Burdeos – S A U D A D E (2014)

Miga

Bandcamp

• Techno pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Ambient pop 
• Synth-pop 
• Post-disco

Comment: Burdeos is an artist from Seville, Spain whose 8-track issue is an exuberant electronic progression through lofty synthesiser developments and a churning rhythmic programming. It used to be a gentle mix between the fluctuating melodic and the bouncy formative side. Some hisses and glitches, sawtooth-shaped shards and rusty synths and robotic voices are set up to add an additional value to the emotionally suggestive threads. As the artist says 'Saudade' is a word difficult to define, which expresses a sense of melancholy, yearning or longing. A beautiful memory for what has been lived and painful because will not come back. All in all, it is for you to decide whether you could feel bittersweet memories or striking rebounds while listening to it or not. The subtle outing is a bit in the discography of Miga.

Krynge - Tuf Kld Spd Rcr (1988)

ZH27

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract 
• Noise 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Non-music 
• Freeformfreakout

Comment: just having read that the French president Emmanuel Macron has a helicopter on standby to evacuate him while France is controlled by a huge part of the nation, by the so-called yellow vests. While listening to this project of Zan Hoffman, and this half-hour issue (he reimagines recordings of his home taping friends like Swinebolt 45, and Minoy). I guess something analogously horrible and terrifying may be happening in the head of the leader now. Especially if there is up a comparison to the situation what happened in Romania exactly 29 years ago or what happened in France 229 years ago. In the latter case, the king did not have a helicopter and his attempt to run away with carriage failed. Musically it is a haphazard yet threateningly ecstatic blend of drumming, chimes and windbells, accidental electronic impulses, steam trumpets, buried shrieks and overamplified speeches, accelerated sounds of engines. Black noises are varied with torrents of howling brown noise attacks, yeah, it seems to be the frank analogue stuff. The issue which was initially released on ZH27 was re-released by the German imprint Attenuation Circuit in 2013 and providing a couple of minutes more music and a bit different content than the original one. The history repeats itself in a bit different manner.

[Teaser of the day] So I´m An Islander - Erle' O'e (Honest Words)

• Modern classical
• Mood music
• Contemporary classical
• Minimalism
• Piano music
• Post-classical
• Art music

Artist: So I´m An Islander

Release: Winter Horizon

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Sanchez Is Driven By Demons - Peak

Redstarcommunity

• Ambient rock
• Space rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: Sanchez Is Driven By Demons

Release: All Systems Are Ghosts Remnant

Label: Redstarcommunity

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Brother Saturn - Awake In Your Dreams

• Guitar ambient
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Electronic music
• Ambient drone

Artist: Brother Saturn

Release: Atmosphere

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Tanuki - Radiant Memories

[Teaser of the day] The Peach Tree - White Magick

• Alternative rock
• Electro-indie
• Lo-fi
• Art rock
• Synth-rock
• Glam rock
• DIY
• Indie rock

Artist: The Peach Tree

Release: Magick

Label: Archive.org/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Romo - Airplane Groove

Dusted Wax Kingdom

• Nu jazz
• Acid jazz
• Electronic music
• Sampledelic
• Trip-hop

Artist: Romo

Release: Listen, Love (EP)

Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom

Year: 2012

Day Of The Triangle – bizarre world of non (2018)

Bandcamp

• Kosmische Musik 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Synth-pop 
• Ambient techno 
• Cosmic fusion 
• Soundscape
• Crossover 
• New Age 
• Deep house

Comment: I can remember for Day Of The Triangle's albums called Salvia Sundays, 48, and Chair Conspiracy could be considered one of the best albums in 2015. And today I can say that bizarre world of non is the favourite release of mine in 2018. Within the Estonian underground scene Tartu-based artist's music was something truly remarkable to provide such a refreshing sort of cosmic breeze up to one's wearisome globe (by the Estonian artists Trent Hawkins and Tont can somehow be compared to it in stylistic and sensual manner). And it still does in the same way 3 years later up to one's cerebral convolutions by trudging across a mystical universe with pulsating rhythms, spaced-out synthesised cascades, and amusing vocal arrangements and tectonic yet transcendental drones. It may remind a bit of The Orb's masterpiece called Orblivion but just for a second (by the way, it starts off with a bouncy synthwave rhythmic metric to develop into an exuberant electro and tricky yet full-fledged (contingent) synth-pop and astral techno and deep house mixed soup as if produced by an outsider mastermind). What's the difference between it and the artists of the so-called Berlin School? The synths and soundscapes represented over there are more warm, less hollow and more timeless. As if reflecting upon the working process of cosmic furnaces full of colourful transformations, supernatural changes, and lush heat emitting. Indeed, one obviously cannot pin down the exact period and place of these sonic progressions. By changing the side of a copy of the tape (indeed, the tape is issued as a limited edition under Trash Can dance) the listener can hear more enchantingly iterative New Age-y hovers as if depicting a flamboyant world beyond the reach and power of our most potent telescopes. Could you see the apparition of Creator? As I already said these 8 tracks do constitute the best issue in 2018.

Borgesss – The Invisible Rope (2017)

myhand.thanx

Bandcamp

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

Comment: does God lie? What happens next if the witch grabs you by the hand? And if you are surrounded by the howl of a pack of wolves or immersed in the darkest blue for some reason? Instead of wolves you could freely be surrounded by Tony Montana, Anton Chigurh, or Max Cady-alike personae. Instead of God you can put the word 'president' or 'leader' to the sentence who know for what is the best for their nations. You can see what is going on in France during a month as the subsequence of such sort of arrogance. And you will have no chance to blame the so-called populists anymore. Furthermore, it indicates the term 'populism' has been used in an exaggerated way. By facing all of that you are either devastated to the bottom in a paralyzing way or will it provide you some power or even inspiration to create something arousing on its own. On this 6-notch release the minor chords played on bold guitar strings and suppressed female singing supported by faint echoes and synthesised electronics are governing the course for all our pleasure. Of course, additionally I do fancy it because Borgesss is the solo project by Paula Borges, the lead vocal of a favourite combo of mine, Hanging Freud. Indeed, there is no chance to partake in deviation of quality and tasteless self-indulgent excesses. By kindred souls one can draw parallels to such artists as Thalia Zedek, Cat Power, For Solacing Grief, Le Bâtiment, Lullabier. The decorous issue is a part of the discography of an imprint called myhand.thanks.