New year, new surprises and new earaches; the best wishes for all you beloved followers!!!!
Brand-old new freak stuff is coming at January...wait and bleed.
December 27, 2018
Underwater hallucinations
Feeling the weight of water.
(Founded in 1980, The Legendary Pink Dots exist in the fields of
experimental and psychedelic music. The band is fronted by Edward
Ka-Spel, who doubles as singer and chief lyric writer. Phil Knight (The
Silverman),
Erik Drost, and Raymond Steeg make up the current lineup of the band.
The sound is often a conglomerate of electronics, saxophones, guitars,
drums, and Ka-Spel's distinctive voice and lyrical invention. Side
projects of the band include The Tear Garden (with Cevin Key from Skinny
Puppy), and Mimir (with Christoph and Andreas Heemann), plus solo
ventures).
Labels
Avant Garde,
Experimental,
Psychedelic
A prayer to the goddess of fertility
Old forgotten sounds to awake the real divinities.
(Daemonia Nymphe is a greek project created in 1994 by Spyros Giasafakis and Evi Stergiou. They play Ancient Greek Music with the instruments from this era, mixed with Neoclassic, Gothic and Néofolk influences; DN is an ethereal world music ensemble, the first
artists worldwide to compose and perform improvisations with
reproductions of ancient Greek instruments manufactured by Nikolaos
Brass).
Labels
Ethereal,
Experimental,
Neoclassical
Alone until yesterday
A deep breath into the loneliness.
(Air Formation are an English indie/postrock/shoegaze band from Crawley,
UK, that debuted with their first 7" in the summer of 1998 under the name B.E.A.B. Approved.
In early 2000 they were forced to change their name, they chose Air
Formation. They split in April 2011 before reforming in 2014).
Into mind implosion
To think in think.
(Amp is an English ambient/space/drone group based around the core
members Richard Walker and Karine Charff. Walker was a member of a band
in Bristol called The Secret Garden that incubated a number of groups
including Flying Saucer Attack and Third Eye Foundation. In 1992 he left
the band; singles from Amp began to come out on a number of small
English labels and a debut album called Sirènes was released in 1996 on
the Wurlitzer Jukebox label in the UK and a short-lived American label
called Petrol).
A future fearful soul
Traversing the dark passageways in frames per second.
(Apoptose is an industrial/dark ambient one man project from Germany.
*The apoptosis (Apoptose in German) is the process of highly
regulated and controlled programmed cell death that may occur in
multicellular organisms).
Labels
Abstract,
IDM,
Industrial
Sad snow times
Tunes for the people we lost in vast white.
(Jesu is a side project from Godflesh's frontman Justin K. Broadrick; the name
comes from the final song on the final Godflesh record, a fitting title
for Justin's next foray into rock music. While virtually every side
project was electronic-based, Jesu is guitar-based).
Silence in flowering deserts
Dead eyes still in mind.
(Tales Of Murder And Dust is a dark, experimental neo-psychedelic rock band from Aarhus, Denmark, founded in November 2007).
Labels
Psychedelic,
Shoegaze
Amazing images of the temple of the bodies
Lullabies for the stillborns.
(Vessel is the pseudonym of 22 year old Bristolian Sebastian
Gainsborough. Having only been producing for a few years Seb rose to
prominence in 2011 through acclaimed releases for Throwing Snow's
fledgling label left_blank, along with a sold out cassette release for
Rekordah’s boutique imprint Astro-Dynamics. In early 2012 Seb signed
with the all conquering Tri Angle records (home to Balam Acab, oOoOO,
Holy Other, Clams Casino, The Haxan Cloak) to release his debut album.
Taking influence as much from the bass heavy heritage of the city around him as from sounds emerging further afield, Seb creates exciting, unclassifiable music across shifting BPM's).
Taking influence as much from the bass heavy heritage of the city around him as from sounds emerging further afield, Seb creates exciting, unclassifiable music across shifting BPM's).
Labels
Dub,
Experimental,
Letfield
December 26, 2018
The magic of re-animation
Making monsters in an electrical way.
(Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer,
singer, songwriter, and record producer. Elfman first became known for
being the lead singer and songwriter for the band Oingo Boingo from 1974 to 1995. He is well known for scoring films and television shows, particularly his frequent collaborations with director Tim Burton).
*An special post dedicated to my beloved daughter, a true dog lover
Labels
Modern Classical,
OST
Delightfulled in a sabbath incantation
An audition in schizoid-collored terror.
(Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) is a soundtrack album by the Radiohead singer Thom Yorke, written for the 2018 horror film Suspiria and released on 26 October 2018 by XL Records. Suspiria comprises instrumental tracks, interludes, and songs, incorporating instruments such as piano, guitar, flute, drums, and modular synthesisers."Suspirium" is a piano waltz with flute and sparse production. "Has Ended" is a "slow-creeping groove" with droning keyboards, a dub-like bassline, and time-stretched piano."Volk" is a "tension-filled" instrumental with "buzzy" white noise and "cacophonic" rhythms).
Labels
Avant Garde,
Experimental,
OST
A fear that moves the sun
Sleepy dance into the electric ghosts oldhouse.
(Vessel is the pseudonym of 22 year old Bristolian Sebastian
Gainsborough. Having only been producing for a few years Seb rose to
prominence in 2011 through acclaimed releases for Throwing Snow's
fledgling label left_blank, along with a sold out cassette release for
Rekordah’s boutique imprint Astro-Dynamics. In early 2012 Seb signed
with the all conquering Tri Angle records (home to Balam Acab, oOoOO,
Holy Other, Clams Casino, The Haxan Cloak) to release his debut album.
Taking influence as much from the bass heavy heritage of the city around him as from sounds emerging further afield, Seb creates exciting, unclassifiable music across shifting BPM's).
Taking influence as much from the bass heavy heritage of the city around him as from sounds emerging further afield, Seb creates exciting, unclassifiable music across shifting BPM's).
Labels
Experimental,
Letfield,
Modern Classical
A rocky passage to a forgotten language temple
Drums resounds from the ancient watchtower.
(Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).
David Kuckhermann was born in Muenster, Germany in 1979. He played different instruments in various formations before he discovered the world of hand- and fingerdrumming. Soon he became a regular teacher in the percussion school "rhythmuswelt" in Muenster. Later he decided to move to the netherlands to intensify his studies and to become a student in the worldmusic department of the rotterdam conservatory
In 2001 David got into live looping, started to work with impro-dance classes in the rotterdam danceacademy and to compose music for dance performances. He became a member of the "Al Farabi" Ensemble, which was founded by ethnomusicologist Wouter Swets in 1969. In 2002 he founded the Duo "ZwischenRaum" with sax- and keys-player Holger Raddatz. Since 2003, David lives in Berlin and teaches and performs with the ensemble "EST" for old music.
Some of his teachers where Ustad Fayaz khan and Ted de Jong (indian tabla), Glen Velez (frame drums), Siavach Yazdanifar (tonbak, daf), Ramesh Shotham (south indian percussion), Nils Fischer (latin percussion), Martin Drewer (brasilian percussion) and Wouter Swets (balkan rhythms)).
In 2001 David got into live looping, started to work with impro-dance classes in the rotterdam danceacademy and to compose music for dance performances. He became a member of the "Al Farabi" Ensemble, which was founded by ethnomusicologist Wouter Swets in 1969. In 2002 he founded the Duo "ZwischenRaum" with sax- and keys-player Holger Raddatz. Since 2003, David lives in Berlin and teaches and performs with the ensemble "EST" for old music.
Some of his teachers where Ustad Fayaz khan and Ted de Jong (indian tabla), Glen Velez (frame drums), Siavach Yazdanifar (tonbak, daf), Ramesh Shotham (south indian percussion), Nils Fischer (latin percussion), Martin Drewer (brasilian percussion) and Wouter Swets (balkan rhythms)).
Labels
Contemporary,
Modern Classical,
World
A trance into a psychedelic hopscotch
Praying vowels in an eternal hum.
(The Myrrors is an experimental/psychedelic folk-rock band from from the Arizona desert; Centralstödet is a heavy garage psych group from Gothenburg, Sweden.
They play music in the vein of classic 1970s progg bands such as Träd,
Gräs och Stenar or Baby Grandmothers.
).
Extract from Rayuela: Tale 68 (Julio Cortázar, 1963):
"Apenas él le amalaba el noema, a ella se le agolpaba el clémiso y caían
en hidromurias, en salvajes ambonios, en sustalos exasperantes. Cada
vez que él procuraba relamar las incopelusas, se enredaba en un grimado
quejumbroso y tenía que envulsionarse de cara al nóvalo, sintiendo cómo
poco a poco las arnillas se espejunaban, se iban apeltronando,
reduplimiendo, hasta quedar tendido como el trimalciato de ergomanina al
que se le han dejado caer unas fílulas de cariaconcia. Y sin embargo
era apenas el principio, porque en un momento dado ella se tordulaba los
hurgalios, consintiendo en que él aproximara suavemente sus orfelunios.
Apenas se entreplumaban, algo como un ulucordio los encrestoriaba, los
extrayuxtaba y paramovía, de pronto era el clinón, la esterfurosa
convulcante de las mátricas, la jadehollante embocapluvia del orgumio,
los esproemios del merpasmo en una sobrehumítica agopausa. ¡Evohé!
¡Evohé! Volposados en la cresta del murelio, se sentían balpamar,
perlinos y márulos. Temblaba el troc, se vencían las marioplumas, y todo
se resolviraba en un profundo pínice, en niolamas de argutendidas
gasas, en carinias casi crueles que los ordopenaban hasta el límite de
las gunfias".
Labels
Experimental Rock,
Psychedelic
Music to make you dubber
A charm voyage to shiny splendor.
(Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton. Their musical style mixes elements of dub, acid jazz, reggae, Indian classical, Middle Eastern, hip hop, electronica, and Brazilian, including bossa nova).
Labels
Downtempo,
Dub,
Electronic
December 18, 2018
The greatest introspection ever in the history of the universe
Dreaming on winter ends...
(Jesu is a side project from Godflesh's frontman Justin K. Broadrick; the name
comes from the final song on the final Godflesh record, a fitting title
for Justin's next foray into rock music. While virtually every side
project was electronic-based, Jesu is guitar-based. The indie rock band Sun Kil Moon was formed in 2002 by former Red House Painters frontman Mark Kozelek. SKM is comprised of longtime Painters' drummer Anthony Koutsos, drummer Tim Mooney (of American Music Club fame), and bassist Geoff Stanfield (of Black Lab), as well as a string trio from the San Francisco Conservatory).
Labels
Abstract,
Experimental,
Modern Classical
A noisewall against the new world order
Massive bomb attack upon the inhumans.
(Asva is an American experimental doom/sludge/drone metal band,
originally formed by Stuart Dahlquist and B.R.A.D. in 2003. The name of
the project is derived from a Sanskrit word aśva,
meaning a "horse". Asva never fits traditional definitions of such
genres as doom, sludge or drone, always presenting uncommon and
unconventional interpretations, even though this project had a
significant influence on the scene. But the latest album confirms the
final departure from a realm of purely metal-related genres, being much
more melodic and uplifted).
Labels
Avant Garde,
Doom,
Drone
A lonely candle in the sea
Strange realities of the inside world.
(Ghost Fish is an one-shot project featuring the australian singer Louisa John-Krol, members of Daemonia Nymphe & Nikodemos Triaridis).
Labels
Ethereal,
Experimental,
Neoclassical
Awakening of united red blood
One anger feeling is arising from underground.
(The Myrrors is an experimental/psychedelic folk-rock band from from the Arizona desert).
Labels
Drone,
Post Rock,
Psychedelic
Messages from the grave
Six epitomes to explain the unknown.
(Blut Aus Nord was originally formed as Vlad in France in 1993 as a solo
project lead by Vindsval. After two demos, In The Mist in 1993 and
Yggdrasil in 1994, the name was changed to Blut Aus Nord. The band was
signed to Impure Creations Records and released the full-length album
Ultima Thulée, which introduced long-time member W.D. Feld on drums and
keyboards and featured Ogat on bass. This was followed in 1996 by
Memoria Vetusta I «Fathers Of The Icy Age», which included Ira Aeterna
on bass (as a session musician).
In 2001 The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion was released, with Nahaim playing as session bassist. The Work Which Transforms God came out in 2003; this was the first appearance of GhÖst as the now-permanent bassist, thus completing the line-up that the band still has to this date. The album also featured session member Taysiah on vocals. The 10" split with Reverence (... Decorporation ...) followed in 2004, and the band has been releasing a steady stream of albums, and a few EPs, since.
The band's current line-up is: Vindsval (vocals, guitar), W.d.Feld (drums, keyboards), Thorns (drums) and GhÖst (bass).
In 2001 The Mystical Beast Of Rebellion was released, with Nahaim playing as session bassist. The Work Which Transforms God came out in 2003; this was the first appearance of GhÖst as the now-permanent bassist, thus completing the line-up that the band still has to this date. The album also featured session member Taysiah on vocals. The 10" split with Reverence (... Decorporation ...) followed in 2004, and the band has been releasing a steady stream of albums, and a few EPs, since.
The band's current line-up is: Vindsval (vocals, guitar), W.d.Feld (drums, keyboards), Thorns (drums) and GhÖst (bass).
Labels
Black
A lesson of how to get through the glass
Deep breath in a full helium atmosphere.
(The Dagons is an USA L.A. based band, who mix fuzzy guitars, pounding
drums & haunting
vocals with dreamy lyrics referencing fairy tales & mythology to
create their distinctive sound. They are a two-piece band from Los
Angeles, made up of Karie Jacobson (guitar, vocals) and Drew Kowalski
(drum set and sitar). The Dagons have “a unique, otherworldly feel which
adds a sprawling, surreal quality to the genre of indie rock” and for
their distinctive juxtapositions of contrasting elements, such
as the short, stripped-down song forms of punk with dark, otherworldly
psychedelia, or the contrast of fuzzy guitars and pounding drums with
minor key melodies and dreamy vocals. Also unusual is the group’s use of
distorted electrified sitar, played by The Dagons drummer and producer
Drew Kowalski).
Labels
Experimental,
Garage Pop,
Psychedelic
December 17, 2018
The caged echoes of Arirang
Climbing every mountain of isolation.
*(Post fully dedicated to my great brother in sounds Pxo Umbral)
(Laibach is an slovenian Post-Industrial band formed 1980 in Trbovlje,
at the time Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Laibach is the German name for Slovenia's capital city Ljubljana;
initially one of the founders of Martial Industrial music, they
changed their musical direction to a more Rock-, Pop- and
Techno-/Dance-inspired crossover style in later years).
Labels
Experimental,
Industrial
Before the late night
Tunes from a shooting blind clown.
(Belong is an American experimental music duo composed of Turk Dietrich
and Michael Jones. The group formed in New Orleans in 2002. The duo's
sound blends ambient styles, with a focus on guitar textures. Reviews
have made comparisons to current electronica artists like Fennesz and
Tim Hecker, as well as the early 1990s shoegazing sound attributed to
bands such as My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus and Mary Chain. Guitars
and synthesizers are run through various effects to produce the band's
sound).
A little bell bird
Before we begin to learn abut colours.
(Hailing from Birmingham, Broadcast, formed of Trish Keenan
(vocals), Roj
Stevens (keyboards), James Cargill (bass), Tim Felton (guitar) and
Steve Perkins (drums); Broadcast’s intimate experimental pop is fuelled
with references to the work of the seminal BBC Radiophonic Workshop,
Ennio Morricone or John Barry. Often associated with Stereolab in the
early days, the sound of the band has developed considerably.
Unfortunately, lead singer Trish Keenan died of pneumonia on 14 January 2011 at the age of 42).
Labels
Downtempo,
Experimental,
Letfield
Homage to a victim of the oligarchy
Ramona Aurelia Parra Alarcón (May 28, 1926 - January 28, 1946) was a young Chilean woman, militant of the Communist Party. She died wounde by a bullet-head injury during a protest march in Santiago in 1946, known as the "Massacre of Plaza Bulnes."
In the 60's the Ramona Parra Brigades of muralist art emerged in their tribute. In 1970, Víctor Jara dedicates a song entitled BRP, with music by Celso Garrido and lyrics by Víctor Jara himself.
(The Myrrors is an experimental/psychedelic folk-rock band from from the Arizona desert).
Pablo Neruda: "Los Llamo" (poem fragment)
Ramona Parra, joven
estrella iluminada,
Ramona Parra, frágil heroína,
Ramona Parra, flor ensangrentada,
amiga nuestra, corazón valiente,
niña ejemplar, guerrillera dorada:
juramos en tu nombre continuar esta lucha
para que así florezca tu sangre derramada.
Here
Labels
Post Rock,
Psychedelic
In the Molam mood
Trembling in a North-East rural hall dance.
(Rare compilation of modern Molam music from Northeast Thailand produced by Theppabutr Satirodchompu and cured by Maft Sai, recorded by ZudRangMa Records).
Labels
Folk,
Garage Pop,
World
Fragile tidal waves
Low frequencies spinning around my mind.
(Tales Of Murder And Dust is a dark, experimental neo-psychedelic rock band from Aarhus, Denmark, founded in November 2007).
Labels
Post Rock,
Psychedelic
November 17, 2018
Hallowed by her mask
Seven stairs to mental disease.
(Gazelle Twin is the stage name of Elizabeth Bernholz,a British
composer, producer and musician from Brighton, England. Walling
conceived the project when she watched Fever Ray perform at the 2009
Loop Festival. She noted how "her show reminded me how powerful and
liberating costume is, and I became interested in the power of
disguise").
Labels
Ambient,
Dark Ambient,
Experimental,
Industrial
In the church of Bela Lugosi
At last the future has been cancelled.
(Dead Cross is a hardcore band formed by Dave Lombardo (drums), Justin Pearson (bass),
Michael Crain (guitar), and Gabe Serbian (vocals) in late 2015. Serbian
departed the group in 2016 while they were recording in order to focus
on his family. Lombardo was able to recruit remarkable vocalist Mike Patton to replace him and the group's debut album was released in August of 2017).
Labels
Experimental Rock,
Mathrock,
Noise
The rhythm of today's people
A reflected message of craziness.
(The Focus Group is an english one-man band created for Julian House. Primal Scream, Razorlight, and most relevantly, Stereolab and
Broadcast's sleeve designer Julian House brings out the latent and
intrinsic séance-like aspect of sampling with "a collection of
individuals.. an empty church hall, hoofprints, mirrors, echoes,
sequences of ordered greenery, televisual images, fonties and ortres".
Labels
Avant Garde,
Concrete Music,
Experimental
When nothing is everything
Being afraid of sun.
(Salt is a german industrial/experimental band formed by Stefan Alt, owner and founder of great superb Ant-Zen label).
Labels
Experimental,
Industrial
Tötet fernsehen durch müll!!
Hurt me with your coprolalia.
(The Stahlschlag Industrial/Power Noise project was founded in
February 2006 by Nicole Rahlf, and Sebastian Sünkler. It describes its style as a mix
of different music genres like industrial, noise and ambient, maybe some
other stuff too. Freizeitlärm” is a special album with rare and unreleases remixes for and by Stahlschlag).
Labels
Industrial,
Rhythmic Noise
A nail fracture in pain
Dead bodies at bottom of the river.
(The Body is a two-piece band playing heavy music with a wide array of influences and
styles, from doom until harsh noise; Krieg was formed in 1995 by Neill Jameson under the name Imperial . In
1997 the band name was changed to Krieg and Jameson went under the alias
"Imperial" until going mostly by his given name from 2012 onward.
Since 1997 the band has only had one permanent member, Jameson, with a
variety of different personnel from North America and Europe filling in
at various times. Krieg has had dozens of releases throughout various
styles, originally chaotic but most recently becoming a mixture of black
metal, crust and post punk. Original lyrical themes stayed mostly in
topics of death, destruction and war but from 2002 onward have been more
autobiographical dealing with mental illness, anger and a disdain for
the ways of the modern world).
Slow the time has passed since you left us...
There's no actual answer to your echoes.
(Hailing from Birmingham, Broadcast, formed of Trish Keenan
(vocals), Roj
Stevens (keyboards), James Cargill (bass), Tim Felton (guitar) and
Steve Perkins (drums); Broadcast’s intimate experimental pop is fuelled
with references to the work of the seminal BBC Radiophonic Workshop,
Ennio Morricone or John Barry. Often associated with Stereolab in the
early days, the sound of the band has developed considerably.
Unfortunately, lead singer Trish Keenan died of pneumonia on 14 January 2011 at the age of 42).
Labels
Downtempo,
Experimental
Honoring the message of the sacred plant
Flying free across the soft clouds.
(Tales Of Murder And Dust is a dark, experimental neo-psychedelic rock band from Aarhus, Denmark, founded in November 2007).
Labels
Post Rock,
Psychedelic
November 12, 2018
កុំគិតថាខ្ញុំបានភ្លេចបទល្មើស
Sad tunes to remember the dead stars.
(Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock And Roll is an OST compilation cured by Dust to Digital label, used on the same name documentary film, directed by John Pirozzi on 2014, about Cambodian rock music in the 1960s and 1970s, before the Khmer Rouge regime and Cambodian Genocide.).
Labels
A Go-Go,
Khmer Garage Pop,
OST,
Retro Lounge,
World
A better time to harvest
Life is flowing from underground.
(The Myrrors is an experimental/psychedelic folk-rock band from from the Arizona desert).
Labels
Drone,
Experimental,
Psychedelic
In the path to deep sleep
Getting into an spyral of rapid eye movements.
(Jean-Jacques Perrey (born 20 January 1929, France - died 4 November,
2016, Switzerland) was a French electronic musician, composer and an
early pioneer in the electronic music genre.
He was studying medicine in Paris when he met Georges Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled throughout Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synth. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York City, sponsored by Carroll Bratman, who built him an experimental laboratory and recording studio at 209 West 48th Street. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of musique concrète. With scissors, splicing tape and tape recorders, he spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comic take on the future. Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment". In 1965 Perrey met Gershon Kingsley, a former collaborator of John Cage. Together, using an Ondioline and Perrey's loops, they created two albums for Vanguard: Perrey - Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (1966) and Perrey & Kingsley - Kaleidoscopic Vibrations(1967). Perrey & Kingsley also collaborated on sound design for radio and television advertising.
Perrey returned to France, composing for television, scoring for ballet and continuing medical research into therapeutic sounds for insomniacs. Some of his compositions on library labels like Editions Montparnasse 2000 are credited to his daughter Pat Prilly. He said in an interview that she didn’t compose as such, but provided him with ideas and inspiration when she played on the organ. For this he gave her recognition).
He was studying medicine in Paris when he met Georges Jenny, inventor of the Ondioline. Quitting medical school, Perrey travelled throughout Europe demonstrating this keyboard ancestor of the modern synth. At the age of 30, Perrey relocated to New York City, sponsored by Carroll Bratman, who built him an experimental laboratory and recording studio at 209 West 48th Street. Here he invented "a new process for generating rhythms with sequences and loops", utilising the environmental sounds of musique concrète. With scissors, splicing tape and tape recorders, he spent weeks piecing together a uniquely comic take on the future. Befriending Robert Moog, he became one of the first Moog musicians, creating "far out electronic entertainment". In 1965 Perrey met Gershon Kingsley, a former collaborator of John Cage. Together, using an Ondioline and Perrey's loops, they created two albums for Vanguard: Perrey - Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out! (1966) and Perrey & Kingsley - Kaleidoscopic Vibrations(1967). Perrey & Kingsley also collaborated on sound design for radio and television advertising.
Perrey returned to France, composing for television, scoring for ballet and continuing medical research into therapeutic sounds for insomniacs. Some of his compositions on library labels like Editions Montparnasse 2000 are credited to his daughter Pat Prilly. He said in an interview that she didn’t compose as such, but provided him with ideas and inspiration when she played on the organ. For this he gave her recognition).
Labels
Avant Garde,
Concrete Music,
Electronic,
Experimental,
Moog
Snares of the end of times
Chaos and complexity of ionic flows painted on air.
(Multidisciplinary drummer and artist Katharina Ernst unites abstract
composition and polyrhythmic solo performance on her absorbing debut
solo album, Extrametric. The basis of the recording initially comprised
drum exercises requiring deep concentration to propel separated elements
forward into richly patterned grooves. Extrametric is the result of a
long-lasting process of personal focus - the oldest rhythm on the record
dates back a full 7 years - Katharina having dedicatedly refined her
practice to focus on unusual structures and polymetric beats. The
resultant performances reveal hitherto unexplored rhythmic layers.
Tellingly, the artist refers to these pieces as études - musical
‘studies’ - describing the album as based more around a concept than any
musical genre.
Alongside her drum set, Katharina employs various drum synthesizers, gongs, tam-tam, myriad small percussion, plus an amplified kalimba via guitar effect pedals . Furthermore, the music is playable live, solo, and miraculously without the use of playback. The breadth of sounds on display is bewildering for a solo drummer - distorted melodies weave their way around jagged snare drum hits, while vibrant tom fills scurry elsewhere around hefty blowouts of monstrous distortion. On the album’s 8-minute centrepiece, a cavernous lattice of gong notes slowly collides to gain a creeping colossal power, taking rhythm far out beyond the confines of more standard beats.
While Extrametric is certainly a dizzying physical display of uncanny multitasking, it’s only by Katharina’s canny orchestration that her rhythm sketches become thoroughly compelling musical studies. Consistently danceable, Extrametric’s interlocking rhythms offer a gateway for the listener to perceive hitherto arcane polymetric complexities.
The possibility for listeners to take what they want from polyrhythmic music is keenly courted on Extrametric. Katharina suggests listeners can dance along at different tempi (according to which rhythmic layers they choose). But the implications of the music go beyond testing our perceptions of complex and chaotic musical systems. “Polyrhythms are an interesting political issue,” says Katharina. “Several different patterns/activities are going on at the same time with and/or without interfering; without any of them being superior.”)
Alongside her drum set, Katharina employs various drum synthesizers, gongs, tam-tam, myriad small percussion, plus an amplified kalimba via guitar effect pedals . Furthermore, the music is playable live, solo, and miraculously without the use of playback. The breadth of sounds on display is bewildering for a solo drummer - distorted melodies weave their way around jagged snare drum hits, while vibrant tom fills scurry elsewhere around hefty blowouts of monstrous distortion. On the album’s 8-minute centrepiece, a cavernous lattice of gong notes slowly collides to gain a creeping colossal power, taking rhythm far out beyond the confines of more standard beats.
While Extrametric is certainly a dizzying physical display of uncanny multitasking, it’s only by Katharina’s canny orchestration that her rhythm sketches become thoroughly compelling musical studies. Consistently danceable, Extrametric’s interlocking rhythms offer a gateway for the listener to perceive hitherto arcane polymetric complexities.
The possibility for listeners to take what they want from polyrhythmic music is keenly courted on Extrametric. Katharina suggests listeners can dance along at different tempi (according to which rhythmic layers they choose). But the implications of the music go beyond testing our perceptions of complex and chaotic musical systems. “Polyrhythms are an interesting political issue,” says Katharina. “Several different patterns/activities are going on at the same time with and/or without interfering; without any of them being superior.”)
Labels
Avant Garde,
Contemporary,
Experimental
A mirror with black reflections
Endless waves of harsh meditation.
(Tales Of Murder And Dust is a dark, experimental neo-psychedelic rock band from Aarhus, Denmark, founded in November 2007).
Labels
Experimental Rock,
Psychedelic,
Shoegaze
Searching fro an empty space
A flow of dead spirits from the forest.
(Yann Faussurier has been making music under the moniker Iszoloscope
since 1999, crafting pulsing, pounding soundscapes with a core of
industrial, hard-core, break-core and rhythmic noise layered with
intelligent and often surprising details, such as melodic percussions
and carefully placed breaks, rich, orchestral textures and dark,
cinematic distortions. Experimental in nature and charged with energy,
the music evokes a darkness, tension and atmosphere which immediately
carries the listener away on an immersive, complex journey of
introspection. Founded as a collaboration in 1999, Iszoloscope became
Faussurier’s solo project in 2001. Since then, the project has amassed
an impressive oeuvre: 7 full-length albums on European labels Ant-Zen
and Spectre, 8 successful tours in Europe and North America, several EPs
and collaborations, a long list of remixes and compilations, and
appearances at shows and festivals around the world, including a regular
spot on the lineup at Germany’s Maschinenfest. In recent years,
Iszoloscope's live and studio lineup has also included Shane Whitbread,
Guillaume Nadon and Frédéric Scarfone).
Labels
Ambient,
Industrial
Save the world from the world
Distorded sounds to face reality.
(Hypnoskull emerged as a project of Patrick Stevens in 1992, who combines
the power of pure analog electronics with harsh rhythm structures to
form an anarchic assault of noise and techno-industrial. After years of
underground activism in the worldwide electronic underground network of
industrial music, Hypnoskull reached a larger audience by putting out
the album 'Rythmusmaschine 1-2' (1998), followed by
'Ffwd>Burnout!'(1999) and 'Electronic Music Means War To Us' (2001).
Before that, Stevens also made a name as one half of the duo Sonar, a
hardcore Belgian rhythmical industrial project. He also works with miss
Mieke M. (Tunnel), and with Raoul Roucka (Noisex) under the name "Cybernetic:Fuckheadz". His solo projects like Sona Eact, Reset,
Sliding Elements, Trivial Gender and 33MHz are released on various
labels all around the globe).
November 7, 2018
Winter years to come
Songs to frighten the night loneliness... (dedicated to JF, a light in darkness)
(Lycia is an American dark wave band formed in 1988 in Tempe,
Arizona. The main personnel of the band are Mike VanPortfleet, Tara
Vanflower and David Galas. Although only achieving minor cult success,
the band is notable for being one of the ground breaking groups in
darkwave and ethereal wave styles. Lycia's music is characterized by
rich soundscapes and layers of echoed
guitars, dark and ethereal keyboards, doomy drum machine beats,
VanPortfleet's melancholic, whispered vocals and Vanflower's vivid
voice).
Invoking gods of joy
Enjoy the brand new wine fest in two acts.
(Dead Can Dance is an Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London, England, in May 1982. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras, and art rock."
Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in 2005 for a
world tour and reformed in 2011 when they released and toured a new
album, Anastasis. Right now they are releasing their new record,"Dionysus", more oriented in almost an instrumental way of musical expression)
Labels
Modern Classical,
Tribal,
World
Last noise-machines attack
The sky is turning black under the grinding machines.
(Maschinenfest is a yearly, three-day underground music festival in Germany, featuring industrial, power electronics, noise and other alternative electronic performers. There are both independent and signed bands who are booked to play, as well as many vendors for music and related paraphernalia. Featured record labels and noteworthy companies include: Ant-Zen, Hands Productions, Pflichtkauf, Spectre Records and Ad Noiseam. This is the last year fest compilation made by Pflichtkauf Label)
Labels
Ambient,
IDM,
Industrial,
Power Electronics,
Rhythmic Noise
November 5, 2018
L'artiglio del diavolo si nasconde in modo permanente
Hymns to rest in the necropolis.
(...E Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore is a prog rock/psychedelic/ost compilation made by Black Widow Records, inspired in death as a central point).
Labels
Avant Garde,
Experimental Rock,
Modern Classical,
OST
A mind crushed again
Sounds to create internal eye spots.
(Astrobrite is the Chicago-based shoegaze noise-pop project from the
musician Scott Cortez (STAR, lovesliescrushing). Interestingly
enough, Astrobrite solely played live and released no
official records until 2001, all the while building a reputation as a
band that “transcends shoegaze by destroying the fuzz/noise boundaries
setup by previous shoegazing outfits and manages to make the most
beautiful and melodic noise you’ll ever hear).
Across a desert of thoughts
A last mission to leave life.
(Auburn Lull create lush space-rock and ethereal, Brian Eno-inspired soundscapes, at once filmic and pastoral. Despite the fact that the once-thriving Michigan space-rock scene has all but faded out, Auburn Lull continues to evolve their brand of technicolor sound, steadily attracting critical acclaim and an ever-growing fan base. Auburn Lull formed in Lansing, MI in 1994 by Jason Kolb (guitars), Eli Wekenman (guitars), Sean Heenan (guitars, vocals), and Jason Weisinger (drums). They were joined after by Ron Gibbs (bass, guitar)).
гитары в оде в Годзилле
The heavy silence of deerland.
(Pinkshinyultrablast is a dream pop/shoegaze/thunder pop band from St. Petersburg, Russia; a clear homage to Astrobrite).
Labels
Shoegaze
Same old tunes from tomorrow
Songs to sleep in a misty forest.
(Amp is an English ambient/space/drone group based around the core members Richard Walker and Karine Charff. Walker was a member of a band in Bristol called The Secret Garden that incubated a number of groups including Flying Saucer Attack and Third Eye Foundation. In 1992 he left the band; singles from Amp began to come out on a number of small English labels and a debut album called Sirènes was released in 1996 on the Wurlitzer Jukebox label in the UK and a short-lived American label called Petrol).
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