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Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.

2018

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IZANASZ - PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2

IZANASZ’s latest release ‘Psykedelar Vol. 2′ is the second release of three closely related albums. As a whole, they are an attempt to capture what psychedelic experiences feel like to me and the general feeling of constantly shifting visuals and feelings. Out now on Pointless Geometry.

Purchase Cassette: IZANASZ - PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2

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Sonic Picks 35 IZANASZ- PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2 (2019) Reviewed format: free download of Digital Album released on POINTLESS GEOMETRY as kindly provided by IZANASZ Welcome to a new Sonic Picks review, number 35 in the review series. Due to the large number of releases I got sent this and last month I decided to change the order of reviews a bit and first review the newest releases. The new Resonant Visions and Eastern Delivery reviews will follow soon. Today I got for you the new IZANASZ album PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2, released on POINTLESS GEOMETRY. At the beginning of 2019 I reviewed his IZANASZ' GENOT CENTRE tape SPECTRAL CASCADES which I loved a lot and which is one of my favourite reviewed releases of this year and IZANASZ himself loved my reviewed of it too, so I was very happy that recently he sent me a free download of his (then in pre-order) new album PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2, as he looked forward a lot to my thoughts on this new release. As hinted and also described to me by IZANASZ in the FB chat this album is quite different in sound to SPECTRAL CASCADES, leaning much more to a dance music influenced sound. It's never straight up dance music however and while sometimes quite club music influenced the music leans more towards a mixture of Braindance / IDM and Noise with a quite psychedelic trippy sound to it. This is also reflected well in Izanasz cover artwork, which is excellent as always with the heavily curly liquid vibrant shapes that have quite some depth to them as well as the neat neograpy logo and album title design. This album cover is included in this Digital Album version I have in 1500x1500p resolution as well as the 7 album tracks in 24-bit/48kHz high resolution audio. As I mentioned, PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2 is quite a bit different from SPECTRAL CASCADES being much more groove than ambience oriented and that is immediately apparent in first track Spökrabo. Starting off with a deep atmospheric drone accompanied by some tasty stereo glitches the track quickly moves into a quite funky groove featuring piano and percussion heavy electronic drums but with a time signature that's quite irregular and the groove quickly gets "interfered" by some heavy fuzzy compression which adds quite a great effect within the transition of that section in the piece to the next one which has a more consistent timing. This second and final section in the piece features some sweet metallic / glassy percussion in the beat in the form of pitched hi hats and stuttering percussion. The atmospheric background drone slowly takes over and the groove seems to get swallowed in the cloud of diffuse resonant sound. Spökrabo introduces the album quite well with its playful groovebased vibe, though this piece is a bit more minimalist than other tracks on the album but it does showcase some of the contrasts of PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2 compared to SPECTRAL CASCADES quite well. The music on this album makes much more use of recognizable electronic instruments as source for the sounds that make up the pieces and the subconcious imagery in here is mostly conjured up by the pleasantly jumpy and odd melodies that are sometimes quite aleatoric but got a wonderful mystery to them, as well as strong diffuse (Noise) ambiences that at times take over the full sonic image. Parts of the music are audibly programmed or generative but the music still feels very organic due to the funky and deep sonic colours of the synths and pointy and resonant sound of the drums. Ansisut continues the sound of Spökrabo though with more focus on the drums and melodic patterns themselves. Featuring quirky synths, metallic / wooden percussion in the drum patterns and various fun samples (like a vocal "swallowing" sample) the piece reminds me a bit of a modern version of mid 90's Braindance / IDM music but with a much less predictable sound. This piece has a bit of an early Sunday morning feeling to it, like laying in bed, still feeling a bit tired and very slowly becoming aware of your surroundings again. Quite odd and subdued but I do like the quirky and imaginative sound and all the sonic details in this piece. The final section of the piece even sounds like a slowed down Grime track, with low pitched drums and slowly warbling intense bass. Very nice. On Alveg af fjöllum IZANASZ moves into territory I haven't heard from him before, this is the longest piece on the album and in here his music actually moves into Chiptune territory, with most of the track being heavily effected with a bitcrusher, creating a very crunchy and noisy sound. The music builds from an eerie Drone ambience at the beginning featuring spooky overtone distortions and some great film dialogue samples (one of which is of a man saying "Time to die") into a crunchy noise based mid tempo groove which then fades into a really heavy and loud distorted section featuring piercing a piercing synth lead, very crunchy 8-bit synth effects and equally intense 8-bit drums. Indeed there's a lot of crunchy Noise in this piece but again with some great mysterious melodies played by the synths and there's some great resonances audible in between the crunch and the Noise. In this piece the first section with the soft ambience and dialogue samples reminds me of SPECTRAL CASCADES but the crunchy Noise is definitely a new element for me and through the dense layering and captivating melodies, this piece is definitely an intense trip of music, I'm really liking the explosive progression in this one. Eripuraisuus then, is a shorter piece which features a low drum break with additional low Industrial clangs a great scattering metallic synth pattern and a ghostly resonant background drone. It's a great little atmospheric piece with lots of little details and changes that happen throughout, like the quirky "tumbling" synth effect. The background drone adds some depth to the piece, a great contrast of Industrial ambience with the more Electro influenced elements of the foreground, great track. Krypp blends a really catchy modulated guitar melody with a really strong manipulated drum groove that's filtered and fuzzed out through some wild autopanning. There's also plenty of manipulation of music samples in this track that's quite hilarious, blending the strange abstract Dub like ambience of the groove with jolly pitched down song. At the end of the piece a second drum break gets added to the mixture combined with a calm piano melody. All in all this piece is one of my favourites on this album with a really quirky fun sound that blends plunderphonics elements with a "hi-fi Industrial groove", very nice track. Wen follows, which is a more straightforward synth focused piece, featuring a simple but punchy kick-shaker and repetitive but ever intensifying synth arpeggios, these are accompanied by a nicely "cutting" PWM synth bass with quite some stereo width to it too. The track is built around the ever more chaotically scattering synths that tumble all around the stereo field with bright sharp high pitched tones and 8-bit crunchy effects. After some time, a whole cloud of synth bells is hanging in the air, this piece indeed feels like a wild attraction at the funfair almost turning out of control. Very nice piece. Þátturinn is the final track on the album and another one of my favourites. With a rhythm that gradually builds, starting with a saturated clicky percussion rhythm mixed with synth arpeggios and manipulated vocal samples the piece builds further with metallic percussion, synth patterns and glitches into a really intense climax that features a very sharp PWM synth melody combined with additional high pitched melodic synth details. The whole gets really noisy and there's also plenty of wild stereo effects. A really awesome closing piece, very dramatic too. PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2 is an awesome album of imaginative experimental electronic music by IZANASZ that can be split up into two halves, with the first 3 tracks being quite a bit more abstract and atmospheric while tracks 4-7 are at times more straightforward pieces with more gradual progressions and more emphasis on the development of the synth textures, sample manipulations and modulated grooves. With IZANASZ mixing more Electro, Braindance and even Chiptune sounds into his music he evolves into an at times more melodic but equally strong deep and subconcious stimulating direction in which the music freely moves from soundscape to melodic progression to laidback groove, all with IZANASZ expansive sonic pallette of both synthetic and sampled sound sources which he always shapes into unpredictable new ways, with PSYKEDELAR Vol. 2 that is into a noisy Psychedelic direction and it turned out great. This album is definitely recommended for fans of Braindance / IDM, Glitch, Plunderphonics and also Noise music, there's a lot of variety in this album and there's some excellent climaxes in these pieces too. Go check this album out. Digital Album is available from the POINTLESS GEOMETRY Bandcamp page here: https://pointless-geometry.bandcamp.com/album/izanasz-psykedelar-vol-2

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Used cassettes: Seth Graham - Hint / Mondoj Ice_Eyes - Individual Drops / Genot Centre Rhythm Baboon - Baboonism / Pawlacz Perski Wojtek Kurek - Ovule / Pawlacz Perski Kamil Szuszkiewicz - Istina / Wounded Knife HDMIRROR - ANTHEMS / Genot Centre Strahinja Arbutina - You Don't Need This In Your Life / Summer Isle V/A grids 1 - Ostrowski / Outlines Meme Vivaldi & Friends - LA BUENA MUERTE Delux / AFRIKA PSEUDOBRUITISMUS Mukqs - SD Biomix / Orange Milk Izanasz - Psykedelar Vol. 2 / Pointless Geometry Paszka - Rytmy, cykle, i czas / enjoy life Æthereal Arthropod - Opilio / Genot Centre r hunter - rrrrrrafael / Genot Centre

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Listen/purchase: Fāl-gūsh by Izanasz

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New releases from Alethe, Mt Accord / Izanasz, Primož Bončina, Chemiefaserwerk and Shō are out now on Audio. Visuals. Atmopshere. These new titles are available as a bundle at a reduced price over at our Bigcartel website. The individual cassettes are also available via Bandcamp. #audiovisualsatmosphere #cassette #electronicmusic #experimental #graphicdesign

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Listen/purchase: Fāl-gūsh by Izanasz

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Sonic Picks 12

IZANASZ: SPECTRAL CASCADES (2017)

Reviewed format: Limited Edition C73 Cassette Tape Album on GENOT CENTRE

After all the New Year's celebrations of a few days ago, there was the first packages in the mail again yesterday. One of which included this amazing album from 2017 by IZANASZ titled SPECTRAL CASCADES on Limited Edition C73 Cassette Tape, ordered from the GENOT CENTRE. Fittingly the music contained on this tape is again cinematic (like the aRF mini album attic that I reviewed yesterday) but in a much different way. The Cassette Tape is housed in a classy looking black Norelco Case. The Cassette Tape only features a GENOT CENTRE label sticker on side A but other than that the tape is not customized with colours, the artwork on the J-card inside is rather nice, with the album cover on the first panel, very alien and spacey looking cover artwork that matches the music. The short fold on the back of the J-card features the tracklist and album credits and in the middle panel of the inside of the J-card you can see this cryptic artwork made up of many patterns, looking like a sequence of parameter settings. Also included is a special physical object, a b&w film negative with IZANASZ's portrait by Tereza Bartůňková which is an interesting addition and a nice photo to see when you hold it in the light, cool stuff. The tracklist of the album is spread over the A side and B side in this way: A - TAPESTRIES / MEMORIES OF BROKEN CHARACTER ARMOR, B - ANTICIPATION OF APPARITION / EMILY FUSSELMAN'S RABBIT.

SPECTRAL CASCADES is structured with one short piece on the beginning of each side and much longer pieces following the short piece and in the description of the album on Bandcamp you can find a quite detailed text on the concepts of the album's sound that also mentions the ways IZANASZ uses the sound spectrum in the music, quite a complex and abstract text but it does indeed match the music although my own impressions of listening leaned more towards experiencing the aural equivalent of how my own dreams are in atmosphere and how they progress. It was quite a unique experience to literally hear the sounds on this album that feel like an abstraction of my dreams in the mixture of both recognizable and manipulated samples of voices, instruments, diffuse ambiences and melodies as well as Noise clouds. SPECTRAL CASCADES starts with TAPESTRIES on side A which features distant mysterious music playing in a huge space as well as lo-fi crunchy Industrial drums sounding especially good on the analogue tape format turned up nice and loud. It's hard to explain but this music just does something with my mind that gives me these tense and mysteriously dark imaginary visions that are really enjoyable. It's a bit like being in a cold wet castle or a similar building in a fictional time and witnessing all these strange rituals happening in the brown orange hue of candles. The way the music progresses is also pretty surprising, as in the longer piece IZANASZ uses some pretty extreme dynamics, making some sections very soft and then suddenly creating a fast crescendo and climax to then fall down again in a soft part. In the short pieces the music is much softer and subdued though. Second track on side A MEMORIES OF BROKEN CHARACTER ARMOR segues straight from TAPESTRIES in a continuous tone that then gets overlayed with strange whirring sounds as well as pretty disturbingly manipulated voice samples, pretty dark but interesting as well. This part fades out slowly after several minutes and then pretty sudden one of the Noise infused sections of this album begins which is also combined with a dark metallic glitched slow melody. Pretty intense but also melodic at the same time, it has a very intense and immersive sound to it. This noise also combined with great frequency modulations of the tone. Then follows a quiet section again in which you can hear wind, a strange ghostly choir singing as well as a glassy glitched up organ melody. This crossfades into field recordings of swishing sounds from a place that could be a shop or shopping mall (it's pretty abstract) which gets combined with organlike drones circling around the sound space and moving towards a more noisy diffuse Industrial whishing sound of machinery. The piece that very slowly progresses towards the ending fade out in which the piece is already reduced to only a few quite ambient sonics. This is music that is packed full with details and it changes quite a lot during its 28:30 playing time and it's a very rewarding listen, never dragging the music out. Side B then, starts with the short piece ANTICIPATION OF APPARITION, it's very quiet and features ambient piano melodies, a sitar (?) at the beginning as well as what sounds like a Japanese drum rhythm speeding up. A quiet brooding ambience of mystery as a prologue to the long piece coming up. EMILY FUSSELMAN'S RABBIT is this long piece and this time the music is a bit more focussed around one drone. The track builds up very slowly and quietly from the beginning featuring a lot of hollow ghostly resonant sounds and harmonic resonances from saturation which crossfades into an ambient reverberated melodic pattern on piano as well as various Industrial tinged whishing and "shifting" sounds. Combined with the saturated resonant sound that accompany the melody too the piece builds to the explosive Noise infused climax in which again the melodies can still be heard pretty clearly. It never gets into pure Noise territory, but its combination of the intense and distorted sound and ambiences make the music really powerful and feel huge, which is also helped by the deep reverb of the piece. From its climax the track then fades to lo-fi crunchy distorted fuzzyness and the melodic resonances take over, crackling and fuzzing left and right until they crossfade into the following much more subdued final section. The final section features filtered mysterious ambient resonances, metallic clanging and also notably, the sounds from a female pilot speaking through the passenger communication system in a plane and it gradually strips down to the clanging and subtle atmospheric sounds ending the tape in a rather mysterious way, great stuff.

SPECTRAL CASCADES by IZANASZ is definitely one of the best releases I've listened to and reviewed in 2019 so far. The ever imaginative and deep masterful sound shaping conjurs up rich aural stories and situations and the music has a very original personal sound to it, sounding very spontanous and free in its composition and performance. A strongly recommended excellent release, you definitely got to check this out.

Limited Edition C73 Cassette Tape Album available from the GENOT CENTRE Bandcamp page here: https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/spectral-cascades

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Sonic Picks 13 German Army: Terroir Place (2018) Reviewed format: Digital Album released on Genot Centre It's a busy 2019 for me already, but I'm quite enjoying it so far, so now we're onto Sonic Pick number 13 already. This is the album Terroir Place by German Army, released in 2018 by Genot Centre. It's one of the releases that I got for free from the label as part of 4 downloads codes in the package of the IZANASZ tape SPECTRAL CASCADES (reviewed yesterday), a great generous addition that I like a lot definitely. I also received an additional 5th download code from Ondrej from Genot Centre himself after his positive reply to yesterday's review, so many thanks to everyone at Genot Centre! Terroir Place's album download features the 16 tracks of the album in 16-bit/44.1kHz CD quality, as well as the album cover in good resolution. Terroir Place is a much different album from SPECTRAL CASCADES yesterday but definitely carries some of the Industrial and mysterious ambient elements in it however. The album's 16 tracks are mostly short pieces that smoothly move from one to eachother, totalling 46 minutes of music. There is a general lo-fi vibe about all the music on Terroir Place that does indeed recall No Wave music and Minimal Synth from the 80's (mentioned in the album description on Bandcamp), but there is also quite a lot of variation throughout the album and surprisingly slick contemporary sounding tracks are also featured on the album, sometimes sounding like Industrial Techno a bit even. The album kicks off with A Dream Supplanted, a noisy crunchy Plunderphonics tapeloop manipulation that very clearly recalls sounds from The Caretaker / V/Vm and might even sound like one of the vinyl records uses by The Caretaker himself too, but it does form as a nice short intro to this album nevertheless and I like it. Then we have Interact With None which indeed feels pretty 80's Industrial influenced though with a more contemporary consistency in its lo-fi sound aesthetic. Minimalist repetitive distorted drum machine combines with delayed choppy strange male vocals and Japanese sounding ritual bells. It creates a strange kind of peaceful ambience even though the combination of elements seems more rough sounding than relaxing. The slow and minimal melody of the bells carries the music really nicely, great track. The on Uniformed Landscape things get even more ritual with tribal percussion, drone and Eastern melody accompanied by nicely sharp synth sweep, very nicely developing piece. On Control and Modify we can hear a flanged drumloop as well as filtered female vocals that sound a bit like traditional folk music as well as a flanged sweeping synth drone, pretty nice though not as well developed as other tracks. Diffusion of Youth is better though, with its very minimal sound, stuttery drum rhythm, long decaying bell sounds that are also delayed as well as reversed and put through mild saturation. A hypnotizing peaceful track that with its repeating bell pattern feels very comfortable in its vibe. Value and Migration is a short piece featuring an Asian plucked string instrument playing a pretty abstract melody as well as reversed tones and freely moving synth notes, a nice notch of mystery. Mbum Kpau is a quietly brooding piece featuring delayed analog drummachine rhythms, lowpitched vocals, an eerie sounding repeating bass synth melody as well as tense synth sweeps. The drummachine in paticular has an interestingly jolly sound to the patterns (with plenty of ride cymbal action) compared to the dark ambience of the other elements of the track which gives it a unique strange sound. Essentually Equal features fun plunderphonics action and vocal sample repetition that nowadays could fall in the Vaporwave field but the filtered drones in the background give it more 80's kind of sound, quiet danger in the background, like the predator lurking in the jungle. Terroir Place is a great Minimal Synth piece with sharp minimal synth melodies and swishy synth drums (think Kraftwerk: Autobahn) accompanying subdued low male vocals that are performed in more of a spoken kind of style, sounds good. Abipone Opposites sounds surprisingly contemporary in its production with pretty polished sound design in the drums and synths as well as a drum pattern that sounds quite like more minimal Industrial Techno. Tumbling mellow filtered synths fall through the sonic space as the thumping kicks and delayed metallic noises and sharp bass sweeps drive the music forwards. Quite a good combination of Industrial elements with the mellow ambience elements and the tinkling synths that pop up as the track moves towards its end are really nice. Ainu features some excellent distorted and reverberated drums and a hazy mysterious Eastern melody floating around like a cloud in the space which is switched up with a resonant low synth sweep in the second half. Very effective Industrial minimalism that is hypnotic and captivating and well performed, great sound. Spatial Expression is a nicely crunchy and resonant ambient Industrial track with sweet mellow synths but a bit underwhelming, it's got a good sound but feels a notch loopy. Depletion of Moral Resources then is a more urgent sounding Industrial track with some tasty heavily distorted resonant drums as well as tense fuzzy distorted pads in the background, this combined with eerie pitch manipulated voice samples and the constant screechy filter manipulation of the drums makes this track feel quite deep in a dark surreal cinematic way, warning of danger in the distance. Angry Brides is equally dark though more brooding, featuring a resonant drone, a mangled drumloop and doom-laden distorted tones in the background, very good. Adversary Impasse matches jangly distorted and delayed guitar with an Asian percussion loop but also dark and mysterious shifting resonant filtered sonic orbs creating a kind of uneasy feeling combined with the jolly guitar, great creativity in this one. Undernourished is an abstract synth experiment, it's a nice surprisingly closing track in which wild and quirky synth manipulations cut through very mellow chiming synths in the background that almost sound like tropical beach music. A great weird closing track to this varied and refreshingly creative album. Terroir Place by German Army is a great album of experimental / Industrial music that features quite a lot of variation and progression on its 16 tracks and blends 80's inspired sound work with a refined contemporary touch and the quality of the music stays on a high creative level on most tracks. I definitely recommend this album to anyone looking for good experimental music in the Industrial field that is more melodic and songbased or any listeners who want to grow into Industrial music without being thrown in the face with a lot of harshness right off the bat. Great album, check it out. Digital Album and Limited Edition C48 Cassette is available from the Genot Centre Bandcamp page here: https://genot.bandcamp.com/album/terroir-place

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Herbal Detonators - Herbal Detonators

“Herbal Detonators” is the new side project of ACR's in-house graphics designer Jan Palatý aka Izanasz. On his self-titled debut release under the new name, the Prague-based musician shows his airier, more haunting side with over 50 minutes of gently developing textural and rhythmic exploration. 

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