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Comment: this 12-notch outing constitutes volume 4 of the Soothing Images series. Mancunian Bryn Coleman who is behind the project employs a virtual double tape loop system to create airy but pensive soundscapes on a piano, a synthesiser and a guitar. He has shifted styles a number of times yet such sort of music is being a main fare for him recently. At times those sounds evolve into epic semi-orchestrations, of course, in slowed-down terms of Brin Coleman. The echoing guitar chords and gentle strumming create an additional, hued space by reminding of other guitar geniuses like Drew Miller, Stephen Briggs, and Gaetano Fontanazza. I guess the music could be depicted as if a travelling on the unstable ground of gigantic gas planets like Jupiter, and Saturn. One will ultimately feel a desperate pain of loneliness and having no chance to reach some populated points in the middle of the vast ground of the planets. In a word, it is a fine example of the music of the spheres where bittersweet sensations are embedded in rather than parted. Great work by any means.

Cory Allen – Satory In Atlantis (2007)

Test Tube

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Ambient
Electronic music
Minimalism
Epic
Ambient drone
Microtonal
Field recording
Organic electronica
Dreamwave
Musique concrète

Comment: Austin, Texas, US-based musician, producer and a music label co-owner Cory Allen's 5-notch outing is a tense blend of dreamy droning incantations and beatific ambient plateaus. Despite his deliberately austere concept he has much to deliver to us. "Satori" is the Buddhist term for "awakening, comprehension, understanding". Less is more which could be the slogan of this issue under the marvellous Portuguese imprint Test Tube. To get awoken a human being needs silence, as a part of the rest; given that there is almost no places around where one could do it the artificial silence is suitable for this purpose. It may be there exists no absolute silence at all - it might be silence is an invisible conversation as once sung Malcolm Mooney from CAN. These 30 minutes create an organized calming padding for both an unnerving person and adventurous music lover. Journey to Bodhi can be considered an example of contemporary New Age/Reiki music. As it is said his work focuses on the manipulation of human perception with the intent of altering the listener's state of consciousness. I am very convinced this outing can be considered as a step for a person to move toward his/her personal enlightenment.

Voyageurs – Nude Vegas (2010)

White Moon Recordings

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

Space rock
Psych-rock
Alternative rock
Indie rock
Acid rock
Drone rock

Comment: this batch of 7 tracks is a sublime mix of undulating stoned guitar rants and overcoming drumming and desperate yet suppressed shouting by the vocalist, and heavily pushing psychedelic organs everywhere around it. And of course, the littered, rehearsal room-alike sound is a positive sign. In a word, all these seven loose structured tracks can freely be considered as an one lengthy track where any track reflects upon the whole and vice versa. The main intention of this issue is to create a hypnosis inside the musicians and their followers. A hypnosis through languid timbre and elliptical, iterative rhythmic patterns. Voyageurs is a combo from Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA who have issued a bunch of issues over different platforms, Free Music Archive, and Bandcamp. I am just wondering has Bill Clinton – who had spent many years in Fayetteville in the 70s – ever listened to the combo? It would be a fancy idea that the former president would heavily be get involved in that and reflecting his opinion publicly. I guess an almost unknown combo would get their ranking remarkably higher. The outing is a part of the discography of White Moon Recordings.

2/19/2019

[Teaser of the day] Mrs Dink - G*Boi

Bump Foot

Hardstep
Tracker music
Electronic music
8-bit
Crossover
Minimal electro
Breakcore
Chiptune
Hard electro

Artist: Mrs Dink

Release: How Up R U? EP

Label: Bump Foot

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] abelest+Takeshi Fuwa - 睡眠

Maltine

J-pop
Electronic pop
Autotune
Urban music
Mumble rap
Digital soul

Artist: abelest

Release: 健康

Label: Maltine

Year: 2019

The Rabbits – That Cave of Love Part 1 (2008)

WM Recordings

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Free Music Archive

Avant-rock
Alternative rock
Art pop
Cinematic
Noise pop
Fuzz pop
Comedy pop
Experimental pop

Comment: The Rabbits` third outing on WM Recordings is playful and sardonic, entertaining and poignant at the same time. I have no understanding why such sort of music does not make up music charts because in fact it does have everything. Obviously it is way too dizzy for masses and all those influencers, opinion leaders and bosses of music labels who wish the world would be full of "of chickeny softness” while the world need heroes instead of it. The 9-notch outing was issued in 2008 yet it would predict what used to happen today when bloody political correctness embraces all within a society. I do not think that all sort of the so-called liberal activists with gleaming eyes could change world into a better place. I guess their pretension to make it is filled in with half-truths, faulty assumptions and partial knowledges while pretending to be idols by their public ambitions. More profoundly, one of the consequences is that young people are eunuchised by it and locked in porn sites. In truth, it is ridiculous to see all of that for a critical bystander. Do you think is it possible to change someone into a god who is a sort of animal (even if he/she does not recognize it) and headed by drives and subjugated to natural laws? Of course, it is the premise for so-called divine comedy. I do not believe in revolutions anymore, I believe in art and music and an organic way of living instead of it. I believe in a sort of patchwork through music which is represented over there – from dadaist outbursts and noise/fuzz pop spans to slightly pop-oriented developments and astounding blissful cinematic undulations and ork-pop quests. And the most important point – there is up freedom one could not find out from a recent society anymore.

2/18/2019

[Teaser of the day] Pogo - Hoo Ba Ba Kanda

Electronic pop
Poptronica
Sampledelic
Funk
Alternative pop
Plunderphonics

Artist: Pogo

Release: Weightless

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Sensual Physics - Cold Sweat

Epsilonlab

Deep techno
Electronic music
Techno pop
Bubblegum techno
Alternative dance

Artist: Sensual Physics

Release: Expanding Itself

Label: Epsilonlab

Year: 2005

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2/21/2019

[Teaser of the day] elephantknuckle - Cladogenesis

[Teaser of the day] Space Dimension Controller - Title Sequence

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