Misha Mishajashvili - 2011 (2011/2012)

Trash Can Dance

Mediafire

Bandcamp

9.2

/Spoken word, World music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Avant-industrial, Crossover, Ethnic music, Acousmatics, Psycho-acoustic, Non-music/

Comment: Misha Mishajashvili provides a batch of intriguing, oddly designed compositions which are immersed with very surprising aspects and crossways. More concretely, it chimes like a chronicle of the industralization of the USSR and the creation of a new human race. Moreover, it can be viewed as a sonic evidence of the socialist realism where the dominating industrial-tinged axis is embellished with ethnic music motives (a loads of tabla rhythms below the sound layers), church choirs, jazzy samples and spoken word snippets which in turn used to depict relentless propaganda of the Red Plague. MM used to masterfully treat and distort these hiss-soaked elements, however, therefore amplifying and widening certain bits and spots from within the tremendous whole giving it an anxious milieu and distinct touch. Powerful!

[Teaser of the day] Kent State - Disconnected (feat. Airlooms)

[Teaser of the day] Irish - Curtain call for The Man

The Echelon Effect - Cascade

Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame - 2006 (2012)

Giant Manilow

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.4

/Baroque pop, Dream pop, Experimental indie, Art pop, Electronic pop, Sunshine pop, Chamber pop, Post-punk/

Comment: undoubtedly Giant Manilow, the Birmingham-related artist is one of the greatest labels all around the world which used to house bands like The Shalfonts, Shocked Elevator Family, Yellobelly, The Reverends, Vampire Cop, The Home Stretch, Bryn Bowen, and Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame. Similarly to the other artists of the label an album of the last named collective (duo) sheds light upon different music styles veering away from baroque-esque thoughfulness and artful frills (therefore qetting quite close to Scott Walker, and David Sylvian, for instance) and murky post-punk/gothic rock/dark wave-alike dredging to insouciance kind of sunshine electronica and pronounced guitar chirps and spatial reverberations in emotions and yearning. In a word, it is enough right to suppose that these 6 tracks represented over there do have higher artistic quality than those first 6 pieces ranked up in the UK single chart top at the time.

Anitek - Calm & Collect Vol.1 (2012)

Jamendo

FMA 

9.0

/Crossover, Chillout, Alternative pop, Nu jazz, Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Breaks, Mood music/

Comment: a brand new one by a prolific master of chillout music called Anitek can easily be described in the terms of crossover music. More profoundly, his soundscape includes a lot of hints at many directions. Nevertheless, this 9-piece album used to be craftily balanced drifting moderately in between trip-hop/hip-hop frills and clearly framed acoustic guitar pop, gritty nu jazz/and smooth jazz visions and a little muddy blues-tinged templates. It seems to be an especially fine listening during the late hours of a day.

Rymdkraft - Kantarelle