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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
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
