Happy Cyber Monday to all of those who partake. We’re assuming that our in office internet woes today were due to all the deals deals deals. Anyway, better late than never, here is today’s tune to get your week started. Who says you can’t start the week at the end of the day Monday? Not us. From the UK we have Guild Theory and their tune “Cackled Smile.” The duo of Rob Lewis and Matt Smith (probably not the Doctor Who one, but who are we to stifle your imagination while listening) have crafted something along the lines of Deftones minus the heavy parts. Does that work though? All that brooding tension without release? Yes. Yes it does. Melodic and, well not sinister, but certainly a tad dark, it’s a hypnotic feel that stays with you. I guess what we’re trying to say is it’s cool and it’s perfect for coming out of the gluttonous haze of the weekend and/or looking over your credit card statement next month.
Week Starter – Guild Theory
Wordless Wednesdays
With the world wide word shortage due to Wordle becoming “a whole thing,” we’re doing our part by presenting you with two new instrumental tracks from Captain Rico & The Ghost Band and John DiStase Music.
Play Listy For Me – Experimental, Instrumental & Ambient Vol. 4
Tune in and bliss out with this collection of compositions existing beyond the dimensions of your “pop” and “rock” or “roll.”
Play Listy For Me – Experimental, Ambient & Instrumental Vol. 3
We realize now we should’ve posted this playlist yesterday on 4/20 but everyday is the right day to expand your musical horizons and your mind maaaaaaaan.
Play Listy For Me – Experimental, Ambient & Instrumental Vol. 2
Whether you’re looking for tranced out bliss, experimental electronica, jazz rock or something in between this playlist has it. Leave the easy melodies and conventional verse / chorus life behind for a spell and take a trip beyond.
Fasman’s Finds – Hiroshi Yoshimura
It’s been a little over a year of Covid-19 lockdowns. A year of sickness and fear and death and not having access to the ways we usually deal with those things. I’ve been particularly tired/overtaxed this past week, and don’t want to listen to anything with words, or anything fast, or anything that has a traditional song structure. And so I’ve been dipping into one of my favorite albums of all time, Hiroshi Yoshimura‘s Music for Nine Postcards. This album is from 1982, and Hiroshi wrote it to correspond to 9 windows at the Hara Museum in Tokyo, where the album was first played in person.
There is something so special to the iterative concept of this album; Yoshimura is the center, and as his views change, so do his moods, moving from melancholy to sweet, humble to excited, desirous to content. Though it all, he demonstrates such consideration, care, and love for this space, both architectural space and the sonic space he creates. I can’t say enough good things about all of Yoshimura’s work, but as this is the first album I heard of his, this holds a special place in my heart/brain/body. Hope it will in yours too.
Friday 5×5
Today’s 5×5 is on the chill side, so dim the lights and check out new music from Trauma Cat, M.E. Netzke, Von Hayes, Bedrooms and Steven Kattenbraker, and our minimalist descriptions thereof.
Play Listy For Me – New Experimental, Ambient & Instrumental Volume 1
Take a midweek break with these expansive tunes to reconnect you with the infinite and/or the personal. It’s all the experimental, ambient and instrumental tracks we’ve talked about the last few weeks, plus a few bonus tracks.