10/03/2014
Kiorda Däkin - 3 (2008)
/Electronic pop, New Age, Ambient pop, Mood music/
Comment: Kiorda Däkin`s New Age/ambient pop issue is a sum of restrained chord spotted progressions and more glide-induced insights. They are either integrated into each other or just following to each other. The release could be considered a contemporary instance of New Age music adorned with overdriving sonic effects, quasi-organic electronica flickers and subtle programmed rhythms below. Last but not least - do not forget visit the site of 1Bit Wonder, a now sadly defunct netlabel having a huge impact in the 00s.
Tramuc And Darius - Rebirth Of Time (2014)
/Improvised music. Piano
music, Downbeat, Experimentalism, Free jazz, Cool jazz, Electro-acoustic/
Comment: this album coming in at the length of
33 minutes is a nervous, convulsive one due to its contrasty facets brought
forth relentlessly in series. More profoundly, quiet cool jazz caress and
downbeat-alike stasis for humble souls are varied with boisterous piano,
trombone and cello induced interactions which sometimes are spiced up with
expressive glockenspiel-based adornments, electro-acoustic snaps and murky
electronic fabric (for instance, dark ambient hovers are presented at Black Hole Mystery). It can be concluded
it is a fine exemplar of experimental jazz adeptly depicting the time`s two
sides – stasis and change. The album is part of the discography of Pan Y Rosas
Discos, a record label dedicated to improvisations/jazz and art/experimental
music.
Enbilulugugal - The TAURO Sessions '09 (2013)
/Harsh noise, Black metal,
Avant-garde, Brutal metal, Black noise, Non-music, Technical metal, Noisecore, Psycho-acoustic/
Comment: the listener can be very sure this miscellany is not about pop musicat all,
more concretely, being located somewhere in the periphery of metal and
powerviolent music. If you have made acquaintance with the so-called Japanese
noise music then this band might resemble the likes of Hanatarashi and
Gerogerigegege, for instance. Similarly to the combo`s sonorous impact the
4-track issue is also impressive graphically – all bars indicating frequencies are
at the height and the oscillation line is permanently quadrangularly shaped.
Indeed, all is starkly amplified over here – some hardcore rock/punk roots are
channelized into demented psyched-out outbursts, math rock premises are
overthrown to get wrapped up in blackened metal rabidity and noise music
straitjacket. In a word, it must be heard before to believe (in) it –
overwhelming by any means.
Kukl – The Eye (1984)
/Post-punk, Avant-rock, Art
punk, No Wave, Gothic rock, Improvised music, Experimental rock/
Comment: Kukl`s The Eye is undoubtedly one the most
outstanding post-punk albums throughout the music history due to balancing
excellently between cutting edge-y song-writing, gloomy harmonies and stylistic
transitions. It is inspired by various styles and avant-garde groups, at times
veering into free jazz, improvised music, and even pagan folk-inspired snippets.
The only apparent element represented on the album predicting the birth of the
Sugarcubes is singing dialogue between Björk and Einar Örn, More concretely,
Björk`s vehement singing and declamation is outstanding and spellbinding,
revealing hints at her later glorious solo career. By the way, the first notes
of Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly
Free seem to be a base for the British indie rock combo House Of Love`s
excellent hit Shine On (1990,
Creation). The album was inspired by the French philosopher George Bataille`s The Eye which depicts sexually
perverse and uncannily behavioural adventures of a young French couple within a
violent context. In a nutshell, this 9-track issue which was issued 30 years ago sounds refreshingly today either - remarkably better than an average combo whose sound could be classified as "post-punk".
Scott Lawlor - The Absence of Light Contains The Shadow of Loss (2014)
/Dark ambient, Minimal,
Drone, Dystopbient, Neoclassical, Microtonal, Ambient drone/
Comment: throughout
these 71 minutes will happen quite less due to Scott Lawlor`s keenness to truly
minimal aesthetics based on slightly gloomy progressions within ambient and
drone music compartment. At times the scape is embellished with some
half-orchestrations and buried crescendos. By conceptual side the whole is
soaked with heavy matter of darkness and mourning. For instance, very
characteristic are all the titles of this 4-track giant - A Gradual Descent Into the Chamber of Darkness, A Dream of Beauty is an Illusion in a Life
of Loss, Beauty is Found in
Melancholy, Cathedral of Pain and
Grief . The compositions laid
out in the middle rely on cathedral organ created sequences. Stylistically it
used to sway somewhere in between neoclassical, drone and ambient music doing
it in a slow mode. In a nutshell, there are only a couple of possibilities for
the listener – it is either depressive and psychically teasing or beatific in
its stark grief and overwhelmingly striking melancholy.
ikul-a - Harmony Of Suffer (2012)
/Breaks, Hip-hop, Minimal
techno, Deep techno, Electro-hop, Leftfield, Minimal electro/
Comment: behind this
project and creation of a handful of instrumental pieces is such legend as Pasquale
Maassen whose music consists of gritty and rigid rhythm spliced algorithms
drenched with hypnotic motives and austere samples. Although the surface of
Maassen`s paces is grainy the core of it includes dimension of barely perceivable,
minimal changes thereby amplifying a highly catchy touch on it and adding an
experimental edge to it. Maassen`s aesthetics is certainly influenced by
glorious Detroit techno and electro scenes due to its repetitive patterns and
laconic locution. Finally – let`s repeat the cliché once again – less is more.
Nothing is fifth wheel on it. The more you listen to it the more it seduces
you. It just must be in your computer!
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