Circle Of Lebanon - Circle Of Lebanon (1996)

Embryo

9.5

/Sound-art, Experimental metal, Doom rock, Drone doom, Psycho-acoustic, Dark ambient, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Experimental electronica/

Comment: Circle of Lebanon is one of those projects being closely related to Skye Klein, the Australian avant-rocker and sound manipulator. There are up 5 pieces which take on mayhem-alike progressions filled in with glowering guitar drones and massive drum breaks which meanwhile are replaced with distorted vocal snippets, whimsical yet strained electronic arrangements. Frequently the soundscape is getting to grow beyond the borders of rock/metal borders, however, ultimately, landing in the realm of ambient/sound art/psycho-acoustic music/acousmatics. Indeed, at these moments this sound chimes like a soundtrack for a theatre performance somewhere in a dusty art house. In a nutshell, it is a tremendous stuff being one of those unsung gems waiting to be discovered sometime in the future.

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FMA

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B For Brontosaurus - RUT!

Fake Realize - Supra EP (2012)

Nekura Kid
Bandcamp 

9.1

/Electro-rock, Trance rock, Noise rock, Experimental rock, Industrial rock, EBM/

Comment: this set of 4 tracks is managed in a powerful way to have a shift in between machine-induced beat mayhem, rough guitar washes and heavily thudding bass gears. All in all, this instrumental outlet is a joyous attack (or caress?) to the listener`s body and perception centres. Let`s term the sound design of the EP as "IBM" (industrial body music), though a piece called Try is the refreshing exception because of driving out on repetitive patterns and hypnotic whiffs coming out of it.

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!

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