Desired – Lovestory (2015)

Business Casual

• Future funk 
• Vaporwave 
• Dance pop 
• Shibuya-kei 
• Crossover 
• J-pop

Comment: Desired is a beloved artist from Yekaterinburg, Russia whose as you can see has a solid follow-up at Bandcamp, and Lastfm. Undoubtedly Lovestory is a cornerstone of his success where different styles are synthesised either into new ones or revamped into modern ones. More profoundly, he employs much from the Japan scene, especially such sort of music which in turn is strongly influenced by Western pop music, such styles as shibuya-kei, and more generic J-pop. Catchy hooks through bubbling melodies and blissful harmonies and gentle yet compelling funky rhythms and some witty dialogues create a coherent upbeat release. It reminds me of a little bit of a shiny vibe which can be found from the end-70s and beginning-80s Soviet Union-era which was neither pathetic nor embarrassing like most of popular music which had come from the devastating political and cultural monster. The glittering 9-track outing is a part within the discography of Business Casual.

[Teaser of the day] Reid Karris - Fasciculation

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Electro-acoustic
• Improvised noise
• Experimentalism

Artist: Reid Karris

Release: Creatio Ex Nihilo

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Kreatiivmootor - Olme ja ulme

• Dada music
• Avant-garde
• New Weird Estonia
• Freeformfreakout
• No Wave
• Improvised music

Artist: Kreatiivmootor

Release: Kaleidoskoop

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Luarvik Luarvik - Tantsib huntidega

• Experimental rock
• Art rock
• Improvised music
• Electro-acoustic
• Avant-rock
• Progressive rock
• RIO
• Avant-prog

Artist: Luarvik Luarvik

Release: Passioon & Fuuga

Label: Bande/Strangiato

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Nin Martoize - Un

• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Electronic music
• Free jazz
• Experimentalism

Artist: Nin Martoize

Release: Digittoe Air

Label: Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2018

Appalachian Falls – GrimGrimAntonym (2011)

Resting Bell

• Ambient 
• Soundscape 
• Avant-garde 
• Live 
• Ambient drone 
• Microtonal 
• Experimentalism

Comment: some artists come to stay, some artists come to disappear forever. Appalachian Falls seems to be a representative of the latter version. One can find out very austere information about him/her (he/she is called as austerely as I) traces in music. However, GrimGrimAntonym consists of two long-running compositions in the vein of ambient and drone mixed powerful appearance. More profoundly, it is represented with the texture of ambient music and the inner, propulsive impulse of drone music by employing an array of distortion pedals and tape machines. The music is recorded during a live session which used to slowly build up in the manner of post-rock through massive crescendos and subsequent purgative fadeouts. The enchanting aural experience is a part of the discography of Resting Bell, a well-recognized German imprint (unfortunately its mission has come to an ending). That`s great indeed.

Svann E. Langguth – Drei- Und Vierstimmige Interventionen & Polymorphe Vivisektion (2016)

Der Kleine Grüne Würfel

Archive.org

• Lo-fi 
• Improvised noise 
• Experimental rock 
• Electronic music 
• Experimentalism 
• DIY 
• Noise 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Drone 
• Abstract 
• Avant-garde 
• Avant-rock

Comment: there is quite much to say about this 16-piece whole. In other words, one can write a solid review in alphabetic characters about it. The artist created the music on DIY modules built up by himself. It consists of two parts – three and four-voice interventions, and polymorphic vivisections. By its mood it is at times tumultuous due to intense noisy droning and whimsical glitched-out whirlpools, at times it used to fade away due to those oblivious guitar patterns being somewhere in the remote background. At times the aforementioned parts will fuse with one another or being the transgressive threshold for the other part. In fact, it is even more versatile than the full title of this album hints at it. It reminds me of my own musical doings while manipulating on my sampler Yamaha – by extracting sounds into very small units and moving them back and forth and searching for proper ones. In principle, it is nothing more or less than just (shape)shifting austere sonic waves and just bare signals to align them with one`s cerebral interface. Some magniloquent sort of improvised noise by its method and output. At times it chimes like a real, spirited embodiment of electricity (at QuadNand vierstimmig). By the way, I tagged the album partly as DIY, and lo-fi. Of course, it is the discussion point of considering any sort of electronic music as somehow lo-fi, or DIY. May it be a bit tautological? Pop-inflected music can be more clearly handled as hi-fi and lo-fi.  The overcoming outing is a part of the discography of Germany-based imprint Der Kleine Grüne Würfel.

[Teaser of the day] Chad Golda - Move Your Body

Writing

• Indie folk
• DIY
• Americana
• Alt-folk
• Appalachian music
• Psych-rock
• Singer-songwriter
• Lo-fi
• Crossover
• Folk indie

Artist: Chad Golda

Release: The Mysterious Nine

Label: Writing/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] NAMM - Saltamontes

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Experimental pop
• Art pop
• Drone pop
• Avant-pop
• Indietronica

Artist: NAMM

Release: L'Arte dei Rumori

Label: Ephedrina

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Champagne Cherry - Be Seen

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Electronic music
• Urban music

Artist: Max Tannone

Release: I`ve Grown

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018