Tag Experimental
The fact that I could not get the CD sent to play on my PC was a sign. This meant that I had to stick it in my CD player – you know like we used to in the old… Continue Reading →
Music of an experimental shade has a special appeal, because it has an inherent possibility of going just about anywhere, of taking any possible road. I like the way experimental music takes my mind to all sorts of places, the… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I think calling something experimental is basically code for ‘it sucks, but I meant it to suck’. Other times though I can truly immerse myself in it. In recent months I’ve fallen in love with the underground Goregrind scene… Continue Reading →
The Signature Dark label focuses mainly on dark ambience, drone, minimalism and experimental music. [ówt krì] ‘s soundscapes have been fitting this bill for quite some time so it would seem to be the perfect match. There’s not so much… Continue Reading →
I have been lucky enough to review the last two Pando releases so it was with great pleasure that I opened the quite frankly beautifully packaged gatefold CD of Rites. Pando are artists in both the musical and physical sense. … Continue Reading →
This band’s previous self-titled album proved to be enjoyable and interesting fuel for the imagination with its range of experimental sound improvisations so it was good to hear that two years on, Tottumiskysymys has another work out there. For those… Continue Reading →
This split release on a sub label of The Sinister Flame sees a meeting of deformed musical minds playing with experimental sounds and frequencies; they have 2 tracks each. On the one hand we have cult composer Hermann Kopp, renowned… Continue Reading →
I am not professing on being an expert on Furia. I have a few of their albums, which I love and have seen them live when they played London in 2018. It is pretty obvious even with a cursory exploration… Continue Reading →
Of Zherbin’s work, it is stated that it “ranges from tape looping the sounds of waterfalls to making a racket with DIY electronics and noise shakers”. I found a video where Zherbin, who is based in Finland and since 2009… Continue Reading →
There are two main branches of Avant-Garde music; The pseudo-prog and jazz stylings of masters of the genre like Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart… And then there is overly self-indulgent nonsense which has some small sections which pass for music,… Continue Reading →
Black Metal should be fertile ground for experimentation and oddity. In a lot of ways it kind of is, but then on the other hand it’s so ‘kvlt’ and ‘trve’ that fans hate on absolutely everything else that isn’t Mayhem…. Continue Reading →
When I was sent this album for review, I was promised something “interesting”, and I certainly was not disappointed on that score! As soon as I pressed play, I found myself contemplating the album title and considering how relevant it… Continue Reading →