Experimental artist Docx has their sophomore album out today. Three years in the making, this album is a cosmic journey of sound, style, color and texture. The interlude “Exist?” featuring Kuntpills sums it up pretty well – the creative process is a beautiful escapism limitless in scope where revelations can occur at any time – and Docx explores those untethered
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Psych-classical-folk-pop artist Kyle John Kenowski’s got the video out for “A Transient Thing” for his “infinite” album “Ourugorus Garden.” The singer-songwriter recently moved to Seattle, and the visuals here reflect his new surroundings. There’s flowers, mountains, wildlife, and rain-soaked forests – and even a cat! “A Transient Thing” reflects the blooming landscapes as the lyrics touch on getting older, going
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Experimental duo Duran Jerome are out with their debut batch of recordings. Venturing into the realms of electronica, sound collage, experimental pop and spoken word, Duran Jerome cover a lot of ground in their affinity for hazy soundscapes and whimsical sampling; the sky’s the limit for them as they incorporate strange poetic passages and conversational snippets into lo-fi melodies. Check
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Breakcore artist Jared Eternal Mirror remixed Cloak’s song “Weights” from his “Anything For You” EP from earlier this year. While the original tune has a dreamy, ambient quality to it, Jared’s take on the song gets bright and glitchy. It’s quite a contrast but works well in a most unusual way; there’s even 808 production incorporated into it. Go listen
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Experimental electronic producer The Demix is out with his first new music in quite some time. The nearly seven-minute-long track has horror sensibilities, themed around an ominous light piercing the darkness. Building on a spooky industrial-type beat, a tense atmosphere is conjured before the final minute unleashes a sense for unresolved mystery. We hope it’s the sign of more to
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Experimental artist Docx has a new single and video out. The visuals are animated by them as well, depicting a celestial humanlike figure sitting with twinkling skin in the cosmos. The production is hyper and energetic with an ethereal quality that makes you feel like you’re going light speed from galaxy to galaxy. Get excited for Docx’s album coming out
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Chillwave producer BVSMV’s latest single dots the landscape with colorful beams. This tune could fit really well in a National Geographic documentary about space – it’s twinkly, vast, and optimistic. BVSMV is known for textural electronica, and this tune hits all the right spots.
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Experimnetal electronic artist Lorna Dune is out with her new album. It’s a conceptual one, where many tracks flow into another, telling the story of how the concept of the “self” infinitely expands into natural environments and the ever-growing universe. With elements of ambient and techno, it’s a venture into the cosmos, biosphere, and metaphysical fabrics through sparkling synthesizers and
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Conceptual artist Kleaner released a new album not too long ago. It’s six tracks; there’s a gothic atmosphere with no wave sensibility here, utilizing resonant guitar melodies with light percussion on a few. Kleaner’s vocals convey visceral poetic passages of haunting, love, demons, and saving oneself. Kleaner warns to not play games with their open heart with “First Ladies.”
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Psychedelic-world music group Painted Caves have their first new single out in nearly a decade. Featuring string instruments such as oud and qanun and percussion instruments like darabuka and riqq, this song is about making the most out of life and finding your way from feeling lost. It’s an uplifting one that leaves no stone unturned and no terrain untraveled
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Experimental artists Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke continue their collaboration with a new piece. Soaring flutes and shimmering ambient textures pave the way for a profoundly meditative experience. The composition is meant to accompany yoga and does so in the spirit of courage through pain. Stay tuned for more relaxing tunes from Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke in the coming
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The marimba artist expands his sonic horizons with a new EP.
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Improvisational noise collective Frenia are out with a new EP. Limitless art, not a point on the map their Bandcamp poetically states, so eloquently describing the fluidity of Frenia’s seamlessly collaborative nature. There’s string, wind and percussion instruments utilized here but also spoken word, friendly banter, hand claps and wordplay; an excerpt of “Madness of the Day” by Blanchot is
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Ambient electronic artist Brandon Buhr’s latest album traverses the times of day. It’s eight compositions and begins in morning while ending in the dark of night. Buhr’s mood and tone correspond with the skyscapes; for example, being bright and inviting with “Clearing” while eerie and mysterious in “Eclipse.” Sit back, relax, and zone to the drones with Brandon Buhr’s “Dawn.”
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Experimental electronic artist Odd Person released a new EP. These three tracks welcome psychedelic sonic textures reminiscent of alien planets and temples celebrating formations in the sky. There’s a tense mood here, as if one can’t hold themselves back from exploring unfamiliar territories. Delightfully weird and appreciative of ritualistic imagery, “In the Valley of Dream Prisms” is a phantasmagorical escapade.
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Experimental jazz-rock group Lovely Socialite are out with the first single from their upcoming album “The Drift.” “Final Flight” has plenty of vigor and action, like we’re seeing the character come to life and taking a big leap to the tune of howling horns and crashing melody. It’s got a podcast episode attached where the band discusses the process and
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Allow Wisdm Giovanni to slow things down for a bit.
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Experimental-psychedelia artist Michael Jantz released an EP this week. It’s three tracks that continue Jantz’s hazy, sun-kissed odyssey through peace and nature, but this time it’s divided into movements. There’s wonder, then there’s discombobulation, then there’s abrasiveness. Michael Jantz has been juxtaposing serenity and surrealness with his output, and this EP is a premier culmination of such.
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Dark ambient project Noctilucant has returned with a new album. The story goes like this: you come across a city thinking it’d be utopian only to discover the exact opposite – a tyranny-ruled municipality of cybernetic overlords. You escape, but find that all that’s left of the world is desolation and destruction of what was once our planet. The story
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Experimental-psychedelia artist Michael Jantz (formerly Black Eagle Child) follows up his recent debut single under his own name with a sequel. This one begins with a thumping bass repetition before a guitar begins wandering, coated with this hiss of lo-fi recording. We feel like we’re watching a grainy tape of animals in their natural habitats from decades ago. Michael Jantz
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Experimental artist and cellist Jack Calvey is a new one on our radar. His latest release is a jam under a bridge in downtown Milwaukee (near Potowatomi Casino). With wind rumbling and humidity in the air, Calvey plays a string medley that captures the springtime joy as cars pass overhead. Definitely check out Jack Calvey’s previous releases where he works
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Experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released yet another tape last week. Adam Steinmetz utilizes modular synthesizers, samplers, drum machines, and other sound toys to assemble this collection of minimalist techno embedded with a couple abstract noise cuts (“Small Man, Big Head” and “Hollandaise in the Sun”). Death Tape Super Bass records are a reliably zany sequence, and “Organ
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Experimental-psychedelia artist Michael Jantz, once known for project Black Eagle Child, is out with a new track. Spanning almost six minutes, it’s got a lo-fi quality to it that evokes imagery of walking through a humid, hazy meadow. With an underlying repetitious guitar riff, there’s an additional guitar that explores space with gradual confidence, giving a “floating” feeling. It’s Michael
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Electronic project Liida’s got a new record out. The theme here is positivity, so these five tracks embody the shuffle forward. There’s a sense of courage, adventure, and prosperity that permeates through whimsical, instrumental pop-scapes. The beats are catchy while incorporating uniquely arranged textures and effects. “State of Continuum” is an optimal choice to put on your headphones with and
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Wellness music artist Dennis Hawk teamed up with experimental percussionist Dave Schoepke for a new single that’ll be going straight to your yoga playlist. As the title implies, this piece is warm and bright akin to awakening, with ambient sensibilities accompanying wondrous flute passages. It’s the first of much to come from Dennis Hawk and Dave Schoepke’s collaborative prowess, but
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