Karras – Fernen (2006)

EKO

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica  
• Organic electronica
• Post-rock 
• Glitchtronica 
• Ambient 
• Art music

Comment: Manrico Montero aka Karras aka Linga has issued a bunch of issues under such imprints as Mandorla, Rain, and EKO. Although the 7-notch outing came out from the latter French one and it had happened already 13 years ago while it is still actual due to its atmospheric beauty and fragile yet enchanting rhythmic structures and an adept synthesised touch between an organic feel and artsy succulent progressions. If you analyse it even more thoroughly you can see very austere sounds like glitches and hisses and distant echoes and fading reverberations coming out from the very bottom to be added to the whole mix. Furthermore, the Mexican artist is also not indifferent due to the dichotomy of noise and silence by providing immersive, sustainable pauses. If you wish it could be called a minor brother of Slowdive's Pygmalion (1995) or an alter ego of Tim Hecker's Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again (2001). Of course, it contains more electronics and less guitars than Pygmalion but its production and ideological level is analogous. Another branch of the thought is to recognise Pygmalion as one of the most seminal albums out of the 90s (which later on obviously influenced the music of such transgressive post-rock/ambient artists as Labradford, Transient Waves). The aforementioned excellent albums constitute a different approach to post-rock as it usually used to be – their crescendos are build upon on subdued, even obtuse progressions by shedding stepwise more light and adding scintillating elements with the intention to call forth epic impressions and stretch the dimensions of the soundscape in different directions. The apparent emotive apotheosis and majestic highlight of the issue is Dawn Chords (I) where a magniloquent ambient layer with the pointed motif is pushed through a backdrop of slightly fluttering crackling and swirling static. In temporal terms – approximately ten years ago such a kind of album were not tagged as post-rock or somehow related to it yet but now it seems to have clear-cut connotations with an experimental rock scene (one can draw parallels upon a historical event which also can be considered adequately from the distance). Such a sort of description and intention and thrive could be attributed to the music of Fernando Corona aka Murcof, allegedly the most well-known Mexican artist. In a word, an impressionistic top tier as if it were aurally painted somewhere in a remote Pacific island in the past.

[Teaser of the day] Dustdevil & Crow - November

Free Music Archive

• Improvised music
• Avant-folk
• Experimental folk
• Free folk
• Psych-folk

Artist: Dustdevil & Crow

Release: ... And Chiang Tzu Dreamed That He Was Me

Label: Pen & Mallet/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] The Sway - Feasting On My Friends

Jamendo

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Indie rock

Artist: The Sway

Release: Silk EP

Label: Jamendo/Archive.org

Year: 2008

[Teaser of the day] Chenard Walcker - Touch Of Light

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic
• Acid jazz
• Plunderphonics
• Crossover
• Sound collage
• Nu jazz
• Electronic music

Artist: Chenard Walcker

Release: Rock'n Roll Boy

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2004

[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

Archive.org

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

Archive.org

• 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.

[Teaser of the day] SEC - La Galère

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Math rock
• Live
• No Wave
• Art rock

Artist: SEC

Release: Si j'avais un marteau j'aimerais pas être une enclume.

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Alexei Biryukoff - chase #016

Black Square

• Musique concrète
• Experimentalism
• Field recording
• Avant-garde
• Non-music

Artist: Alexei Biryukoff/Muhmood

Release: Train Chase

Label: Black Square

Year: 2013