[Teaser of the day] BOOL - Ancient City Emerge

Black Square

• Spoken word
• Dub rock
• Lo-fi
• Psych-rock
• Shoegazetronica
• DIY
• Noise rock

Artist: BOOL

Release: I Eat Phantom

Label: Black Square

Year: 2013

Alternative links:

Lastfm

Kevan Paul – Going Home (2009)

Jamendo

Archive.org

/New age, Electronica, Crossover, Cinematic, Art music, Easy listening, Post-classical, World music, Mood music/

Comment: Kevan Paul is a composer from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA whose album`s concept was motivated by the economic oppression following the breakdown of Lehman Brothers at the end of the 00s. It caused serious loss to many families around the world many of them lost their homes bought on long-term loan. Furthermore, by conceptual side, the artist argues about the concept of home and alienation of human being from his/her roots. Indeed, we once come out of nature and created civilizations which trapped us. The outlook seems to be even worse – there exist an invisible snowball as an inferior result between economic relations and needs of overpopulated Earth which used to roll further thereby destructing the nature around us and the human being`s soul and mental health. We are being set up to compete with one another rather than collaborate with. The future is dark and getting even gloomier. Musically this 7-track issue is an unwinding one by searching for balance between lone chords, melody leads and orchestrated harmonies. The listener might find out some acquainted shapes from previous cultural discourses – from composers of the movie motion (Ennio Morricone), art music/post-classical scene (Penguin Café Orchestra), and world music oriented compartment (at times loaning from or developing Celtic music motives) and New Age-y electronic ticking. Emotionally it is contemplative and slightly doleful though providing some beatific panoramic and cinematic whiffs which are more ennobling ones. It is a cute soundtrack undoubtedly.

[Teaser of the day] 7Vortex - Chromosome

BPM Front

• Industrial electro
• Synth industrial
• Leftfield
• Witch house
• Cosmic synth

Artist: 7Vortex

Release: Lime Liquor EP

Label: BPM Front

Year: 2008

Mechaddoar – Dreist (2012)

Bandcamp

/Krautrock, Psych-rock, Experimental rock, Stoner rock, Trance rock, Noise rock/

Comment: although these 5 pieces were produced by Christian Zinke already at the end of the 90s the groove passing through the whole is still impressive and resilient. In fact, the issue has been managed to appear quite poorly in diverse activities because the main accent is set upon trancelike guitar pulsations saturated with fluctuating noise feedbacks and some singing here and there. Stylistically it crosses different styles and phases of path-breaking rock music in history. Indeed, mentally it is obsessive and glowering. It might be that Zinke hates and loves simultaneously what he is doing on it because an intention of the righteous rock music combo should be to destroy its aesthetical basement and scaffold. On the other side, Dreist could be interpreted as an example of space rock flow being captured and enchained, however, thereafter resulting in frantic spasms and delirious rattles within the cage (more concretely, it is tagged as psych-rock). By kindred souls I recommend listen to such names as Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus & Mary Chain, CAN, Faust, Velvet Underground, Spacemen 3. Hilarious shit for sure.

[Teaser of the day] Dark Souls Day - Lifeless

Afmusic

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Angst rock

Artist: Dark Souls Day

Release: X-lives  

Label: Afmusic 

Year: 2010

Alternative links:

Lastfm

Bandcamp

We Are All Slaves - You Must Be Stuck Into Some Complications (2015)

Myhand. Thanx

/Avant-garde, Noise, Psycho-acoustic, Non-music, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout/

Comment: my previous experiences with the discography of the French imprint Myhand.Thanx Records were being related to post-punk-ish yet vanguard sonic forms. However, it was great surprise of mine to find out something totally different. The Serbian Filip Stojiljkovic`s 6-track issue is a source at listening to it you must be stuck into complications. The outing starts off with an intense torrent of harsh noise which later will have dissolved into less straightforward yet even more provoking sonic experiments. FS channels his noise music into more complicated, signal-like appearances and even providing rhythmic threads. Additionally, you can listen to elliptic gurgling being interwoven with vowel layers thereby conjuring fucked-up sensations and frantic mental states. The aesthetic of coverprint of the EP is blurred in the way of reminding of the one by Keith Bowsza aka Minòy, the cultish US-based noisenik and artist (1951-2010) whose experiments with photography were laid down in a similar way. 

[Teaser of the day] Clowder - Well, I Wonder

• Alternative rock
• Cover
• Coldwave
• Shoegazetronica
• Electronic
• Ambient rock

Artist: Clowder

Release: VA - A Dreaded Sunny Day - A Tribute to The Smiths

Label: The Blog That Celebrates Itself

Year: 2015