Author Archives: birddog

https://brucerussell.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-boathouse Genre: Noise Rating: 5/5 Previous review of this artist here: https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2021/09/25/the-delta-blues-suite-sonaten-aus-opus-60-by-bruce-russell/ When you hear strong masculine music like this you get it up and use your ears like a man. Motherfuck the lack of attention. DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO THE FUCK THIS IS? Fuck you.

https://tribetapes.bandcamp.com/album/prey Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp March 5, 2021 Prey borrows from ambient and drone but is too gritty to rest easy I’m either genre. Ultimately, this sort of subtle by noise standards level of unease pushes it into a broader categorization. Our old loyal but difficult friend Mr. Experimental. The only torchContinue reading “Prey by Modelbau”

https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/zurufe Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp October 27, 2021 Watch out because I already took my ambien. The dreamworld is becoming my speciality. This is music that can gather your dreams and rewrite them and transform them and expand them. It’s instrumental but I think it’s about abandonment. Or losing yourself in theContinue reading “ZURUFE by MoL Quartetto”

https://halipalombo.bandcamp.com/album/flight-recorder-do-not-open Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 24, 2021 Conceptually this is pretty disturbing right from the get. An album composed entirely of black box recordings of aviation catastrophes. Although I expected it to be more in your face content-wise it turns out not to be very clear what’s being sampled save theContinue reading “FLIGHT RECORDER DO NOT OPEN by Hali Palombo”

https://lurkerbias.bandcamp.com/album/outlands Genre: Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp October 22, 2021 Two tracks both clocking in at exactly 21:21 they both wander around from heavily experimental to more minimalistic to more common takes on ambient drone music over the past decade or so. The transitions are healthy and organic and feel fresh, as in ifContinue reading “Outlands by Demiurgen”

https://soarer1983.bandcamp.com/track/–145 Genre: Slushwave Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 18, 2021 Beautiful … dreamy … surreal … what so much strives to achieve but fails … imparts wisdom through the dissolution of exact phrases … defeats the past … adventurous in new ideas … full on war against convention … a sonic panorama of theContinue reading “تم میرے مائیکرو کاسموز ہو۔ from تم میرے مائیکرو کاسموز ہو۔ by ابد”

https://memotone.bandcamp.com/album/shiro Genre: Fourth World Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 1, 2021 This entire thing has a relaxed chillaxed vibe. The music floats around comfortably from different themes and genres but it’s so coherent in terms of flow or … current is really the word I want to use … it’s never disruptive or abrupt.Continue reading “SHIRO by memotone”

https://kaelanmikla.bandcamp.com/album/undir-k-ldum-nor-urlj-sum Genre: Gothic Pop Rating: 4/5 This is, as far as I can tell, an all female band from Iceland. They’re a goth band with all the right influences. Undir Köldum Norðurljósum isn’t especially pioneering music but their layered textured sound that’s vaguely borrowed from dream pop provides some separation from the pack. Primarily, aContinue reading “Undir Köldum Norðurljósum by Kælan Mikla”

Even though this record hasn’t exactly been the darling of critics or fans, I think it’s worth putting down concerns about the progression of jazz and simply enjoy this album for what it is. Smack and booze ended Charlie Parker’s life just three years prior and Ornette Coleman’s prophetic The Shape of Jazz to ComeContinue reading “Soul – Coleman Hawkns”

https://cacophonousrevivalrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/gestalt Genre: Post Modern Melding Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 8, 2021 RAIC=Richmond Avant Improv Collective This record is the tenth by this band but somehow the first to make its way into my world. Straight up, I’ve never heard anything quite like it. There are a handful of genre hoppers out there butContinue reading “Gestalt by RAIC”

https://rawtonkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-lokerse-jazzclub Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 4/5 Serries continue show of his sustainable relevance and ability work masterfully in every genre his musical evolution draws him into. The bass and guitar format provide an especially free setting in the freest genre of the jazz world. Serries and Jacquemyn talk the same language. The resemblance of theContinue reading “Live At Lokerse Jazzclub by Peter Jacquemyn / Dirk Serries”

https://forestkids.bandcamp.com/album/dreamstation64-cube360-platinum Genre: Slushwave Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 8, 2020 I talked about this with Wizard of Loneliness on my podcast. https://businesscasual87.bandcamp.com https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chills-with-blizzard/id1554119788?i=1000531636235 I might not be able to completely put my finger on what slushwave is exactly but boy howdy do my ears pick when I hear it. This album takes what IContinue reading “DreamStation64-Cube360_PLATINUM by L a z u l i _ y e l l o w”

https://floppyears.bandcamp.com/album/birds-eye Genre: Ambient Folk Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 10, 2021 I don’t know how many people comb through new releases on bandcamp as aggressively as me. I know that I do it at a cost of spreading myself too thin but when I come around something like this, something so new, pioneering, andContinue reading “bird’s eye by dani kwon”

https://division81records.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-transitions Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 12, 2021 Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A man auditions for the circus by flapping his arms fast enough to take flight and the ring master complains that all he can do is bird imitations. This record is undeniably a Coltrane imitation.Continue reading “Cosmic Transitions by Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few”

https://grandbruit.bandcamp.com/album/nos-matins Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp January 13, 2021 Grandbruit has 12 releases on bandcamp this year. I decided not to go back to their debut but rather to their first release this year since I’m trying to, at least, focus on this year’s music although often I do same week andContinue reading “Nos matins by Grandbruit”

https://mohannadnasser.bandcamp.com/album/al-hamra Genre: Arabic Jazz Rating: 4/5 Very comfortable world jazz fusion centered around Nasser’s oud playing. The compositions are great and the rest of the band are very astute and the accompaniment makes for a great listen. Musically, it’s very close to cool jazz. Great romantic mood spiced up with a bit of Middle EasternContinue reading “Al Hamra by Mohannad Nasser”

https://untitledtapeuntitledwork.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-tape-untitled-work-1 Genre: Drone Rating: 4/5 This is cool. Drone pieces that develop smoothly and go in surprising directions. Have you ever seen early footage of Pink Floyd playing Interstellar Overdrive in some club where everyone is on LSD? Well if that gig lasted two days this is what it may have settled into.

https://dinosaurjr.bandcamp.com/album/sweep-it-into-space Genre: Rock Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 23, 2021 The first thing I’m inclined to say is that I’m a huge Dinosaur Jr fan. I bought the debut before the Jr was added. I still have the vinyl. I also want to point out that my ratings system is somewhat weighted toward theContinue reading “Sweep It Into Space by Dinosaur Jr”

https://echt.bandcamp.com/album/inwane Genre: Techno Rating: 2/5 released on bandcamp September 24, 2021 Desperately trying to bill itself as jazz but nah. For a moment I hoping on something like an updated Medeski Martin & Wood but that never materializes nor does any indication they can actually play their instruments which is sort of what jazz isContinue reading “INWANE by ECHT!”