Music Journal

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In this list, I am gathering albums that I hold in high regard (according to my own personal taste) in genres including Jazz, Post-Everything, Noise, *Metal, Electronic, and Experimental & Improvisation. I have organized them chronologically but there is not necessarily any particular order, and I may choose to sort them alphabetically by artist name at a later time.

Electronic

2021

2022

  • HEXSYSTEM No Confluence bandcamp
  • TaboTago TaboTago bandcamp

    A tribute, a great live performance. I wish I could be at that concert.

Experimental & Improvisation

2019

  • Sam Andreae/David Birchall/Toshimaru Nakamura/Otto Willberg UK ツアー 2019 bandcamp

2020

  • Jean-Luc Guionnet, Annette Krebs pointe sèche bandcamp

2021

  • Guilherme Rodrigues & Carlos Santos Uncommon Symmetries bandcamp
  • I/O - Carlos Santos and Ulrich Mitzlaff Studies on Colour Field Modulation bandcamp
  • Omawi featuring Alistair Payne, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten Omawi: Live at Roze Tanker bandcamp
  • Guitar Party Power (IMP021) Bob Log III bandcamp

2022

  • Mark Wagner S☉N RISE / S☉N OF THE SUN bandcamp
  • Adela Mede Szabadság bandcamp

    I love how the Slovak language is like Icelandic. After listening to this album, I went on a little bit of research about Slovakia and found some cool stuff. The entire natural-leading process of the album was enjoyable. Feature track: 6. Interlude III!

  • Healing Potpourri Paradise bandcamp

    Ok, I should confess. At first, I was not too fond of the album because I thought it was a Stephan Stevens -y album, but as it sought forward, I found it's a complicated multi-instrumental album. With great tuning, orchestra, and lyrics. Great. Great. Favourite Track: 6. Paradise.

Jazz

2019

  • Enrico Rava & Joe Lovano Roma (Live) spotify

2021

  • Mira Martin-Gray, Bryan Qu, Karen Ng, Nick Dunston Trumpet & Drums REMIX Festival bandcamp
  • Milton Man Gogh The Great Reset bandcamp
  • Florian Arbenz, Francois Moutin, Maikel Vistel Conversation #4 – Vulcanized bandcamp
  • Liminal Space ILL CONSIDERED bandcamp
  • Playfield Playfield 1, 2, and 3 bandcamp
  • Raposa Velha Raposa Velha bandcamp
  • Shuffle Demons All In bandcamp
  • Frank Kimbrough Meanwhile bandcamp
  • Amir ElSaffar Rivers of Sound: The Other Shore bandcamp
  • Martin Wind Quartet My Astorian Queen youtube
  • Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trios Songs from My Father youtube
  • The Cookers Look Out! youtube
  • Veronica Swift This Bitter Earth youtube
  • Umlaut Big Band Mary's Ideas: Umlaut Big Band plays Mary Lou William bandcamp
  • Christian McBride & Inside Straight Live at the Village Vanguard youtube
  • Eberhard Weber Once Upon A Time spotify
  • Diogo Alexandre - Bock Ensemble Pipe Tree bandcamp
  • Jakob Bro Arve Henriksen Jorge Rossy Uma Elmo spotify
  • Daniel Garcia Via de la Plata bandcamp
  • Various Artists Magic Moments 14 spotify

    As you can guess from the album's name, it's a complication from some memorable songs in a wide spectrum of subgenres of Jazz.

  • Funk Is My Religion Nils Landgren Funk Unit bandcamp

    Yes, They say that Funk is a religion. They try to prove it by instruments and vocals. Feature song: 5. Es in Memoriam.

  • Lars Danielsson Cloudland bandcamp

    A good and standard middle east-inspired Jazz collection, featuring multiple artists in various sub-genres. Feature track: 3. The Fifth Grade and 6. Lars Danielsson feat. Kinan Azmeh & Kinan Azmeh - Desert of Catanga.

  • Larry Coryell & Philip Catherin Jazz at Berlin Philarmonic XI: The Last Call spotify

    Featured Track: 3. Manha De Carnaval - Live.

  • David Helbock, Sebastian Studnitzky, and Arna Jensen The New Cool spotify
  • Human Shai Maestro spotify

    Yet another great work by ECM in collabration with Shai Maestro. A minimalist album with some surprises. Feature track 2. Mystery and Illusion.

2022

  • Joel Lyssarides Stay Now bandcamp
  • Gordon Grdina's Haram Night's Quietest Hour bandcamp

    A classic Fusion of Jazz, Arabic, and Bandari music. Feature track: 3. Dulab Bayati

  • Branko Mataja Over Fields And Mountains bandcamp

    Something between Ennio Morricone and many others!

  • Smith Komma John Music For Humans bandcamp

    Norway!

  • Duval Timphty Meeting with a Judas Tree bandcamp

    A great experimental fusion piece of work. You can hear some post-rockish sounds merged with electronic music. Besides the artist claims that he inspired by hip-hop. I couldn't hear anything from this point, at least at three fist listening of it. Featured Track: 2. Wood ft. Yu Su.

  • Bill Frisell Four (Blue Note) Spotify

    This may be the last jazz album I reviewed in 2022. There are a bunch of albums I collected or ignored to listen to later. But I'm happy I listened to this album only one month after its release. You hear many "fresh" and harmonic sounds from the first track. I can get sleepy, excited, and even sad when you enjoy the quality of the mix, primarily when you focus on the drum's mix and mastering. You can feel every step of the piano's pedal changing, and even more, you can see the saxophone's key pressings in your imagination.

    • M.CHUZI Papara bandcamp

      Happy album. Feature Track 3. feat. Joy Slam - Carbonade

*Metal

Black

2022

  • Dream Unending Song Of Salvation bandcamp

    Great growl and clean vocals. Feature Track: 5. Ecstatic Reign. Tremendous instrument and vocal gaps; plus great female vocal

2023

  • Entropia Total bandcamp

    A very harsh and progressive backend post metal with a taste of black metal. If you ask me I prefer this kind of post metal instead of some repeating reefs and melodies. Vocals in this album id gorgeous. Featured Track: 5. Final

  • AARA Triad III: Nyx bandcamp

    A mellancholic atmospheric black metal album with a rich instrumental landscape, harsh vocals, and thought-provoking lyrics. The opening track includes the following verse:

    And just as the dreams mixed with waking thoughts, a shadowy creature came along "Girl, what are you looking for? What is your desire? Girl, what do you want? What is it that consumes you?"

    Featured Track: 5. Des Wanderers Traum

Death

2022

  • Septicflesh Modern Primitive bandcamp

    Finally, Septicflesh is here! A great greek band with a homogeneous discography in the manner of album art but not in their taste in music. Their last album is a fusion. A fusion of folk music and death, lyrical verses, and of course, enough harshness. Featured Track: 3. Self-Eater.

Doom

2021

2022

  • Where Myth Becomes Memory Rolo Tomassi bandcamp
  • Dismalimerence, Nurez, olim, and The Wolf Garden Recurrence (split) bandcamp

    I just wondered about how there is a huge atmosphere around each song. Screams, melodies, and tonality are in a perfect balance. Favourite Track: Nurez - Sommer

  • Obsessions Notturno bandcamp

    Holy Doom, holy scream, holy poem. A very cheerful EP where you can find the deepest kind of darkness you want. Feature track 3.Falling.

  • Pyrithe Monuments to Impermanence bandcamp

    I wasn't sure if I should put this album on the recommendation list. So, I listened to it twice; after that, the fifth Track, 5. Luminous to do that. Drums player, you nailed it!

  • Nova Sylvaine bandcamp

    It hit me at 2. Mono No Aware where clean soprano voice combined by growl vocal. You know, That amazing moment…

  • Darkher The Buried Strom bandcamp

    The album has all factors and materials. But it wouldn't start from the first Track. It makes you thirsty until you've reached 7. Immortals, but when it starts, it will not end very soon.

  • Mournful Congregation The Exuviae of Gods - Part I bandcamp

    A classic doom metal, with long reefs, great basses, and lyrical procedure. Feature track: 3. An Epic Dream Of Desire.

  • Sadness To despair of … (2014) bandcamp

    Re-announcing this album exposed this masterpiece to me. I don't want select albums released before 2020 here, but in this case, I do.

  • Deathwhite Grey Everlasting bandcamp

    A silent, heavy, and atmospheric album by an American band. I wouldn't say I like how they promoted their album by tagging other bands on the Bandcamp page, but it tells us: Amorphis, Katatonia (ew), Swallow the Sun, etc. Favourite Track: 10. Blood and Ruin.

Progressive

  • Venus Principle Stand In Your Light bandcamp

    Let's be honest. It's too rare for me to listen to a combo of male and female vocals and not enjoy the song. In this case, the fifth track named The Lord He Giveth And He Taketh Away got me.

  • Ashenspire Hostile Architecture youtube

    A guy said it's a "Post Black Metal." But no. It's a Fusion Jazz Post-Metal. No, wait, it's Spoken Fusion Post Jazz Metal. Nah, it's Progressive Spoken Fusion Post Jazz Metal, right? It's better. Even now, I missed the "classical" part. It's all. It's every kind of intelligence that you can use in an album. Favourite Track: 3. Plattenbau Persephone Praxis.

Noise

2022

  • Portal to the God Damn Blood Dimension Rotten Fruit; Regular Orchard bandcamp

    A double-track EP with noise, verse-like spoken words, and screams.

  • R. Weis Installed: Sound For Exhibitions bandcamp

    What do you want from a noise album? I answer you I need every sound which it can define under chaotic noises. Spoken words, whispers, instruments, and urban sounds. All of them are in this album. Featured Track: 11. Requiem for a Paperweight (Chapters 5 and 6).

  • Heavy Clound Crossing The Water [bandcamp]

    Ok, I'm a little biased, but the fourth Track Their leaves do not wish us to hurry is great. Listen to find out what I mean.

Post-everything

2021

  • Hope Drone Husk bandcamp
  • Der Weg Einer Freihei Noktvrn bandcamp
  • Secret Gardens Tundra bandcamp

    I'm skeptical about recently released albums. But Tundra changed my mind. It's a combo of grunge, spoken words, nature-ambient-new age with real rock roots. Favourite Track: 3. Silliness (feat. Erin Reus).

    PS Ok, I've changed my mind; my favourite Track is 6. I'm Fucking Tired of Being Sad.

  • Black Flak and the Nightmare Fighters Ad Meliora bandcamp

2022

  • Caroline Caroline spotify

    After a few months, I finally found an excellent vocal post-rock album. I'm pleased and blessed. Feature track: 2. Good morning (red).

  • old songs 2014 Sadness bandcamp

    Featured Track: 4. loss.

  • Cancel the Apocalypse Terminus Stairway spotify

    Feature track: 8. I Should Never Have a Stop.

Author: shosseinib, a noise enthusiast

Created: 2023-12-17 Sun 20:25

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