[Teaser of the day] K.D. Expression - MC Encounter

Nishi

• Chilltronica
• Ambient pop
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: K.D. Expression

Release: Mental EP

Label: Nishi

Year: 2005

Maxim Trianov – A Chance To Remember (2014)

Nexsound

• Improvised music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-rock 
• Electronic music
• Guitar ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Experimental electronica 
• Crossover 
• Electro-acoustic

Comment: Maxim Trianov is a musician from Kharkov, Ukraine whose 7-track issue (clocking in at a 48-minute) is predominantly an immersive thought through electric and acoustic guitars and electronics induced effects. Undoubtedly the main heaviness is set up by the guitars in different forms – at times it is set out as organic, subsequent progressions through the chords, at times it involves more incisive interruptions based on effects unit and effect control devices. As if getting obsessively into the essence of a sonic minutia to be explored. At times there are set up a dialogue between the guitars and a lurking atmosphere as if lashing the ghosts around and inside him. Electronic music is foremost set forth at The Morning After which is a platform to meld together glitched-out electronica and slamming electronic beats with broad progressive rock sweeps. The finishing track Outro is the electro-acoustic example. What I should say – imagine Slash were partly abandoned his rock star ambitions to play guitars in a more experimental mode. Of course I do not complain at all – Slash is a great guitar hero, and this case is an album of Maxim Trianov, who is also a great artist. This mind-provoking issue is a part of the discography of Nexsound, a Ukraine-based experimental imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Marisol Celestia - All Throughout The Night

Sirona-Records

• Alternative rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Slowcore
• Indie rock

Artist: Marisol Celestia

Release: A Never Ending Promise

Label: Sirona-Records

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pollux - Souvenirs (Ceox Legal Edit)

45RPM-Records

• Electronic music
• Downtempo
• Crossover
• Glitchstep
• Ambient dub
• Glitch-hop

Artist: Pollux

Release: Souvenirs

Label: 45RPM-Records

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] So I`m An Islander - Træj Faue (Three Colours)

• Indie pop
• Drone pop
• Baroque pop
• Post-rock
• Epic
• Chamber pop
• Art pop
• Ork-pop

Artist: So I`m An Islander

Release: Fle'e Mælo'die

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - Hammerhead

• Synthwave
• Alternative
• Electronic music
• EBM
• Industrial electro

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: The Vases EP

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp  

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Takeshi Nakamura - Base

Nocharizma

• Glitchtronica
• Avant-electronica
• Abstract
• Electronic music
• Experimental electronica
• Clicks and cuts

Artist: Takeshi Nakamura

Release: Eros, Grotesque, Nonsense

Label: Nocharizma

Year. 2005

VA – Gauchito Gil contra Colocolo (2010)

Los Emes Del Oso

Free Music Archive

• Electro-acoustic 
• Space pop 
• Musique concrète 
• Field recording 
• No Wave 
• Drone pop 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Experimentalism 
• Improvised music 
• Lo-fi 
• Avant-pop 
• Psychedelic 
• DIY 
• Progressive pop 
• Tropicàlia pop 
• World fusion

Comment: Gaucho Surrealista, Un Festin Sagital, Radikal Satan, Manuel De La Pileta, Onda Bidón, Tomates Rocky, Los Siquicos Litoralenos, Manuel J. Grotesque, Musicos Del Metro, Kellies, Dadalú, Caballo Loco, Collectivo No, Ø+yn, Pibes De Merlo, Los Pastores De Gelatina, Radio Chilena, and Oso* Y Los Mongos Freneticos are the names represented on this compilation of a fairly broad extent. Thanks to an imprint, Los Emes Del Oso to whom some glimpses from Chile, and Argentina are represented over there. Lots of improvised and immediate sounds (as if straightly from the street and a carnival) make me feel alright, although the processed sounds presented over there are also fine and freely floating – from Os Mutantes-stylized avant/prog mixed Tropicàlia pop (indeed, music does not recognize the geographical borders) and old school radio chirping to murky drone and darkwave flickers to deranged psychedelic addressing and spacey theremin/analogue synth-based developments and warped ethnic/world music extravaganzas. Undoubtedly you can find out much different attitude and parochial approach (in a good sense, of course) you are not allowed to discover in Europe, and the USA. Top notch which makes me psyched out.

Masato Abe – Author (2017)

Elementperspective

Free Music Archive

• Post-rock 
• Modern classical 
• Art music 
• Ambient 
• Epic 
• Post-classical 
• Crossover 
• Piano music 
• Contemporary classical

Comment: In fact, in the previous year I decided not to send my review about the best albums to a public magazine because it should be the closed case. Yet it is ridiculous to expect to have a good review about the albums having been published during an annual span. If there is any possibility to represent it dynamically (via Internet) then do it. Let's consider this excellent Tokyo, Japan-based Masato Abe`s Author (also known from the duo Swan Kid Sue). I have been listening to it for hours today and there is no doubt it should be added to the list of the best albums 2017. It is the case. More profoundly, it is as easy as feather, it is as heavy as honey, it is as dreamy as your most dreamy reveries. This 8-track adept colossus does not distinguish the borders between contemporary classical, and majestic, chamber-tinged rock swathes. At times the course is amended by vocal glimpses, concrete sounds, and sublime piano tenures. All is floating slowly over your fragile soul and affected mind. There is no hurry and a listener should not rush. If you are listening to it this whole makes impact on you anyway. All is blossoming and inevitably wrapping around you. Like me too. Just hear at Small Window Shows So Many Delight those effortlessly rolling violins and charming orchestrations to make up your blissful Sunday. The release is a bit in the discography of elementperspective. So it can be said the case is Japanese wholly.

nula.cc – Trilogy (2018)

Bandcamp

• Drone 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Avant-electronica 
• Abstract 
• Sound art 
• Experimental electronica 
• Microtonal 
• Microsound 
• Non-music 
• Post-industrial

Comment: nula.cc, a Prague, The Czech Republic-based artist is back with three tracks based on friction, and involving such materials as wood, metal, skin, water, and air. For many years ago such a sort of concept would have been interesting but I would soon realize that either the sound used to self-organize itself or there are certain limits for the sound to push the sound into a before existed form or forms. Or maybe human ears are way too weak to get into true new sounds. Or maybe your imagination begins to work in a way to produce sounds of having no existence in reality. It already enters into the philosophical question of phenomenon. However, it is yet interesting to listen to it even though it consists of off-white hisses, vaguely pulsating microscopic chips, exquisite electro-acoustic effects. I guess the artist has exploited contact microphones to provide the essence of the aforementioned materials and mediums. All in all, it is an intriguing whole which feeds your imagination and broadens some listening experience.