Fellow guitarist and featured artist Jeff Gburek comments poignantly on George Christian’s magnificent new album: “Most of you will probably have to get off the bus and go home before it all ends. Nobody you know will probably have heard the entire album. I guess that there is a kind Continue Reading
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Flavien Gillié – I Do Think We Should Touch
From Flavien Gillié’s Bandcamp site: “Flavien Gillié is a Belgian sound artist, field recordist and producer seeking to link places, voices and memory in his work. The present album is a sublime collection of drones with an individual touch sure to please even the most jaded listener. “I spend a Continue Reading
The Last Five Minutes – Blind End Now
The ever-dependable Mahorka Records out of Bulgaria blow us away with yet another intriguing release. This one comes from a duo known as The Last Five Minutes, who hail from Italy. The music on offer here is drone-laden, with an electroacoustic base. It is experimental, but warmly so. Nothing particularly jarring was heard Continue Reading
| MA | – Lilium
Our friends at TAOASIS offer us a new release today – Lilium by ambient composer | MA |. This is not music, per se, but a series of cascading ambient drones to envelop you. Headphone music, surely.
Various Artists – Unexplained Sounds Group: Kinetic Void
It has been a while since the ever-magnificent dark ambient label Unexplained Sounds Group graced our blog. One of their recent releases, curated by Mike Borealla and label owner Raffaele Pezzella, collects bleak, mournful sound art from artists like Richard Bégin, Autistici, and Gianluca Becuzzi, among other artists.
Various Artists – The Church of Noisy Goat: 5 Year Anniversary Music Compilation
We at MYNTH offer our beloved friends in Brazil. They have been releasing dark music for an amazing five years. From their Bandcamp site: “Five years of noise, darkness, experimentation, and sonic resistance. To celebrate the 5th anniversary of The Church of Noisy Goat, we present a compilation featuring over Continue Reading
Phurpa – Ita Zor
Though perhaps Tibetan in sound, Phurpa is a Russian band that produces Tibetan overtone singing. Quite deep listening.
Heathertoes – Ludiosis
If Neu! could be recast as a more bubbly summer band specializing in a lovely, driving motorik beat, this would be as close to an apt description I could make for my dear friend Heathertoes‘ latest album. It’s got funk, healthy groove, and it even touches a bit on Krautrock, Continue Reading
Atte Elias Kantonen – Karvagraffiti Siellä Kelopuun Keskiruumiin Paikkeilla
Atte Elias Kantonen is an electroacoustic music composer from Finland who really seems to have the spirit of the original electroacoustic and experimental music genres mastered. From his Bandcamp site: “Binaural mix of the 8-channel composition commissioned by Sonic Acts for the Spatial Sound Platform, presented during The Listening Room Continue Reading
Attila Gyárfás, Bálint Bolcsó – TABBIS
From Attila Gyárfás’ Bandcamp site: “TABBIS is an hommage to Mihály Babits, one of the most influential Hungarian poets of the first half of the 20th century. We chose nine of his poems that resonated with us the most and we used them as sources of inspiration while recording the Continue Reading