orobadion - floating world (2022)

Andrew Hoogheem creates his music as Orobadion and this year, he released another beautiful album filled with very moody ambient with neoclassical tropes. Floating world take the audience to the place where sadness meets beauty and they live together in a perfect balance.

The soundscapes on the album are built of heavy, overwhelming layers of distorted sounds on which the beautiful sparks of piano keys are put. This results in an album that at first feels utterly dark and depressing, but soon is able to charm its way into the listeners' hearts which is a beautiful skill. It goes on and on for almost an hour, but you can hardly notice the passing time mesmerized by the sounds.

floating world costs 7 USD.

Check: floating world

Country: Iowa, US

Genre: neoclassical ambient

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Hurry Up, Brothers - All Is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive. I'm Okay to Die (2021)

A new post-rock band from US, Hurry Up, Brothers make "noise for the restless" in the form of moody but not too loud or overwhelming instrumental guitar music. Their debut album All Is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive. I'm Okay to Die brings a lot of  uniqueness to the calmer side of post-rock.

The album's title suggests inspirations with emo/post-hardcore music (it really sounds like an ironical response to The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die) but there's nothing much from those genres in their music. On the contrary, it is more into reflective, not too noisy but extremely artsy experience. The instruments are not hidden behind the walls of noise which in a way sounds like acoustic instrumental and jazzy collaboration but put through a modern post-rock filter. 

Kind of in opposition to the album's title, the band seems to be concerned over the state of the world as it is now, the songs are entitled in a rather meaningful way, especially one of the album's best (and gloomiest) Revolt! This Is an Ecological Crisis. Those vibes of the danger we live in, are present in some of the more unnerving and noisier fragments of the album (particularly the voice samples appearing from time to time), but in general, the overwhelming feeling of the weight put on the aesthetic side of the music is dominant.

All Is Beautiful. I'm Okay to be Alive. I'm Okay to Die costs 5 USD.

Check: Revolt! This Is an Ecological Crisis

Country: Iowa, US

Genre: art post-rock

Label: Perched Words Records

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Soraku - In My Head (2020) EN

Nikola Sorak makes his music as Soraku and although he started just a year ago, he managed to create quite a series of releases already. In My Head makes already his sixth album this year. And it's a good thing I stumbled upon his music as his guitar noise seems to match my tastes.

The album is supposed to be for the author a "result of a year long journey of self reflection, and trying to reach further depths of creativity" and it's filled with drones and coarse ambient created by working with synth keys and guitar pedals, cassette loops and other experiments with piano, guitar and other instruments. Sometimes within those soundscapes some irregular, tearing sounds appear and they make it even more unnerving than the homogeneous noise. But the most important thing is that it's "all done with love, and no settling" and it's clear.

In My Head costs whatever you want to pay.

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Country: Iowa, US

Genre: experimental noise

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Soraku - In My Head (2020) PL

Nikola Sorak tworzy jako Soraku i mimo, ze zaczął to robić zaledwie w zeszłym roku, produkuje materiał i kolejne albumy seryjnie. In My Head to już jego szóste wydawnictwo w 2020 roku. I dobrze się składa, że w końcu na niego trafiłem bo jego gitarowy noise bardzo do mnie trafił.

Płyta ma być dla autora "rezultatem rocznej podróży, refleksji na swój temat i prób dotarcia do głębin kreatywności" a wypełniona jest dronami i szorstkim ambientem tworzonym przez połączenie synthów i gitarowych pedałów, użyciu kasetowych loopów i innych eksperymentów z pianinem, gitarą i innymi instrumentami. Czasem pośród tych pejzaży wybijają się rozregulowane, szarpiące dźwięki powodujące jeszcze większy niepokój niż homogeniczny noise. Najważniejsze jednak, że "wszystko zrobione jest z miłością i bez kompromisów" i to słychać.

In My Head kosztuje tyle, ile chcesz zapłacić.

Sprawdź: In My Head

Kraj: Iowa, US

Szufladka: experimental noise

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