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Zlye Kukly are a Russian project who offer up an invigorating, tuneful and often flamboyant mix of styles dropping down in; Folk, Prog rock, 70’s rock, gothic rock, weird soundtrack elements, world pop, piano and classical touches . All topped off with a mix of melodic and dramatic Russian male and female vocals -along with rich peacks female operatic vocals.
Mike Moya has been away from the band he is most known for, Godspeed You Black Emperor, for a few years now. There is enough distance and development between his work with GYBE to refer to Hrsta as a proper band, rather than simply a "side project". Certainly there have been many other projects to come out of the Constellation Records stable since and during GYBE's prominence on the scene.
Three guys and a girl from San Diego make up the band Sleeping People. Their second albums comes in a nice looking digipak with cute drawings and nice paper for the booklet.
Acid Motherly love finds the Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. offering up their usual mix of churning and spaced rock riffs, guitar soloing, psychedelic electronics and slight forays into acoustic guitars & ambience. Along with a manner of singing, spoken world and sound effect layered on to their dense mix of sounds.
Mersault paints your listening space in very gloomy and oppressive audio colouring, with its mix of slow and sinister improvisation, doomy ambience, bruised jazz tones and source recordings
Long, Lointain brings together 10 quirky, melancholy and often very strange tracks that mix togeather often looped & sometimes sinister child like melodies with strange field recordings. Falling somewhere between ambient ,folk and electronica
Imagine a mix of Syd Barret's clever word play and quirky fast strum folk that sometimes just about holds together. With a geeky, sometimes dead pan American edge, some haphazard blues and rock ‘n’ roll vibes - thats more often than not shambling & tuneful-you get the rather wonderful Turner Cody.
The river that flows into the sands II presents the listener with five hypnotic, unfolding harmonic and sometimes melancholy drone based tracks, which have a very distinctive earthy, dank, rural and very English feel about them.
Cliffs under the mist offers up three near-on twenty minute tracks of slow unfolding and textural ambient sound worlds- mixing together drone textures, field recordings with haunting and eerier harmonic traces.
This ep is rather lovely, haunting and melodic collaboration between greek guitarist Savvas Ysatis and ambient/ electroinca artist Taylor Deupree.The four tracks on offer bring together organic guitar textures, electronics and forays into atmospheric electo pop.
Peace for animals sees Merzbow yet again pushing his sound every onwards and upwards- revisiting old elements with clever and inventive vigour, along with new and recent elements to make a highly rewarding album.
This second album from French Canadian art-rock collective Feu Thérèse finds them lining their rock craft with very retro 70’s/80’s sounding funky bass, electronics and french pop influences ,to offten very camp and often over the top effect, but without losing their creative and rocking moments.
Considering this is on Raster-noton label it sounds very un raster-noton like, the music here is often very touched by emotion and often full sounding. Strings brings together a collection of very organic and often very un- digital sounding and atmospheric electronic pieces by Russian Electronic artist COH- utilizing piano, electric and acoustic guitar.
Toronto's Sandro Perri has worked in the past under the name Polmo Polpo, producing music which skirted genres such as techno, ambient and jazzy post-rock. He's also added traditionally classical instruments such as the cello, within the context of somewhat danceable music.
The English Heretic are a mysterious musically, literary & dark historic collective who investigate ocultic matters blurring the lines between fact and fiction, their music is a layered and sinister mix of dark electronics, folk and source recordings & ambience. Their written word a mixture of ocultic history, true crime and horror fiction- all to make a intoxicating and often highly un-nerving whole.
The eighth chapter in the awe inspiring Norwegian collective Supersilent's career finds them creating a rather horror shrouded atmospheric album that weaves together elements of jazz, complex electronica, rock & metal, creepy synth expanses, cinematic tones and all manner of genre pick & mix into a magical, epic and often edgy, sometimes beautiful whole.
Two is, as the title would indicate, the second album by Chapter, a duo consisting of Swiss artists Alexander J.S. Craker and Thierry van Osselt. The album's subtitle (the biographer) refers to the unifying concept of the work; an elegantly presented lyric book presents a short biography, for which each track is named. For instance, the first track is named Baron B.M. Craker (1946-2003). Each biography refers to lyrics or poems found or provided by family members or significant others. Chapter sets each of these lyrics or poems to music. It is only upon careful examination of the album credits that you realise you've been had, most of the time. It says "All biographies are fictional; any resemblance to persons living or dead, are purely coincidental (except for Baron B.M. Craker, which is based on true facts)". It's an intriguing idea, and a pretty clever prank.
The Sacred Truth is first slice of sonic darkness from this new project from Christopher Walton one half of the now defunct ocultic dark ambient, neo-classical & ritual percussion project Endvra. Thankful this doesn’t try to recapture Endvra's past glories instead this has it’s own grim identity that summons up a quite an organic mix of dark ambience, drone blackness & doomy/ blackened mettlic guitar tone.
For me Time Frost is the first fully realized release from the Glacial Movements label that fulfils the labels remit of supplying ambience and sound work that conjures up vast frozen deserts, shifting ice continents and the loneliness and beauty of artic climes.
At all ends finds this noise/guitar duo weaving in more melodic, cinematic and ambient textures into their sound, though still managing to keeping elements of thier noise credentials with rich sometimes searing walls of sound.
Cyber Totem's sonic landscape is wonderfully exotic, mystical and often very odd mixing together all manner of instruments from around the world -we have; Fujara from Slovakia, Kaval from Bulgaria, Fadno & Paska from Sweden and this list goes on with fourteen or so weird and wonderful instruments from all over the world.
Back in the sixties and seventies Anglo-American popmusic was booming, the canon of the Shadows to the Beatles and the Stones up to Floyd even, we all know the drill. Lesser known is the how these sounds were combined with local traditions with often exciting results.
Testa Piena D’orche mix of eerier drone matter, bell tones, layered foreign voices/ chants and all manner of source recordings rather brought to mind the more recent Nurse with Wound material.
This is as the title suggests is a soundtrack to an Italian gangster/ cop movie from 1979, which by the sleeve description falls between being a Giallo & Poliziesco movie. This is the first complete release of the enjoyable eerier, hard-hitting and sometimes chessy soundtrack.