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https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/stanotte Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp August 25, 2021 I know I’ve reviewed at least one other Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/music release With by Rhucle and I enjoyed it a lot. And sorry for pitting the two against one another but ngl I like this one a bit more. Found it a tad moreContinue reading “Stanotte by Michele Andreotti”

https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/album/if-theres-any-tinge-of-this-world Genre: Ambient Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp September 21, 2021 A requiem for Snow Country, Japan. I took the dog photo. And yeah I’m just being random but that’s a great book. I lived in Hirosaki, Japan in Aomori prefecture and it sure did snow a lot there. Beautiful mountain culture. Onsen. This isContinue reading “If There’s Any Tinge of This World by Hiroshi Ebina”

https://boguscollective.bandcamp.com/album/early-morning Genre: Vapor Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp September 20, 2021 The way vaporwave is transforming from melted ghost nostalgia into something more now is hard to catch and write about. But this isn’t a caretaker revisitation record. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but this is riding a different wave. It’s carved outContinue reading “Early Morning by XURY”

https://ericplaks.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-eel-live-in-brooklyn Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp September 15, 2021 It seems like I’ve written a review of this artist before but the search engine … I can’t find it if I have. This is free jazz but it’s highly structured. You could almost call it abstract hard bop. Percussionist Leonid Galaganov hasContinue reading “Sonic Eel – Live in Brooklyn by Eric Plaks”

https://aberounds.bandcamp.com/album/the-confidence-to-make-mistakes Genre: Free Jazz Percussion Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 17, 2021 Visually he’s kind of got a Kaepernick type of thing going on. I like the image. Free and cool. Richie Havens perhaps. But am I going to be feeling Max Roach or Art Blakey here? Well… not exactly but maybe I shouldContinue reading “The Confidence To Make Mistakes by Abe Rounds”

https://scotray.bandcamp.com/album/sacred-profane Genre: Orientalist American Primitivism Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 18, 2021 These folks have been up to it for a while but this is the first recording to make it my way. The idea and musicianship is fantastic. It’s a microtonal raga approach to American Primitivism and they can definitely pull it off.Continue reading “SACRED & PROFANE by GUTPUPPET – Bill Barrett, Scot Ray”

https://seikomart.bandcamp.com/album/slush Genre: Vaporwave Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp September 20, 2021 3/5 is positive rating and it basically comes automatic based on what this music is conceptually. The beats are weird faded and slow. It does indeed do what it’s meant to do and that’s cool. It’s always a good feeling when you’re car startsContinue reading “slush by VAAV Social Club”

Alexander Scriabin is one of the most important composers of all time. He was a Russian who died in 1915. Music historians like to beat around the bush about this but he was one of those people who can hear colors and see sounds and . I don’t know how deeply associated that phenomenon isContinue reading “Alexander Scriabin”

Genre: Jazz Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 14, 2021 Here we have a three piece jazz ensemble going into the heart of jazz as I think most people perceive it to be. I spend much more time with free and avant garde jazz than with less abstract stuff like this. Jazz like this reallyContinue reading “Life Lessons by Marc Cary”

https://muscut.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-odesa Genre: Dub Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp June 4, 2021 Chillera lay down some mellow instrumental dub tracks with traces of psychedelia. Reminds me of one my favorite bands, the shamefully obscure Angel’in Heavy Syrup. Chillera have a great chemistry and balance. Growing up in Atlanta, back in the 80’s there were a surprisinglyContinue reading “Live from Odesa by Chillera”

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/lugares-comunes Genre: Ambient Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp July 16, 2021 I’m not going to carryon too much about this one. Just going through the LONTANO discography and it’s reliably really good. This is a solid release. Interesting mellow peaceful vibes with cool sounds.

https://lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/with Rating: 3/5 Genre: Ambient Rhucle gives their fans some peaceful vibes to help them defeat the unwanted moods. I felt a tragic mood stifling me when I woke up this morning. Then I found this in my bandcamp feed and felt peace return to my head. Maybe I should be doing something besides fightingContinue reading “With by Rhucle”

https://kathleenyearwoodordeal.bandcamp.com/album/requiem-world-in-ashes-complete-version-with-8-movements Genre: Gothic Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 6, 2021 A requiem to death itself it’s seems. Odd because death is neither dead nor dying. She’s been compared fairly to Diamanda Galas but the music to this is even grittier. You’ve heard of Pet Sounds? This is Death Sounds. But seriously https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/13/spain-wildfires-military-deployment/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.jpost.com/breaking-news/firefighters-battling-spreading-wildfire-in-gush-etzion-679340/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/after-touring-california-wildfire-damage-biden-rebuts-complaints-about-cost-of-combating-climate-change-004723132.htmlContinue reading “REQUIEM (World in Ashes) Complete version with 8 movements by Kathleen Yearwood Ordeal”

https://healingsoundpropagandist.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-in-digital-dust Genre: Ambient Drone Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp September 10, 2021 Rich texture for perfect sleep. Utilitarian music. Another one to get you through the night. Don’t butt dial your sister while you’re snoring.

https://l33k5p1n84574rd5.bandcamp.com/album/deep-thought-deep-vault-chapter-1 Genre: Dub Rating: 5/5 This is my second review of this artist: https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2021/08/14/%e6%b7%b1%e5%a4%9c%e3%81%ae%e3%82%b9%e3%83%9a%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b9%e3%83%80%e3%83%96-by-%e3%83%ad%e3%83%95%e3%82%a3%e9%a8%8e%e6%89%8b-vs-dub-h4xx0r/ I like this one one star better. From Augustus to Tubby and Scratch to African Head Charge and Creation Rebel. This is the tradition.

https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/kitsune-name-your-price Genre: World Music Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp August 17, 2021 Mediumistic, fluid, yielding, receptive, constant vibrations. A certain for my AOTY release list. Here’s a link to Ryuzen’s discography http://alcvin.ca/ryuzen/discography/ And jarguna’s https://www.jarguna.com/discografia/ And Projekt records https://www.projekt.com/store/ Kitsune is one of the best ambient drone field recording fusions with Oriental Trad you’llContinue reading “Kitsune (name-your-price) by jarguna & Ryuzen”

https://igneousflame.bandcamp.com/album/lapiz Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp March 25, 2021 On a casual listen you might not notice what separates this from the very flooded ambient scene. It’s two things really: 1) The guitar playing is interesting and quite good 2) There’s really clever clips of beautiful melody that most musicians can’t write It’sContinue reading “Lapiz by Igneous Flame”

Behind The Machine (Soundtrack to the Novel) https://daveluxton.bandcamp.com/album/behind-the-machine-soundtrack-to-the-novel Dream Sequence https://daveluxton.bandcamp.com Genre: Space Favorable Review Luxton is officially an OG of the space genre. His sound is classic and even definitive Hearts of Space. By my count he has 21 releases and he also runs Wayfarer Records. His music is absorbing and relaxing and bothContinue reading “Double Review: Two 2021 Releases by Dave Luxton”

Available on Spotify Genre: Hip Hop Rating: 4/5 2021 Hook driven hip hop that successfully hangs its hat on catchy art pop sensibilities. Instead of being confined by genres he uses them an assertion of artistic independence. Moon Child creates a moving, philosophical, and a sonically metaphysical neatly organized pattern.

BODY N SOUL by C Y G N https://chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/body-n-soul 2018 Discover by C Y G N https://chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/discover 2019 Into The Past by C Y G N https://chillhop.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-past 2021 Rating: 5/5 Dummy by Portishead obviously made a big splash. Numbers don’t lie. And although the glory was, of course, shared with Tricky there’s still pretty muchContinue reading “Spacesuit Human Trilogy by C Y G N:”

https://uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-038-pesto Genre: Folk Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 1, 2021 A musical garden of many influences, both folk and psychedelic, a concept album held together by solid song writing. The plot, as well as I understand it reminds me of an Ursula K. Le Guin digression.

https://hotelneon.bandcamp.com/album/live-on-stars-end-radio-august-29-2021 Genre: Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 3, 2021 Either just in my mind or maybe all over Hotel Neon are one of the top names in slow moving ambient drone. It’s a name that I respect. This is in line with what I expect from them. Very meditative comforting safe waves ofContinue reading “Live on Star’s End Radio: August 29, 2021 by Hotel Neon”

https://mikiplayspiano.bandcamp.com/album/a-kind-of-mirror Genre: Classical Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp August 27, 2021 Upon listening to this the first frame of reference comparisons to come to mind were Steve Reich and Frédéric Chopin. Not quite as geometrical as Reich and occasionally tempered by small touches of Romanticism. Then when I googled Randall-Myers, Glenn Branca’s picture came upContinue reading “A Kind of Mirror by Miki Sawada & Brendon Randall-Myers”

https://pathwornpilgrim.bandcamp.com/album/beauty-of-the-bitter-coast Genre: Neoclassical Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp September 3, 2021 Self described as “dungeon synth” complete with a fun by kitschy cover but the quality and professionalism of this music transcends its presentation. I’m not trying to shit on dungeon synth as a genre. I’m actually quite a fan as previous reviews will show.Continue reading “Beauty Of The Bitter Coast by Pathworn Pilgrim”