Red Rooster:Dose-2XCD

 
Americana crawling under your skin feeling dusty roads and a journey on long lonesome
roads. This is just great companionship. I have always had a huge passion for the
real feelings, the simplicity and greatness of some songs made with the guitar, voice and
few extra effects. This two cds is loaded with country,blues,bluegrass and a HUGE potion of
emotions. Wonderful....

www.wondermore.com
www.redroos.com

Satanicpornocultshop: Zap meemees
Sonore

Cutting-edge electronic music that is really hard to describe. It's hip-hop, japanese hip-hop that
the world never has heard before, crazy and insanely layered samples and loops. This is probably
almost impossible to describe with words, it's complex soundscapes that is challenging the listener.
Take a dive into the unique world of the mysterious Satanicpornocultshop.This is ,their sixth album.

www.sonore.com

Janet Seidel and William Galison: Love letters

La Brava Music

Wonderfully relaxing jazz tunes from a woman with a very sensual voice. It's excellent music
accompanying  a cup of coffee.  Eventhough the music has it's clear references to the traditional
jazz genre, it's an updated version with a bossa nova feel, it's smooth  jazz. William Galison's harmonica
fits excellent into the picture of a very  good album. It's simply feel good music that helps us all come through
hard and troublesome days. Luckily it's not a huge orchestra in the back, it's guitar, double bass and drums.
Sometimes it's even a bluesy feeling to the whole record.
It's not jazz fitting dark smoky cafes that's hard to find, it's music for "everyday" people, cafes with big windows,
a relaxing atmosphere and the ordinary life passing through while you are watching. People are constantly on the run,
you have to sit down for a while and relax, enjoy your own little world for a brief moment.

email:info@labravamusic.com

Serca: Singularity (Demo Ep No.1)

Very promising first Ep but they tend to want too much in such a limited amount of time.
Six tracks with a great potntial but I am sorry to say that it often gets too chaotic and
unstructured. They have some obvious influences like forinstance Nine Inch Nails, but unlike
Trent Reznor they don't let the music speak for itself and create some silent moments building
up the anxiety, fear and eventually leading towards a wall of harsh delicious noise. Serca's
brief moments of  "peace" is very soon broken by insanely driven tribal beats or constant sepulturian
uncompromising ass kicking rock.
Don't get me wrong, I really liked the Ep, but being too ambitious could sometimes get someone loose
track of even better solutions. Take forinstance the punkish moments on track 4, too much party till you
puke attitude, it simply don't fit the track.
One style don't have to be grown alone, but too much styles, breaks/interludes and no rest is for me
not appealing enough.
I never get a real grip of what they want to share.

www.serca.net

Soren: The dying man

Gothic folk music with great vocals. When I heard the cd first I immediately thought of
the likes of Current 93, Sol Invictus and Primordial ( UK ). Something cold and disturbing
but at the same time painful and beauty. It's something of both world, evil and good. It's the
voice of isolation and despair, but at the same time the voice of hope.
The cd's athmosphere keep you shivering , you feel cold and goose skin is coming your way....
Nine tracks of excellent quality.
That one man's voice could bring about such a huge amount of associations and ambivalent
signals is amazing. Embrace the music, keep on shivering, you are being a major part
of his web of significance, his musical "slave" is what you have become.

www.sorensongs.com

Sote: Dastgaah

A very obscure mix of mystical persian music combined with modern electronics.
Beware behind the corner is someone lurking, it's noisy and quite addictive, it's Muslimgauze
in a spooky version, more unpredictable and less repetitative, gone is all your ideas about how
music should sound.
Wonderful...playful and experimental in it's approach. This is us meeting with the future.....

Stereoskop: Malevich

Susana Egea has a very distinct voice, very erotic and quite addictive. Her vocal performance
fits the music very good, the music shifts from old school EBM, to more danceable beats to
more recognizable goth moods. The mastermind behind the project is Alex Brujas a well known
figure in the spanish "alternative" scene.  They have a lot of obvious influences, take for instance
track three "Everywhere" it's very close to the Psyche's moods. The album contains a lot of
very memorable moments, for me it's track 8 "Save the world" that is the true killer, a track with
epic dimensions.
Once more truely extraordinary vocal performance by Susana Egea.
I just love this album!

www.stereoskop.net
label@stereoskop.net

The Strand: In the Trench

Hard danceable industrial ebm with a nerve. I think the level of programming on this album is high,
done by a skilled musician, Dave Strand.
The vocals sometimes reminds me of Trent Reznor, and sometimes of the intense whisper-style
occasionally used by Marilyn Manson. The Strand belongs somewhere in the vein of ebm/industrial/
electronic music; you can clearly hear traces of the the before mentioned NIN around "Pretty hate machine",
but they make the likeness their strength, they don't copy or plagiate. The lyrics on the album are pretty funny,
with titles like "chicks suck" and "I hate my fucking job", it gives you an idea of the humour on this album,
more apparent than usual in this otherwise so gloomy genre. The inclusion of Kimberly Brown on vocals is a
good touch. Maybe it would we a good idea to let her sing on more tracks? Just a thought. Her voice is
beautiful, a shining flower in an industrial jungle. All in all, this is a record that I would think could have
mass appeal, not least because of it's danceability.
A potential dancefloor killer.

(PMK)

www.strandland.com