Mila Severtseva – Lony EP (2015)

Vaatican

/Experimental electronica, IDM, Experimental techno, Abstract techno/

Comment: I feel many associations are truly sympathetic considering this 4-track issue. I like the way the electronic sound is being produced nowadays. Just take some samples and rhythmic cadences and process them heavily through the sonic filters and looping machines. For instance, at Eir Eelin` the artist exploits a sample of the doorbell to develop and build up the whole track on it. Secondly, I like the role the women enact in the electronic music today. Vampire Weekend, Julia Holter, Maria Minerva, Laurel Halo etc.  Mila Severtseva, however, can particularly be discriminated in one compartment with such IDM/experimental techno/glitched-out techno artists as Zavoloka, adamned.age, AGF. Thirdly, she comes out of Saint Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia which is a beautiful city. In overall, the electronic music is up there to provide endless possibilities for real and potential musicians nowadays. The other tracks by Severtseva within the EP are embellished with clockwork-alike sounds and lethargic rhythms in abstract terms or running quite balmy though often wound up with machine gun near frequencies and glitched-out threads which are emphatically twisted from its original bits. Dig out this nascent EP for yourself and your neighbours. 

[Teaser of the day] Primitive Noyes - EarthLike Planets

• Ambient rock
• Post-rock
• Noise rock
• Experimental rock
• Alternative rock
• Space rock
• Angst pop

Artist: Primitive Noyes

Release: ˚˚˚∆∆∆§low Emergent §ea∆∆∆˚˚˚ //// Slow Emergency

Label: Self-released 

Year: 2013

Nienvox - My Hand Makes Circle In The Sunset Air (2010)

*export label
Archive.org

/Nu jazz, Alternative pop, Chill out, Cinematic, Electronic jazz, Breaks, Acid jazz, Mood music/

Comment: Nienvox is an one-man producer from Yekaterinburg, Russia whose sound is very symptomatic to characterize a tendency in the music world during the last ten years. The Russian musician`s sound is composed of a pile of elements of jazz, electronica, indie pop, and and chill out sound. It is pre-dominantly instrumental though involving some samples from the motion pictures. Frequently there are up two layers of sounds with purpose to accentuate the contrast between them and then bridge them. More profoundly, lo-fi tinged rhythms are counterpointed with cinematic synth progressions or orchestrated clouds atop. His technical aesthetics comes out of heavy sample processing and mixtape presence and on the other side there have relentlessly been turning up viable impulses from the past by inspiring musicians to create something truly breath-taking and wondrous. In fact, it does not make difference to analyse is his 4-track composition either more artsy inflicted or mood music induced. It is a natural part of development of things the artist is being related to such music records (Bump Foot, Pop Errors Gallery and Dusted Wax Kingdom) who have contributed to popularize such sort of sound described above. In a word, it is a great outing to accompany your late nights and early mornings. 

[Teaser of the day] Project Divinity - Relax

• Ambient
• Chill out
• New Age
• Space music
• Minimal
• Mood music
• Soundscapes

Artist: Project Divinity

Release: Ambient  

Label: Jamendo  

Year: 2009

Mystified - Cardboard Hotel Revisited (2014)

Webbed Hand 

/Drone, Soundscape, Musique concrete, Minimalism, Ambient drone, Dark ambient, Avant-garde, Sound-art, Conceptual, Experimentalism/

Comment: undoubtedly Thomas Park aka Mystified (also known as Autocad, Mister Vapor) is being one of the most known web/net audio veterans who has been creating music since the first half of the 00s. His tenure might only be comparable with Dave Keifer aka Cagey House in this compartment. There is up one long-running composition, having a length of 20 minutes and 54 seconds. By listening to it the listener can perceive that such a kind of ambient drone and dark ambient music could be truly emotive. Maybe even the most arousing music produced around him/her. It does not particularly speak about love between people which might frequently turn into a buzz word only. It does not particularly speak love for God which might frequently be subliminal. It is all about warm sounds to surface and conjoin with one another step by step. More concretely, it is about hisses and microscopic noises, it is all about restrainedly progressing whistling impulses here and there which are to get in touch with the concrete music sounds (some buried rhythms resemble the locomotive`s wheel-induced frequencies) in the second part. At times these sounds are counterpointed with magically haunting orchestrated clouds coming from nowhere, then sustaining and fading out. Emotionally these 1254 seconds are positive ones although the objects speculatively denoted over there might be ominous and venomous (of course, I don`t concretely focus upon such majestic creatures as the snakes). I mean mystified creatures spawned in the human being`s mind and soul with purpose to broaden our inner and outer space and then conquer it. Don`t forget – the human being needs actually wilderness and space (without being changed it into places totally) around him/her. Space is actually not equal to place. The former is tremendously more high-powered and divine. As she/he needs it she/he needs Mystified-kind sound either (although he/she might not be aware of it in fact). In a nutshell, get this gem to fulfil one of your most essential needs. By the way, conceptually the issue is related to Park`s first outing Cardboard Hotel EP on the Webbed Hand imprint in 2004.    

[Teaser of the day] Kalvik - LNTE

Lejal Genes

• Tech-house
• Club dance
• Hi-NRG
• Electronic dance music

Artist: Kalvik

Album: Kalvikkaanid

Label: Lejal Genes

Year: 2006

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Joxfield ProjeX – Archives EP 7 – Dark Castle (2013)

Tin Can Music

/Space rock, Improvised music, Psych-rock, Avant-rock, Electronic, Art rock, Fusion, Experimental rock, Jazz rock, Avant-prog, Kosmische Musik/

Comment: any time I feel tempted to repeat what I have already said in earlier reviews and add something new to more recent issues with regard to Joxfield ProjeX, the Swedish magical duo of Janne Yan Andersson, and Stefan Oax Ek. I recommend search for my interview with Stefan at Recent Music Heroes taken approximately four years ago where he cast light upon their activity, influences, history and something else. More concretely, they are two gentlemen from the two biggest cities In Sweden who started their collaboration exactly 50 years ago while doing it for 10 years. However, their new activity in the embodiment of Joxfield ProjeX was born in 2005 in a small village (Kolpebo) somewhere in between Gothenburg and Stockholm. They just decided to gather over there to create and produce music for its own sake. Indeed, what dedication! Most albums produced so far are being released on their own imprint Tin Can Music, and Moscow-based Clinical Archives. This year, however, they issued a vinyl release, called Casino Royal in collaboration with Acid Mother Temple`s ex-singer and synth player Cotton Casino. The pre-eminent outing was released on Bam Balam, the legendary French imprint for innovative rock music since 1982. Hurry up, it is the limited edition only! Besides, they have collaborated with such progressive rock luminaries as Geoff Leigh, and Pat Mastoletto, and digital culture sociopath Kenji Siratori during this quite short span of time. By the way, Acid Mother Temple`s frontman Makoto Kawabata featured at Submarine Trees on Casino Royal.

At Archives EP – Dark Castle all the sound is produced by themselves only which does not surprise because the EP is a part of the Archives EP series, a bunch if issues which used to reflect upon their early doings in the 00s. It consists of two compositions (Dark Castle; Heavy Oax Missing) replete with more hidden or unveiled sonic layers. The sound is mostly improvised, yet, it chimes in the way the process to be properly managed. And it is actually very fine because allowing to get more focused and bring forth more ingredients and flavours from within. Despite it the more you listen to it the more you will experience vertigo and feel how your foot lose touch with the ground. By regarding the psychedelic music it is the very goal on its own. Musically there are represented incisive guitar strokes and deliberately dysfunctional guitar riffs (reminding of Jimi Hendrix at times) which are permeated with haunting fusion-alike chord progressions and eerie woodwind whiffs somewhere in the middle of it. The other counterpoints come out from rhythm fuelled levels – those obsessively monotonous punches only accentuate the glowering nature of the issue even more. Highly recommended.