[Teaser of the day] Mike Cassells - It's In Here, Somewhere

• Free jazz
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Mike Cassells

Release: Mike Cassells Power Quartet

Label: Catchy Name

Year: 2017

Noteherder & McCloud – The Tail (2008)

WM Recordings

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• Free jazz 
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Modal jazz 
• Live session 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield

Comment: I am very glad to back again at WM Recordings, the imprint which has introduced me to many interesting artists like brunk, Chenard Walcker, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Keshco, Phil Reavis, Jared C. Balogh, The Hathaway Family Plot and many others. Beyond that the roster embraces such luminaries as the godfather of the home recording R Stevie Moore, and Russian dadaist sound collage and surf pop mixed madness Messer Chups. Undoubtedly The Tail is a highly complicated and mind-provoking one composed of three different live gigs by the two experienced musicians wherein you can enjoy many parallel running compartments based on the playing of a soprano saxophone, and on the other side it is undermined by poignant synthesiser-based bubbling and effects making an impact on a fastidious listener. And I am probably the demanding reviewer. And if you want to get a solid review of how to play the soprano saxophone in an intriguing way then this issue is for you. Synthesiser is a remarkably more broad instrument or it can even be considered a platform, however, this issue provides a little yet intriguing bit of it. It certainly touches on sonic qualities which remind me of electronic krautrock artists as Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. Use The Desk Lamp is the favourite of mine because it is absolutely fascinating in its overwhelming tempo and energy. For me, it is jazz punk. In a word, the result is great.

ps – Volatile (2017)

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• Experimental electronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient noise 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Electronic music 
• Spoken word 
• Sampledelic 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Psychoacoustic

Comment: this issue of 11 tracks is psychotic, strongly filled out with desperate vocal samples and violent filled dialogues from different motion pictures being backed up by sinister yet blissful soundscapes being in turn filled in with glitchy "errors", and frequently interrupted static providing you a starkly disturbed sonic picture while paradoxically maintaining its picturesque image. By casting the light upon the titles it is mostly about blood and cuts and stillness. As if getting an audible, almost physically tangible bridge from within an unnerving psycho-neurological ward. If to compare it to the artist's release which was recently reviewed at RMH, Finding My Own Way Back Home, the recent one is not about the hiss imbued walls and supportive prodigious power dictating the whole, it used to lurk after you searching for your cerebral traces to overtake it and then modifying it into psyched-up ones. And then the past is going to come ahead of your present to govern the future of yours. Overwhelming by any means. Similarly to Finding My Own Way Back Home it is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

Ellah a. Thaun – Happy 30 Honey (2017)

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• Indie 
• Drone pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Post-punk 
• Krautrock 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• Art pop 
• Epic

Comment: Ellah. a Thaun is a contemporary indie artist from France whose method is to embrace many elements into her idiosyncratic mix. Obviously it is not the ultimate purpose of her. It is the way how her music must be made up. This handful of tracks surprises again with its frantic touch though by the sound and loudness all is controlled by Nathanaelle Hauguel. For example, the opening piece Part 1 progresses into a sort of indie techno based on an elliptical catchy loop. It is the favourite of mine though the rest of the whole is also very good. She has always been strongly influenced by post-punk music and the influence comes out in the second part. Rough post-punk germs are crossed with the dreamy higher chords of shoegaze thereof resulting in a bewildering while majestic avant-pop composition. Part 3 showcases Hauguel`s exposure towards the motorik, towards krautrock though the drumming is vamped up by digitally modified thin kick drums as if all of that were extracted either from a contemporary soul or electro pop release. Part 4 is the outing's slacker track being stylistically grunge which lazily continues at Part 5 as well though being strongly intertwined with droning organs and wah wah effects. As if an early Stereolab meets Spaceman 3 yet the comparison is my mirage because that results in something very originally spiritual ultimately. In a nutshell, undoubtedly one of the best issues in 2017, and probably the best indie album in 2017 so far. Amazing gal indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Daniel James Dolby - A Warning

Murmure Intemporel

• Dark ambient
• Film noir
• Illbient
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield

Artist: Daniel James Dolby

Release: Grimojo

Label: Murmure Intemporel/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Poros - Ter

MiMi

• Post-punk
• Experimental rock
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Indie rock

Artist: Poros

Release: Ter

Label: MiMi

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Torley - The Garden

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

• Piano music
• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical

Artist: Torley

Release: Solo Piano 7

Label: Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

NNY – offear.ep (2004)

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Jamendo

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Drone 
• Minimal techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• Micronoise

Comment: this set of 5 compositions created by Portuguese artist Jerome Faria aka NNY is certainly the kind of electronic music but it is problematic to pigeonhole it in a certain way. Maybe it is just about a physical vibe, to get your change in mood through moving of the sounds from one channel to another. And vice versa. A traffic of gentle and noisy sounds to pass by each other. I couldn't find out any narrative of it. When you have stopped listening to it you could remember just a little bit about the whole. Maybe there were up some shrieks, some noises and glitches, some spans of silence, some kind of talking. You cannot remember nothing but the issue is intriguing and you have to listen to it again to figure it eventually out. It is uneasy to think it off. So your presence is essential for that outing. Without your experience it does not exist in fact. It is a mental terrain which is going to blossom at the presence of the listener. The release is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Sekotis - Ravens

Bump Foot

• Art rock
• Indie rock
• Math rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Alternative rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Sekotis

Release: For Your Weird Ears

Label: Bump Foot/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Scissor Lock - I Guess

• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Leftfield
• Art pop
• Drone pop

Artist: Scissor Lock

Release: Churn

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013