June 29, 2020

وسواس زیبایی های رقصنده

(The Golden Ring is a 60's Iranian garage/beat/rock'n'roll legend band, leaded by former singer Aref Arefkia). 

Contes sur les chants de la mer

(Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux (born April 27/1977 in Geneva, Switzerland),is a multi-instrumentalist composer. With his unique sounding music, Anthony Cedric Vuagniaux has been many times introduced as a "musical autist"of cinematography and electronic music by the fact that he writes, plays, records, mixes and masters himself all his compositions in his studio saturated with curious and rare musical instruments of all ethnicities, synthesizers, organs and old analog tape recorders).

Belle journée pour perdre confiance dans la vie

(Lingouf is a Saint Lambert based French Industrial/Experimental/Breakcore project of Vincent Ingouf).


Remembering the things we love

(Feelings Called Glorious - A Tribute To Adorable is a tribute Shoegaze/Post Rock compilation made by Brazilian label The Blog That Celebrates Itself).

The dark side of the back side

(The Telescopes is an experimental/shoegaze/noise band formed in 1986 in London, England, as a vehicle for music written, produced, arranged and performed by Stephen Lawrie featuring like-minded musicians).

Tasting the dancing dramas

(Indiavision (Génériques Et Mélodies Du Cinéma Populaire Indien / Hindi Films Songs And Instrumentals [1966-1984]) is an Hindi Pop/Bollywood compilatin made by Buda Musique French label).

Searching for serial killers

(Fantômas is an American metal supergroup, formed in 1998 in California. It features vocalist Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), drummer Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer), guitarist Buzz Osborne (Melvins) and bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Tomahawk). The band is named after Fantômas, a supervillain featured in a series of crime novels popular in France before World War I and in film, most notably in the 60s French movie series).

Happiness is not for everyone

(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).

June 27, 2020

साड़ी के ताल के लिए तार ट्यून

(Bollywood Steel Guitar is an Hindustani Pop/OST compilation made by american label Sublime Frequencies).

Caught in a waiting room

(Steady Gaze of Nothing - A Reverence to Fugazi is a Shoegaze tribute compilation made by Brazilian label The Blog That Celebrates Itself).

दादा-दादी की ताल पर नृत्य

(Early Pakistani Dance Music (From Original 7" Vinyl 1967 - 1975) and More Early Pakistani Dance Music (From Original 7" Vinyl 1965 - 1978) both are Psychedelic/Hindi Pop Compilations made by Ovular label).


Sept résumés pour honorer la mort

(Blut Aus Nord is a black metal band from Mondeville, Calvados, France, which has incorporated avant-garde elements in its music. Vindsval began a solo project, under the name "Vlad", in 1993. Blut Aus Nord's work has been described as the "sonic equivalent to Thorns injecting Streetcleaner-era Godflesh with an evil unpredictability).

Another way to find the girl

(The Cure In Other Voices  is a Shoegaze/Post Punk tribute compilation made by Brazilian label The Blog That Celebrates Itself).

大きな変化の年

(Pink Martini is a musical group that was formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas Lauderdale in Portland, Oregon. Members of the band call it a little orchestra that crosses the genres of classical music, classic pop, Latin music, and jazz. The co-lead vocalists for Pink Martini are China Forbes and Storm Large. 

Saori Yuki (由紀さおり, Yuki Saori, born November 13, 1948) is a Japanese singer and actress. She was born as Akiko Yasuda (Yasuda Akiko (安田 章子) in Kiryū, Gunma, Japan and raised in Yokohama).

Menari dengan budaya tandingan

(Malam Minggu: A Saturday Night In Sunda is a compilation from Akuphone label that brings us to Southeast Asia, with a stopover in the Indonesian archipelago to the region of Sunda in western Java. As its name suggests, this collection immerses us in the vibes of Sundanese nights at the turn of the 1980s. 
 
During the post-independence climate of the 1960s, Presidents Sukarno and Suharto encouraged artists to renew and innovate traditional Indonesian art forms in an attempt to limit and control the spread of Western music - which was banned from broadcasting in 1961. This policy saw a revival of traditional musical styles like gamelan degung, and the emergence of Indonesian singing genres: jaipong and pop sunda. Recorded between 1978 and 1985, this unique and surprising selection presents some of the most popular artists of the time, such as Nano S. and Tati Saleh. It is richly documented by Southeast Asian music specialist Édouard Degay Delpeuch).
 

Dazzled by the light of the apocalypse

(Godflesh is an experimental and influential British band, formed in Birmingham in 1988 by former Napalm Death and Head Of David member Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green. They were one of the first bands that combined metal riffs with drum machine rhythms and are highly regarded as pioneers of industrial metal). 

The cohesion of hydrogen bonds

(Clubroot is a Dubstep/Hyperdub project formed by English Dj and Producer Dan Richmond The sound of Clubroot is an intense, deep and too dark electronic sound).

The birth of the new man

(John Zorn is an american saxophonist and composer, born 2 September 1953 in New York City, USA. He owns the Tzadik record label and has worked with a large number of experimental musicians, particularly in improvised music, modern classical music and jazz, though he has produced music in most styles. Zorn's recorded output includes records by two bands of his own, Masada (a klezmer band playing music that is often described as Jewish jazz) and Naked City (an often aggressive mix of jazz, rock and grindcore). He has also worked with musicians like Bill Frisell, Derek Bailey, Fred Frith, Keiji Haino, and Bill Laswell. 

He has written music for television and film, which has been collected in the ongoing Filmworks series of records on his Tzadik label. Some of these are jazz-based, others are classical. He has also written several "game pieces", in which performers are allowed to improvise while following certain strucural rules. Bar Kokhba Sextet is a free/avant-garde/jazz ensemble, formed by Cyro Baptista, Erik Friedlander, Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Marc Ribot, Mark Feldman).

Počast na prehojeno pot

(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

The 1500 copies numbered CD BOX includes:
  • CD1 LAIBACH - the first album, released in 1985 (recorded in 1983), now remastered and expanded with bonus tracks 
  • CD2 REVISITED – an album recorded in 2010 comprising new interpretations of songs from the first album, plus bonus tracks 
  • CD3 UNDERGROUND - a unique – live– Laibach industrial concert recorded in 2012 in the Velenje Coal Mines, 200 m below the surface of the Earth, plus selected recordings from the 2017 industrial concert at Madrid’s Museo Reina Sofia + a bonus tracks CD4).

Secret weapons for psychic warfare

(These Important Years, Husker Du Revisited is a Shoegaze/Post Rock tribute compilation made by Brazilian label The Blog That Celebrates Itself).

Paratiisin varjoihin

(Deformed Elephant Surgery is a one-man Cybergrind/Grindcore/Experimental project band from Helsinki, Finland, created by Vlürch).

Frânghii pentru a contempla Dunărea

(Rumänische Gitarren (Chitare Românești) is a Surf/Psychedelic/Beat Romanian 60's compilation made by German Amiga label). 

Ensomhet med fortryllede skoger

(Sylvaine is the one-woman project of american-norwegian multi-instrumentalist Kathrine Shepard, a shoegaze/black/ambient wall-of-sound landscapes, with a focus on beautiful melodies, lingering guitar riffs and atmospheres are underlined by a solid groove. Kathrine's music and lyrics are inspired by life seen as a constant conflict with oneself, haunted by numerous emotions that seemingly will never be laid to rest. Melancholic tones colour the auditory side as well as the visual side of the project, revealing the eternal longing for something more residing within the music). 

Levitering under vann

(Hypnocrates is a post-punk/darkwave band based in Oslo, Norway, formed by Vadym Markov. The band's music is influenced by a range of genres originating in the 80s, from gothic rock and shoegaze to synthpop and new wave. Mixing electronic drums, dramatic synthesizers and layered guitars, Hypnocrates created a sound that appeals to the full spectrum of emotions, from gloominess and melancholy to serenity and happiness).

June 18, 2020

Habitando en el registro prehistórico

(Wind Atlas was formed in Barcelona, Spain, in 2012 by Sergi Algiz and Andrea P. Latorre; this band fuses post-punk with world music sounds paralleling the explorations of Dead Can Dance, with hints of early 90’s  Ethereal Gothic Rock like The Shroud, mixed with Post-Industrial and Neo-folk sounds).

Krigen av krigsgudar

(Arditi is a Swedish Martial/Dark Ambient/Industrial band; their music taps into the darker tones of Militaristic Neo-Classical ambiance that has become the band's trademark. Ever effective in their use of crushing orchestrations and evocative speeches, the band hereby drags the listener around muddy trenches, and casts a hypnotizing veil over the turmoil of warfare-inspired Industrial soundscapes. Spearheaded by Henry Möller and Marten Björkman, Arditi first came to light in 1997, inspired by the Italian Futurist Movement of the early 20th Century).

Il est temps de danser la polka industrielle

(Lingouf is a Saint Lambert based French Industrial/Experimental/Breakcore project of Vincent Ingouf).

Köprüden Öyküler

(Erkin Koray (Born: 24 June 1941) is a Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist and one of the pioneers of Anatolian rock. Koray has been in the Turkish rock music scene since the late 1950s. He is widely acclaimed as being the first person to ever play rock and roll in Turkey; in 1957, he and his band gained fame by playing covers of Elvis Presley and Fats Domino. 

He was also one of the first Turkish musicians to embrace the electric guitar and modern amplification. In addition to his own compositions, he rearranged multiple well known Turkish folk songs. By combining Western and Eastern musical styles, Koray pioneered in the development of Turkish rock music genre and Anatolian rock sound.

By the late 1960s, he had become a major figure in Turkish psychedelic music and Anatolian rock, beginning with his first psychedelic single Anma Arkadaş in 1967. Koray followed this with a number of singles, both by himself and in collaboration with others, that established him as a force to be reckoned with on the Turkish rock scene). 

來自懷舊歌曲的女孩

(Lily Chao (Chao Xiao-Jun: 趙曉君) is a Taiwanese singer who was active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Her repertoire consisted mainly of Chinese folk songs performed in a twangy pop style typical of its time).

June 17, 2020

Le plaisir de la liberté personnelle

(Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg 2 April 1928 - 2 March 1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director. Regarded as the most important figure in French pop whilst alive, he was renowned for often provocative and scandalous releases which caused uproar in France, dividing its public opinion; as well as his diverse artistic output, which ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize, although his legacy has been firmly established and he is often regarded as one of the world's most influential popular musicians.
 
His lyrical works incorporated wordplay, with humorous, bizarre, provocative, sexual, satirical or subversive overtones, including sophisticated rhymes, mondegreen, onomatopoeia, spoonerism, dysphemism, paraprosdokian and pun. Gainsbourg wrote over 550 songs, which have been covered more than 1,000 times by a range of artists.
 
Since his death from a second heart attack in 1991, Gainsbourg's music has reached legendary stature in France, and he is regarded as France's greatest ever musician and one of the country's most popular and endeared public figures).
 

Sad regrets of the past

(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).


हवा में घूंघट के साथ नाचना

(Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja & The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood" 1977-1983 is a Psychedelic/Hindi Pop/Funk compilation series of iconic Maestro Ilaiyaraaja soundtracks, made by Finders Keepers Records).

Surfing on a brick beach

(Surfbeat Behind The Iron Curtain is a Surf/Beat compilation made by Archive International Productions Records label (AIP)).


June 16, 2020

Psychedelia sultanları

(Psych Funk À La Turkish is a compilation series of Psychedelic/Funk oldie sounds from Turkey, made by Turk-A-Disk label).


गंगा जल से मतिभ्रम

(Bollywood The Psychedelic Years is a Psychedelic/Hindi Pop/Bollywood compilation made by World Music Network label).

June 11, 2020

Glimpses of distant deserts

(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).

In the center of the prophets circle

(Godflesh is an experimental and influential British band, formed in Birmingham in 1988 by former Napalm Death and Head Of David member Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green. They were one of the first bands that combined metal riffs with drum machine rhythms and are highly regarded as pioneers of industrial metal). 

In the loneliness of the inner world

(Mamaleek is a black/experimental/tribal band from San Francisco, CA, formed by two anonymous brothers recording in San Francisco and Beirut. Mamaleek repeatedly creates some of the most intriguing, aesthetically-realized Black Metal anywhere).

Het ontleden van de dijbeenslagader

(Gnaw Their Tongues is a one-man project between Black Metal/Industrial/Noise/Dark Ambient/ Drone from the Netherlands, leaded by Maurice De Jong).

Il tortuoso percorso verso la redenzione

(Ovo are an Italian Avant Garde/Noise Rock/Experimental band based in Ravenna, formed in 2000 by Stefania Pedretti and Bruno Dorella).

Songs for the future

(Morricone Youth is a collective formed in New York City in 1999 with the mission statement of composing, re-interpreting, performing and recording only "music written for the moving image." With a repertoire of over 100 reinterpretations of film and television soundtracks and music production library recordings, the band performs with projections thematically dedicated to specific composers or film music genres in addition to composing and performing its own original live scores to old silent films, midnight movies, animations and shorts in theaters and art spaces. 

The band is formed by Brian Kantor, Dan Kessler, Devon E. Levins, Devon Goldberg, Greg O'Keeffe, Jefferson Rabb, John Castro, Kenny Shaw, Robert Conroy and Sami Stevens).
 

Oscillations de la réalité

(Estelle Lemire is a canadian musician, graduated from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec in Montréal after extensive musical studies from 1982 to 1991. A student of Jean Laurendeau, she was awarded a First Prize in Ondes Martenot performance (1988) and also studied composition under Gilles Tremblay, receiving a First Prize in composition in 1991. Her curriculum also includes Music Analysis in the class of Gilles Tremblay, for which she was awarded a second Prize in 1990, as well as training in electroacoustic music with Yves Daoust.

She is a soloist and chamber player, specializing in Ondes Martenot for over 25 years, Estelle Lemire focuses mainly on the performance of new music while advocating better knowledge and appreciation of her instrument. She has performed for radio and television programs as well as for contemporary music organizations, ensembles, orchestras and festivals in Canada and the United States. Her recordings include a solo album for the SNE label and a Messiæn CD with the Ensemble d’Ondes de Montréal for the ATMA label. In addition to playing staple works from the Ondes repertoire, including all of Messiæn's pieces, but also Jolivet, Milhaud, Honneger, Varèse, Murail, Vivier and Boucher, Estelle gave the premiere performances of several works by contemporary composers).

Serenades from the world

(Pink Martini is a musical group that was formed in 1994 by pianist Thomas Lauderdale in Portland, Oregon. Members of the band call it a little orchestra that crosses the genres of classical music, classic pop, Latin music, and jazz. The co-lead vocalists for Pink Martini are China Forbes and Storm Large).

深海からのエイリアン

(Envy are a nominally hardcore/post-hardcore/screamo band from Tokyo, Japan. They are comprised of Tetsuya Fukagawa (vocals, left the group in 2016), Nobukata Kawai (guitar), Masahiro Tobita (guitar), Manabu Nakagawa (bass) and Dairoku Seki (drums).

Почитание на приспивните песни на бабите

(Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares (Мистерията на българските гласове) is a project by Marcel Cellier to present Bulgarian traditional music on his label Disques Cellier. Contributors to this project were various Bulgarian singers, among them the Bulgarian State Radio & Television Female Vocal Choir, The Trio Bulgarka and several others. 

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).

A denial of beautiness

(The Body, the duo of Lee Buford and Chip King continue to defy the constraints of what it means to be a “heavy” band, seamlessly combining composition or production approaches from hip hop, pop, classical, as well as rock and electronica resulting in a rich and utterly singular sound).