Author Archives: birddog

https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/the-fat-american-freeway Genre: Spoken Word / Comedy Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 13, 2021 This dude’s hatred for America and Americans is only rivaled by his love for all things Australian. He’s got us seppos pegged. Hilarious and essential listening.

https://therealdarkmatter.bandcamp.com/album/incongruous-inamorata Genre: Spoken Word / Horror Rating: 2/5 This had so much potential but the artist had to make it longer than King Kong’s Ding Dong. There’s about 45 minutes of five star material lost in this mess too. So sad 😭

https://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/album/natural-wonders Genre: Slushwave Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 7, 2021 This album accomplishes a lot. Ambient-drone seems to be showing signs of having run its course. And similarly vapor in its common form seems to be spinning its wheels. But this album gives the listener the engaging mindfully aware peacefulness of great ambient musicContinue reading “Natural Wonders by MindSpring Memories”

https://doekraw.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-at-de-ruimte Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 Oh boy this is good! All four tracks tie together in a cohesive whole and there’s more cohesiveness throughout. There’s more than one way to skin a cat but a lot of free jazz philosophically strips away at the ego to pay deference to the whole. That’s what weContinue reading “Sunday at De Ruimte by Frank Rosaly, Marta Warelis, Aaron Lumley, John Dikeman”

https://fireoverheaven.bandcamp.com/album/laura-ortman-1-17-2019 Genre: Avant-garde Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 5, 2021 Ortman is, in my opinion, the hottest violinist on the scene right now. She’s skilled, experimental, aggressive, and most importantly intensely engaging. This has dissonance that leans into Penderecki. It’s a single twenty minute live track, and a Fire Over Heaven release. I’d loveContinue reading “LAURA ORTMAN 1/17/2019 by LAURA ORTMAN”

https://fireoverheaven.bandcamp.com/album/mette-rasmussen-nate-wooley-5-16-2019 Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp May 5, 2021 Wooley on trumpet and Rasmussen on alto sax. Rasmussen is heavily influenced by Ayler but the playing by both musicians feels more like it’s coming from the Don Cherry camp on this recording. There’s one thirty minutes track. At times it’s minimalistically quietContinue reading “METTE RASMUSSEN & NATE WOOLEY 5/16/2019 by METTE RASMUSSEN & NATE WOOLEY”

https://growing-music.bandcamp.com/album/diptych Genre: Drone Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp April 30, 2021 Two old buddies from Brooklyn by way of Olympia that have been at it for a long time with a certain amount of success have made a solid recording here. Two guitars ran through the stuff to make the droning sounds and indeed asContinue reading “Diptych by GROWING”

https://eyevyberecordz.bandcamp.com/album/star-maps Genre: Space Guitar Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 30, 2021 With absolute certainty I can say this will be on my 2021 AOTY list. Constructed with echo pedal electric guitar sounds to mind bending psychedelic effect soulful and hypnotic. This is my first run in with ML that I remember but I seeContinue reading “Star Maps by Matt LaJoie”

https://liquidlibrary.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-not-your-body Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 29, 2021 An excellent compilation of music on the avant-garde of sound released by LL with the beautiful stated purpose of non-binary liberation.

https://entopticaudio.bandcamp.com/album/ea01-the-void-of-space Genre: Stoner Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 28, 2021 One minutes and twenty-three seconds into this and I was falling in love. The grooves are hypnotic and empowering. It made me yell hell yeah because it hits the fucking spot yo.

https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/raaswater Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 Watkins creates a field recoding style subtle and often quiet avant garde album. Raaswater is sonically engaging with lots of different sounds that almost become visual because they are so vivid and explicit.

https://parlourtapes.bandcamp.com/album/galloping-through-a-wormhole Genre: Psychedelic Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 23, 2021 Unbelievably, I’m probably the first to be telling you that this is music you must hear. Unique, compelling, beautiful, hopeful, sincere, brilliant. A covid lockdown bedroom production by Chicago based Zach Moore this jams in a way that made me list as such inContinue reading “Galloping Through A Wormhole by ZM”

https://unfathomless.bandcamp.com/album/insects-are Genre: Field Recording Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 23, 2021 Nature sounds looped and overlapped seamlessly to create a soothing engaging and surreal (in the most exact use of the word) music. This is a profoundly realized musical achievement built on electroacoustic concepts developed by the early pioneers in the mid toContinue reading “insects are by Masayuki Imanishi”

https://pupilslicer.bandcamp.com/album/mirrors Genre: Extreme Metal Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp March 12, 2021 This has all the ingredients plus the special sauce. Wild time signatures and intense sonic brutality. There’s so much metal at this point it’s almost an intangible or something ineffable about what makes a metal record special. What hasn’t been done a millionContinue reading “Mirrors by PUPIL SLICER”

https://purpsounds.bandcamp.com/album/pierre-cardos-wild-adventure-chopped-and-screwed Genre: Screwston Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 22, 2021 I’m not gonna lie. I’ve never heard the album being chopped and screwed here but I found a review on Stereogum and I learned it was a 2018 release. It’s got a cool trap sound that purpberry seems to have expertly manipulated. I saidContinue reading “Pierre & Cardo’s Wild Adventure (Chopped and Screwed) by dj purpberry”

https://mellomusicgroup360.bandcamp.com/album/bushido Genre: Hip Hop Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 2, 2021 This is an all star collaboration – compilation- collective mix tape type of thing from powerhouses on MMG. It’s full of lyrical gems. “if you acting like my people doing well you need a cat scan / they sell us to the prisonContinue reading “Bushido by Mello Music Group”

https://enmossed.bandcamp.com/album/coatcheck Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp July 2, 2020 Just found this today even though it’s an older release I should’ve known about. Hypnotic. Kinda drone kinda dark ambient but too much of its own style to really say with certainty. First record to frighten me in quite a while.

https://silentorchestra1.bandcamp.com Genre: Neo-Classical Rating: 5/5 These artists have apparently done a lot of good work but this is the first time it’s crossed my path. Program music representing the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Everybody has so much Lovecraft mania recently I’m glad to hear a posse for Poe. These are real deeply thought outContinue reading “Poe – A Dream Within a Dream by Silent Orchestra”

https://nlart.bandcamp.com/album/april-outro Genre: New Age Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp April 16, 2021 An EP’s worth of gentle piano compositions recorded in the close up macro style to catch the percussion of the felt preparation. The last track has a little progression that sounds like When You Wish Upon A Star.

https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/album/landfill-totems Genre: Electroacoustic Drone Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2021 Very disciplined and respectful of traditions while simultaneously expressing a unique two decades into the twenty first century voice. My soggy mind doesn’t remember coming across this artist previously but I’m certainly inclined to check out his earlier material. Only the track SegenContinue reading “Landfill Totems by Hainbach”

https://benvida.bandcamp.com/album/damaged-particulates Genre: Electroacoustic Drone Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp October 20, 2016 Borrows effectively from the traditions of Stockhausen and Young while successfully expressing Vida’s unique voice.

https://tigerbloodtapes.bandcamp.com/album/–5 Genre: Slushwave Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 16, 2021 This is a little different than what I typically associate with slushwave. Often it’s mysterious or on the listeners to determine what the instrumentations come from. Mostly, I think of it as production process and often I’m left unsure if it’s a long sampleContinue reading “きょうの天気 by 天気予報”

https://underwater-computing.bandcamp.com/album/takecareofu Genre: Slushwave Rating: 3/5 released on bandcamp April 16, 2021 A short, pleasant, non-imposing release. Block out your neighbors without harshing your mellow.