Mel - Unguarded (2010)

Bypass

Archive.org

Lastfm

/Ambient, Experimental electronica, IDM, Folktronica, Post-rock/

Comment: Mel is the Japanese musician Aogu Yoshida (also known as On_14, and Ao) who is being part of the discography of such labels as Test Tube, Bypass, MiMi, On-Li, Rain Music, Complementary Distribution. Unguarded was issued in 2010 under the Chinese label Bypass. The album consists of a couple of lengthy compositions, however, being truly eclectic and mixed. More concretely, borderline post-rock meets downhome folktronic meets circulatory IDM meets panoramic ambient. The issue is based on an edited live recording with purpose to preserve the previous warmth inside it. The listener can perceive both acoustic and electronic feel, both freedom and titillatingly aesthetical pressure on her/his nerves. Furthermore, some of these acoustic chords seem to be loaned from the Japanese traditional music. Despite of being heavily segmented in form the whole sounds in an organic way. In a nutshell, it is truly appealing.      

Beast, Please Be Still - Beast, Please Be Still (2007)

Lastfm

Bandcamp

/Dark folk, Medieval, Americana, Post-folk, New Weird America, Indie folk, Drone folk, Folk indie, Art folk/

Comment: beast does not behave quite in a way how the title would like to see. More profoundly, this 7-track issue is an artsy interplay between silence and ascending and expanding (indie) folk numbers having hints at different folk music periods and locations – from hysterical, Arcade Fire-esque indie outbursts and joyous burlesque interludes to more restraint, even medieval/pagan folk-induced alike shards, beguiling Americana elegies and going to Appalachian at times. Even some post-rock alike scraps are presented in the periphery. The ordinary instrumentation is laced with compelling glockenspiels, overdriven synths and sublime accordions. Their soundscape is filled with emotive charge to the very last seconds of the issue. Beast, Please Be Still is a 7-head collective from Seattle, Washington whose music can be compared with the likes of Arcade Fire, Anahita, Espers, and Darkwood, for instance. In a word, it is an outstanding effort by any means.                      

Bruno Susio – Blues Espresso (2014)

Jamendo

Smart Note

/Mood music, Easy listening, Jazz, Chill out, Regatta pop, Yacht pop/

Comment: Bruno Susio`s Blue Espresso is properly up-to-date because of chiming like a breeze in the midst of depressing autumnal darkness. It is a moody blend of light-weighted yet picturesque jazz progressions, easy-going chill music and cloudless yacht pop chords filled with slightly psychedelic and artsy brass facets here and there. However, by harmonic side it winds up stepwise hence revealing the essence of the album`s core. It reminds me of the years throughout the 80s in the Soviet Union when such kind of music was played in the radio sometime between 2-5 PM. By the way, Bruno Susio is a man behind Smart Note Records, a label with the intent to distribute Italian-based soul, funk, and jazz groove all around the world. All in all, though this 19-minute issue is seemingly unpretentious the result is flawless. Love it.                   

[Teaser of the day] Gumbel - Bit War (ft. Perturbator)

• Indietronica
• Electro-indie
• Alternative pop
• Mood music

[Teaser of the day] Bob Meanza - Il Funambolo

suRRism-Phonoethics

• Experimentalism
• Avant-garde
• Art music
• Organ music
• Academic music 

Glaze of Cathexis - Spinning Top

ANALOGIC CAPTIVE - TYF (1996-1999)

CS Industrial 1982-2010

/Noise, Rhythmic noise, Dark ambient, Non-music, Power electronics, Illbient, Industrial, Experimental electronica, Psycho-acoustic, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: I find any album dig out from the past is worth to be re-issued and analysed and further to put it into the adequate historical context. And those people and labels and bloggers who have revised old music are worth to be honoured. More concretely, this 13-track issue is re-released under CS Industrial 1982-2010 (firstly issued in 1999 under OLEUM product) whose purpose is to bring forth noise and industrial music in Czech and Slovakian Republic (as Czechoslovakia until 1993) from the above mentioned period of time. Roman Černý spawned result is wondrous – it sounds like an oeuvre by an industrial worker who has disillusioned regarding the future and perceives indescribable anxiety and psychic distress. By aesthetical aspect the outlet is mesmeric due to organic merge between harsh industrial music and brown/and black noise, between and pulsatory drone snippets and circumspectly fluttering damaged ambient music (read: illbient, dark ambient) and pounding power electronic appearances and incisive experimental electronic explorations and ghostly spoken word snippets filled with shrieks and gloomy murmurs. However, those warm analogue sounds do balance harsh nature of the album. In a word, the effect is overwhelmingly mind-provoking and magnetizing.