Noveller – Red Rainbows
[No Fun Productions, 2009]
genre: experimental, ambient, noise, minimal, drone
album review by [thezeroeffect]
Noveller is the recording project of Sarah Lipstate. Lipstate, who has created music with One Umbrella, Parts & Labor, Sands, Cold Cave, Rhys Chatham, and Glenn Branca, she is also a photographer and filmmaker. I had no knowledge of her, up until a couple of months ago when I ran into a review of this record at some site or blog. The thing that got my attention really was the No Fun Productions written right next to the artist & record name. If Carlos Giffoni likes this, it must be good. And it is good. Noveller’s music is basically guitar based noise , but if you expect something harsh & raw you are wrong. Noveller shows a great ability to control & manipulate noise wisely. The record opens with “Rainbows” which starting from a simple drone, it quickly develops into a massive multilayered song before leading to “Brilliant Colors” which is great noise song, simpler but noisier than the first one. From the next song “St. Powers” things calm down and the music becomes more delicate, without losing any interest of cource. “Tunnels” continues in that sort of way but gaining some more noise before leading to the final song “Bends” in which Carlos Giffoni makes a cameo & his contribution is easily recognized. All & all this is a fine piece of cosmic noise music, and fans of Emeralds, Stellar Om Source or even Tim Hecker will appreciate.
the album
Red Rainbows 2009
links
http://www.myspace.com/noveller
http://www.nofunproductions.com/
Tracklisting :
1. Rainbows
2. Brilliant Colors
3. St. Powers
4. Tunnels
5. Bends (feat. Carlos Giffoni)
[thezeroeffect]
O Sasu Ripatti επιστρέφει ως Vladislav Delay δύο χρόνια μετά το καταπληκτικό ηλεκτρονικό ambient ύμνο του το “Whistleblowe” (http://noiz.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/vladislav-delay-%E2%80%93-whistleblower/) , δίσκο που λάτρεψα για την τελειότητα της σύνθεσης του και την μουσική του ορθότητα. Ένα 100% ηλεκτρονικό δημιούργημα χωρίς καμία προσθήκη φυσικού μουσικού οργάνου.
Dark, hypnotic ambient drone from Trevor De Brauw of Pelican and Kyle Benjamin, guitarist of Unfortunaut. Reminds me Thisquietarmy, Sunn 0))) and Nadja. Experimental distorted music in a noisy way. “Chord” is a minimalist guitar/noise drone collection that has enough ambience, as well as rough edges, to be a superlative and transcendent listen. Their music is not strange, weird or difficult to be listened. Actually is a post-something atmospheric ambient thing. The sound comes out by four guitarists unite in notes to play a single chord! So that’s their name! I do like them a lot and I think fans of Tim Hecker, Grouper, Troum and the bands I mentioned above, will like them a lot. So there are no vocals, no drums, no samples, no electronics or bass, just the guitars of Kyle Benjamin, Trevor de Brauw, Jason Hoffman, and Phil Dole. Sounds interesting, ethereal, musical, calm, sober, shrill, faint and out of this world. 
The drone-shoegaze-doom project led by former Godflesh front man Justin Broadrick has been expanding the boundaries of metal-gaze since 2003. This four-track ‘Opiate Sun’ EP is on Mark Kozelek’s label, Caldo Verde. This release is the first studio recording to feature the frresh lineup of Broadrick, Dave Cochrane and Phil Petrocelli. It follows 
Angry electric noise rock! These freaks are wacky, frantic and appear as masked people on stage. From an interview in chronic youth I read this: “What makes White Mice any different from a band like Lightning Bolt or The Locust? It’s simple: you can hear layers of industrial noise, black metal, doom and otherworldly influences that really set them apart from the pack.”, and I think that’s true.
I met this band some months ago because of a 
The duo from Bristol, UK strikes again one year after the fantastic “Street Horrrsing”. This time the album’s title is “tarot sport” and if someone liked them from their previous album he will going to love them with this one.
Nuggies a have a released a new ep entitled The Sound of Explosions from the Northeast . The EP is being released by Gorilla Ointment and is also being distributed for free via the internet.
This is the debut album for this Polish band. The band is the brainchild of the duo Michal Sliwa and Jarek Lesklewicz, who perform all instruments, samples and production. They perform really well and their metal is quite experimental. Their mood is dark, experimental and doomy. Their music is really interesting and I found some special and really inspired sounds inside their compositions. This album is ambitious and this band is promising. The music is full of ambient soundscapes and there is a fantastic drone atmosphere. This band is trying to go forward and the atmosphere is dark like the most of these kind of artists but its much more creative than others so it makes the 76 minutes pass really easy. The release is in 500 copies limited CD digipack edition. Their sound is psychedelic, I can’t really describe it as a metal release, but the doom metal and drone metal influence is the strongest around. The album mastered by James PLotkin (Isis, Khanate, Pelican). Fantastic fresh and influenced modern kind of slow metal. Try to listen to this band and found out this release to buy it. I can say this album is one of the best among the others in this experimental and modern kind of drone doom metal. Fantastic sounds, I said that again but there are fantastic sounds spreading around the album. Fantastic point of view, Releases of a great combination between metal and ambient sounds. I am proud of them. 
I think this is the sixth time I wrote for this band only this year (2009). And this is the 8th or the 9th release of them for 2009. What else to say, collaborations, compilations, live, old covers, full length albums, 12”inch, EP, remixes and singles. Here are all the other 2009 nadja posts of this blog: 
This is a great chance to meet 13 new bands around the music genres of post-metal, post-rock and ambient. There are some great songs which some of them can make the difference in the near future. Check this compilation and choose your favorites. I think you can find interesting compositions and fresh ideas around here. Remember the names and check them in 
Feedback guitars and an Isis join Tool and meet Boris sound!! Some tracks in this album remind me the feelings I had when I first listened to Tool’s awesome tracks from Lateralus and AEnima. Arnold which is the whole band produces an unbelievable clean sound. The music production is fantastic. The album is one of the best progressive releases of the year. I met the project through 
Koffing is a pokemon character… And this small EP has music driven out some pokemon stories… Experimental industrial sounds mixed with noises and drones. Three tracks of inspirations or three scary, dark and murky compositions. Nine minutes to get to know this new band. This mini cd is free delivered via internet from their record company murky. Have a try, they worth it. 
“I am you we are” is a new Swedish band and Masquerade is their first well promise ep. Their sound is close to dark music but it’s not exactly darkwave, it’s close to pop but not pop-driven, and of course it’s close to ethnic and world music. I believe that generally the word “experimental” is what really describes it as a music genre. This EP is especially “strange” and I believe that deserves something more than a try. This is not a “normal” band, as they introduce to their music non usual instruments, like the flute, the accordion and the traditional djembe.
20 Buck Spin’s press release statement said : “The idea for a collaboration between Canada’s prolific neo-doom duo Nadja (
The French metal scene is one of the best in the world. The modern metal scene, even with black metal, sludge or hardcore and post music bands is truly in very high standards in this central European country. This band, which is actually a project and this is their first ever release as a 4 track extended play cd. Their music is similar with Overmars, Rosetta, Russian Circles, Cult of Luna and Isis. A modern kind of metal, fulfilled with electronics and ambient noises, under screams and harsh vocals and over the huge guitars and bass lines(followed by endless distortions). Heavy metal with a meta modern approach. This is the new European metal point of view. I think this band can be the leader in the genre. I think these 4 tracks are some of the best ever tracks in the genre of sludge metal, in this dirty and noisy part of hardcore metal. Excellent ambient metal, a dream mix of doom metal, ambient electronica, hardcore, epic metal, black metal and experimental noise. This music is not an encyclopedia of genres; it is a collage of my best dreams. This is the most atmospheric (also dirty, sludgy, dreamy and inspired) hardcore release the last years. Excellent blackish vocals, over noisy doom riffs, under electronic noises from the background and an unbelievable music structure. Try to buy it. It could be classic. 
As the press release info says: “Sharing a similarly bleak ground to Corrupted, Sunn 0))) and Earth, New Zealand’s Black Boned Angel return with their fourth full length album ‘Verdun’, and perhaps their most sombre and fully-realised work to date.” This is Campbell Kneale’s drone metal project. I am a fan of Birchville cat motel -the other solo project of him-and I was really expecting this one. The result is fantastic, an awesome dark ambient masterpiece and a drone doom metal fuss. This man is creating really progressive music, his noise is unreachable, his mind is genius and this album is again one of the best ever drone metal releases and maybe one of the most inspirational ever dark ambient(under huge noise passages) albums…. It is like a battle!
Just like 2 years ago “A sunny day in Glasgow” produces an experimental kind of pop music. As I said at that time they produce “
Fresh! Just this word characterizes them! FRESH! Excellent and experimental! What an album… this is a garage noise pop myth!!!! I can’t describe it with words. Nathan Williams is the band and Zach Hill (Hella) on the drum set and the noise energy full our ears. It is an excellent work. Half an hour of open minded compositions, noise, screams and damn shit good stuff. This album is quite experimental but it can be easy listening by lots of music searchers, like fans of garage, experimental noise, ambient, post-punk, noise rock, electro and e-grind. Garage and punk attitude, noise and tech-noise sounds, experimental compositions, crazy vocals… what else, it could be one of my favorites. It is great!!! My opinion is that Wavves prove that some people can move music forward. The experiment of this band is quite successful. The music is extreme and their sound is meta-modern and heavy progressive. I think is the first time I can say that there is a melody inside their noise… wonderful. 
This 12inch vinyl recorded after Nadja moved to Germany. The record which was recorded in Berlin, with artwork done by a Swedish living in Berlin ( www.hlg.se ) , on two Berlin based labels ( adagio830 & vednetta ) is in front of us. ‘Clinging to the Edge of the Sky’ is not the usual Nadja record.
Greymachine is a projet of Justin Broadrick (Jesu, Final, Godflesh) in collaboration with Dave Cochrane (Head Of David, God, Ice), Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu, Godflesh) and Aaron Turner (Isis). Again and again Justin reviewed in this blog. I can’t understand where this guy find time for all these superbands and all the projects and collaborations he is a part of. Anyway this record is a super wow record. Broadrick is back to his lovely experimental but noisy shit. This sound is brilliant; this is what he can do. This band could be awesome. The album is the origin of ambient metal, this is the definition of noisy sludge, this is experimental shoegaze, no one can play this kind of noisy drone metal. This is a mix of rock, electronica, noise and metal. My head is exploded. Fantastic drone noise, excellent FX, awesome soundscapes, interesting hardcore drums, dirty guitars, never ending distortions, fantastic minds, great harsh vocals (Aaron). I can’t say anything else, if you like ambient metal, if you miss the Angelic Process and Overmars, if you like Earth, Grouper, Nadja, Tribes of Neurot and Tim Hecker, if you appreciate old Godflessh and original Jesu and if you try to remember and put in your mind bands like Fear Falls Burning, Troum, Black Boned Angel, Burning Star Core and Birchville Cat Motel under a Khanate or an Isis prism then you have this super album. This project is Einstürzende Neubauten of sludge, it is Yellow Swans and Noxagt of metal, This is a scream, this is truly loud. This is post, this is modern, this is meta music under no illusions, behind hallucinations and in front of its time, this sound is progressive. I think this album could be the spot of the year! It’s an industrial noisy atmospheric doomy music. FANTASTIC
As I read from Justin’s blog: “Full album length song ‘Infinity’ on Avalanche Recordings (AREC017), written, recorded and mixed early 2009, with all instruments by Justin K Broadrick. ‘Infinity’ is the most expansive and organic jesu release to date, here JKB revisits his roots of heavy guitar driven music yet still retaining the ethereal atomsphere / soundscape of modern jesu.” Again a heavy Jesu release, a dark atmosphere and a strong music dimension. As I already said many times before 
Master Musicians of Bukkake is an experimental project of 7 people. two of them are members of Earth and the others have members/collaborators of Sun City Girls, Sunn O))), Secret Chiefs 3 , Boris and Grails. Their music is an experimental psychedelic trip over guitars, crazy strings and percussion. Their name reminds or brings in mind porno practices and extreme sex habits. Bukkake is a practice that has to do with ejaculation and drinking!!! Anyway, a great respect to these crazy minds that pick up this name for the band. This album is the first out of a trilogy they are going to release. Avant garde progressive music. Try it.
Fall of Efrafa 
‘0130’ is modern metal under an epic instrumental composition structure, with massive riffs and driving rhythms on the bass lines and the drum sessions. This is a limited 300 copies vinyl edition. The innovative thing from this band is that they use a lot of sounds from synths! Their music is similar with Cult of luna’s or Torche’s , but on the other hand is more epic and specifically more psychedelic. A great idea and a fresh modern and post-metal release that it could be something after a lot of years. Give a try to them!
I loved this project years ago with the album 
Aaron Turner and Justin Broadrick (these guys never stop) working together, that’s awesome!!! 2 tracks of noise-ambient industrial music and a promising album coming out this summer (2009). Fantastic tracks, awesome noise, great work, compositions full of ideas, ambient and noises. This EP and I think the forthcoming album; will be perfect for fans of the Angelic Process, Godflesh, Alec Empire, Einsturzende Neubauten, Ministry, Swans, Genghis Tron, Khanate and other extreme experimental but always atmospheric acts. This music is progressive, these sounds are avant-garde, you may gain a lot of things after the listening of these tracks. This is post music and maybe one of the most original compositions of the last years. Drums, synths, noise, brutal and harsh vocals, electronics, dark, ambient, dust, stoned and fly away with this 12”. Don’t miss it. I really expect the album in some days…
Do you like drone music or modern psychedelic? Do you like bands like Natural Snow Building, Growing, Earth and Wooden Wand? Do you like cold music under a hot burning blanket? Do you like trips and dreams? Do you really like blues under a postmodern manner? If the answer is yes, just stay here… Slow tempos, sand inside your eyes, a desert in front of you and then a high snowed mountain. Rocks and water tumble down. Their music is psychedelic and something like slowcore. Experimental drones and slow motion guitars. I think they produce really good music. They sound to me original and innovative. Great job! Weird, deep, mystic, eerie, this music is uncanny. The album is strange but beautiful and sounds fully inspired. Dark ballads, scary music, closing eyes, slow rhythms and murder atmosphere. From Texas to New York… a trip from the summer to the winter. Hot and cold, scalding and frozen… enjoy and get inside of it. This music is progressive, this album (oh what a great mosaic floor in the cover…!!!) is beautiful. 
Noisy soundscapes that can thrill your brain. “White Static Demon is a new Justin K Broadrick project for which he has been working on recordings for over one year. Again, like Council Estate Electronics, White Static Demon was inspired by Justin collecting and compiling material from Final cassette releases on his Post Mortem Rekordings label circa 1984-87”( http://justinkbroadrick.blogspot.com/). An album full of extreme noises, drones and experimental electronics. An abstract electro drone distortion. This is extreme and this is experimental. It is a new release which has been inspired by old material. I really enjoy it because it is a noisy ambient trip. Dreamy and gloomy vacations offered to my brain. Jump up and then dive into an extreme and rattle or hooting pool. 
Jonathan Dakers himself send me an email in order to make his work known to more people through our blog, this is also our politic and our point of view about music promotion and distribution. I have already listened to this album months ago, but I was always delaying this review, that was a mistake. It was a mistake, because it is a great album of drone sounds under a post background. These guys from Auckland, New Zealand make really good music. Ethereal ambient sounds, drones and noises with a post-rock and an experimental attitude. Their music is heavy and sometimes comes close to post-metal and drone doom releases. In general it is an experimental try with an extreme sound profile and excellent distortions and experiments. Some times relaxing others extreme but always beautiful and original.
“Justin Broadrick has always made music which could one day serve as a soundtrack to the end of the world, should we ever need one. Whether with Godflesh or Jesu [click here for other noiz post about: 
This is a Digitalis Limited 2008 release, but back then, it was in an audio cassette version and in a limited edition. This year it comes out in a vinyl release from Dekorder. Two ambient tracks, full of experimentalisms and noises. 40 minutes of trips and dark memories. Track No1 ‘Black Scripture’ is very atmospheric and really experimental, it is a great composition from the band and I think is my favorite. Dark and gloomy, noisy and a bit dreamy. This track is the ambient, chilly part of the vinyl. Track No 2 ‘Gilted Rose’ it isn’t so atmospheric like the previous one, but is more mysterious and really black and scary. There’s a distant black metal style evil vocal that appears to possess your mind. It is recommended to fans of drone, ambient, noise and maybe black metal. It is the dark and black metal part of the vinyl and it can contradict to great dark ambient and atmospheric black metal bands. Great try from the band. Check out the previous releases of them. 
A dark and cloudy release, a relaxing sound, an ambient music picture, all these together can result this album. The use of German language in the lyrics makes it darker to me and gives to it a folk and traditional dimension. Christoph Ziegler who is the guy behind this project, proves that his inspiration is abyssal or something like bottomless. 
Idyllic music, sometimes with beats and drums others just like a pure melody, an ambient soundscape. Pandora’s Black Book is a project of Lucidstatic, actually is the Alaskan composer James Church. This is a well done album, nice production and an intelligent kind of ambient sounds. A really complicated release flies from dance vibes to experimental passages, and goes through ambient seas to noise cloudy skies. This isn’t a pure ambient album, because there are, as I said, a lot of different sound lines and music origins. I think it is a well composed album and is really interesting and sweet to listen to it in summer days. Electronic experimentalisms from a well established new label with a lot of interesting releases. Quite atmospheric and sometimes high level ambient music can fly you away. In here there is a dream that can be ideal and really beautiful as never before. Enjoy. 
Heavy sounds and hot icons… Two progressive and modern post-metal songs and a passage like an ambient/noise, terror experimental…bridge ‘between’ them. The compositions they made are fantastic, maybe they create one of the most interesting sludge metal tracks I’ve listened so far this year. If you like slow post or doom metal bands, with experimentalisms and clever structure here is the band you’re looking for. I really enjoy listening this EP again and again, there something intelligent in their minds. They already support bands like Neurosis, Storm Of Light, Cult Of Luna, Vader and The Ocean, so it is obvious to understand what is their style!! The track ‘Impulse’ is the heaviest, classic sludge, post-hardcore attitude, hoarse vocals and energy, huge energy with a heavy and angry attitude. Fantastic metal! Track number two ‘between’, is a great atmospheric ambient track, full of electronica vibes and noise creepy sounds. ‘Distant Earths’ is a totally different track. It starts like an ethnic myth, like a slow and atmospheric ambient chill out track for lounge bars in a beach and continues with a brit pop attitude which concludes to a doom metal aggressive and black cry. This track is maybe one of the best songs recorded from a band in central Europe the last decades… I think their style change from their last record on 2008, ‘Blindead – autoscopia / murder in phazes’ and they develop a new totally different sound style, a slowcore, an ambient metal, a post-rock myth a new progressive rock with ambient influences, brit heart and a gothic and dark atmosphere. I think they try to open their minds and include in their sound all the genre I enumerate above. Yes they mix a lot of thinks, but the result is excellent, they made it! Follow this band, in their Europe tour with Rosetta, and city of ships. (An Club, Athens, 19/06/1009)
“Crawl Back In” is a Neurosis song from their 2001’s release ‘A Sun That Never Sets’, maybe the most ambiguous release of the band, but, in my opinion, their most atmospheric and psychedelic album. So this first element makes me to sympathy the band from the beginning (as they get influenced to name their band, from a favourite band like Neurosis). Martin from ‘Crawl Back In’ has sent to noiz their new EP, which they are going to release it for free (check myspace page), and to be honest I am very happy for that(he send us). The EP has 3 songs, 3 long-play songs, aggressive, hardcore and dark. The Swedish play an aggressive, hardcore and experimental post-metal. Their metal is influenced by Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Knut and Old Man Gloom, but they have something really dark and shitty inside their compositions. The vocals are excellent and fully experimental. Screams, black metal howls, brutal whines, death hoarseness and experimental squalls. Their rhythm is slow and doomy, and their music structure is scaled. The mix of all these kinds of vocals with the aggressive attitude and the huge riffs from the guitars makes the band really interesting; their sludge metal is quite modern and heavy. I think I will be a fan of them directly. 
Strange music in a mathcore way. Intelligent passages and difficult parts. Here is the difference, the Heartland make this heavy, strange and insane music a bit more acceptable and digestible (for the ears). John from the band sent us their album and I found it really interesting. I think their music is really modern and their music structure quite clever. Experimental music with a variety of sounds and melodies(sometimes you can’t use the word melody for them, but anyway). Experimental vocals, screams, death, brutal and emo, clean and clear. Fantastic drum sessions and heavy parts, slow riffs and again speed, acceleration and –core parts. Their music is technical but they are not loosing the harmony and the atmospheres. Nice sounds, aggressive attitude and for sure more melodic than the dillinger escape plan, or other mathcore bands (architecs, psyopous etc). No way to categorise them like that. They promote a death-jazz-experimental and in any way intelligent and technical metal profile. They combine different and difficult genres, they are interesting and you have to give them a try. 
The album starts with something from Mastodon’s previous releases… and then there are diffused some psychedelic atmospheres and a lot of clean vocals. The album sounds heavy and it is, but in the end there is a softer, more post-rock sound, scattered around. In some parts I can’t believe it is Minsk. I think Grails and some other more psychedelic and experimental bands can be linked there. All this criticisms are not planned to harm the band’s compositions and inspiration. I think the album is more interesting than the previous one, but from another point of view, a bit more alternative and experimental. This is not doom metal like before; this is post-metal, experimental rock, progressive something or just alternative metal. For sure there is a sludge sound inside the noise of the guitars and this is the base of their music structure. Sometimes when I listen to a record and I can’t have a direct opinion for it from the beginning, it results to a great and classic album (for me). I spend days per days to understand this album, and I started to like it after the 10th-15th try. So I think it could be one of my favorite (again). There is a great turn for the band, but maybe is for good. I think this style they have in this work is really interesting and this kind of experimentalism is great and innovative. I also think the title of the release hit the bull’s eye, and maybe there is a definition of their point of view: Echoes from stones… 
Human Bell – human bell 
Aerial – the legion of dynamic dischord EP 
From the Sky – a warm place with no memory 
Last year I have been impressed with the experimental live performance Sunn did in Norway (
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Various artists – Trashfuck 1.2
Slackly and without remorse heavy guitar riffs. This band is the British version of Neurosis. Slow motion doom metal and experimental passages. Modern metal and a more alternative seeing of the compositions. Crazy, it is insane, really noisy and industrial metal sound. Ohh my Lord… this is heavy and shitty. Fantastic, huge, unreal, fabled, fancy, incredible ambient metal. They are influenced by Neurosis, but this is the right thing. This is a noisy meta-modern metal. I think this is THE album that I seek for lot of years. A mix of the Angelic Process with Neurosis, Isis and Electric Wizard and a smack of My Dying Bride, Cult of Luna, Corrupted and Cursed, in the end there is a refreshment of Sunn 0))) and Nadja… One of the best crusty hardcore metal releases ever.
Antique Brothers are Connecticut-bred brothers Cy and Ged Gengras who instead of the ordinary sibling squabbling have focused on producing music.
Thanks to Damian from the band for sending in their album ‘Alchera’. This release is quite strong. I find out influences from all around the extreme genres of rock and metal. This is a metalgaze release, really experimental and truly inspired. It is their debut full length album. Damian used to work as a solo project but this year there is a full member band over there. 42 minutes of noisy modern metal recorded at Head Gap Studios by Neil Thomason in the heat waves of Melbourne and mastered from the post and noisy albums master, James Plotkin (Isis, Khanate, Burning Witch, Pelican, Earth). All this things together with the Label, Denovali, offer us a great mix of influences, profile, image and attitude. I really respect this label, I strongly respect Mr Plotkin and I really fall in this album. I dive deep in the waters of the Ausies. Excellent guitar riffs and drone doom atmosphere. I think this album could be one of my favourite. Industrial fuss, grief, turmoil and rattle mixed together. I can affiliate them with bands such as Jesu, Bossk, Rosetta, Cable, Black Boned Angel, Conifer, Electric Wizard and Khanate, but at the end they are more atmospheric and melodic from all the above. . A combination of sludgy, dusty, doomy, gloomy, and dirty metal with experimental ambient and noisy passages. Great job. 
Mick Flower is an unbelievable good player of this special Japan banjo named as “Shaahi Baaja”. Chris Corsano is probably the best drummer in the world. Their collaboration started in 2007 with “The Radiant Mirror” which was a very special psychedelic noisy album.
Subheim is the deeply personal project of electronic music composer and visual artist Kostas K., a downtempo, experimental venture fusing IDM elements with rich ambiance and female vocals by Katja. This release gives us excellent sounds. Ambient music mixed with melodic dance electronic vibes. Great music and easy listening soundscapes. Clever compositions and attractive or maybe ticklish beats. The vocals trip you away… this is the most atmospheric electronic album of the last years. Excellent job from the artist. An orchestra of vibes, ambiences and dreams. a melodic safe dream, a new dimension of ambient, a new kind of easy listening electronica. 
The launch of the new Anarthria cdr series finds the More Mars team digging deeper into the fields of obscure sounds. The first instalment finely titled “La Formula Secreta de la Coca-Cola” is the effort of Fiesta Animal, a collective of artists from Uruguay who use percussion, tapes and murky noisy sounds to create ‘genuine’ lo-fi loops and rhythmic patterns. The record contains some nice examples of how the cassette lo-fi underground of the previous decades is still thriving: repeated percussive elements, noisy clamor and mumbled vocals allocated between some ‘proper’ tracks and a few other skits. I’d say that “La Formula…” bears some resemblance to the new weirdo-diy-no wave stuff that’s currently coming out of the US with groups like Wavves, Lucky Dragons et al., although some tracks (especially those containing some metallic percussion) took me almost 30 years back, to some Neubauten songs, circa Kollaps (Jet’m etc.). Pure, spontaneous fun…
The second release in the Anarthria series comes from Spain: Muso Fantasma is a duo who managed to create a really unclassifiable record. “Se Puede Bailar Con Los Demonios Pero Siempre En Actituo De Fiesta” (yeah, that’s quite a long title…) is a mixture of sound collages, with elements ranging from dark haunting passages (Ciudad Juarez), cheapo keyboard tangos (Tango Maldito), to spoken word blended with noisy backgrounds (like Mente Terrenal, reminding the soundtracks of some early 80s Richard Kern short films, by Foetus, Thurston Moore, etc.), and Ghost Box-like retro sounds. Well, I wish I could understand the spanish texts; the mysterious and decadent atmosphere and the theatrical, dramatic ambience created by the sounds is really promising… Although it would take more than one or two listens to get into it, it surely grasps your attention.
KTL is a duo made up of Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O))), Khanate) and Editions Mego head Peter Rehberg (Pita). In the compositions of IV, O’Malley’s doom riffs are more out front and centre and Rehberg’s tense electro-mind make the atmosphere of IV chillingly bleak. 
This is a happy indie album that can bright your face and fulfilled you with smiles and beams. A neo pop release with an orchestral attitude. The Canadian post music style is diffused around the sounds of the album. Multiple drummers, electronica, tickling guitars and experimental rock glances. The atmosphere is like ‘do make say think’ releases, the guitars are quite happier, the ambiences are huge and the experimental desire is intelligent. A great album by some great musicians. This is quality music and your ears can feel quite well. Just try if you like alternative music, try it if you like post modern music, try it if you like folk and cabaret music, and give it a chance if you are into POP music… sweet and atmospheric pop. Belle & Sebastian, of Montreal, Islands, Arcade fire and the Unicorns.
