Crazy Monkey's Brainmap: 2024

October 21, 2024

Lire des livres anciens de damnation

(Lila Ehjä is a French one-girl band from Paris XX; armed with her guitar and looper, Lila deploys an electric universe where darkness dances with red light, on a wet concrete background. Her music, which she describes as “froide wave”, draws its sources from Post Punk/Cold Wave and Industrial music, freeing herself from codes).

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Wasting time talking to robots

(Verity Den is an Alternative/Noise/Shoegaze band from Carrboro, NC.; the band is comprised of Casey Proctor, Trevor Reece and Mike Wallace, all of whom spent considerable time in their respective and shared DIY-music communities before converging to form the group in early 2023.

Casey and Trevor initially met as members of an ad-hoc improv ensemble performing tape loops, strings, and electronics as part of a multi-disciplinary series hosted on a rooftop in Chapel Hill called Attic 506. Soon after, the three shifted from long-running musical projects to focus on exploring new sonic territories together. The band operates in an ever-evolving dynamic of group improvisation and studio experimentation, capturing moments of coarse circuit completion and bringing to fruition long-gestating ideas and songs. The sound is raw and largely unadorned, transmitting both truth and wildness).

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Sculpting with abstract material

(Pale Dïan is a Post Punk/Shoegaze band from Austin, TX., formed by Derek Kutzer and Ruth Ellen Smith).

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Opgaand in kosmisch stof

(The Thing With Five Eyes is a Dutch Darkjazz project from Jason Köhnen (Bong-Ra, The Lovecraft Sextet, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble); originally a solo project, later became a duo with Stephanie Sweron (Svart Lava)).

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Squeezing analog circuits

(A Place To Bury Strangers is a three piece New York based noise rock/shoegaze band, formed by Dion Palmer, Lia Braswell and Oliver Ackermann, who is also famous for his manufacturing of infamous guitar noise pedals used by Lightning Bolt, Serena Maneesh, Wilco, Spoon and TV on the Radio, among others).

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Through the forest of primeval mysteries

(Lamp of the Universe is an Acid Folk/Psychedelic/Space Rock band from Hamilton, New Zealand, formed in 1999 as an one-man project of Craig Williamson (known also from the heavy/stoner rock band Datura and Arc of Ascent)).

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Disturbando il riposo eterno

(Sonic Jesus is a Psychedelic Rock/Shoegaze band from Doganella di Ninfa, Italy, formed in 2012 by Marco Baldassari, Marco Barzetti and Tiziano Veronese).

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Fighting against atavistic feelings

(Ov Pain is a Darkwave/Dark Ambient/Drone band from Aotearoa, New Zealand, formed by Renee Barrance and Tim Player).

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On the road of no return

(Jonny Greenwood (Oxford, 1971) is a British lead guitarist, keyboardist, programmer and composer; he is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Radiohead, and has composed numerous film scores.

Greenwood is a multi-instrumentalist and a prominent player of the ondes Martenot, an early electronic instrument. He uses electronic techniques such as programming, sampling and looping, and writes music software used by Radiohead. He described his role as an arranger, helping transform Thom Yorke's demos into finished songs. Radiohead albums feature Greenwood's string and brass arrangements, and he has composed for orchestras including the London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra).

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Honorer les muses de la forêt

(Forever Pavot is a French musical project formed in 2012 by five musicians around Émile Sornin (vocals, keyboards) with Antoine Rault (guitar), Cédruic Laban (drums), Arnaud Sèche (keyboards, transverse flute) and Maxime Daoud (bass)).

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Poems of absolute darkness

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

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Fighting giants along the way

(Maston is a one man project leaded by multi-instrumentalist Frank Maston, who grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, soaking in both the summery atmosphere and the musical and cultural history of his surroundings. Early on, Maston developed a love for the sunny chamber pop of Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson, as well as more California-inspired moments of rock magic from Harry Nilsson and Phil Spector.

He eventually sculpted these influences into what would become his own music, a completely self-sufficient menagerie of dark pop sounds informed by '60s and '70s studio magicians and loner geniuses).

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Aan de grenzen van het bewustzijn

(Radar Men From The Moon is a three-piece instrumental rock band from Eindhoven, Netherlands, with Glenn Peeters (guitar and sonic attack), Jan-Titus Verkuijlen (bass and shivers), and Tony Lathouwers (drums and audio generator). Their sounds are taking different genres in to account such as shoegaze, neo-psych, kraut, space and noise rock, they take off in an interstellar exploration of new sounds).

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Uncovering traces of lost secrets

(Beak (stylized as BEAK>) is an English Experimental Neopsychedelic Rock music band from Bristol, consisting of Geoff Barrow (Portishead), together with Billy Fuller (Robert Plant's Sensational Space Shifters) and Will Young (Moon Gangs).

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Adventures in visual sound

(Whatitdo Archive Group is a Cinematic/Exotica/Funk band from Reno, NV, formed by Aaron Chiazza, Alexander Korostinsky and Mark Sexton).

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Verlorene Seelen mit Schwarzlicht erleuchten

(Schwarzer Tag is a German Experimental/Dark Ambient/Drone band from Leipzig, formed by Schwarzer Tag and Eva Petersen; using English poetry from the last centuries, works full of loneliness, oppression and terrible foreboding are created. Eva's voice, from ethereal whisper to painful distortion, unfolds over a solitude pulse of 808 basses. Sublime noise competes with weeping guitars, strange moaning synths all underlied with deep, dark drones).

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Förändringar av tid-rum kontinuum

(The Janitors is a swedish psychedelic/space/shoegaze/postrock band formed in 2004 by two peddlers of heavy drones and fuzzed nightmares, J. Eriksson (vocals, guitars, organs, drums & percussion) and H. Herlenius (guitars, drones, organs and bass)).

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Lamenti di macchine morenti

(Thee Maldoror Kollective is an Italian band from Turin, Piedmont. The project started in 1991 as a Black Metal band called Funeral Fog, then changed name to Maldoror in 1997 and finally in Thee Maldoror Kollective in 2001; since the last name change they evolved in an Industrial/Avant-garde sound).

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Express towards the beginning of the end

(The Residents is a great historic US avant-garde master group based in San Francisco. The official inception of the Residents was the release of Meet The Residents in 1974, but members of the group had worked together since 1969 or perhaps earlier. The band is known for its wide range of named guest stars and collaborators, its multitude of concept albums, its ambitious multimedia, audiovisual, and stage projects and the mystery surrounding much of its activities, from its history as a band to the identity of its members).

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Herinneringen aan aardse bekering

(The Answer Lies In The Black Void is a Transcendental Doom Metal collaboration between Martina Horváth and Jason Köhnen. Horváth (also singer for the avant-garde metal project Thy Catafalque) and Köhnen (Celestial Season, ex-The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble) predominantly work together in their outwardly music project MANSUR together with Dmitry El Demerdashi (ex-PHURPA)).

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Door de tunnel van mysteries gaan

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October 5, 2024

Die Alchemie der Sinne üben

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Voyage à travers l'inconnu

(Kalac is a French psychedelic power trio from Dinan, Brittany, drawing inspiration from krautrock, shoegaze, 70's psychedelia, and space rock. Primarily instrumental, the sparse vocals are in French).

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Warm sounds to shelter hopelessness

(Dorval & Devereaux is the debut collaboration between Crystal Dorval (White Poppy) and Beau Devereaux (Samantha Glass), hailing from British Columbia and Wisconsin respectively. These two lysergic-pop minds came together back in April 2012 and after sculpting the tunes for nearly a year, are ready to unveil their self-titled debut. The result is a transportive album; one of hazy, bubbling therapeutic pop, insistent drum machine loops and hypnotizing, mantra-like melodies).

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Feeling the abandonment of humanity

(VR Sex is an audio/visual band from Los Angeles, CA, playing deathrock, synth punk, post-punk, ambient, and ethereal soundscapes. Comprised of Noel Skum (Andrew Clinco of Drab Majesty), Z. Oro (Aaron Montaigne of Antioch Arrow/Heroin/DBC) on vocals and drums, and Mico Frost (Brian Tarney of Guardian) on synths and electric bass).

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September 2, 2024

Walking on strange paths of existence

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Multipel diffraktion av fotoniska strålar

(Isoberlinia is a Swedish Darkwave/Shoegaze duo; Isoberlinia is located in a dark space between 80s/90s shoegaze and electronic music; their soundscape is built upon atmospheric soothing guitars driven by electronic beats, creating an almost trip hop-feeling, and embedded within is a voice that’s as soft as it is enigmatic).

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Inspirasjon i de evige skogene

(Action & Tension & Space is a spaced out instrumental lo-fi lounge outfit from Oslo, Norway, consisting of members from bands like The Low Frequency in Stereo, Lumen Drones, Electric Eye, Soft Ride, Ape Club, Undergrünnen and the European backing band for Ryley Walker; the band is formed by Julius Lind, Ørjan Haaland, Øystein Braut and Per Steinar Lie).

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Kleuren om afscheid te nemen van het leven

(The Lovecraft Sextet is a Dutch Dark Jazz/Black project leaded by Jason Köhnen from Bong-Ra and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble).

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Sanglots de la glace enchantée

(Dead. is a Post Punk/Industrial band from Rennes, France, founded in 2013, formed by Bernard Marie, Berne Evol and Brice Delourmel).

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Creaks of the ancient coast

(29 Niebolt Street is a Darkwave/Synth one man project from Flint, MI, leaded by Jason Messler, who is inspired by horror and sci-fi soundtracks of the 80's).

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Hyväilyjä jäätyneitä oksia

(Šamane is an Experimental/Drone/Ethereal band from Tampere, Finland, formed by Saara Šamane (vocals & bass), Aleksi Kiiskilä (guitar & oud) and Otto Heino (drums)).

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Time to feel heartbreak

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

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Die Dinge, die wir im Feuer verloren haben

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თანამედროვეობის ნგრევა

(Sara Stuttgart is a Post Punk/Coldwave one man project located in Tbilisi, Georgia).

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סיפורים שטופים בחול

(Dudu Tassa (Tel-Aviv, 1977) is an Israeli rock musician, singer, songwriter and record producer of Mizrahi Jewish descent. Besides having had a successful solo career in Israel, Tassa has been the leader of Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis which plays new renditions of old Iraqi and Kuwaiti songs written and composed by Tassa's late grandfather and great-uncle, Daoud and Salih Al-Kuwaity, since 2011).

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July 19, 2024

Noir stories for the harsh winter

(The Midnight Ensemble is a one man Dark Jazz project from Knoxville, TN, leaded by Ken W).

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Danse des esprits abandonnés

(Dead. is a Post Punk/Industrial band from Rennes, France, founded in 2013, formed by Bernard Marie, Berne Evol and Brice Delourmel).

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Lebe die Qual allein

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Laments of the forgotten forest

(Ov Pain is a Darkwave/Dark Ambient/Drone band from Aotearoa, New Zealand, formed by Renee Barrance and Tim Player).

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The harmony of irreversible nostalgia

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Art without restrictions

(Kim Gordon is a bassist, guitarist, and vocalist born in Rochester, New York on 28 April 1953 and raised in Los Angeles. Primarily a visual artist, Gordon moved to New York City and formed Sonic Youth in 1981 with Thurston Moore (her husband from 1984–2012). Gordon also formed the musical projects Body/Head, Free Kitten, Ciccone Youth, Harry Crews, and Mirror/Dash).

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La tecnologia per raggiungere l'immortalità

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Eternal flesh suffering

(Coil was an English pioneer band formed in London in 1983 by John Balance as a solo side project to Psychic TV, Coil developed into a full-scale musical group in 1984, when Balance cemented a partnership with Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Christopherson had been a founder of Psychic TV and member of Throbbing Gristle. For over twenty years Coil would be at the forefront of European experimentalism and electronic music.

John Balance (1962-2004) died tragically in an accident at his home on November 13th, 2004. Peter Christopherson decided that, with the passing of John Balance, Coil would not continue. Peter Martin Christopherson died 24 November 2010).

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De kwetsbaarheid van interne monsters

(Porcelain Mionotaurs is a Dutch project from Jason Köhnen of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. Dark Dubstep and Breaks, heavy bass, ethnic drums sit alongsidevaried instrumentation and interludes of jazz/noize experimentalism).

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Våreksplosjon av det kalde havet

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Legalizing abuse of power

(Max Richter is a German-born British composer, born 22 March 1966 in Hameln, Germany. He co-founded the contemporary classical ensemble Piano Circus, with which he stayed for ten years, he has worked with, among many others, Roni Size and Future Sound of London. Owner of Studio Richter Mahr).