12/02/2012
Leonardo Rosado - a long white sleep EP (2012)
9.7
/Soundscapes, Abstract, Shoegaze, Ambient, Post-rock, Epic, Dark ambient, Minimalism, Ambient drone, Dystopbient/
Comment: Leonardo Rosado`s 4-track album does reflect upon ambient music in slightly different ways filled in with remote noises and majestic panoramic burning fading away across the Universe. The paradox of the issue is being both abstract and moody at the same time. Especially by listening to variation in white #3 which used to evolve into the realm of shoegaze and space rock-tinged frequencies. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Saito Koji, Tim Hecker, slept., Caustic Reverie, Pan American, Bing Satellites, Loscil. In conclusion, it is highly formidable in its serious capsule providing a possibility about the situation on Earth after the existence of the human race is ended up. The skyscrapers are wrapped up by creepers and the asphalt world is full of cracks and fissures and Heidegger`s books are washed out from rooms and eroded. It is epic, don`t you?
Väljasõit Rohelisse - Külastus (2012)
9.3
/Trance rock, Post-psychedelic electronica, Space rock, Improvised music, Drone rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Krautrock/
Comment: undoubtedly Väljasõit Rohelisse (i.e, drive out to natural environment in a clumsy translation) is one of those fewest spaced-out combos from Estonia whose concept is expressive and contemplative simultaneously. However, the first time I met the group at Schilling, an independent outdoor festival in Kilingi Nõmme, Viljandimaa, Estonia. Their live session was embedded in thick smoke created by particular devices on the stage and covered up with fluorescent green light. By listening to VR`s 7-track album you can detect which way perky and light-hearted moods are merged with exhausting progressions and brooding outlines in the middle of droning keyboard sounds, ragged drums and thudding bass lines, vagrant guitars, resonating sonic walls, and Lauri Tikerpe`s buried vocal murmur. More profoundly, it sounds somewhere in between Spacemen 3, Bardo Pond, and Joy Division, though, having its distinctive bucolic (Estonian) touch rather than pronouncing urban-related theme. (Hotwired) minimalistic psychedelia.
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