[Teaser of the day] Abjective - Øaceloth

Nenormalizm

• Dark ambient
• Industrial illbient
• Avant-garde
• Experimental electronica
• Noise
• Electro-acoustic
• Abstract

Artist: Abjective

Release: Medulla Core

Label: Nenormalizm

Year: 2016

Ilya I Alisa – I Entered The Dark Forest (2011/2015)

Trash Can Dance

Self-released

• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Drone 
• Electronic music 
• Art rock 
• New Weird 
• Avant-rock
• Progressive rock 
• Dream folk 
• Spoken word 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient

Comment: Firstly, it is an unusual case; it does mean one has little chance to find out such sort of music daily because there is little such kind of music around. If I’m saying it is either a case of art rock or progressive rock then I have described it partly only. Secondly, it is an idiosyncratic case getting its boost and apparent inspiration from the Russian culture, from its glorious part, which is antagonistic to its inferior, the so-called blatnoi (thug) culture, which cropped up in prison camps in the Soviet Union during the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. More profoundly, the issue is highly dreamy as if a reverie stuck between reality and a hypnagogic state. At times it is imbued with naivety yet fortunately it will not turn to be pathetic because the nature of the issue is candid and properly emotive. If to trying to date it this would probably have happened in pre-historic times when reality and dreams and fears come into one, when imagination and real things had had a common part. And one had to come along with it. Of course, the forest was the uppermost ambience and catalyst for such sensations to Slavic and Finno-Ugrian tribes. In a word, it was a realistic place, it was a hyper-realistic, and it was a surrealistic place at the same time. Furthermore, it seems to be filled with a religious content though being laid down implicitly, not in a raucous manner. For me, Ilya I Alisa embodies a modern touch by sketching it quite similarly to Animal Collective in the USA who had principally done it on their two first albums. Of course, by saying it I admitted a little coefficient to the proposition. Last but not least – by listening to this 12-track issue on the tape, which is a part of the catalogue of Tallinn, Estonian imprint Trash Can Dance, it was something of a ritualistic act to change the sides of it. In a nutshell, it is a staggering outing by Ilya Bogatyryov, which was firstly issued digitally in the beginning of the 10s.                           

[Teaser of the day] Anton-Babinski - Bisensual

Soundcloud

• Dreamwave
• Alternative
• Post-pop
• Electronic music
• Rnb
• Chamber pop
• Soul

Artist: Anton-Babinski

Release: Bisensual

Label: self-released/Soundcloud

Year: 2015

Wild Man Riddim – Wild Man Riddim (2015)

MarsMelons

• Reggae 
• Afrofuturism 
• Ska 
• Afrobeat 
• Alternative dance 
• Afrofunk 
• Mood music 
• World fusion 
• Covers 
• Psychedelic 
• Funk

Comment: Wild Man Riddim`s self-titled issue is the first entry of mine at Oslo, Norway-based site MarsMelons and by listening to Wild Man Riddim`s nine compositions I am convinced to come back to the imprint’s catalogue for more times in the near future. Of course, today is Sunday (indeed, I began to love this day stepwise) and the weather in the morning is idyllic and the air is refreshing being imbued with spring tastes and rainy breezes. Brage Rognlien-headed combo, involving a couple of black musicians to deliver vocals in some tracks, improvises with Jamaican reggae rhythms and ska thrusts, however, frequently searching for more funky and psychedelic sound (I adore those dusty reed organ and brass chords moving in and out of the mix!) thereby coming close to Afrobeat/funk/futurism, which roots come from Nigeria, and Ghana. Additionally, the group elaborates music of such jazz and improvised music juggernauts as Herbie Hancock (Cantaloupe Island), and Dizzy Gillespie (A Night in Tunisia). Mostly it chimes as an accompanying music instance while one is doing something else rather than concentratedly listening to music though there are up moments to provide more depth, work out more complex structures and show up more vivid ambition to make difference (for instance, Big Difference). I guess the ensemble`s live may even be more amusing than just having a listen with the headphones.                  

[Teaser of the day] Garaz - Smoke Rings

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Breaks
• Alternative dance
• Trip-hop
• Electronic music
• Nu jazz
• Chilltronica
• Mood music

Artist: Garaz

Release: Smoke Rings EP

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2016

Flady – Leave (2015)

Bunkai-Kei

• Deep house 
• Alternative dance 
• Tech-house 
• Club dance

Comment: I guess anyone who adores music in general and especially music of different sorts does have his/her own personal imagination of certain styles. For instance, how could you imagine house music for yourself? Is it something of music to be imagined to those people in the middle of a dance floor or could it have cerebral dimension either? Flady`s 5-track outing emits both tendencies very clearly. Furthermore, the thing I truly like is the artist’s eagerness to push it forward effortlessly, for now and then the beats are elegantly unkempt with regard to the frequencies of the album (at Fake Crawl) therefore adding a refreshing, even transgressive dimension to the whole. Mostly it is deep house music, I can think of Chrinonex Fleckeri as being a perfect accompaniment to fall asleep eventually while you are reading a book. On the other hand, the artist exploits frequently uncanny vocal samples and other kind of outtakes to disorient the listener. Most remarkably it has been drawn out at Counter Old Sky, and because of that it is a decent foray of the course. Another exception is Feel or Pig or Pigs, which contains a mind-blowing brass hook though in the beginning of the composition the observant listener could perceive krautrock and post-punk influences either (all is logical, isn’t?). In a nutshell, it is a charming dance and listening session in the night zone. Especially I recommend a listening today while you are boycotting the inferior Eurovision “song” contest. The issue is a part of the discography of the Japanese imprint Bunkai-Kei.                  

[Teaser of the day] Seahorses - Tharsis

• Post-rock
• Epic
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimental rock
• Ambient rock
• Art rock

Artist: Seahorses

Release: Zero Meridian

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016