[Teaser of the day] TOPOT arkestra - <-->

• Free jazz
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Fusion
• Progressive rock
• Zeuhl
• Crossover
• Improvised music
• Jazz rock
• Avant-jazz
• Art rock
• Psych-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: TOPOT arkestra

Release: TOPOT arkestra

Label: ТОПОТ

Year: 2017

Tont – Vaba Vesi (2017)

Trash Can Dance

Bandcamp

• Ambient 
• Abstract 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Field recording 
• Alternative 
• Organic electronica 
• Musique concrète 
• World music 
• Ethnotronica 
• Spoken word

Comment: Tont (Ghost) is the project of Estonian traveller and musician Siim Kuusemäe whose subsequent outing has been managed grossly in a similar way as his previous ones though there are up some different characteristics as well. So it can be said the artist's physical and mental journey goes on. While I am writing this comment I am not listening to a digital copy of it but an exemplary of the limited edition of 48 tapes entitled Vaba Vesi (Free Water) being released on Tallinn-based underground imprint Trash Can Dance. It starts off with reciting one extraction by the Estonian writer Arvo Valton who states that the thought of travelling can be equalled with the thought of living and the experience of travelling makes one feel more excited about and more empathetic and being an integral part of his/her development. It is the most humanity-related phenomenon. It used to correlate with the thought of Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher from ancient Greece who stated all is moving around and there is no chance to step into one and the same river twice. Similarly Tont has not done it before and does not do it the recent time either. Or is not allowed to do it. Additionally, by Heraclitus Tont may be standing at a crossroad because additionally those prevalent sultry field recording based sounds and shamanic rhythmic patterns one can also hear a more abstract composition at the self-titled track as if hearing passing by the cars at a remote distance while staying somewhere in the middle of the forest. In another piece called Sume Tont exploits more synthetic, artificial templates to create a clear-cut ambient composition in the traditional sense of this word. In a word, Tont issued a subsequent purgatorial outing which can be admitted a best recording in a year. In 2017, more profoundly. Besides his solo albums I recommend put ear on a project, Allinn (at Bandcamp), he has also been get involved in.

[Teaser of the day] Golden Leap - ma#ygodsface

• Electronic music
• Techno pop
• Alternative
• Poptronica
• Synthwave
• Neoclassical

Artist: Golden Leap

Release: Mother EP  

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Blumen - Squall

• Fusion
• Jazz rock
• Electronic
• Minimalism
• Progressive rock
• Art rock

Artist: Blumen

Release: Mångata

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Space Crystals - Night Magic

Cian Orbe

• Space music
• Kosmische Musik
• Synthwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Space Crystals

Release: Saturnine EP

Label: Cian Orbe

Year: 2017

TÜNEL – Climb (2012)

Nostress

• Noise rock 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Musique concrète
• Improvised music 
• Field recording 
• Experimental electronica 
• Leftfield 
• Art music 
• Conceptual

Comment: let's go back in time for about five years when a duo called TÜNEL recorded an imaginary soundtrack for mountaineering and possible disastrous events tightly related to it. These seven tracks constitute a terrain where different influences and genres meet one another. Furthermore, it is a mind-provoking storytelling based on sounds which starts off with sprightly children shouting and then progressing into different kinds of electronic music and surprisingly into a noisy rock binge played flat out. It can be asserted it is the frenetic follow-up of disparate chapters full of loads of turns and dodges, exciting interfaces to connect and superimpose different parts on each other and imaginative buildups to show up this kinda audiobook as vivid and magical. Mostly its structure seems to be preset and determined yet at times the duo indulges in having more loose and elemental spans to be added to the mix. You can feel prodigious inner power and impulse oozing from different slots and pits which is not surprising because the intention and goal is to depict the mountainous, threatening landscape up to the listener. This astounding outing is a part of the discography of the Italy-based record label Nostress.

[Teaser of the day] Max Jahn - Harmonic Blast

Broque

• Electronic music
• Dub house
• Alternative dance
• Deep house
• Crossover
• Club dance
• Electro house

Artist: Max Jahn

Release: Skyrunner

Label: Broque

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Grid Resistor - 06_5162017_Three

Enough

• Abstract
• Micronoise
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Post-industrial
• Acousmatic music
• Minimalism
• Microtonal
• Non-music
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Drone
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Grid Resistor

Release: Beta 

Label: Enough

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] I/DEX - ksren - v/a

Nexsound - Wayward Music

• Minimal techno
• Ambient techno
• Glitchtronica
• Kosmische Musik
• Electronic music
• Crossover
• Alternative

Artist: I/DEX

Release: I/DEX / h.h.t.p. / -ED - Micro_Motion

Label: Nexsound - Wayward Music

Year: 2003

Marrach – Swing With A Black Dog (2017)

Enough

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Jazz 
• Electronic music 
• Improvised music 
• Cool jazz 
• Film noir 
• Alternative 
• Mood music

Comment: Martinas Rakshtinas, the pride of the Lithuanian underground music is being known under a swarm of pseudonyms which in turn does mean he has been a prolific artist for the last 2-3 years. Lately I had reviewed one of the issues by him under the nom de plume Mirth Naarc and the outing was named FX (2016, Free Music Archive). The 3-notch issue entitled ominously Swing With A Black Dog and thereby tipping off about the parlous allusions with the Lucifer is a turn of 360 degrees in comparison to FX. The last mentioned release was techno, electro and experimental hip-hop blended one though which ultimately turned into quite oppressive by its mood and outfit. The album in consideration is musically slowed-down, smoky and noir tinged behind that sonic curtain the Devil is playing with human beings and their souls as marionettes. Bold minor chords on a piano are backed up with volatile trumpet played tooting and kit drum shuffles and superficial electronic effects atop and behind it. The predominant silence induced layers add seductive touch to get craftily immersed in the rest set of layers. Another impression is as lofty as well due to Miles Davis is playing woeful cool jazz numbers in front of the Fallen Angel himself. The outing is a part of the discography of a stalwart Portuguese imprint, Enough Records (or simply enoughrecords). In a nutshell, the whole impression is emotionally striking and at the same time showing us something coming out from the pit. Put a spell on you.