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Comment: this is a split release by a couple of projects both of them consisting of the pair of experienced musicians. Indeed, Sturqen's music seems to be more abstract and algorithm driven and VÄäristymä`s 5-notch is more loose and floating coming at times quite close to a sophisticated art pop/indie electronic number. In comparison to Sturqen's part it is not surprising at all because VÄäristymä's compositions are shorter while Sturqen's tenure is clearly conceptual because of consisting of two 15-minute long tracks (Metrologia part 1, and part 2). It explores the colours, reverberations and shades of electronic music within its concept. Yet it does not mean that this couple of tracks used to chime a bit devoid of events while being restrained within the conceptual borders. One can perceive the broad borders surrounding the music. For sure, one can hear influences of the two most praised underground electronic duos of the 90s, Autechre, and Pan Sonic. But not only – it is like an electronic release spawned by a composer having an academic background especially regarding those kind of cassette compilations released by German composers during the 80s and 90s. On the other hand, VÄäristymä's music also involves glitched-out and recycled noises at the fringe so it is a release of providing a joint part between artists additionally to idiosyncratic appearances. The joint release is a part of the discography of Nervu.

System Morgue – Froid (2017)

Frozen Light

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Ambient rock
Shoegaze
Alternative
Avant-rock
Ethereal wave
Darkwave
Epic

Comment: the simplest way to assure the title "Froid" does mean the music represented over the course of a handful of tracks. Of course, it does mean it does have much in common with the rest albums of the Sankt Peterburg, Russian one-man-project. Indeed, the listener should find out distinctive details and facets which used to differ from the other albums by System Morgue and thereafter you will have the base ultimately to shout out the substance being hidden behind the title. In fact, it would be way too different approach and way too pedantic and suffocating for enjoying music. The artist describes it as winter album having been recorded during winter months. The winter is the season for heroes. Between those meandering guitar layers with more or less hirsute accents you can enjoy deep yearning and broad dreams as if a way to conjure up something blissful and ennobling with quite simple solutions. It is shoegaze but it is not a My Bloody Valentine, it is darkwave but it is not a Lycia, it is ethereal wave but it is not a Cocteau Twins. All of that represented over there is System Morgue, one of the most perspective artists at the moment worldwide. At times, it is a pure power demonstration, at times it is a monument for pure feelings, at times those may be mixed up with one another. However, the whole ego of mine is subjugated to it. It is an avalanche in disparate meanings. The outing is a part of the discography of an imprint called Frozen Light.

5/14/2018

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)

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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.

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