[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Slow Autumn and the Fire

Archive.org

• Modern classical
• Mood music
• DIY
• Baroque pop
• Alternative
• Lo-fi
• Chamber pop

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: The Gradual Riddle

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bluebridge Quartet - Karp

Aerotone

• Post-rock
• Fusion
• Jazz rock
• Crossover
• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Progressive rock

Artist: Bluebridge Quartet

Release: Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP

Label: Aerotone

Year: 2007

Akiba Jonze – Realm of Rain (2015)

Mothermantra

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• Ambient pop 
• New Age 
• Folktronica 
•  Musique concrète 
• Electronic music 
• Organic electronica 
• Chilltronica

Comment: this couple of tracks is imbued with concrete sounds, guitar twangs, synthesised gongs and gentle yet compelling electronic beats with intention to conjure up a mystical world somewhere in the middle of tropical warmth, sultry raining as if letting surface a fairy tale alike ambience. It is way too beatific to be a subject of belief. It partly reminds me of such an artist as it is Tont from Estonia whose soundscapes are similarly otherworldly and wondrous. Jokingly, this is a way of how the New Age musicians make folk music. Realm of Rain was the third single by the artist being released on Mothermantra Records. The sort of ideal music indeed.

FET.NAT – Purple Empereur (2014)

Bandcamp

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Improvised music 
• Art rock
• Crossover 
• Post-punk 
• Avant-rock 
• No Wave

Comment: this set of three tracks (classified as B-sides) from Hull, Quebec, Canada is a provoking rock example with crashing guitars, screaming and weeping vocals in French and a minimised amount of electronic music. That's weird in its dadaist approach while being somehow lofty at the same time, that's also artsy and inspiring. It harks back to an experimental compartment of post-punk (in fact, post-punk as a style was being mostly experimental and seminal anyway) to such combos as Ludus (a favourite combo of Moz), and This Heat, but by contemporaneous combos it a little bit resembles ranting Fly Pan Am, another French Canadian combo. The issue is a part of the discography of E-Tron Rec., and Boiled Records.

Trillion Catz – Vulgar (2017)

Bump Foot

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• Krautrock 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Art rock 
• Motorik 
• Ambient rock 
• Drone pop 
• Alternative

Comment: it is not a wordy and magniloquent issue enough because of being inspired by krautrock, by Neu!, an early Kraftwerk and Faust, the combos who liked move on across a minimal, the so-called motorik pattern. Yet the recent motorik pace based on 14 tracks is a bit different and refreshing. Trillion Catz comes out from Berlin, Germany, a fruitful soil to develop new genres. On the other side, which role is to bear by the musician? To provide the matter, the sound for allowing the listeners to escape from the burden of exhausting sensations, to reach aletheia, to ascend his/her nature into a godlike person. To partake in a systematic, coherent universe. In reality, it does mean to crawl against the mainstream, against the hyper-sexualized and monetary world and the excessive flow of information or to get in touch with them as less as needed. A person's goal should be intended to be less vulgar and mediocre and brainwashed. Is Vulgar a good medium to withdraw him/her from it? The answer of mine is pure yes because it is clearly balanced between those slightly haphazard electronic impulses yet in turn synthesising something new for our aural world. Those miniaturised sounds and effects do set up something unusual and exciting. If to compare it to the aforementioned krautrock juggernauts it may be more (self)-aware of how to elegantly disturb a historical krautrock bound yet at the same time preserving the tight connection with it. That's logical because the first ones had created it while Trillion Catz is deconstructing it. This outstanding (one of the best in 2017) release which adds to krautrock as a style an additional value and meaning is a part of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot.

Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion – Soul Breaker (2017)

Enoughrecords

Jamendo

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

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• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Neoclassical 
• Post-classical 
• Epic 
• Art music 
• Chamber music

Comment: this 9-notch issue comes out from Russia, it is a collaborative issue between Alex Mason, and The Minor Emotion. Its formula is simple – lone, minor piano tapped chords being accompanied by soaring synthesised orchestrated progressions which at times are being bent into murky, neoclassical sadness. Emotionally it is hard to measure the impact of the whole upon the listener. Undoubtedly it is epic but on the other side it might be a bit anemic to feed one's the most profound, transcendental ideas. If you need more vivid colours to be inserted into your every day's life then you have to listen to it while watching outside from the window or just walking in the middle of autumnal beauty and decay. Indeed, maybe concrete sounds and sonic effects could add a more organic touch to the whole. The result is a bit flat out in its sheared and predictable dynamics and two dimensional shift. The outing is a part of the discography of Enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Fall Baby - Storm

• Indie pop
• Glo-fi
• Dream pop
• Chillwave
• Alternative pop

Artist: Fall Baby

Release: Beko_Fall Baby EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017