Invisible Elephant - Anomie or Swimming in a Black Sea

Invisible Elephant - Anomie or Swimming in a Black Sea

Genre: Shoegaze/Post-Rock/Dream Pop

Country: United Kingdom

Tracklist:

01. Commercial Appeal

02. Everything

03. Where is Home from Here?

04. Wish [Feat. Ryli]

05. When It's All Over

06.  Room 208

07. Do You Believe?

 08. Black Sound

09. Back in the Box

 Description: Invisible Elephant is the solo project of a UK artist who writes the songs, plays all of the instruments and records the work at home combining found sounds, hazy guitars and spectral vocals. Blending elements of post-rock, shoegaze, psychedelic rock, folk-rock and dream pop he creates an immersive sound that defies simple categorisation. Veering from softly spoken psychedelic folk to ethereal soundscapes to monolithic walls of feedback, it's difficult to pin the sound down to one genre. Following on from last year's impressive and extremely well received debut Invisible Elephant returns with 'Anomie or Swimming in a Black Sea' an album of quiet heartbreak, searing dissolution and ultimately redemption. Anomie expands and builds on the dreamlike ambient haziness sound that made The Lights Go Out an otherworldly journey and lets reality filter in. What follows is an exploration of an inner world through sound and emotion in the light of loss.
 

The indefinable nature of Invisible Elephant's music isn't really surprising given the huge influence it takes from the literary works of Haruki Murakami as well as the diverse array of subtle musical influences from Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Mogwai to Sparklehorse. This informs the sound which fuses the downbeat sincerity of freak folk with the visceral force of shoegaze and the cinematic euphoria of post-rock. The end result is music which exhibits subtlety, ferocity, discordance, melody and an acute ear for imbuing the familiar with the futuristic.

You can find Invisible Elephant music using following links:

Last.fm  | Myspace | Bandcamp | Stream

The Cunt - Happiness

The Cunt - Happiness

Genre:Ambient/Experimental/Poetry/Spoken Word

Format: mp3 | CBR192kbps  

Country: Ukraine

Size: 109 Mb

Tracklist: 

Part I - Perfect Happiness

01. Вулиця

02. Дощ

03. Колір Щастя

04. Ліс

05. Пісня 551

06. По дорозі у дощ

07. Подорожній мене запитав

08. Птахи

09. Кінець

Part II - That's pretty much the same thing

01. 01 (перший погляд в небеса)

02. IV

03. 5sm

04. О...

05. 6sm

06. VIII

07. 11 (сонце середини дня)

08. 8sm

09.  09 (народження нового дня)

10. hair IX

11. X

12. XI

13. XIII

14. hair XI

15. VIII.part 2

16.  XVI

Description: Happiness is an album, that appeared from nothing. The aim of it is happiness, even not happiness but its search. Album consists of two parts, Happiness itself (new songs) and That's pretty much the same thing (a compilation of previous works of The Cunt). Album is nervously calm, just on the edge of happiness. The idea of recording it appeared long time ago, but was realized only during the summer of 2010. First attempts of recording were made even in winter during small improvisations with Dmytro Moskalets (poet, musician, culturologist). This was Dmytro who played the piano pieces, which were parts of those improvisations (c).

You can find The Cunt music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Blogspot | Download

aiRless pRoject - Dopamine Entities

aiRless pRoject - Dopamine Entities

Genre: IDM/Electronic/Ambient

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: Macedonia

Size: 70 Mb

Tracklist:

01. you're not my shrink!

02. untitled

03. beauty fades

04. morning of remission

05. a quest for eternal calmness

06. dopamine entities

07. triggering mixed states at random times

08. my entropy is well-deserved

 Description: a continuation of a trip to Macedonian undiscovered music will lead you to aiRless pRoject - an electronic music producing one-man band. The album is primarily influenced by everyday events, and inspiration is drawn from my views of the world and the music I listened to in the period of making, that is September 2009 to February 2010. If I had to single out some artists from the bunch, I'd say Aphex Twin, Casino Versus Japan, Kettel and Boy Is Fiction from the electronic music side, and Joy Division, Sonic Youth and Shipping News from the guitar music world.
The music on the album itself could be described as minimalistic, ambient/idm/downtempo-influenced electronica.

A great discovery, totally worthy to give it a try. You can find aiRless pRoject music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Bandcamp | Myspace | Download

Последние Каникулы - Семь Ветров

Последние Каникулы - Семь Ветров

Genre: Post-Rock/Ambient/Atmospheric

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps 

Country: Russia

Size: 105 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Семь ветров

02. Восьмой

03. Не перематывай

Description: latest work from Russian one-man-project Последние Каникулы (The Last Holidays in translation). He is trying to write music which is always honest to listeners, there is no commerce in it, no desire to arouse interest of masses, or anyone else. It’s just like it should be, made from the emotions and associations of the author, who is giving a piece of himself in every sound by hard and confident work. (c). 

Having taken the direction of instrumental atmospheric post-rock, this album starts with the track Семь ветров (Seven Winds) - a bright, epic and dynamic tune with slightly shoegazing guitar sound. The continuation of album is the second track Восьмой (Eighth), a good piece of ambient music, sounding pretty much like an interlude to the last epic and dynamic closer. But the third one, Не перематывай (Do Not Rewind) is being a great half-hour ambient track, sounding more abstract, than the second one, but containing tons of atmospheres in it, truly majestic yet surprising ending. Totally worthy to at least give it a listen. You can find Последние Каникулы music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Myspace | Bandcamp | Download

Doug Sharp - Boogafoo Music

 Doug Sharp - Boogafoo Music

Genre: Noise/Avant-Garde/Experimental

Format: mp3 | VBR (V0) 

Country: USA

Size: 96 Mb

Tracklist: 

01. Snus Attack

02. Veluria Ponsonby's Epiphany

03. Wasp Train

04. Gondwanaland

05. Opus #Glork, Move 2

06. My, My

07. Schveltronia Bimmsler Exudes

08. Zamthrusters Rampant

09. Peodopular Fip Fip (Boogafoo Preview Edition)

Description: while Led Zeppelin were announcing their new label, while 200,000 music fans were attending The California Jam rock festival, while Queen were playing their first North American concert, while AC/DC were performing their first official show with Bon Scott as their new lead singer, back in 1974 Doug Sharp was commiting his crimes against music. A small story by himself will say more than any other words:

In 1974 while I attended St. Olaf’s Paracollege, my best friend Larry Heyl ran the Moog Studio. He taught me how to plug patch cords and fiddle knobs to wring squawks out of the Moog Modular Synthesizer. I was earning a hand-rolled degree in Creative Studies so I added torturing the Moog to my curriculum.

Moog Modular Synthesizer like the one in the St. Olaf Moog Studio

To me the Moog was a machine for making weird noises so I pushed it into uncharted territories of sonic strangeness. I didn’t emulate any musician but indulged in pure sonic experimentation. I taped a handful of tracks and called my album “Babie’s[sic] First Words” Twenty years later my daughter renamed it “Boogafoo Music”, which stuck.

Left: Doug Sharp in ’74 Right: I carried around this 2nd-gen tape for years before digitizing it. No charge for the tape hiss.

So basically this album is a collection of moog tunes, noises or whatever-you-call-it tracks, recorded and carried through years on tape and digitalized after. Notice: this is the weirdest stuff ever been published on this blog and I don't think ever will be again, so catch it right now. Notice number two: 1974. Available at:

Last.fm | Bandcamp | Itsu Jitsu Netlabel | Download

音一 - 一

音一 - 一

Genre: Noise/Drone/Experimental/Minimalism

Format: mp3 | CBR192kbps

Country: Japan

Size: 38 Mb

Tracklist: 

01. 一

02. 二

03. 三

04. 四

Description: probably the most experimental album that have been posted on this blog so far. Under these symbols are four experimental noisy sounds that attract you with their dark atmosphere. A completely new thing to try, if you've been listening to instrumentally based and musically oriented artists. 音一 (a sound) hails originally from Shinjō, Yamagata but is now a permanent resident of the Sendagaya area of Shibuya, Tokyo. Feedback, clicks, glitches, ghostly voices, drones, textures and found sounds are all things which go towards the creation of an 音一 composition, dark and moody vibes with an isolationist bent is what’s going on here. 音一 employs a host of portable looping and sound manipulating instruments in the recording process, often constructing tracks in situ for use in larger compostions back in the studio and even on occasion building fully realised pieces whilst out in the field (c). Totally worthy to listen, if you are already a fan of experimental sounds or just trying to broaden your understanding of what music is. You can find 音一 music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm  | Sonicsquirrel | Itsu Jitsu Netlabel | Download

El Heath - Winter Soundtrack

El Heath - Winter Soundtrack

Genre: Ambient/Drone/Atmospheric/Psychedelic

Format: mp3 | VBR (V0)

Country: United Kingdom

Size: 44 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Concerto

02. Fireflies

03. A Cold Day in Spring

04. Awake all Night

05. Electric Storm

06. When It Gets Dark Outside I Tend To Go And Play Inside

07. Chords

08. Inertia

09. Non-Romantic Melancholic Waltz

Description: this is a EP of a musician-experimentalist from Shropshire, UK. Like a modern day romantic, EL Heath finds beauty all around him - in childhood memories; in the countryside around his Shropshire home; in early morning light and in dreams. It’s this beauty that provides inspiration for his music: he churns out song after song after song, barely finishing one track before he rushes onto the next. The world compels this man to make music (c). Stylistically Winter Soundtrack is pretty much a collection of atmospheric ambient tunes and drones. From the very beginning and until the end this album keeps creating a special mood, causes various reflections and flashbacks in mind. Moments from the past life, weather landscapes, everything you can associate atmospheric sounds with. Totally worthy to at least give it a listen. You can find El Heath music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm  | Myspace | Download

Bird From The Abyss - II

Bird From The Abyss - II

Genre: Drone Doom/Experimental/Ethnic/Psychedelic

Format: mp3 | CBR128kbps

Country: Finland

Size: 36 Mb

Tracklist:
01. Crawling Monuments
02. Travelling With The Bird - Part 1
03. Kyyn Laulu
04. From The Altars Of Fire To The Kingdom Of Ereskigal
05. Travelling With The Bird - Part 2 - Back To The Abyss

Description: a perfect work of a oneman anti-band, that hails from Finland’s primeval forests,
and combines drone/doom(metal) with acoustic elements; folk and world music to form ritualistic compositions. Atmosphere of this project can be fully described by the next passage:

Bird from the Abyss comes from Finland, a land where nighttime dominates the dayside and where inside deep, dark forests still dwell the ancient creatures of the mythological north. But the music of BFTA is more exotic, more Mediterranean - its aura is one culled from the ancient Egyptian ethos, its ritualistic nature is foreboding and sinister. When one hears the music of BFTA. they will uncover many styles from doom to ambient to folk to progressive- all synthesized and textured in a way which births a new and completely original dark sound. (c)

This album, combining experimental hypnotic sounds and ethnic elements with rich variety of styles, sounds as one long trip through the world of different visions, created in your mind. Still remains undiscovered, and that's why it is totally worthy to be listened. You can find Bird From The Abyss music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm  | Bandcamp | Website | Download

EUS - Tras El Horizonte

EUS - Tras El Horizonte

Genre: Ambient/Drone/Experimental

Format: mp3 | VBR (V0)

Country: Costa Rica

Size: 95 Mb

Description: Perfectly done ambient sounds from Costa Rica. EUS is a one man project taking beginning in 2008. According to the authors words, EUS’ philosophy is to make each album different from its other ones, but always in an Ambient style, trying and experimenting with different techniques for the recording process. This work is a great sonic adventure into the world of atmospheric ambient and warm drones, and that is pretty much it. Should be good for lovers of atmospheric and hypnotizing sounds. Totally worthy to at least give a listen. You can find EUS music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Bandcamp | Download

Gamardah Fungus - Celestial Funerals

Gamardah Fungus - Celestial Funerals

Genre: Drone/Ambient/Instrumental/Sludge

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: Ukraine

Size: 87 Mb

Tracklist:

01. Advocatus Diaboli

02. The Last Step Of The Universe

03. Atlantica

04. Celestial Funerals (feat. Tenzin Sambu)

05. Revolver Theme

Description: third full-length album from experimental music duo from Ukraine released in 2011 actually summarizes their long way in developing their own unique sound. Named after the ancient tibetan ceremony, album perfectly creates dark and mystic atmosphere. The musical content of album is very rich and varies from atmospheric ambient parts to heavy sludgy moments. By the words of musicians this work is being a tribute of admiration of will and traditions of the tibetan people. Also musicians themselves define the style of all tracks as the mix of funeral doom and dark ambient, but despite all stylistic limits everyone can find in this album  something for himself. Totally worthy to at least give a listen. You can find Gamardah Fungus music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Myspace | Download | Order a CD

mobdividual - The Windows to () Music Were Open

mobdividual - The Windows to () Music Were Open

Genre: Acoustic/Experimental/Ambient

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: USA

Size: 57 Mb

Tracklist:

01. () is the masterly,

02. correct and magnificent

03. play of masses

04. brought together in light

05. le corbusier

06. ...the windows to () music were open...

Description: this is the second EP by Brian Elyo from the USA, released under the moniker mobdividual. It consists of six tracks with the total length of 18:44 minutes of relaxing acoustic soundscapes. Though music is composed in minimalistic manner, it creates rich atmosphere, that can be associated with ambient and even drone music. Hypnotizing from the very beginning, this EP slowly flows through your ears to its end as one long relaxing track. Totally worthy to at least give a listen. You can find mobdividual music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Bandcamp | Download

fydhws - Impresii

fydhws - Impresii

 

Genre: Experimental Rock/Instrumental/Psychedelic

Label: DIY

Format: mp3 | CBR320kbps

Country: Macedonia

Size: 124 Mb

Tracklist: 

01. =7+1 

02. =2*(7+1) 

03. 02 

04. 03 

05. 04

06. 05

07. 01

08. 07

09. =3*(7+1)

10. Kompozicija za 8 gitari (Composition for 8 guitars)

Description: fydhws from Macedonia is recording music and releasing it for free downloads. Impresii is his most popular album so far (according to the statistics of last.fm) and probably the most solid work. According to the words of author, this album contains some post-rock, noise rock and experimental rock, highly influenced by Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca and Spaceman 3. Tracklist of album contains 10 instrumental tracks of experimental rock sometimes with psychedelic, sometimes with atmospheric pieces and with definite improvisational moment. Totally worthy to at least give a listen. You can find fydhws music and download it for free/listen it for free using links below:

Last.fm | Bandcamp | Download