Expand your taste in music. Based in Beijing, China.
Melodic Death Metal is something I don’t spend a lot of time listening to, but it is not because I don’t like the genre. It is merely because I don’t have the knowledge base or background, and I’ve relied on a few friends to turn me on to some of the better bands out there. Mongolia’s Aravt is one of them.
The band blend metal riffs with some quieter elements of Mongolian traditional music. It’s a natural-sounding blend, and worth exploring further.
Dean Wareham is someone who could be called Shoegaze royalty. He has been partnering with Britta Phillips for some time now making some fine records, but this is a different, even more interesting beast. The Spacemen 3 centerpiece Sonic Boom collaborates with […]
We have another elegant experimental/electroacoustic album by violinist Karolina Ossowska and her partner in this release, Jeff Gburek. There is a Nurse With Wound-meets-György Ligeti vibe to this release, maybe even references to Krzysztof Penderecki’s earlier avant-garde works, but given a gritty, […]