, past-centered glimpses (as we know very well the past used to be realized as future sometime). However, the listener can figure out some similarities with such groups as Slowdive, Trembling Blue Stars, Northern Picture Library. At times his sound gets more involved in the realm of glo-fi-esque developments (for instance, fascinating Jasper In Denmark). A batch of truly beautiful songs with high potential for future days.

TRaiN SP Collective - kidnaping the noise (2012)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Shoegaze, Avant-rock, Alternative, Electro-acoustic, Experimental rock, Electro-rock, Indie dance, Space rock, Improvised music/

Comment: TSPC is a collective from Greece who offer up a relaxing and sometimes intriguing set of eight (mainly long-running) progressions. In detail, the album consists of a blend of shoegaze-ish jamming and spacey rock vibes which are obviously recorded as the unplugged ones. Indeed, it is tightly surrounded by electro-acoustic sort of vapour at times variegated with jew`s harp and harmonica-induced chords (reminding a little bit of Aboombong, and Vlor, the US-based quirky musical collectives). However, without you, you and you makes more sense due to electronics-drenched vibrations and chopped-up sonic effects around and below it. The same can be said about the last episode which shares lofty shoegaze-ish progressions with acute breakbeat/jungle sequences. Subsequently can be said that it is a case of how shoegaze and space rock can be converted into an instance of as if it were performed by jazz musicians-improvisers who accidentally like to listening to noiseful guitar music.

Bezukov - A água, o cinza, o vão (2011)

Editora do Porto
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.8

/Ambient noise, Ambient drone, Drone, Ambient, Minimal, Avant-garde, Abstract, Experimentalism/

Comment: jestingly you can admit there will be a little bit happening throughout the course. Just 4 tracks which used to intensely pulsate conjuring up an imagination as if white noise were blended with massive washes of the infiltrated masses of droning trash which are amplified and extended now and then. Indeed, those sublime elements and minutiae within this tight mass do make substantively sense, getting quite close to the illustration of how particles managed to run at the high speed within the unstable environments. Behind Bezukov hides himself Roger Farias, a Brazilian composer.

Nice Wings Icarus! - Aurora

D’INCISE/HENNIG/KOCHER/SCISS - D’INCISE/HENNIG/KOCHER/SCISS (2012)

Insubordinations

9.0

/Sound art, Electro-acoustic, Abstract electronica, Avant-garde, Microtonal, Experimental electronica, Improvised music, Experimentalism, Noise/

Comment: there is a connection between Switzerland-based musicians, and between accordion-induced music and nuance-filled live electronics. Three laptops and one accordion. There are 4 long-running compositions which comprise a shitloads of improvised tendencies and refreshing variegations. More concretely, this is a dialogue between organic sounds and more or less treated microscopic sonic explorations, between the acute washes of noise and barely perceptible silentful oscillations drifting between music and...mhh...physics. The album is a shift between the pixels and voxels of white and grey and black-hued minimalism. Or on the other side, this is an intricate and intriguing set of improvised tracks wrapped up in the electro-acoustic/acousmatic environment.

Twizzle - Soda Fountain (2003)

Comfort Stand
Lastfm

9.2

/Electronic pop, Sampledelic, Plunderphonics, Cut and paste, Sound collage, Crossover/

Comment: Twizzle, a Seattle-based duo (Sir Mildred Pitt; Spacecake) had issued their debut 4-piece composition on the legendary Comfort Stand label in 2003. The issue is spectacular because of involving the elements of a diverse array of styles and genres, taking on chanson, art pop, downbeat, electronic pop,ethnic-tinged endeavours, crossover, however, all of that is made up of cut and paste/plunderphonics aesthetics. Piano-based careless tickles are represented there along with captivating orchestrations which will dominate in the senses of the listener. Especially outstanding is Black Elk Mountain which includes Bond-esque orchestration snippets and murky trip-hop-soaked vocals and paces. The more you listen to it the more it gets captivate you. The duo`s aesthetics can be compared with the likes of People Like Us, Pogo, Ergo Phizmiz, and Chenard Walcker.