Recent Music Heroes

3/27/2017

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Maude

Cratediggers

Post-classical
Art music
Avant-garde
Film noir
Alternative
Chamber music

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: Montauk

Label: Cratediggers

Year: 2001

The Gifted Children – Open Windows (2009)

The Gifted Children
Bandcamp

Indie pop
Alternative pop
Art pop
Noise pop
Chamber pop
Epic
Electronic
Jangle pop
Americana
Baroque pop

Comment: it seems the only shortage of this 7-track outing is related to its shortness. It chimes as if there were represented one track only though the track with different facets and magnetic fields. From lofty chamber pop glimpses and luminous Americana induced developments to catchy jangle pop instances to a more tumultuous noise pop explosion (Here Comes The Flood) and dreamy piano driven numbers to a sublime, restrained electronic instance (Niblick). But it is not an instance of indie by numbers. It is a dynamic drift between the different genres and because of that many the so-called indie groups do have much to learn from it. It might be by using the word "indie" for that it is a pejorative case. It is highly sympathetic of how the soundscape of these songs used to soar and reach fairly blissful points eventually (for instance, at A Forest). Top notch by any means by the Rochester, NY, US-based combo. Give your valuable time to listen to it.

3/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Boogich Bulgar

Free Music Archive

Ethno punk
Balkan music
Brass pop
Punk rock
World music
Gypsy music

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Wild Goats and Useless Heroes

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp/Jamendo

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Death Grips - Runway H

Third Worlds

Electronic music
Alternative
Leftfield
Industrial-hop
Avant-hop
Experimental hip-hop
Urban music
Instrumental hip-hop

Artist: Death Grips

Release: Fashion Week

Label: Third Worlds

Year: 2015

Noise Machine – Disturbing Sensitive Ears (2013)

DreamNoise

Noise
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Non-music
Leftfield
Psychoacoustic

Comment: undoubtedly the relations between music and noise is a topic on its own. Firstly, how it should be categorised, is it a part of music or a deviation from it? One of the first noiseniks were Italians and they created their soundscapes to protest against the war and atrocities which ravaged Europe despite the lofty ideas and profound thought being predominant in science and philosophy in the first two decades. Noise music as a composed art of powerful, devastating sounds was an incisive sign reflecting on decayed and collapsed ideas regarding humanity. The Brazilian Noise Machine as a project started off in the mid-90s to create overwhelming soundscapes providing no mercy and grace. This 4-track outing is a mind-blowing ravage based on brownish noises, "erroneous" frequencies being thrown over the four soundscapes. Indeed, a listener is the subject to partake from these "errors" as a musical component. At times one can suspect is it alright with his/her stereo system or headphones. Is it a terrible mess for you? I really hope you will not perceive it in that way because of not being that shit altogether. Although it is not easy ride at all one can figure out many intriguing sounds, hisses, effects and eventually a whole behind it. It plays tricks on your sacred mind. The outing is a part of the discography of DreamNoise imprint.