[Music] ±0 – ±0

February 15, 2018February 15, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

±0 (pronounced as plus-minus-nula) are a post-punk band out of Prague, Czech Republic. This eponymous debut was released in March of 2017. If you are a fan of this particular genre of music, especially of the sounds made by The Cure, Joy Division, The Sound or others during the 1979-1980 heyday of the genre, this album was made specifically for you in mind.

Kudos go especially to their sound engineer, who must have really studied post-punk. He managed to get the sound just right for the band. Authentic, and worth exploring further!

[Music] Hypnodial – Aether Alcoves

February 14, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Though this release isn’t breaking any radical ground musically, Hypnodial reminds me of some of the more solid ambient and electronic music releases of the late 80s and early 90s. Well done, well produced, and something quite nice to relax to.

[Music] Blake DeGraw – Electronic Duodecets for Humans

February 14, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Blake DeGraw is a very interesting multi-instrumentalist and experimental music composer and improviser out of Seattle, Washington. On this album, he is deconstructing a violin, making some terribly pleasant noise along the way.

[Music] Rafiq Bhatia – Breaking English

February 13, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

New York-based guitarist Rafiq Bhatia has an upcoming release on April 6, 2018, of what looks to be an improv masterpiece. I’m looking forward to hearing more tracks upon its entry into the marketplace.

[Music] The Thing With Five Eyes – نور

February 12, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

The Thing With Five Eyes is the new project of Jason Kohnen of the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. It’s a good-sized EP of electronic music, the aforementioned darkjazz and a touch of drum & bass besides. A worthy release.

[Music] Mediterranean Deconstruction Ensemble – Day De Senar

February 8, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

This is a magnificent find for me. The Mediterranean Deconstruction Ensemble is a solid improvisational/experimental troupe out of Moscow led by pianist Gregory Sandomirsky.

The music is a great combination of freaky jazz, Mediterranean rhythms, and Sephardic/Ladino time shifts. A very nice effort.

[Music] Katarína Máliková – Pustvopol

February 7, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

There’s not a lot of music I could compare Slovak chanteuse Katarína Máliková to. Her sound is utterly unique, and I could only imagine bands like Dead Can Dance as sharing her ethereal vibe. The instrumentation could fit somewhere comfortably between folk, fusion and Fourth World Ambient (think Jon Hassell).

For fans of these genres and of artists like Loreena McKennitt.

[Music] Air Liner – The Dream of Machine

February 6, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

Air Liner is a band out of Karachi, Pakistan who play a very dreamy, mellow, post-rock inflected bedroom pop that you can simply chill out to.

[Music] Various Artists – The B-Music of Jean Rollin 1968-1973

February 5, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

I can’t imagine a cooler soundtrack compilation than this one unless Jess Franco’s sountrack works also get reissued.

Jean Rollin was the master of sleazy Euro-horror with a career span of five decades. This comp covers some of the best partners he had in conveying a blood-splattered, gruesome, erotic, cheesy mess onscreen.

Nothing but love for Finders Keepers, who released this gem as a download as well as vinyl.

[Music] On “Concrete Desert,” The Bug and Earth’s Dylan Carlson Destroy L.A.

February 1, 2018February 1, 2018 / Rudy Carrera / Leave a comment

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Bandcamp Daily features The Bug vs. Earth, a powerful pairing of Kevin Martin’s Industrial/dub project, which has been around in one form or another since the late 1980s, and Dylan Carlson’s seminal drone rock project, Earth.

Dark, moody, cinematic post-rock. Perfect music for meditating over the crumbling Los Angeles skyline.

Read more here.