Fortadelis – Overdub Session [Jazzed Up] (2016)

Cyan Music

Jamendo

• Nu jazz 
• Italo disco 
• Electronic pop 
• Deep house 
• Yacht pop 
• Mood music 
• Synth fusion 
• Jazz house 
• Chilltronica 
• Remakes

Comment: it's great honour to share my listening experience of Croatian artist Fortadelis' issue Jazzed Up. Previously I did it about Stimulus which is also a marvellous listening experience. As the title suggests this 9-notch outing is about jazz...at least partly. Indeed, all the modern/nu/acid jazz facets are elegantly represented over there. Moreover, Fortadelis is a potent artist who needs no other artists to remix the tracks to give it an additional value but instead of it he creates by himself it by shifting from the electronically swinging jazz and serene synth fusion and yacht pop glimpses to more immersive areas like deep house based numbers. There is just one little but. All the tracks were originally created by German Marco Köller and Fortadelis would change them into more sultry and sunshiny flickers. All the time one can feel an overwhelming dynamic impulse which is the main driving and unifying power giving no chance to deviate from a listening course. All in all, if you need an uncompromising crossover issue of electronic jazz, moody reflections, and refined club dance, you should pick it up. A cut above being issued on such platform as Cyan Music, and Jamendo.

Florian Wahl – Naked Souls EP (2013)

Bandcamp

• Soul 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Alternative 
• Urban music 
• Contemporary classical 
• Crossover 
• Art pop

Comment: Florian Wahl is a young and perspective artist from the Tallinn underground scene and probably the most fancy soul artist within the border of Estonia if his music can be considered soul of course. I guess it could be done at least the part of soul it is the biggest ingredient within it. Vice versa, it involves other stylistic elements like concrete sounds, loose piano improvisations, just airy pop. It is an artsy, pretentious pop example I would like to find out from the stage of Eurovision contest. With regard to songs of recent contests those ones used to suffocate the listener's subconscious layers through fake pretentiousness, softened banality and impotent bombastic ambitions and therefore creating a negative tension within the soul and mind. And these compositions do not stick in your brain. Could you remember them after a half year passed by? You would like to get an aesthetical event but you will get bare shadows of music on the wall of a cave. These 8 compositions do constitute a sublime harmonic whole without any pretenses and hollow statements. Moreover, it unites a recent human being with a primordial one who dwelled naturally in the middle of nature, in his/her utmost natural ambiance. The recent human being is decayed but not Florian Wahl-alike ones. He is a hero. Top notch indeed.

Sann Gusmão – Emaranhado (2018)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Archive.org

Bandcamp

• Ambient noise 
• Guitar ambient 
• Art music 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• Epic 
• Avant-garde 
• Illbient 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient

Comment: imagine there would be such a kind of artist on the stage of Eurovision by poisoning the lousy taste of the present superficial audience. Hiss and microscopic noises coming through very huge loudspeakers would spread everywhere and conquering the senses of the audience on 120 decibels. This could be an apocalyptic, transcendental experience for them by indicating what would happen if they continue live a decayed life. Like standing face to face with the Grim Reaper who moves his scythe like an electric guitar and as a consequence cranking up the decibels. All would be bleeding – their ears, eyes and noses. Through pain and smell of blood they could experience majestic beauty of mixed machinery and lost humanity once generated by heroes. Indeed, this bunch of 9 notches is the ennobling chaos of a managed process. You can enjoy different sonic monoliths over there, at times more abstract, at times more emotions filled soundscapes. All of that sounds fairly in an elemental way. With regard to Portugal, it is the case indeed, because the artist comes out of Portugal and is a part of the discography of a Portuguese imprint, Enoughrecords. For sure, one of the most impressive and consistent and multi-layered issues in 2018 so far.

[Teaser of the day] Vonsuck - Rauchen

• IDM
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: Galaktlan

Release: Enne und

Label: Bandcamp/Kohvirecords

Year: 1999

[Teaser of the day] Lifecoach - Thousand Names

• Hardcore punk
• Stoner rock
• Crossover

Artist: Lifecoach

Release: Coach or Die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] cHelek - Anemia Or Tuberculosis

Free Music Archive

• Indie rock
• Art rock
• Post-rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: cHelek

Release: e.p.

Label: Birdsong

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] This Lonely Crowd - Oneironauts

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Fuzz pop
• Dream pop
• Indie rock
• Noise pop

Artist: This Lonely Crowd  

Release: Pervade

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Franco Falistoco Araya - Tentáculos

• Spoken word
• Leftfield
• Avant-garde
• Storytelling
• Experimentalism
• Drone
• Post-industrial
• Abstract
• Electro-acoustic
• Microtonal
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Franco Falistoco Araya

Release: Phase IV

Label: Adaptador

Year: 2018

Tiiu Kiik – Lend ja tants (2010)

Bandcamp

• Electronic pop 
• Dream pop
• Mood music 
• Indietronica 
• Ambient pop 
• Synthwave 
• Electro-indie 
• Alternative 
• Synth-pop 
• Chilltronica

Comment: it`s Eurovision time, it`s time for a horrendous freak show time which reflects upon the fact of how declined is the culture of Europe at the moment. And it does not depend on condition is Jean Claude able to drink it more beautiful or less ugly (as you wish). For serious music fans the contest is the synonym of a bad taste and nightmarish balagan which the intention to taunt the nature of music. I can remember for the Eurovision precontest in Estonia in 2010 when Tiiu Kiik with a song called The One and Only – Love competed there but did not get a high place. However, it is a brilliant song and for sure it is not a place to throw pearls before the swines anymore. Dreamy atmosphere and otherworldly harmonies with the swaying singer did create a fascinating milieu. It can be said at Lend ja tants it is one of the highlights. In general, the 14-notch issue contains dream-soaked compositions though there are up some exceptions either. For instance, at Õhtupoolik one can hear post-punk and synth-wave induced electro-indie stomps. Great track. At Üle kuristiku you can hear suggestive bagpipes being embellished with peaky rhythms. In a word, enjoy the album with great flow.

[Teaser of the day] Gurdonark - Morning Fields Cacophony

We Are All Ghosts

• Ambient
• Electronic music
• Art music
• Microsound
• Experimental electronica

Artist: Gurdonark

Release: Open Spaces

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2012