Lorenzo Gómez Oviedo – Pasajes (2016)

 Nowaki

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Noise 
• Art music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Post-industrial 
• Sound art 
• Drone 
• Spoken word 
• Musique concrète 
• Post-classical

Comment: without any doubt the previous year was being very fertile to Lorenzo Gòmez Oviedo while he had released 4 issues, a couple of them were released on the French imprint Nowaki Music. One of them, Pasajes consists of the long-running progression which is imbued with remarkably varied sounds, provoking intentions, arousing intensities and ear-catching phase-related changes. However, the aforementioned gadgetry is adeptly and wittily set up and thereby ultimately creating a dynamic pointed whole throughout the course of a 25-minute. Incisive droning noises in the beginning part are followed by a sublime rhythmic section and cathedral-alike chanting which in turn are followed by new mind-provoking ones including peppering with field recording drenched elements. The kind of electronic music presented by Oviedo is something special because of embracing wider borders to narrate an interesting, seemingly more loose story to all of us. Indeed, literally it involves some spoken phrases though it seems to be a shrewd measure but not the goal on its own. Maybe I am wrong to guess there is up somewhere the ultimate culmination to be reached. In fact, it consists of various flood tides therefore providing a chance to sustain the excitement and pleasure throughout. Is it the hedonistic one? Yes, in a way but first of all, it is the cerebral challenge with some bits for our soul and slightly a bit for the body. It pours out an immense amount of information yet the information is channelized in an appealing way. Top tier.  

[Teaser of the day] Luis Marte - iv 3

Pueblo Nuevo

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Electronic music
• Microsound
• Avant-garde
• Microtonal
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism

Artist: Luis Marte

Release: iv

Label: Pueblo Nuevo

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] The Mountain Goats - Heel Turn 2

Archive.org

• Indie rock
• Americana
• Live recording
• Folk indie
• Alternative rock
• Indie folk

Artist: The Mountain Goats

Release: Mountain Goats Live at the Fillmore on 2017-06-02

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Xiu Xiu - Crank Heart

Archive.org

• Art rock
• Noise pop
• Experimental rock
• Indie rock
• Neo-psychedelia
• Electro-indie
• Alternative rock

Artist: Xiu Xiu

Release: Live at p.m.k on 2017-04-27

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2017

Nasienie – Chasing The Fog (2011)

Webbed Hand

• Ambient 
• Microsound 
• Minimalism 
• Electronic music 
• Microtonal
• Ambient rock 
• Soundscape 
• Alternative

Comment: this set of 6 tracks (clocking in at a 28 minute) is viable to be listened to while you feel yourself sad for some bitter events, for instance, if you remind of your broken affairs though it is hard to figure out is it either the effect of it or a very arousing reason for doing it. While feeling an intense painful sense coming inexplicably out from very deep of your heart. On the other side, while driving across the foggy and very snowy highway you could see even more details in comparison to a usual cloudless day because you have to be more concentrated and you are tightly surrounded by a milky ambience to catch sight of other kind of details. Or you can experience the same feeling when you are driving the bus and your head is leaned against the window and watching drops running sinuously and at different speeds from top of the window. There are represented some audible characteristics which chime on their own and on the other side do interact seamlessly with one another. The aforementioned whitened sublime progressions include some reverberant sounds, some more light-hearted, clearly perceived as more crude, directly played and untreated, synthesiser played interludes (for instance, Microsound). For instance, the track called Undertone sounds almost in a psychedelic way. The following composition Mute Witness changes the path of the course (back again) to thriving into something thoroughly thoughtful and beatifically frost-bound and charmingly immobile as if an audible example of an aporia by Zenon about moving and staying still (the second part of the track evokes your soul to crawl). At the finishing 21 experimental rock tendencies stepwise begin to emerge and swim and lazily produce sonic waves of different shapes and range. The fascinating outing is a part of the discography of Webbed Hand.

[Teaser of the day] Acid Mothers Temple - Dark Stars In The Dazzling Sky

Archive.org

• Psych-rock
• Alternative rock
• Space rock
• Hard rock
• Acid rock
• Live recording
• Indie rock
• Trance rock

Artist: Acid Mothers Temple

Release: Temple Live at Soundlab on 2006-05-16 

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Trillion Catz - Oceans

Soisloscerdos

• Electronic music
• Neokrautrock
• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Experimental rock
• Indie
• Avant-rock

Artist: Trillion Catz

Release: Keep It Real

Label: Soisloscerdos/Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] St Cheatersburg - Heaven-Bound & Holy Rollers

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Jangle pop

Artist: St Cheatersburg

Release: We Are The Pigeons Of The World 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Go Ask Alice – Perfection Is Terrible (2017)

La bèl

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Art rock 
• Post-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Epic 
• Synth-rock 
• Electro-rock 
• Cinematic 
• Ambient rock

Comment: La bèl is an Italian imprint having been releasing music since 2010. All their artists with some exceptions are being Italian even if the artist's residence has been outside the country's borders. Musically it has embraced a huge range of styles from witty electronica and subtle indie and folk mixed electronic music to artsy electro-acoustic progressions and epic post-rock driven ambience. Go Ask Alice's Perfection Is Terrible is a subsequent solid chapter within the discography by getting hold of different styles of the kind of synthesiser and guitar-driven music. Furthermore, the result is blissful thanks to some cinematic development as if being languished by the sun during a very hot summer day. You do not have enough power and verve but just lay back in the hammock. Let's call it the sort of guitar-based chill out music. With regard to exploiting or imitating such instruments as glockenspiel/vibraphone you can discern some similarities with such artists as Talk Talk, Mice Parade, The Dylan Group, Tortoise, The Mercury Program though Go Ask Alice's music is distinctively more hovering and volatile. Besides the aforementioned elements there are also magniloquent elements yet the result is pushed to the very limits of elegance. Last but not least – there is up a track imbued with a hook of great pop potential (Morning). In a word, it runs head-to-head with the best issues from the recent year. Behind the project are such musicians as Flavio Moro and Lorenzo Albanese, and Valerio Occhiodoro. Undoubtedly this sprightly 7-track outing is one of the most favourite albums from the recent year.

[Teaser of the day] Dot.AY - Yo No Chero

• Chiptune
• Electro
• Alternative dance
• Chipbreak
• Tracker music
• Bitpop
• 8-bit
• Electronic music

Artist: dot.AY

Release: Specific Emotion

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013