If free jazz, math rock, and Frank Zappa had a child, this album would be it. Complex timings, nonstandard time signatures, and polyrhythms help create a complex listening experience.
Showing posts with label experimental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experimental. Show all posts
Thursday, September 8, 2022
Friday, September 2, 2022
Nouns - WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND (August 2022) [Little Rock, AR USA] post-hardcore, screamo, experimental / noise
Initially, WHILE OF UNSOUND MIND sounds like a local hardcore / screamo album. A good one admittedly, but not necessarily anything all that unique. As the album progresses, it gradually utilizes more samples, more non-4/4 time signatures, and eventually morphs into an experimental noise album while borrow a bit from math rock, hip hop, post rock, funk metal, and other genres.
It's not the most accessible album to a casual listener. If you prefer music with an edge, complexity, and a bit of independent release rawness, you'll likely find something worthwhile here.
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Diamanda Galás - Broken Gargoyles (2022)
Released only two days ago, Diamanda Galás's Broken Gargoyles takes sounds seemingly most appropriate for an avant garde art installation, layers poetry written and recited by Georg Heym. The two poems ("Das Fieberspital" and "Die Damonen der Stadt") fit the ambient sounds, creating an experience in line with what one would expect at a meeting of broken gargoyles.
Not an easy listen, but offers quite a bit for those willing to keep an open mind to the experimental and avant garde fringe of music.
Bandcamp / Internet Archive
Thursday, August 11, 2022
How to Disappear Completely - Aural Stream (August 2022)
How to Disappear Completely's Aural Stream released last Thursday (August 4th, 2022). This album's core consists lf ambient, drone, and ethereal sounds. The influence of post-rock and shoegaze can be heard throughout.
Definitely worth p picking up!
Friday, July 22, 2022
Jurgen Reiter - Dead on Arrival: A Junktime Journal (2009)
Tom Waits toured with Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention back in the 1970s. Waits was still most of a decade away from the release of Swordfishtrombones, which aligns with Zappa's late career shift to the serious classical compositions he wanted to make.
This album is what I'd imagine if Zappa's Jazz from Hell and the Waits & Burroughs collaboration The Black Rider were a single coherent album.
Bandcamp rarely lets me down with it's recommendations. This is no exception. Definitely pick it up on Bandcamp!
BANDCAMP / YOUTUBE / INTERNET ARCHIVE
Sunday, July 17, 2022
Negativland - True/False (2019)
Negativland is a group of artists from the West Coas known for social commentary and political sound collages. True False covers mental heuristics, politics, social media, global warming, and other modern topics, while avoiding the typical Democrat or Republican bashing.
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