March 31, 2023

Lying in a forgotten toys graveyard

 
(Ritual Howls is a Darkwave/Post Punk/Shoegaze band from Detroit, MI, formed by Paul Bancell, Ben Saginaw and Chris Samuels. They collect samples of the physical world and feed them with guitar, vox, bass, synth and drum machines to create an aura of darkness over a pop sensibility).
 

Trapped into a sonic basement

 
(The N.E.C. is a Lo-Fi/Experimental band from Atlanta, GA, formed by Cyrus Shahmir (vox, guitars, keys/synth, production) and James Oh (bass, vox, percussion).
 

Fading into bloody spirals

 
(Screen Vinyl Image is an Alternative/Shoegaze/Darkwave band from Virginia, formed by Jake Reid and Kim Reid.
 
Bloody Knives is based in Austin, Texas consisting of Preston Maddox (bass, voice, keyboards, samples, programming) and Jake McCown (Drums, noise, programming, art). The band combines the sounds of heavy punk and industrial with blurry ambient electronics, shoegaze atmospherics, and 8-bit glitches and melodies).

Cloudy afternoons in the red couch

 
(Quiet Lights is a Shoegaze band from Brooklyn, NY, formed by Chris Curtis, Robin Fowler, Nikhil Kamineni, Yseult Tyler and Marcus Smith).
 

March 23, 2023

Appiattire le rotte della follia

 
(Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player, writing in a wide range of musical styles. Since 1961, Morricone composed over 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as over 100 classical works).
 

Kuoleman obeliskin ympärillä

 
(Dark Buddha Rising is a Finnish Psychedelic/Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal band from Laitila, founded in 2007, formed by Vesa Ajomo (guitar, vocals), Petri Rämänen (bass, percussion),  Jukka Rämänen (drums, keyboards), Jussi Saarivuori (keyboards) and Marko Neuman (vocals).
 

Ode till de förtrollade skogarna

 
(Merit Hemmingson (born August 30, 1940) is a Swedish organist, composer and singer; she became famous in the late 1960's for her modern pop arrangements of Swedish folk music).
 

March 22, 2023

Underwater butterfly parade

 
(Skywave is an american Virginia based Shoegaze/Noise band formed by Oliver Ackermann (of the reknowned Death By Audio pedals and venue, and course former member of A Place to Bury Strangers), Paul Baker and John Fedowitz).
 
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Catching whispers at sunset

 
(Death And Vanilla is an Experimental/Alternative/Psychedelic band formed in Malmö, Sweden by Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson; they use vintage musical equipment such as vibraphone, organ, mellotron, tremolo guitar and Moog, to emulate the sounds of 60s/70s soundtracks, library music, German Krautrock, French Ye-ye pop and 60s psych).
 

Honoring the classics of yesterday and today

 
(Adventures In Soundtracks is a Funk/Jazz/Lounge/Easy Listening/Library independent compilation).
 

In the end of summertime

 
(Ringo Deathstarr is a Shoegaze band formed in Austin, TX in 2005, formed by Elliott Frazier (guitar, vocals), Alex Gehring (bass, vocals) and Dustin Gaudet (drums)).
 

Wallowing in solar flares

 
(Bowery Electric is a Indie Rock/Shoegaze band founded in New York in 1994, formed by Lawrence Chandler and Martha Schwendener).
 

March 15, 2023

Geri dönüşü olmayan bir veda için

 
(Derya Yıldırım is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Grup Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

Glowing images before sunrise

 
(Day Aches is a Shoegaze band from Fredericksburg, VA; their monolithic, heavy, yet, dreamy sound spawns from the calm and hectic nature of life itself.).
 

Osam prizivanja smrti

 
(Kajkyt (Slobodan Kajkut) is a Bosnian composer and musician, owner of GOD Record).
 

Preuve indéniable de l'origine de la vie

 
(ZAÄAR is a French Psych Occult and Voodoo Free Jazz/Improv from members of Neptunian Maximalism, formed by Didié Nietzsche, Guillaume Cazalet, Hugues Philippe Desrosiers, Jean-Jacques Duerinckx and Sébastien Schmit).
 

Kuusi tapaa kuolla

 
(Dark Buddha Rising is a Finnish Psychedelic/Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal band from Laitila, founded in 2007, formed by Vesa Ajomo (guitar, vocals), Petri Rämänen (bass, percussion),  Jukka Rämänen (drums, keyboards), Jussi Saarivuori (keyboards) and Marko Neuman (vocals).
 

Minner om utdødde edelstener

 
(Kaada (John Erik Kaada, 1975), is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer, film score composer and multi-instrumentalist. Kaada's career spans a string of solo albums, motion picture soundtracks, high-profile collaborations with key players such as Mike Patton, as well as numerous live appearances at home and abroad).
 

異教の知恵の守護者

 
(Acid Mothers Temple & Space Paranoid is a Japanese Psychedelic/Space/Stoner band formed by Mitsuru Tabata (bass, vocals), Hiroshi Higashi (synthesizer), Futoshi Okano (drums) and Makoto Kawabata (guitar)).
 

De dans van de martelaren

 
(Hadewych is an enigmatic avant-garde collective with members hailing from The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Sweden, founded by Peter Johan Nijland (nOh v°v of Trepaneringsritualen) and O Saala Sakraal. Their sound has evolved from atmospheric neofolk and black ambient, a colossal and often esoteric amalgam of interacting influences ranging from black metal, art rock, improv, forest industrial and ritual ambient to 20th century avant-garde).
 

March 14, 2023

Follow the orientation of the monoliths

 
(Abronia is a Psychedelic/Experimental Rock from Portland, OR, formed by Keelin Mayer (tenor saxophone, vocals), Eric Crespo (guitar, backing vocals), Ben Blake (guitar), Rick Pedrosa (pedal steel guitar), Andrew Endres (lap steel), Dewey Mahood (bass), Amir Amadi (bass) and Shaver (drum, percussion, melodica).
 

A look at incomplete combustion

 
(Kraus is a Noise/Shoegaze one-man band from  Dallas, TX, created by multi-instrumentalist and composer Will Kraus).
 

Lost in forgotten woods

 
(Drin is a Psychedelic/LoFi/Shoegaze project from Cincinnati, OH., leaded by composer and musician Dylan McCartney).
 

A travel into light tubes

 
(Eternal Dust is an Australian Shoegaze/Dream Pop/Psychedelic band formed by Ebonny Munro, Oscar Sulich and Finn Parker).
 

March 13, 2023

Souvenirs d'amour perdu

 
(Gainsbourg: Versions Femmes is a French Chanson/Beat/Psychedelic Tribute compilation made by Mercury Records).
 
 

Obesances i dywyllwch llwyr

 
(Lustmord - The Others [Lustmord Deconstructed] is a Dartk Ambient/Abstract Tribute compilation made by German label Pelagic Records).
 

Melancholie voor verloren schatten

 
(The Lovecraft Sextet is a Dutch Dark Jazz/Black project leaded by Jason Köhnen from Bong-Ra and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble).
 
(PS. Post number 3000 since March 2010, and go on!)
 

Increased spiritual restlessness

 
(Nadja is Aidan Baker (guitars/vocals/drum programming) & Leah Buckareff (bass/vocals). Originally formed in 2003 as a Baker solo project, the now-duo creates ambient-drone-metal, combining ambient electronics & fragmentary vocals with snail-crawl, epic riffs & dirge-like percussion).
 

Пісня за мир

 
(Ihor Tsymbrovsky is an Ukranian architect, musician, and a poet; his music has been inspired by jazz, minimal, modern, ethnic and meditation music; Tsymbrovsky creates whole worlds with his astonishing piano and falsetto). 
 

Rom fullt av atmosfæriske finesser

 
(Kaada (John Erik Kaada, 1975), is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer, film score composer and multi-instrumentalist. Kaada's career spans a string of solo albums, motion picture soundtracks, high-profile collaborations with key players such as Mike Patton, as well as numerous live appearances at home and abroad).
 

Wrapped in whispering herbs

 
(Auburn Lull is a Shoegaze/Porst Rock formed in Lansing, MI in 1994 by Jason Kolb (guitars), Eli Wekenman (guitars), Sean Heenan (guitars, vocals), Jason Weisinger (drums) and Ron Gibbs (bass, guitar). Auburn Lull create lush space-rock and ethereal, Brian Eno-inspired soundscapes, at once filmic and pastoral).
 

Walking through black snow forests

 
(Nothing was a Dark Ambient/Industrial project from Portland, OR, formed by Don Anderson, Jason William Walton, Michael J.V. Hensley and Nihk Ryan Loiacano). 
 

Inside the temple of the sacred children

 
(Kurokuma is a Doom/Sludge trio from Sheffield, UK, formed by Joe E. Allen (drums), George Ionita (bass, vocals, percussion) and Jacob Mazlum (guitar, vocals, percussion)).
 

Paganski ritual prizivanja

 
(Kajkyt (Slobodan Kajkut) is a Bosnian composer and musician, owner of GOD Record). 
 

Pimeän valaisimen nousu

 
(Dark Buddha Rising is a Finnish Psychedelic/Drone/Sludge/Doom Metal band from Laitila, founded in 2007, formed by Vesa Ajomo (guitar, vocals), Petri Rämänen (bass, percussion),  Jukka Rämänen (drums, keyboards), Jussi Saarivuori (keyboards) and Marko Neuman (vocals).
 

Den långa vägen tillbaka till segern

 
(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).
 

Kutsal geleneklere haraç

 
(Derya Yildirim is a Berlin-based German musician who was born in Hamburg in the mid-1990s. With her band Şimşek, in which she sings and plays Bağlama, the artist fuses Anatolian folklore with Western psychedelia).
 

Auf Tour durch die Welt der verlorenen Illusionen

 
(Rdeča Raketa is an Experimental/Contemporary/Avant Garde duo from Wien, Austria, formed by  Maja Osojnik and Matija Schellander).
 

Dichte vlucht naar de zon

 
(Splendidula is a Doom/Black/Sludge band from Genk, Belgium, formed by Kristien Cools (vocals), David Vandegoor (guitar), Adriaan Paszewski (guitar), Jo Flemings (bass) and Patrick Vanderhenst (drums)).
 

March 10, 2023

Cries from within the marble

 
(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).
 

Cantos para los guardianes de los Andes

 
(Yma Sumac (Zoila Emperatriz Chavarri del Castillo, 1922 - 2008) was a Peruvian soprano. She has also been called Queen of Exotica and is considered a pioneer of World music; blessed with a five-octave range, was presented by her composer/arranger Moises Vivanco as an Inca princess when she recorded Voice Of the Xtabay (1950), arranged by Les Baxter.
 
She had been born in the mountains near Cuzco, was discovered by Vivanco in 1947 (who was already an established composer) and married by him at 15, she debuted in Lima the same year; in 1949 the couple moved to the USA, where he successfully created a myth around the singer).
 

 

 

March 9, 2023

Bara smärta får dig att växa

 
(Mondocane is a Swedish Black Metal one-man project from Stockholm, leaded by Gorm).
 

Cofleidio'r coedydd oer

 
(Mammoth Weed Wizard Bastard (now MWWB) is a Welch Doom/Space/Psychedelic quartet from Wrexham, North Wales, formed by James Carrington, Jessica Ball, Paul Michael Davies and Wez Leon).
 

Tupakoita välittömään kuolemaan

 
(Bong Corleone is a Psychedelic/Doom metal band from Finland).
 

Walking the bright path

 
(Lightning Bug is a Dream Pop/Ethereal/Shoegaze band from NY, formed by Kevin Copeland, Audrey Kang and Logan Miley).
 

J'ai l'éternité pour connaître ta chair

 
(Treha Sektori is a French Dark Ambient project formed by Dehn Sora and Throan).
 

Yлыбается в темноте

 
(Lamia Vox (Alina Antonova) is a one-woman Dark Ambient/Tribal project. started in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2005, currently in Prague, Czechia).
 

Into a world of mirrors

 
(Screen Vinyl Image is an Alternative/Shoegaze/Darkwave band from Virginia, formed by Jake Reid and Kim Reid).
 

A nap under snow

 
(Day Aches is a Shoegaze band from Fredericksburg, VA; their monolithic, heavy, yet, dreamy sound spawns from the calm and hectic nature of life itself.).
 

Pertempuran epik yang dilupakan

 
(Marijannah is a Sludge/Doom metal band from Singapore, formed by Muhammad Azri, Nicholas Ng, Nicholas Wong and Rasyid Juraimi).