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3/16/2019

[Teaser of the day] Inverness - Quema Las Naves

Archive.org

Dream pop
Shoegaze
Alternative pop/rock
Indie pop/rock

Artist: Inverness

Release: Illuminaciones

Label: Archive.org

Year: 2009

Hamlet His Highness – For All & None (2016)

Foundamental

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Bandcamp

Space rock
Avant-rock
Psych-rock
Ambient rock
Post-rock
Chamber rock

Comment: recently I have unfortunately met a human being for whom I have done a huge favour to make headway in her professional life and general welfare but later I have discovered she is an emotionally stupid one (though intellectually she is rather smart) because she can not recognise positive and friendly (and just sexually neutral) attitude for her. Just talking with her is something you are stalked by searching possible "faults", it is something truly exhaustive by being attacked unexpectedly and by reason. Does she get satisfaction from it by saying negatively? Are she searching for a place under the Sun? A drama queen with inferiority complexes. The only way is to reject her as much as possible by having no word with her even while sitting nearby her. An unlucky girl though for whom I cannot feel no compassion. What could help against and for these people? It might be such sort of music represented by a Belarusian combo called Hamlet His Highness whose music played truly loud will introduce oblivion in one's soul. I would call it an example of improvised post-rock, at times it is an example of elliptically rotating space rock played by a couple of musicians. Lots of chord changes on electric guitars and all of that being amplified and panned by violin bows. Both spatially and emotively it is an exquisite instance. One's contracted soul will be expanded, healed again. As the title hints at it – for all and none (other possibilities/remedies are to listen to the Smiths or The Fall – I just bought 6-CD box The Fontana Years where MES provides poignant descriptions to us of how ridiculous we are. It gives always a heck).

Càtodo Dùo – Al Tiro (2012)

Pan Y Rosas Discos

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

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Improvised music
Avant-garde
Live
Experimentalism
Electro-acoustic

Comment: Amanda Irraràzabal (double bass), Ramiro Molina (electric guitar) aka Càtodo Dùo´s music first appeared at RMH some months ago when I wrote about their sophomoric issue Sizigias. Let's have the conversation introspectively. The debut album was different due the scope of instrumentation, the debut one was without analogue synths (played later by Amanda Irrarràzabal) by resulting in more dry timbres, suppressed noises and clanging and fewer electronic effects. However, it is an intriguing 36-minute improvised collaboration between Chile, and Argentina. If they meet once in a while it will result in music. Given that one does have enough attention in music and inclined to jazz and improvised glass bead game. The 2-track composition was recorded live on June 3rd, 2012 at Piso 3, Santiago De Chile. Similarly to the second issue the debut album was also recorded on Pan Y Rosas Discos, an imprint from Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Numbersix – Secret Journey (2005)

Camomille

Synthwave
Indie rock
Art pop
Alternative pop
Sophisti-pop
Ambient pop
World fusion
Crossover
Synth-pop

Comment: in the last two weeks we have gotten sad news about Keith Flint, and Mark Hollis. The last of them was a legendary cult musician who did start with a synth-pop outfit but later progressed into an artsy outfit. The Rome, Italy-based Numbersix's 10-notch whole is something as if a crossover between the starting and finishing Talk Talk. At times the ghost of Ian Curtis appears to haunt us in a monotonous and laconic yet appealing way. Electronic elements are closely intertwined with ambient, even pristine space and sophisticated pop progressions which in turn are mixed up with concrete sounds and at times with the singing of indigenous people. At times the issue is getting into a lethargic dream based on buried improvisations and veiled lo-fi noodling. In a word, although it can be considered eclectic it is not a bad content at all. There is also up one track for reminding of Dark Side Of The Moon. Furthermore, it is inevitable and in the first place it is a decent crisscrossing. The release is an example within the discography of Camomille Records.