Recent Music Heroes

11/07/2018

Albert Negredo – Paricolintencia (2018)

MonoKraK

Ambient
Abstract
Avant-garde
Experimentalism
Sampledelic
Drone
Minimalism
Electronic music
Space music
Electro-acoustic

Comment: Albert Negredo`s 4-track issue Paricolintencia is a short (14-minute) outing yet involving many disparate facets – from pulsating and catchy sample-based ambient to colder, more abstract soundscapes as if reflecting upon a yet unknown life form coming from beyond our restricted and exhausted fantasies. You cannot see its face yet you can feel the presence of it. One can hear one and the same sample at Paradona pulsating from the beginning to the end. Yet it fulfils its goal to amuse the listener because the sample is loaded with catchiness based on a female vowel effect. In fact, I would listen to it for an hour. Cloaca is an exquisite crossroad for ambient and electro-acoustic music. The cover print is also ambiguous reflecting upon our intention to get beyond our restricted, boredom-eaten life. This thought-provoking, great issue is a part of the discography of MonoKraK.

11/06/2018

[Teaser of the day] Radiotuman - Mokele-Mbembe Hunting

Ethnotronica
Electronic music
World music
Psychedelic
Alternative
World fusion

Artist: Radiotuman

Release: Tunguska Constellation: Radiotuman - Sakhalin Tales

Label: Tunguska Music Society/Jamendo

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Aortha - Sometimes Straightening Herself Up To Warm Puffs

Haze

Abstract
Glitch techno
Dark ambient
Experimental electronica
Micro-techno
Avant-techno
Experimental techno

Artist: Aortha

Release: Was Sleeping

Label: Haze

Year: 2009

11/05/2018

[Teaser of the day] Atlas Sound - Coffin Trick

Southern Shelter

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Noise pop
Live
Singer-songwriter

Artist: Atlas Sound

Release: Atlas Sound @ 40 Watt Club 2009-12-31

Label: Southern Shelter

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] The Antlers - Revisited

NYCTaper

Art rock
Indie pop/rock
Sadcore
Live
Alternative pop/rock

Artist: The Antlers

Release: Live at Rough Trade NYC on 2014-06-17

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2014

Mart Avi – OtherWorld (2018)

Bandcamp

Art pop
Post-pop
Alternative
Avant-soul
Singer-songwriter
Indie
Avant-pop
Sophisti-pop
Space pop

Comment: Mart Avi is a young Estonian art popster who first got attention with such dance rock combos Badass Yuki, and Stones & Holes approximately 10 years ago. However, some years later he started to foster his solo career with potent albums like After Hours (2013), Humanista (2015), Rogue Wave (2016), and more recently OtherWorld. The last three albums constitute a more logical unit due to those sparkling and triumphant yet uncanny poppy incantations as if travelling across an endless astral meadow. For sure, his music is an other world even if you can find out some parallels with such artists as David Sylvian, David Bowie, Scott Walker, The Blue Nile, and Jarvis Cocker and Pulp`s more introvert yet magical bigger-than-life numbers like Seductive Barry, This Is Hardcore, F.E.E.L.I.N.G C.A.L.L.E.D L.O.V.E, and Weeds II. By the way, I heard a mystical, a bit medieval-tinged Dead Can Dance, and a somber, Treasure-era Cocteau Twins either. In fact, it is normal you can find out some parallels with other artists because an artist`s purpose should not be to fend off previous impulses. It is indispensable to come together with them. The most important question is – how all these influences will result in? Does it add some extra value separately and to previous ones as well? I would like to call a music album as an intersubjective experience. You cannot separate it from the past and from the present. While listening to this 8-track album I was running in a darkening forest and the experience was ennobling and frightening at the same time. The dark blue-tinged wall which surrounded me got saturated with a spirited vibe. Was it evil? Was is friendly? Is it a stupid question (of course, it is)? I did not mention before that Mart Avi has been requested as a guest vocalist for many Estonian underground acts. His baritone-tinged singing used to prevail though it is infused more than before with soulful intakes. Similarly to Ariel Pink you cannot categorize him neither temporally nor stylistically. In fact, it is an exquisite play with their own borders to have them and not having them given that the borders must be to an extent to embrace their own spirit. Superb.