9/12/2012
Charles Rice Goff III and Jared C. Balogh - Resonant Tableaux (2011)
9.5
/Experimentalism, Radiophonic, Avant-pop, Indie, Experimental electronica, Folktronica, Crossover, Hauntology, Cut and paste, Free formfreakout, Space Age, Sound collage, Art pop, Avant-garde/
Comment: arrghh, undoubtedly it is a frantic set of 12 pieces which is composed of a huge array of the snippets of (mostly) vintage recording samples, commercials and elaborated sounds. Indeed, it behaves like a chameleon throughout the whole course providing many cogent changes in formation and moods. More profoundly, sometimes it chimes like a space age courier, sometimes like a brother of Dave Keifer`s Cagey House due to its haunting artful outlets, at times like a weird output of indie/folk pop, classical music and electro (which is driven by autotuned robotic vocals with tongue in cheek). Or on the other side offering up instances of buffoonish pop a la Kevin Ayers which do entertain you in a weird way as those compositions which freak out within the territory of ethnic and trance-induced progressions. It is a loveable issue which may make you go nuts.
Due Samoani - Just Guitars (2012)
9.0
/Art rock, Blues rock/
Comment: Due Samoani is an Italy-based experimentalist who has dragged his approach over the realms of blues, post-rock, and indie (check it out his excellent albums, called Early Tapes, and Saturae Cubilculae). This time his concept used to be quite minimal and linear because of playing on electric guitar only. On the other side, it involves a loads of arpeggios and intensified chords shifting seamlessly in between blues and artful pop. Just guitars.
9/11/2012
Motion Sickness of Time Travel - Seeping Through the Veil of the Unconscious (2010)
9.1
/Ambient pop, Ethereal, Kosmische Musik, Drone pop, Avant-pop, Experimentalism, Minimal/
Comment: Rachel Evans`6-track album is minimal yet sufficient enough to seduce the listener after a couple of listening sessions. Indeed, it is built on loops and ethereal (even a little bit haunting sounding like an exhausted witch in agony) vowel effects which are varied with suggestive electronic experiments, throbbing synth pulsations and gleaming lengthy chords. And those a little dirty hisses coming out of periphery are also loveable. Her aesthetics can be compared with the likes of H Stewart, Niobe, Chimney Fish, Julia Holter, Maria Minerva, for instance. In a word, her music can be tagged as a notch of contemporary Kosmische Musik or a sort of astral pop.
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