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9/25/2014

[Teaser of the day] Nicholas Kirk - The Dread


  • Drone folk
  • Art music
  • Neofolk
  • Soundtrack
  • Film score
  • Neoclassical

Asalto Al Parque Zoológico - Soft Focus

Data Snow – Phases (2014)




/Dark ambient, Abstract, Dystopbient, Sound art, Epic, Illbient, Soundscapes, Minimalism, Microtonal, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Post-industrial/

Comment: although Data Snow`s 8-piece issue is formally starkly bleak and austere its emotional impression renders into something remarkably significant and striking. The project`s thoroughly experimental approach emerges through minimally composed music predominantly providing hints at classical music, ambient soundscapes, and minimal music. Indeed, some sonic details are barely within earshot and the narrative used to meander without blasts or crackles. However, all the aforementioned stylistic firmaments are contaminated with evil-sounding stances and visages. Instead of outer space it is rather music composed for the visualization of abandoned junkyards and nuclear test territories foreboding an impending catastrophe coming out of there. Ironically, it is fairly beatific and arching composition at its core. Less is more...imaginative.          

He Is Watching Over Us - In Defence Of Disgusting Animals (2007)




/Indie folk, Folktronica, Lo-fi, Post-rock, Epic, Art folk, New Weird Sweden/

Comment: He Is Watching Over Us is the Swedish duo of Erik Gröndahl, and Johan Mattson whose 8-track instrumental issue is a calmed down, even picturesque moving with the assistance of predominantly restrained arpeggios and organically successive chords enchanted from acoustic and electric guitars which are varicoloured with droning organs and diffuse electronic explorations, and some anthemic orchestrated panoramas on the top. Stylistically the whole has been managed in a way to meander between post-rock-ish ambition, folktronic crispiness, and lo-fi-esque cosiness. The collective`s melancholic nature is very appropriate for listening to it recently, as the summer has passed by and the autumn just began. Least but not last - there is no disgusting animals, though, animals need to be protected more with strenuous activity.                



Ambient Fabric – Messages (2010)




/Noise, Glitchtronica, Sound art, Ambient, Organic electronica, Experimental techno, Abstract, Industrial electronica, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica/

Comment: Oystein Jorgensen aka Ambient Fabric`s 4-track issue is an intriguing one due to experiments with considered noises, ambient sounds and incisive crackles, hisses and pops and innumerable combinations of them. The Norwegian`s album embarks on with a modest noise attack stepwise rendering into digital raining intensively pouring out from every slots and orifices. The other tracks are similarly sustainable as well, though, providing a little different aesthetics through abrasive manipulation and wide-screen panoramas blended sonic alchemy, glitch-y techno de-construction and exposing into something truly uncanny, and restrained but menacing industrial-tinged electronic insights. At times Jorgensen`s handwriting is fairly minimal dwelling somewhere in between Kaffe Matthews and Pan Sonic. In a nutshell, the whole is overwhelming in its dystopic, machine-centred appearance.