Irifune – Loomur (2011)

Totokoko

• Folktronica 
• Indietronica 
• Organic electronica 
• Alternative 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore 
• New Weird 
• Free folk 
• Weird folk 
• Epic 
• Art folk

Comment: this 7-notch is an issue of the discography of Totokoko imprint from Japan, which predominantly is being a platform for indie and folk and mellow electronic mixed songwriting. The same could be admitted about this issue. More profoundly, one can hear drowsy melodica-based drones, lone string plucking, hovering electronic motives, poignant semi-orchestrations making your soul bleeding (at Cinematic Twin Leaf, for instance). In fact, all the other compositions have been made in a similar vein though inner relation between the aforementioned elements might be different. At times the composition is complemented with psychedelic organs and fragile singing and found sounds thereby giving a feeling as if sitting on the bench nearby the picturesque woods of emitting otherworldly energy and power. At times you will fall into sleep, dreaming uncanny stories with sprites and faeries. The outing is quite austere but any chord of it is adeptly drawn and made visible. Any detail makes sense. The release is short-running thereof I would have liked to hear more from the artist.  Ultimately it could be admitted it is a bloody great issue. Get it.

[Teaser of the day] Springtide - The Exit to the Rainbow

Free Music Archive

• Indie pop/rock
• Indie dance
• Alternative pop/rock
• Sunshine pop
• Funk rock
• Dance rock
• Alternative dance

Artist: Springtide

Release: Just Before April

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Spitback - Crossroads

• Hardcore
• Punk rock
• Trash metal

Artist: Spitback

Release: Mind Games 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Wapstan - Prétendre Être Le Vent (2007)

Panospria

• Drone noise 
• Microtonal 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimental electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Minimalism 
• Abstract 
• Micronoise

Comment: it comes out from nowhere to evolve slowly, providing many minimalist and microtonal pictures to be seamlessly followed up by each other throughout 27 minutes. It is a sort of slide show. Indeed, the Canadian Martin Sasseville from the province of Quebec maps out darker and barely audible areas, which are enriched by hazy imaginations in droning and resonating mode. His management of the issue is predominantly based on phase shift and phase difference and operating with pitch bending. At times the listener can be a witness to rhythms coming out of this manipulation. With regard to the set of 27 minutes the review of mine should be as minimal as Sasseville`s music but I am not sure is it in this way accomplished or not. Maybe it is, and thereof you have to listen to this by yourself and pinpoint all the essential points of this magnificent issue. The issue is a part of the discography of the Canadian imprint Panospria.             

[Teaser of the day] Daniele Ciullini - Frozen Abandoned Buildings

Ephedrina

• Post-industrial
• Experimentalism
• Neoclassical
• Ambient
• Leftfield
• Art music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Daniele Ciullini 

Release: Noisy Landscapes 

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Rômulo Alexis - Vespestrila

Mansarda

• Avant-garde
• Free jazz
• Noise
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Leftfield

Artist: Rômulo Alexis 

Release: Phylum

Label: Mansarda

Year: 2014

Effendorf – Love Peace And Slavoj Zizek (2013)

TACHYON

• Alternative 
• Electronic pop 
• Electro pop 
• Primitive 
• Breakcore 
• Techno pop

Comment: I might be feeling myself a little bit disturbed by listening to this 5-track issue. Firstly, it is an electronic music album in false manner where the listener can be a part of deliberately added interfering elements and naïve synthesized passages and primitive electronic appearances. On the other side, it is a highly catchy one thereby eliciting thoughts about the talented musician behind it. Musically it is a smooth case because those sonic needles are put to the forefront and integrated into the whole at the same time. Although the issue is quite short-running the EP includes a bunch of interesting dodges and threads into different styles and effects. What would I say about the title? Love and peace are both very essential topics in the existence of the humankind but the humour is that glue which is an important ingredient to guarantee inner integrity of the phenomena. It is nice to find hints at Slavoj Zizek, which is obviously an ironic stab toward hipsters who naturally like to cite the hipsters` philosopher. By giving attention to the titles of the EP one gets convinced to be true. And as you have already figured out that the first sentence of mine with regard to be slightly disturbed was just a hypothesis about my inner sensations. Now I am feeling the hypothesis come to be true. I am happy with that. Hands up!