Non Dolet – Dreamlover (EP)
[DWK363]
Non Dolet
“Dreamlover (EP)”
Tracks list:
Sad Man’s Walk
Downhearted
Dreamlover
Jade
posted 05 June 2018
music tagged with: melancholic
Walt Thisney – Musica Celestial – Thisconcert by Walt Thisney
Walt Thisney
“Musica Celestial – Thisconcert by Walt Thisney “
posted 02 June 2018
DR – Sehnsucht
[PE13]
DR
“Sehnsucht”
Dominic Razlaff (aka DR) is an ambient musician from Braunschweig, Germany. Interested in making music since 2007 he bought his first synthesizer (Novation Xio) in 2009. Currently he uses classic subtractive synthesis, granular synthesis, field recordings and tape loops to create evolving, melancholy ambient/drone soundscapes.
1. Sehnsucht (8.53)
2. Aussteiger (7.22)
3. Hoffnungsschimmer (3.35)
4. Bauchgefühl (4.44)
5. Unterwegs (8.05)
posted 20 May 2018
C/VVV – miniatura + remixes ep
[pn132]
C/VVV
“miniatura + remixes ep”
“After 2 years since the award-winning debut album “Todo no es Todo”, the audio-visual collective C/VVV is once again
sending out signals with this EP called “Miniatura + remixes”, as a preview of a future album in constant evolution.The group recorded this track at the end of 2016 in a session entirely improvised and characterized by friendly musical
dialogue between its founders Mika Martini and Pablo Flores, before the latter moved to Rome, Italy. Later, that recording
was complemented by the sonic input of the person writing this review (Francisco Pinto), with contributions to this new
exploration that follow emotional and playful pathways.
sending out signals with this EP called “Miniatura + remixes”, as a preview of a future album in constant evolution.The group recorded this track at the end of 2016 in a session entirely improvised and characterized by friendly musical
dialogue between its founders Mika Martini and Pablo Flores, before the latter moved to Rome, Italy. Later, that recording
was complemented by the sonic input of the person writing this review (Francisco Pinto), with contributions to this new
exploration that follow emotional and playful pathways.
The mission in this project is simple and without much pretense. This adventure combines different sounds and small details
built with almost 100% analog technology, featuring sound miniatures and dancing timbres that together reveal nostalgic
landscapes through a contemporary interpretive perspective. The auditory encounter nourishes the ears with these
micro-sounds, synthetic textures, while, at the same time, permeating the contemplative state of its creators in those
sessions produced previously.
Distinct authors from the national electronic scene construct / deconstruct this new work, with their distinct perspectives
and remix contributions: “Unknown Dancer” with a random re-mixing of the same ingredients that reveals surprising results;
René Roco adding mystery, surrealism and complexity to his version; “co-dec” moving towards the most rhythmic approach,
providing new synthetic sounds but without losing the details; and ending with “android” with a very successful, danceable and
elegant transformation of this miniature. Finally, we cannot fail to mention the contribution of Iñaki Muñoz for the cover of the
EP, who always surprises us with the expressive power of his visuals in the concerts of C/VVV.
We continue to prepare ourselves for a new adventure in a random universe, which inspires us from time to time, bringing us
together and surprising us, even in spite of the distances.
Wish us good luck and good harvest.”
Francisco Pinto
(Santiago, Chile. Mayo / May, 2018)
posted 20 May 2018
Walt Thisney – Furtho
Walt Thisney
“Furtho”
posted 10 May 2018
Matti T – Colors EP
[phokes130]
Matti T
“Colors EP”
Relief.
How strong did we miss you.
Will you be there?After a final winter stupor we gaze into the rays of closer photons and see Matti T’s latest color expressions, in both his visual artwork and also four new tracks he brings to us. New in style is a more dancefloor like track whose musical direction we already could feel in the Teppana release, a group in which Matti T is a member in. The trance like positive vibes guide us into an ambivalent beauty of a strong electronica track. Sunbeams will increase the spirit and the final track will guide you into another realm, moving and somehow rocking. Dance in the easy chair, with a bittersweet taste of love, loss and hope, amidst a space opera.
How strong did we miss you.
Will you be there?After a final winter stupor we gaze into the rays of closer photons and see Matti T’s latest color expressions, in both his visual artwork and also four new tracks he brings to us. New in style is a more dancefloor like track whose musical direction we already could feel in the Teppana release, a group in which Matti T is a member in. The trance like positive vibes guide us into an ambivalent beauty of a strong electronica track. Sunbeams will increase the spirit and the final track will guide you into another realm, moving and somehow rocking. Dance in the easy chair, with a bittersweet taste of love, loss and hope, amidst a space opera.
posted 05 May 2018
Walt Thisney – Thisissophia
Walt Thisney
“Thisissophia”
Walt Thisney remodels some piano songs from the collaboration between the philosopher G.I. Gurdjieff and the composer Thomas de Hartmann .
posted 02 May 2018
Walt Thisney – Wirthis
Walt Thisney
“Wirthis”
Wyrthis is an incursion into intimate, evocative, descriptive and melancholic soundscapes.
posted 25 April 2018
Powels Lumski – See_Shades
[AR_078]
Powels Lumski
“See_Shades”
Powels Lumski‘s first EP “See_Shades” has the DNA of the classic ambient to down-tempo vibe. The four tracks slowly rolls the waves loaded with bass frequencies, glitches and artifacts to create some gritty mysterious reliefs to the journey.
Composition, Mixing & Artwork by Powels Lumski
Mastering by Andrew Course
posted 10 April 2018
Phil Tea – Sentimental Value
[IYE 27]
Phil Tea
“Sentimental Value”
Sentimental Value is a record of which we fell in love from the beginning, with its particular feeling, its tranquility and its power, its making you travel gently. Everything is explained below by its author
I first started playing music back in 2014 when i was 16 as a drummer in a local Melodic Death Metal band. After going over 2 years with my band, i’ve decided to quit and start doing more projects on my own. I started a Grindcore band and joined several other bands/projects from Sherbrooke, going from Skate Punk to Rap, Black Metal and Screamo. After a year or so, I’ve decided to take a break from the local underground scene to start focusing more on my solo projects.
I first started experiencing with several softwares and analog equipement, but quickly went full on with DAWs, as i felt that i wanted to make music with the bare minimum equipement, due to, mostly, lack of space and money. I now work with FL Studio, Cubase 5 and Protools 12. The only hardware that i use is a 25 keys AKAI MIDI keyboard, a Behringer Xenyx 1002fx mixing board and a Novation Launchpad.
Sentimental Value as been composed between July 2017 and Febuary 2018. The title kinda speaks for itself, because every song as been written in connection with a very specific moment in my life. I really wanted to recreate and embody the mood and the atmosphere of these moments and shape it into music. I think is the closest way anybody could ever re-experience them. Sit back, put on your best pair of headphone and let yourself float into this mellow little journey.
posted 30 March 2018
Wings of an Angel – Tell Your New Date Something Truly Romantic And Original, Tell Her How Her Eyes Are Like The Fathomless Sea After A Storm Of The Black Plague
[Self Release ]
Wings of an Angel
“Tell Your New Date Something Truly Romantic And Original, Tell Her How Her Eyes Are Like The Fathomless Sea After A Storm Of The Black Plague”
posted 08 March 2018
posted 11 February 2018
Wings of an Angel – Sacrifice Your Suicidal Idealism
[Self Release]
Wings of an Angel
“Sacrifice Your Suicidal Idealism”
posted 27 January 2018
Wings of an Angel – Cannot Create A Toxin Out Of Mortality
[Self Release ]
Wings of an Angel
“Cannot Create A Toxin Out Of Mortality”
posted 06 January 2018
Maxim Kornyshev – Mellifluous
[su018]
Maxim Kornyshev
“Mellifluous”
Maxim Kornyshev is looking for relevant musical solutions, combining elements of new age, free improvisation, chillout, instrumental music and electronic styles. The musician grows and develops his musical taste, creating tracks with a harmonious and light sound. Just relax by listening to “Mellifluous”, let the feelings be what they are …
posted 30 December 2017
posted 27 December 2017
Breakup-Party – Ghosts
[djummi.008]
Breakup-Party
“Ghosts”
I like the “Pop” this way: When in fact this music is banging in the true sense of the word. Catchy and radical! And together with the fellows Indie and Noise “Ghosts” ranges from doubting fragile to resolute explosive: passionately, unsparingly and glamorously!
posted 16 December 2017
Țfie РPowers of ten
[LINGE052]
Töfie
“Powers of ten”
Projet en perpétuelle mutation, des compos minimales mais solides, une voix éthérée, des sonorités qui échappent aux clichés habituels de l’électro-pop (rétro ou actuelle). La musique de Tofie tisse des liens entre différents types de musique électronique et vocale sans appartenir à un genre. On y trouve des éléments proches de Steve Reich, de Grimes, de Kraftwerk et Massive Attack, mais toujours détournés et mélangés. “Powers of Ten” est son premier essai, accompagné de Lühje Dallage (Stolearm, Primate Audio, Linge) aux rythmes, sound design et à la production. Töfie réalise également des vidéos en relation avec sa musique.
Minimal yet strong arrangements coupled with an otherworldly voice make Tofie’s music an unusual piece of work which strays from typical synthpop. By forming a blend of different types of electronic music and vocal arrangements, Tofie creates music in a way that does not belong to any genre. Her inspiration includes Steve Reich, Grimes, Kraftwerk and Massive Attack. “Powers of Ten” marks her first LP release, alongside Lühje Dallage (Stolearm, Primate Audio, Linge) for beats, sound design and production. Tofie also directs videos that make her music come to life.
credits
released October 12, 201
posted 19 November 2017
InSpectr – Kaspar Nemo
[COTA012]
InSpectr
“Kaspar Nemo”
Mysterious and almost mythical substance that lives deep under water of earth’s electronic oceans. It designs synthetic sound sculptures on regular basis. It’s compositions are dynamic rhythmic patterns combined with emotional melodies and various digital effects. Few it’s creatures are captured in our nets and presented in this release.
posted 18 November 2017
notforme! – Small Town Mysteries
[SCL194]
notforme!
“Small Town Mysteries”
“Small Town Mysteries” is a tough one. Conceived during a five hour long spontaneous jam session with a let-it-all-out approach it both harkens back to the artists’ punk-rock upbringing and follows the course set by the first album. The voice is back and the crumpled paper poetry is back but this time with a bunch of fellow Karelian musicians to bounce off of. The result – four songs, oscillating from a gentle whisper to a desperate outcry, disjointed, reflection-fueled but unmistakably notforme!
Specially to the album was written a short story about the adventures on the White Sea
Story: http://small_town_mysteries.tilda.ws
posted 10 November 2017
Llankru – Llankru
[djummi.007]
Llankru
“Llankru”
The magic of the basics
A music: very simple, as present and obvious as the happening round us. Its sounds: Elements in space, which fly apart in uniform motion, without resistance and get together again.
Llankrú masters the vanishing till the dispersal. Just as its opposite: The bang, with which all wants to expand into space from the center with force. In doing so time is relative. And therefore their im- and explosions happen in seemingly endless calm.
The instruments sound like they sound. A guitar, a second, guitar, a bass and a drum set. The musicians have freed sound and arrangement from all the superfluity and potential masquerade. But intuitively, not wilfully. The single sin is the glowing overdrive sometimes. But to this one the blessing was given already.
With all this „Sturz durch Raum und Zeit Richtung Unendlichkeit“ (C. Karges) Llankrú’s songs relate wonderfully. They could be the six episodes of a film, which may work stand-alone, but forge a bridge of a whole narration together.
The narrative power rises with the reduction. That’s the magic of the basics. Everything runs to a point, slowly the sum of the parts emerges and condenses more and more. And than suddenly: Nothing.
posted 19 October 2017
poj.wlkp – Do Zorzy
[UPL 075]
poj.wlkp
“Do Zorzy”
poj.wlkp’s new album ‘Do Zorzy’ is their 10th and presents their best recordings to date. The wonderful progression continues, as the creative force behind the project, Jan Strach, fine tunes his abilities and really focuses them into a unique and forlorn dreamy atmosphere. Taking 4 years to create, these songs have been excruciatingly crafted and analyzed by an artist who has poured his heart and the secrets of his soul into every sound and lyric. Each song has an interesting structure with layers of ambiance, character and experimentation strewn about the melodies, all while maintaining a core of folk.
The opening song “Zrobilem Sobie Spacer” sets the tone of the album with a wonderfully noodling guitar dancing throughout its ether, ultimately climaxing in howling melody. The album continues triumphantly with peaks and valleys, all weaving in and out of heartfelt lyrics and lush instrumentals. Coming full circle at the end with “Białe Pola,” a beautiful acoustic number reminiscent of the early days of poj.wlkp. Two bonus tracks grace the Unfinite Records release, both of which only add to the album’s allure. On the whole, ‘Do Zorzy’ is a crowning effort waiting to be explored on a rainy day in your heart of hearts.
posted 25 September 2017
Go Ask Alice – Perfection is terrible
[040]
Go Ask Alice
“Perfection is terrible”
This self-produced EP is the first work by Go Ask Alice: eight instrumental tracks, composed between 2012 and 2013, recorded and mixed by Matteo Spinazzé, in collaboration with Curzio Ferri playing drums and Andrea Oggiano with his acoustic guitar.
Perfection is terrible is the first verse of Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Munich Mannequins”.
“Perfection” here is completeness, closure, inability to evolve and reborn, perfection is death.
Perfection is indeed terrible, can’t have a child, just as Plath’s Munich Mannequins, cold marble statues, beautiful and perfect, frozen with us in a never ending present, the immense futureless present of the “capitalist realism”: the end of history.
Perfection is terrible is the first verse of Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Munich Mannequins”.
“Perfection” here is completeness, closure, inability to evolve and reborn, perfection is death.
Perfection is indeed terrible, can’t have a child, just as Plath’s Munich Mannequins, cold marble statues, beautiful and perfect, frozen with us in a never ending present, the immense futureless present of the “capitalist realism”: the end of history.
posted 31 August 2017
Wings of an Angel – Playing Standards Very Differently (Original Avantâ-âGarde Solo Piano Improvisations)
[Self Release]
Wings of an Angel
“Playing Standards Very Differently (Original Avant-Garde Solo Piano Improvisations)”
“Wings of an Angel continues to boldly explore new sonic territory and with this latest release, he does that with one instrument, the piano. He has taken some of the world’s most famous classical pieces, turned them inside out, added his own signature improvisatory style and created breath-taking works of spiraling psychedelia/Avant-Garde complexity which will lead you into dreams and visions you never thought possible.
His playing is expressive, emotive and yet he brings the classics into a new dimensional space with precision all the while, creating a playful atmosphere on an album you don’t want to miss.”
His playing is expressive, emotive and yet he brings the classics into a new dimensional space with precision all the while, creating a playful atmosphere on an album you don’t want to miss.”
posted 30 August 2017
Wings of an Angel – Do Not Awake The Sleeping Simpleton
[Self Release]
Wings of an Angel
“Do Not Awake The Sleeping Simpleton”
posted 28 July 2017
