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4/16/2018

[Teaser of the day] pandoras.box - Monomeet


  • Indie rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Dream pop

Artist: pandoras.box
Release: Monomeet
Year: 2011

Lycia – Tripping Back Into The Broken Days (2002)




  • Dark wave 
  • Shoegaze 
  • Alternative 
  • Ambient rock 
  • Dreamgaze 
  • Epic 
  • Neoclassical 
  • Ethereal wave

Comment: I guess Tripping Back Into The Broken Days is a good start for beginners to make acquaintance with Tempe, Arizona, US-based combo. My first contact with Mike VanPortfleet led trio (though the recent one is created by Mike VanPortfleet, and Tara Vanflower) was in 2004 while I got an album by my friend and thereafter was listening to it with my bride in the bed in a darkened room. Yeah, the impression was powerful, I got dazed and I fell in love with Lycia. I think Lycia is one of the most underrated combos in the music history and the trio`s music should be immensely more appreciated. If there is up a topic about shoegaze then you could not find out any hints at Lycia in that regard. Indeed, Lycia as a combo is a juggernaut between shoegaze and dark wave, maybe even between post-punk, and neofolk/dark folk/neoclassical. For instance, at times Lycia, and Slowdive do have much in common. The formula of Lycia is quite simple – their music used to take off with reverb-drenched, extended guitar chords being backed up by murky atmospheric synthesisers and longing vocal lines and then progress slowly and then pertify in a sense. A perfect music example to back up your dreams and anxious minds. Lycia`s music may be considered a break to the other side, or at least something of reflecting shades and dim rays from that dimension. By watching the cover print and considering the title of this 12-track outing you can perceive hints at American gothic and magic realism. It is a place where the past comes into the present in a quaint way and start to dominate the latter. In the sense you can similarities with Morrissey`s lyrics. A mandatory release for sure. The issue was intially released on Projekt Records.

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Cagey House is a Big Sissy


  • Avant-garde
  • Electro-rock
  • Art rock
  • Synth-rock
  • Avant-prog
  • Freeformfreakout
  • RIO
  • Crossover
  • Psychedelic rock
  • Improvised music
  • Electronic music
  • Acid rock
  • Experimentalism

Artist: Cagey House
Label: Bypass
Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Ben Woods - Always



  • Post-classical
  • Ambient
  • Art music
  • Modern classical
  • Epic

Artist: Ben Woods
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Antanas Jasenka - Denis & His Programme


  • Experimental electronica
  • Drum and bass
  • Glitch techno
  • Crossover
  • Experimental electro
  • Jungle
  • Breakcore

Release: Car Music 
Label: Nishi
Year: 2006 

[Teaser of the day] Least Carpet - Mirrors



  • Psych-folk
  • Raga music
  • Drone folk
  • New Weird Germany
  • Dream folk
  • Minimalism

Artist: Least Carpet
Release: Shahi Baaja
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

4/15/2018

[Teaser of the day] Walt Thisney - Sun`s Gone


  • Post-classical
  • Contemporary classical
  • Chamber music
  • Art music
  • Modern classical
  • Mood music

Artist: Walt Thisney
Release: Galactic Voodoo
Year: 2018 

Ilya i Alisa – Winter Invocation (2007)




  • Micronoise 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Drone 
  • Microsound 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Leftfield 
  • Spoken word 
  • Alternative 
  • Acousmatic music 
  • Electronic music 
  • Field recording 
  • Musique concrete 
  • Art music

Comment: Ilya Bogatyryov aka Ilya i Alisa as his one-man-project can be considered as one of the most enchanting and mystical groups to have ever been existed in Estonia. Previously I have commented about How I Entered The Dark Forest (2010) which was a true miscellany of post-punk, drone, dream folk, ambient, progressive rock, spoken word but the recent case is more austere but it does not mean it is somehow less profound and more superficial. The aforementioned releases are issued on tapes by Trash Can Dance, a Tallinn-based underground imprint. Winter Invocation is a short release of approximately 20 minutes. I guess the winter in 2007 was fragile with regard to the title. Unfortunately I cannot remember it anymore. The issue consists of electro-acoustic noises and drones creating the background mostly for female singing and chants in this way. Yet the words are not sufficient enough to bring forth the depth of the release. For instance, if you listen to the abovementioned microscopic noise soundscape I assume Snow Queen also appears in the background. It is ennobling and somehow frightening at the same time. It's beautiful in its uncompromising, anti-pop bearing. It is beautiful, beatific ugliness. So yeah, listen to it and get a copy of the tape if possible which ultimately will cost much money.

Seedge – Assorted Selections (2016)




  • Breaks 
  • Electronic music 
  • Nu jazz 
  • Easy listening 
  • Mood music 
  • Cinematic 
  • Sampledelic 
  • Acid jazz 
  • Funk

Comment: Seedge is an artist from Montréal, Canada whose 11-track outing is a miscellany of predominantly baggy beats and cinematic progressive horizons atop demonstrating stylistically its dwelling place somewhere between nu jazz, sampledelic/sound collage, and easy listening though the listener can experience detours into psychedelic, funk and yacht pop/rock either. Beyond that music is embellished with some mind-blowing tricks from a recording session set. In general, the result is uplifting and provides an additional space for the listener. Nice work.

Palancar – Shallow River Flowing (2017)




  • Ambient 
  • Ambient drone 
  • Soundscape 
  • Electronic music 
  • Kosmische Musik 
  • New Age 
  • Dreamwave 
  • Dark ambient 
  • Minimalism 
  • Epic

Comment: Darrell Burgan (the founder of Earth Mantra Netlabel!) is an artist who has been releasing music since 2010 and at the moment his legacy is big enough to bring forth his genius. Indeed, the quality does not depend on the quantity with regard to the point of the previous sentence. The 8-track issue is influenced by reading poems and by one sentence being surfaced by a Japanese writer, Matsuo Basho. A good poem is one in which the form of the verse and the joining of its parts seem light as a shallow river flowing over its sandy bed. Undoubtedly the outing is elemental in its calm drift yet on the other side it seems to be so well self-organised and natural and cloudlessly dreamy that the listener can just forget all around him/her. It is a sort of cerebral massage, a sort of ideal soundscape, a sort of intangible matter you could only imagine before you had not listened to it. At times the sonic glass resonates due murky dark ambient progressions (at Abendwind, for example), and more bold synthesiser, feedback driven and sonic effects backed appearances here and there (Essential Oil, and Tall Grass Their Monument, for example). Thanks to the opposite facets and subsequent tension the outing will be even more perfect. I used to have problems with New Age music considering cheesy and flimsy seeds coming to the mix yet Shallow River Flowing can be considered a perfect, seamless form of it. Additionally I am wondering if anyone could create more emotive music nonetheless its predominantly minimal nature. It is like the materialisation of Lao Tzu's thoughts full of profundity and space at the same time. Philosophy and music will come into one. The outstanding issue is a part of the discography of Emergent World.