[Teaser of the day] (null_) - On My Way Back Home

Hand Craft

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Ambient pop
• Post-classical
• Art music
• Modern classical
• Dreamwave

Artist: (null_)

Release: (null_)ep

Label: Hand Craft

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Faex Optim - The Ocean Congress

• Poptronica
• Alternative 
• Synthwave
• Ambient pop
• Chilltronica
• Indietronica
• Electronic music
• Mood music

Artist: Faex Optim 

Release: Start with the River

Label: Kahvi Collective

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Jeremy Gilliland - On Our Way Back Home

• Singer-songwriter
• Americana
• American gothic
• Folk
• Roots music

Artist: Jeremy Gilliland

Release: Highway 77

Label: Death Roots Syndicate/Archive.org

Year: 2016

Blumen – Press 1 For Music (2015)

Bandcamp

• Yacht rock 
• Art pop 
• Post-pop 
• Progressive pop 
• Sophisti-pop 
• Fusion 
• Mood music 
• Vaudeville pop 
• Crossover

Comment: this 5-track issue comes out from an one-man-band (Richard Blumenthal) from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA and is a moody one with an artsy and ludic approach. It is admirable to see how Richard Blumenthal transcends the genres or just commingling them one another while being up to anywhere. A Brief Disagreement is a vaudevillian tapping on a piano with buried vocal slices behind it. Windup continues in a similar vein in the first half of the composition though being soon supported by shuffly drums and bold bass chords beneath. Indeed, the buildup justifies the song’s name. In general, it could be said that the transitions from one song to another used to happen seamlessly and involving the same elements in some parts of songs. Falling Down (feat. StarSystems, Michael Riehlman, Benjamin Bailey) gets caught up in a more progressive pop way with high masculine singing and high-spirited progressive rock-related keyboard solos. Hej Hej (feat. Alec Dube) makes difference as well due to be immersed in yacht pop and progressive pop experiments. One could hear vibraphones combined into bare and quite rough piano chords. It reminds even of Tortoise/John McEntire`s involvement in vibraphone playing. Cyclicycal (feat. Theo Young) is the most cinematic track getting its wings from yacht rock-infused easiness. In a word, the result, which clocks in at a 19 minute is exuberant both for one’s soul and cerebral dimensions. By the way, (Die) Blumen does mean "the flowers" in German thereof it is your turn to figure out the album`s similaritites with certain kinds of flowers.   

[Teaser of the day] Oudeis - Near Spaces

• Downbeat
• Electronic music
• Sampledelic
• Darkwave
• Alternative
• Art music

Artist: Oudeis

Release: The Greenery

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Thuoom - Elac

Textural Healing

• Ambient
• Avant-garde
• Epic
• Abstract
• Ambient drone
• Minimalism
• Soundscapes
• Ambient noise
• Experimentalism
• Drone

Artist: Thuoom

Release: Aste EP

Label: Textural Healing

Year: 2016

Darcin – Castor Volant (2009)

No Type

• Drone 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental electronica 
• Space music 
• Minimalism 
• Experimentalism 
• Microtonal 
• Sound art 
• Abstract 
• Ambient drone

Comment: let’s keep reviewing in the vein of the discography of Montrèal, Canada-based No Source/Panospria imprint. Nicolas Dion aka Darcin`s issue is an undoubtedly methodical listening because these three pieces used to unveil throughout 67 minutes. Furthermore, the compositions are quite disparate; especially the second track Bonus Piano is something of a cut-up sort, where silence is varied with very short, wispy sonic bits. Later on, all those bits will be subjected to unsteady wobbling. It would be interesting to know why the artist decided for the sake of this kind of composition. Given that I am just feeling myself fairly curious to know the rationale of such a sort of dividing line, however, the track is fabulous. Castor Volant is the lengthiest composition on it, unveiling its brilliant nature throughout a span of 33 minutes. It is the contemporary kind of drone music being in general produced for small tape imprints with small print-runs oftentimes residing at Bandcamp. Furthermore, it is the contemporary sort of minimalism while listening to this immense piece one can perceive tickling sensations coming out of those incessantly undulating waves, which will be broadening the more the 33-minute course reaches the end. In a word, it is a gentle, in-depth psychedelic experience. Bonus Process could similarly be categorized as drone music though its accents are a little bit different. More profoundly, it is more abstract chiming like the sound of the engine of a space rocket having reached a very remote distance from Earth. Because of that it could be admitted to be a part of ambient drone music/space music. It is similarly captivating and laid-back though its method is set up otherwise. In a nutshell, the outing is a fascinating issue, which even would predict the hype of analogue-based drone music some years before. It is mesmerizing how Nicolas Dion excels at producing and investigating minutiae within the soundscape. Get it now. Yeah.