9/21/2012
Viktar Siamashka - h.M (2012)
8.8
/Improvised music, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic/
Comment: Viktar Siamashka`s 6-piece album is recorded somewhere in the abandoned industrial buildings in Minsk, Belarus. By the conceptual side it seems to be a quite intriguing outlet due to mixing up acoustic woodwind instruments (flutes, clarinets) with bleak echoes and dystopian feelings coming out from within those rooms with massive walls. Substantially according to such a technical approach of music it is generally restricted with the compositional linearity where the questing chords are swiftly followed up by each other backed up by organic noises coming out of the streets. Now and the the border lines and intention between the mentioned parts get blurred resulting in melting into each other at ease. All in all, it is an exciting issue mandatory for all those melomans who avidly do sympathize with the ideas of improvised music.
Bryn Bowen - The Legendary Journeys Vol.1 (2012)
9.3
/Anti-folk, Indie folk, Power pop, Dream pop, Alternative rock, Singer-songwriter, Folk indie, Experimental indie/
Comment: firstly, this 9-track album could be managed in a more long-running way to acquire even a more sympathetic outlook and appealing output. Indeed, the longest track (The Good Skirt) represented on this 9-track album will be switched off at 1.52. The compositions are recorded at home based on more or less rough guitar strums which are backed up with slight synth whiffs, "accidental" samples and sonic effects, however, emotionally resulting in opposite ways, expressing himself at times in a soothing, at times in a more urging, uplifting way. In conclusion, Bryn Bowen is a very skillful musician of expressing his thoughts through a wide scope of variable moods and soundscapes, through his urges and daydreams. By the way, he runs the Giant Manilow Records and in association with it he is a key member of the “New Rock” Collective which embraces the likes of Shocked Elevator Family, Gentle Friendly, The Reverends, Hell Brown Kids, Brothers Garcia, and Bleeding Judges (which by its whimsical aesthetical approach can freely be compared with the Elephant Six Collective across the Atlantic).
Fighting Lion - Sparkling Days, Sparkling Nights EP (2012)
9.3
/Dream folk, Folktronica, Free folk, New Weird Spain, Alt-folk, Indie folk, Alternative/
Comment: these 6 shorty pieces are heart-breaking harmonic whiffs by the Asturia/Catalonia-based artist Àlvaro Menèndez who conjures up on an ukulele (which is embellished with the chords of a xylophone or the halcyon furor of a melodica rising to the surface in some tracks) while being surrounded with sublime atmosphere and otherworldly blissful feeling. Ingeneral, his soundscape reminds a little bit of the likes of Beirut, and The Retuses, though, Menendez avoids to get involved in flirtation with the realm of a kind of ethnic/world music. However, I guess the listeners insist on a follow-up in a very strong way.
Greased Up Records presents - Mixed Up Vol. 2 (2012)
9.3
/Chill out, Trip-hop, Breaks, Nu jazz, Hip-hop, Cinematic, Electronic pop, Poptronica, Urban music/
Comment: this batch of 16 tracks comes out of Denmark where has been in charge such label as Greased Up for a while. It is the records` second compilation featuring such artists as Fenger Sway, Hvadkant, Soundtale, Mokjibake, Rewolmer, Zack Christ, Stacks, Sykofant, CRLF, Eloq, Jongpadawan, Fontomi, Roger Beattaker, Syllestruck, Spejderrobot X Shatter Hands, QOΔST & Hors. Stylistically it used to swirl around a little bit smoky but uplifting broken beats and wobbling, organic electronic explorations in the most cases, though, frequently the miscellany does reveal its more psychedelic, spacey and whimsical furors (there are presented such examples as folk-induced and heavily blissed-out electronica, distorted hip-hop numbers, sample-based sunshiny drifts, robot-driven electronic pop). All in all, the compositions are craftily elaborated and not overstated worth to be listened to it again and again evermore.
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