10/25/2012
Jaime Munarriz-Susanna Millaruelo-Amanda Rejas - The Basement Tape (1979)
9.3
/Tape music, Post-punk, Acid pop, Psych-pop, Electronic music, Avant-garde, Krautrock, Lo-fi, DIY, Experimentalism, Psychedelic/
Comment: this rarity of 8 compositions comes out from the year 1979 made up of psychedelic grooves, noiseful experiments, offbeat sonic effects. However, all these reliefs used to base on analog synths and sonic treatments. Indeed, it sounds like an instance of obscure post-punk, early industrial, krautrock musician or some demented classically trained composer from the 1950s sitting heedlessly in front of a keyboard while permanently changing phases and turning acidic sounds and thereafter taking some parts from the recording away and cutting and pasting them together otherwise. In a word, it chimes refreshingly and punk-y even at the moment.
Chenard Walcker - Heartbreak Pain Cafe (2005)
9.0
/Breaks, DIY, Plunderphonics, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Psychedelic, Conceptual, Sound collage, Experimentalism/
Comment: firstly, I am being very far from the opinion this case of a handful of tracks is somehow lame or even the lamest thing (as one reviewer suggested at it). For instance, think of DJ Shadow`s compositions (including his critically acclaimed debut album) which are also made up in the same vein - composed of other musicians` samples, though, the result is craftily channelized and accomplished. This time the prolific Frenchman and copyleft activist meets the sounds of Captain Beefheart, a psychedelic/avant-blues legend`s music, however, giving it his own touch and outlook. The release (as the most portion of his other ones) is issued on Free Sample Zone, Walcker`s own label
10/24/2012
Brasileira Camerata - Noves Fora (2007)
8.8
/World music, Improvised music, Experimentalism, Choro, Mood music, Electronic pop, Crossover/
Comment: there is another album from Brazil to be commented today. This bundle is an exciting appearance of carnival-tinged rhythms and circumspect progressions over the course of 7 tracks. More concretely, choro, a basic style originating from Brazil is more and less moderately mixed up with jazz-y elements, ethnic/World Music elements, brass-y fringes, some New Age-y and bossa nova whiffs and ethereal keyboard chords and programmed beats (in Tumaraca remix), i.e made up in an improvised way. However, contemplative moments are varied with more impulsive and careless times, thereby outbalancing the album as a whole emotionally. In a nutshell, it is an enjoyable listening session for sure.
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