DR – Herr und Knecht (2018)

Murmure Intemporel

• Dark ambient 
• Illbient 
• Microtonal
• Drone 
• Post-industrial 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Ambient drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Abstract

Comment: this album consists of one long-running composition called Wassilij Andrejewitsch Brechunov & Nikita. Dominic Razlaff aka DR's 15-minute track is inspired by the same-titled novel by Lev Tolstoy and the cover print depicts the great Russian writer being illustrated by another outstanding Russian cultural icon Ilya Repin. This is an overcoming composition by providing different functional aspects and different explanations and interpretations. While having listened to it I was reading Stanislav Lem's Solaris and it resonated with the situation while the protagonist Kelvin was falling down towards the surface of the planet Solaris. All you can hear over there it is sonically very monotonous moving emitting eerie and ghastly sentiments as if foretelling something negative is going to happen soon. It can be interpreted as if moving either through a black hole or one is starving in Outer Space because the human being is not expected to come and start dwelling on another populated planet. As one song by the Estonian punk juggernauts J.M.K.E poignantly stated /there are around a plenty of good planets but we are not welcomed to come over there/. One simple punk song can say much more than a sophisticated yet magniloquent philosophical text or discourse or a misleading vision. And it is not going to happen anyway because the human kind is currently in a profound crisis, the conflict between the left-wing and right-wing politicians and intellectuals has obviously never been so intense and hostile as now. One greedy devil is demonised by another and vice versa. In the current situation it is very purgative and transcendental to experience such a black-hued masterpiece as Herr und knecht by the very prolific German ambient producer DR. The strongest point of this release is to transform all those abstract post-industrial inclined drones into sensations where one can perceive warmth, majesty, horror, repulsion and more or less positive or adverse feelings. In this context less is very much. The issue is a part of the discography of Murmure Intemporel.

[Teaser of the day] Dramón - Gestos Que Salvam

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Experimentalism
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Dramón

Release: Ansiedade Morte

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cameron Steele - Robot At Disco

Black Square

• Electro-rock
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Industrial rock
• Synth-rock
• Alternative
• DIY

Artist: Cameron Steele

Release: Vintage

Label: Black Square 

Year: 2010

Go Ask Alice – Ten Little Dreams (2019)

La bèl

• Synth-rock 
• Krautrock 
• Prog-rock 
• Art rock 
• Indie rock 
• Alternative rock

Comment: Go Ask Alice`s previous issue Perfection Is Terrible was added to the list of the best albums of 2017 at RMH. It was a blend of strong melodic lines and guitar and synthesizer mixed intellectual soundscapes. Stylistically something between post-punk, synth-rock, and krautrock. However, the lines between the last named genres used to be almost invisible as you have figured out already. And in fact what does it mean the vague term “synth-rock”? All of that case was embraced within the whole of a 28-minute with 8 tracks only. Ten Little Dreams may be a bit disorienting title because the whole clocks in at a 56 minute with 10 tracks. Less guitars, more electronic washes to be added to the melting pot. More dreamy reveries and elaborated progressions, more sonic distances to provide a sophisticated dialogue between blissful dreams, more steep rhythmic structures and hirsute yet somehow atmospheric electric guitars. I would like to call it a contemporary instance of prog-rock. The only exception is a track called sssun!, a pure disciple of motorik/krautrock music. Similarly to the previous issue it is also issued as a part of the discography of an Italy-based imprint, La bèl.

[Teaser of the day] Ducktails - Live at FoEG

Free Music Archive

• Dreamwave
• Electronic music
• Chillwave
• Live
• Exotica pop
• Art pop

Artist: Ducktails

Release: Live at Festival of Endless Gratitude

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Hit Me

Jamendo

• Balkan folk
• Gypsy punk
• World music
• Ethno punk

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Lost Songs of Fake Unicorns

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2018 

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Dobro Wax

Jamendo

• Hip-hop
• Rap
• Trip-hop
• Urban music

Artist: Anitek

Release: ExtraLocal

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012 

[Teaser of the day] Helaku - Budub 1

cOmaRecOrdz

• Electronic music
• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Post-disco
• Chilltronica
• Robot pop

Artist: Helaku

Release: Indian, Indian What Did You Die For?

Label: cOmaRecOrdz

Year: 2015

AlbinoLamb – Pure Phantasm (2013)

Bandcamp

• Drum and bass 
• Indietronica
• Art pop 
• IDM 
• Electronic music 
• Crossover 
• Neo-psychedelia

Comment: Pure Phantasm (AlbinoLamb is a project from Japan) is a fine example of post-indie music by embracing guitar sounds, drum and bass rhythms, psychedelic flickers, orchestrated beauty, dreamy incantations, IDM-esque electronic vibes and sonic effects in an organic way. This set of 10 compositions is something in a row of such transgressive endeavours as Pygmalion by Slowdive, Quique by Seefeel, Primal Scream`s Vanishing Point, Radiohead`s Kid A and My Bloody Valentine`s m b v. It is all about to rock off one`s socks while having no inclination to immerse in weary and often braindead cliches of indie pop/rock templates. In a word, it makes very sense.

[Teaser of the day] Hypp Fractal - Redux

• Electronic music
• Alternative
• Minimal synth
• Synth-pop

Artist: Hypp Fractal

Release: Cosmonautics Day

Label: MNMN 

Year: 2019