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Comment: Ilya Bogatyryov aka Ilya i Alisa as his one-man-project can be considered as one of the most enchanting and mystical groups to have ever been existed in Estonia. Previously I have commented about How I Entered The Dark Forest (2010) which was a true miscellany of post-punk, drone, dream folk, ambient, progressive rock, spoken word but the recent case is more austere but it does not mean it is somehow less profound and more superficial. The aforementioned releases are issued on tapes by Trash Can Dance, a Tallinn-based underground imprint. Winter Invocation is a short release of approximately 20 minutes. I guess the winter in 2007 was fragile with regard to the title. Unfortunately I cannot remember it anymore. The issue consists of electro-acoustic noises and drones creating the background mostly for female singing and chants in this way. Yet the words are not sufficient enough to bring forth the depth of the release. For instance, if you listen to the abovementioned microscopic noise soundscape I assume Snow Queen also appears in the background. It is ennobling and somehow frightening at the same time. It's beautiful in its uncompromising, anti-pop bearing. It is beautiful, beatific ugliness. So yeah, listen to it and get a copy of the tape if possible which ultimately will cost much money.

Seedge – Assorted Selections (2016)

Bandcamp

Breaks
Electronic music
Nu jazz
Easy listening
Mood music
Cinematic
Sampledelic
Acid jazz
Funk

Comment: Seedge is an artist from Montréal, Canada whose 11-track outing is a miscellany of predominantly baggy beats and cinematic progressive horizons atop demonstrating stylistically its dwelling place somewhere between nu jazz, sampledelic/sound collage, and easy listening though the listener can experience detours into psychedelic, funk and yacht pop/rock either. Beyond that music is embellished with some mind-blowing tricks from a recording session set. In general, the result is uplifting and provides an additional space for the listener. Nice work.

Palancar – Shallow River Flowing (2017)

Emergent World
Emergent World

Ambient
Ambient drone
Soundscape
Electronic music
Kosmische Musik
New Age
Dreamwave
Dark ambient
Minimalism
Epic

Comment: Darrell Burgan (the founder of Earth Mantra Netlabel!) is an artist who has been releasing music since 2010 and at the moment his legacy is big enough to bring forth his genius. Indeed, the quality does not depend on the quantity with regard to the point of the previous sentence. The 8-track issue is influenced by reading poems and by one sentence being surfaced by a Japanese writer, Matsuo Basho. A good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed. Undoubtedly the outing is elemental in its calm drift yet on the other side it seems to be so well self-organised and natural and cloudlessly dreamy that the listener can just forget all around him/her. It is a sort of cerebral massage, a sort of ideal soundscape, a sort of intangible matter you could only imagine before you had not listened to it. At times the sonic glass resonates due murky dark ambient progressions (at Abendwind, for example), and more bold synthesiser, feedback driven and sonic effects backed appearances here and there (Essential Oil, and Tall Grass Their Monument, for example). Thanks to the opposite facets and subsequent tension the outing will be even more perfect. I used to have problems with New Age music considering cheesy and flimsy seeds coming to the mix yet Shallow River Flowing can be considered a perfect, seamless form of it. Additionally I am wondering if anyone could create more emotive music nonetheless its predominantly minimal nature. It is like the materialisation of Lao Tzu's thoughts full of profundity and space at the same time. Philosophy and music will come into one. The outstanding issue is a part of the discography of Emergent World.

Pigeon Breeders – Oblique Temperatures (2013)

Capital City

Bandcamp

Drone rock
Improvised music
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Psych-rock
Live session
Electro-acoustic
Post-rock

Comment: for sure, we have listened to such sort of music for a thousands of times yet any decent listening time is a particular one because by creating something spaced-out and moving something in the listener's head and subsequently in his/her heart. You have heard the releases of Vibracathedral Orchestra, Moonshake, Acid Mothers Temple, Grower, Jessamine, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Flying Saucer Attack and Natural Snow Buildings etc yet by listening to this handful of tracks you can feel yourself as you are born again. That's the effect of the music. What are the reasons? There seems to be a purgative effect due to immersing to the core of this half-improvised, half-determined nature and thereof getting rid of anxiety, tiredness and exhaustion. It is a remedy through change of the prolonged chords, feedback tension, metallic shrieks and clanging. It is like a template heading and shaping your minds and feels into a normal form and therefore doing away with residual noise in one's soul. The human being is an aggressive animal mixed up by his/her nature and social conditions and interactions and artsy music is a best way to tame him or even rebuild a new arrangement in his/her organism. By developing new virtues within him/her. Indeed, music can save you. This issue was recorded live with the intention of preserving music of local artists around Edmonton, Canada. It is a part of Capital City Records.

4/13/2018

[Teaser of the day] Суицидальное Быдло - худшее

Freeformfreakout
Avant-garde
Leftfield
Dada music
Spoken word
Outsider music

Artist: Суицидальное Быдло

Release: Чмо

Label: Immoral Basement/Archive.org

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Soletik - Swamp

Fusion

Electronic music
Industrial electro
Glitch electro
Experimental electro
Breaks
Noise electro
Leftfield

Artist: Soletik

Release: Directional

Label: Fusion

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Mirth Naarc - Maths In Love

Free jazz
Experimentalism
Improvised music
Electronic
Jazz noir
Leftfield
Avant-garde

Artist: Mirth Naarc

Release: Jazx

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

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4/16/2018

[Teaser of the day] Antanas Jasenka - Denis & His Programme

[Teaser of the day] Least Carpet - Mirrors

4/15/2018

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Sun`s Gone

Ilya i Alisa – Winter Invocation (2007)