Current listening – Page 79 – The Sound Projector

15/05/2012 nausika

Hypnos: for once, the hype fails to live up to the music – wonderfully delirious and immersive

Mario Diaz de Leon, Hypnos, Shinkoyo, CD SHIN040 (2012) Third solo album for this musician / composer and apparently a

14/05/2012 nausika

Hitoyogiri: almost easy-listening Japanese noisy psych-guitar rock with a blues touch

Miminokoto, Hitoyogiri, Important Records, CD IMPREC338 (2011) Featuring the kind of bleak, dark noisy psychedelic blues that I usually expect

11/05/2012 nausika

Elektra Bidasoa: little sense of power of nature versus machinery in experimental soundscapes

Francisco López and Xabier Erkizia, Elektra Bidasoa, Ferns Recordings, CD ferns_stem_02 (2011) Environmental field recording expert Francisco López teams up with

07/05/2012 nausika

Hands That Pluck: not quite the sterling send-off it could have been

Caïna, Hands That Pluck, Profound Lore Records, 2xCD PFL-082 (2011) This double CD set is Caïna’s swansong release and what a way

04/05/2012 nausika

Ecailles de Lune: very pretty black metal / shoegazer pop

Alcest, Ecailles de Lune, Germany Prophecy Productions CD PRO 106 (2010) Bands like Alcest sure do like to mock the

23/04/2012 nausika

Under the Eye: slurpy and eccentric black metal that’s open to other music genres

Ride for Revenge, Under the Eye, KVLT Records, CD KVLT004 (2011) Finnish act Ride for Revenge traffic in a filthy-sounding,

16/04/2012 nausika

Artistry of Exhaustion III: a smooth but still quite dark ambient work

Carbonscape, Artistry of Exhaustion III, www.carbonscape.bandcomp.com (2012) Another online ambient offering from Tad Piecka who masterminds the black metal project