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Comment: CLOUDWARMER is the project of Brett Zehner, and Eddie Palmer, previously the duo was being known as The Fucked Up Beat (a favourite of mine). As if a couple of conspiracy theoreticians and practitioners in sound used to have had a fun on these as numerous as approximately 20 albums. In general, they continue along an analogue way by using haunting, by its nature ominous speech samples and exotic yet by its nature a bit frightening, a bit otherworldly twisted rhythmic patterns to convey a disaster-ridden world (where the human being and nature welcome each other in an acrimonious way) to us what catastrophic disasters have happened throughout the last 70-80 years. Musically the main difference could be considered by employing doom-laden, noisy sweeps occasionally. For misanthropists this 12-track issue would be a good source to formally refer to the adverse consequences and therefore to their own species as a failed one but for others it would be a pleasant journey through labyrinthine sonic corridors and arousing fear stricken moods to get travelled. For whom this world belongs to in fact? For me? For you? For them? If it so who are then those 'them'? Should it be owned by someone at all? Are we just the pawns in the field of the so-called divine comedy? The mentally overcoming release was issued at Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp.

Yuuki Yamaguchi – Atmosphere EP (2018)

Ceramic

Yuuki Yamaguchi

House
Electronic music
Deep house
Crossover
Ethno-house
Avant-house

Comment: by listening to this 3-notch outing by a Japanese artist, Yuuki Yamaguchi I thought about the possibility to write a review about a house music release. In fact, how much house or drum and bass reviews could you meet today. No, I am not supposed to think of it as an example of boring music but its functionality might predominate over its other qualities more or less deliberately. First of all, it is the synonym of dance music and at a lesser extent, to create a pleasant state of mind (one of the strengths of house music is to build up sultry ambiances). Of course, there have been around many artists whose purpose are being to undermine the aforementioned intentions and outputs. First of all, I could remember for artists under the legendary German imprint Thinner, and Akufen. The Japanese artist's issue being released on Ceramic Records is a tight blend of national motives (which frequently are warped into an appealingly acidic form) and vibrant rhythms. By considering the titles of these tracks (Atmosphere, Distortion, to Nature) one can perceive the artist's drive to move further from within the borders of the aforementioned styles. One can hear the birds are singing, slightly pulsating drones provide an alternative to the more fragmented beats, smithereens-alike sounds used to pop out here and there. To create house music seems not to be his ultimate goal but exploiting it as a platform to reach new heights.

[Teaser of the day] Carcass Brook - Dead Inside

Death Roots Syndicate

Folk noir
No Wave
Singer-songwriter
Death folk
Noise folk
Doom folk

Artist: Carcass Brook

Release: A Good Day to Die

Label: Death Roots Syndicate

Year: 2018

1/02/2019

[Teaser of the day] Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons - The TNT Factory

Ambient
Avant-garde
Post-industrial
Ambient drone
Dark ambient
Soundscape
Electronic music
Experimentalism
Drone
Illbient

Artist: Cousin Silas & Kevin Lyons

Release: The Fortean Project

Label: We Are All Ghosts

Year: 2018

Luka Prinčič – Antigone/Child (2018)

Kamizdat

Bandcamp

Ambient
Soundscape
Art music
Epic
Post-classical
Modern classical
Contemporary classical
Dark ambient
Crossover
Ambient drone

Comment: you may not know how indescribably pleasant is to listen to an album which allows you to forget your self and ego just for an hour – it is one of the best sensations you could ever get in at all. I am listening to Slovenia-based artist Luka Prinčič`s 12-track outing and I can feel I have entered outside the mundane realm where I feel I am nobody, I have no goofy obligations, I am just a part of the imminent energy of this unfathomable endlessness. You can feel halcyon chill and ennobling blue and black mixed darkness oozing out of every chord, out of every imaginary slot. Mystical constellations do form in front of you and foster your fantasies. On the other side, it is a bit heretical to dissect the object or goal of which touch is purgative and transcendental and over my head to an incomparable degree. However, I could only assure it would surely not be a topic over there. Just because of that take a time to listen to it, just get into the music, and try to stay inside it as long as possible. In a way, it is an example of post-music because it acts like a medium to bear and sustain a next level, in the recent case overwhelming sensations to be brought to the forefront. The fabulous issue of ambient, drone and contemporary classical music is a part of the discography of Kamizdat, a Slovene imprint.

1/01/2019

[Teaser of the day] A Batard Tronique - U Svom Jatu

Ringe Raja

Breakcore
Bhangra
World fusion
Electronic music
Breakbeat
Jungle

Artist: A Batard Tronique

Release: Ringe Raja 038

Label: Ringe Raja

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Alphaxone - Signals

Eg0cide Productions

Ambient
Post-industrial
Soundscape
Dark ambient
Electronic music
Epic
Space music

Artist: Alphaxone

Release: Phase.o.n.e

Label: Eg0cide Productions

Year: 2012

Los Pilotos – Under The Breath (2018)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Doom rock
Sludge rock
Art rock
Avant-metal
Improvised music
Experimental rock
Avant-rock
Post-metal
Angst rock

Comment: Los Pilotos is the solo project of Keith Helt with a swarm of rotating musical collaborators. In fact, Keith Helt has headed a prolific Chicago, the US-based imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos for years and it is obviously one of the most represented if not the very most represented project in the discography of the record label. Regrettably I have to admit my experience with the oeuvre by Keith Helt is being moderate because I have reviewed just an album (The Process Of Learning, 2016) before the recent one. However, by comparing these issues I have to assume the releases are quite different ones by their accents and formats. The Process Of Learning was more motorik, psychedelic and electronic music soaked and obviously krautrock influenced but on Under The Breath Keith Helt does away with any electronics and synths. On the other side, this 10-notch whole is a fascinating result due to its repetitive chords on rough yet vibrant guitars and basses and a bit interrupted, convulsive singing manner (yeah, his voice does convey strong passion and intense pain) as if a weird bastard between doom, and sludge rock/metal being subjugated to an improvised algorithm. In a sense, the sparse instrumental premises put huge pressure on the artist's technical virtuosity and aesthetical creativity. At times the listener can perceive even cinematic hovers atop the aforementioned guitar and bass built scaffolding as if some kind of salvation for compensating artsy suffering and fear. All in all, the result is impressive due to Keith Helt's ability to balance between expressive playing style, and a creative formative output. This interaction as a result is truly worth on its own.

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1/03/2019

[Teaser of the day] Lobo Loco - Hey Go (ID 1015)

[Teaser of the day] Rolling Calf Sinfonette - Past Bedtime

CLOUDWARMER – Anthropocene (2018)