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Review Reblog and Today’s Discovery – Kamura Obscura – Kamura Obscura Speleology

I wondered what had happened to the Frank Chickens and here is the answer. On the Christmas download list : )

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Artist: Kamura Obscura
title: Kamura Obscura Speleology
keywords: Japan, Noise, Improvisation, experimental

In Japan they have had a little accident with a tsunami and a nuclear power plant, after that the things simply haven’t been the same. From making it difficult for foreign visitors the country has switched to an easy going free visa on arrival, creating a stream of tourists ready to be exposed to free nuclear radiation in the air, food, drinks and hosts. The easier access of the country and the free radiation are only two of the positive effects of the drastic worst ones. They say you have to view everything on a bright side and so we ignore the terrible waste still streaming into the ocean and in the air, focusing on positive mutations not only turning lizards into Godzillas that pop up along the coast line, but also artists seem to be heavily infected.

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Review Reblog – Svetlana Maraš and Bodies Under The Waterfall ~ Angry Ambient Artists Vol. 2

Yes, you can be an angry ambient artist and this expresses the mood at the moment.
“What to do with all this anger?  The healthiest approach is to channel it into something positive” – Couldn’t agree more.

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fwd16_frontThere’s been a lot of news to be angry about this year, from terrorism to Brexit to the U.S. presidential elections to the ongoing crisis in Syria.  What to do with all this anger?  The healthiest approach is to channel it into something positive, which Svetlana Maraš and Bodies Under The Waterfall do in the second installment of Forwind’s Angry Ambient Artists series ~ ironically, once again ending up in the Drone category.  As the series progresses, we may determine that “angry ambient” is an oxymoron, but it’s still a catchy title.

Last time around, the artists involved (Machinefabriek and Phillippe Petit) were well-known for their softer works, as well as their forays into abrasion.  This time, the artists are new, which leads one to wonder if they were ever ambient at all.  Their stated goal:  “to make some creative sense of these dark times.”  These sounds are indeed…

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Review Reblog – Stag Hare – Velvet And Bone — Yeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Stag Hare title: Velvet And Bone keywords: ambient drone electronic faery fantasy folk love magic pop psychedelic storytelling Oakland label: Inner Islands http://www.innerislands.com/ Stag Hare knows how to massage our ears with a buildup that even the most painful stiffest muscle cannot resist to become flexible with. With smooth ambiance the hearing receptors are […]

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Great to see this new project – Stag Hare – has been picked up. When I first heard this album, recommended by Sean Conrad of Inner Islands records, I was blown away by the sound, partly New Age and also what some term Now Age. It was so good to my ears , I made it my Album of the Week – 8/11//16 and was also going to be a Todays Discovery but pleased to post this YIKIS review instead.

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Review Reblog – HUMANFOBIA – Atmósfera Lívida

I can always rely on YIKIS to find the needle in the haystack that is the web and this is a great find – Sábila Orbe, Humanfobia is a dark ambient, experimental, electronic, and noise project from Rancagua, Chile.

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Artist: HUMANFOBIA
title: Atmósfera Lívida
keywords: Humanfobia, Chile, Atmospheric, Experimental, Dark Ambient, Noise, Electronic, Soundscapes

Humanphobia is a serious phobia to have, as you might know; there are a lot of humans out there. In fact they might be almost everywhere! This release with its 12 experimental atmospheric tracks are basically a look inside the mind of someone who suffers from this phobia. It’s a lonely place, sometimes it’s funny, but mostly it’s quite the fodder for paranoia and fear… Where can you hide, how is it possible to avoid the humans, how can you survive without interaction with them?

You can hear the person suffering from Humanphobia talking by herself in a corner, possibly tucked away deep in darkness, hoping that no one will see her… It’s a phobia that clearly makes lonely and one that is difficult to be understood by actual non-effected humans. Yet, if you hear…

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Review Reblog – Phantasm Nocturnes – Ehoes From The Abyss

Since it’s Halloween….

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Artist: Phantasm Nocturnes
title: Echoes From The Abyss
cat: Petroglyph 053
keywords: dark, experimental, noise, drone, ambient, psy-electronic
label: Petroglyph Music http://petroglyphmusic.com/

When the first tones crawl in your ears it’s a mist of foggy darkness. Slowly creepy electronic swamps appear where mutated frogs and other creepy crawlers are hiding out in the wet and damp environment. At the end it feels like this atmosphere has come out of an magical didgeridoo with special transporting powers. “Awakenings” is more visual than a nature program on discovery channel!

The bewildering nature of darkness shaped by the artist is not going to let you run for the nearest exit. The soundscape surrounds you and keeps you exactly where it wants you to be. Trapped in a mysterious world of abnormal darkness that is fascinating as well as it sounds dangerous. The giant depth that has been created over here feels like…

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Review Reblog – Chrissie Caulfield – Wrong Way Home — Yeah I Know It Sucks

Artist: Chrissie Caulfield Title: Wrong Way Home Keywords: violin, experimental, soundscape, live performance website: http://chrissieviolin.info/ With both my ears wide open (and I would suggest you to do the same) I pressed play on the following video featuring a performance by Chrissie Caulfield. I know it’s a video but I decided to focus on the […]

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Review Reblog – Katie Gately ~ Colors

Really recommend Katie Gately – Intelligent electro pop with an experimental edge.

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tri038_frontColor is a glorious explosion of dance beats, percussive samples, and vocal layers, close to overload, threatening to topple like a Jenga tower.  And yet, by her meticulous control and sheer force of will, Katie Gately holds it all together.  One of the decade’s most creative artists, she’s managed to translate her avant-garde visions, formerly on display in quarter-hour works, to something even the masses may appreciate.

Let’s face it: pop music is in need of an overhaul, and experimental music can be wonderful, but all too often goes unheard.  One thing that holds pop music back is the desire for a hit; one thing that holds experimental music back is the desire not to cross over.  Gately exists somewhere in the middle, simply making the music she likes.  A lifelong collector of sounds, her former work as a sound editor led her to the reorganization and presentation of sonic…

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Review Reblog – Murcof x Wagner – Statea (Infiné)

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“This is where electronic and acoustic music find the perfect balance – which is precisely what Statea represents.” – Headphone Commute

Yes. Here’s the review…

So I guess the Infiné label wasn’t just teasing us when it promised its fans a full-length album, following the announcement of the EP01 release it has put out earlier this year (April, 2016)…

Source: Murcof x Wagner – Statea (Infiné)

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Review Reblog – Midori Hirano ~ Minor Planet

Courtesy to A Closer Listen for the reblog. Recommend and well worth you click through to the other releases mentioned.

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minor-planetWe’ve always had a weakness for Sonic Pieces’ hand-stitched covers, shown below in an image borrowed from Sounds of a Tired City.  Minor Planet contains an circle on the cloth cover to represent its title, but we’re simply going to call this “the new red one.”

The iconoclastic Midori Hirano cheerfully changes her sound from album to album.  klo:yuri was an electronic album with stringed guests; the lovely Time Unbox, a collaboration with Ytamo released earlier this year, was an ambient/modern composition blend, wrapped in origami paper, containing occasional vocals.  Minor Planet travels into space, imagining galaxies and stars.  Electronics remain present, but are present more for adornment than tempo.  The one constant is Hirano’s piano, present on each album as a connective thread, or in this case like the tether between spaceship and astronaut.

sonic-pieces-collectionMore than anything, Minor Planet is an album of texture…

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Reblog / Web Focus – The Hum Blog

via joan la barbara’s voice is the original instrument reissued by arc light editions — The Hum Blog

 

Posted this before I think, but you can’t have too much of a good thing. Also recommend browsing The Hum Blog, there are loads of really interesting articles covering many aspects of Electronic, Classical, Jazz and World music and is one of the places that I begin to read, learn loads and lose the time….