“Think of other peoples futures; but never think of your own.”
George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (1912)

miniMATTHEW has written this above his 51st song, Let’s Loose

It’s part of The Ballad Of miniMATTHEW, that is a continuous story. He has been releasing a new song on every second Sunday since February 2009. All tracks are available to download for free. He adds a quotation to every song. The first for „Opening Night”

“Only vanity makes people take risks.”
Yukio Mishima – Confessions Of A Mask (1948)

He comes from a part of England where the newspapers still don’t carry the previous nights football results. Terrible!

Last Good Teeth

Indie folk from the Blue Ridge Mountains through New York. EEEeee

from the album Not Without Work And Rest by Team Love Records

Magical experimental folk pop

The Mutual Benefit is Jordan Lee and his sprawling collective, depending on where he is and who is around that day.  Golden Wake

from his debut album Love’s Crushing Diamond by Other Music Recordings. It was recorded on the way and Austin, Boston and Saint Louis with various mates.

Aussie big city folk in electro-acoustic junk pop style, spiced with ambient garbage. Maybe the instruments and the tunes are from a dump or the Moon, where is „A place wherein is wonderfully stored / Whatever on our earth below we lose. / Collected there are all things whatsoe’er, / Lost through time, chance, or our own folly, here.”* The sound is like as if it would come straight from a trashcan. Perfect.

Orlando Furious – ‘Popular’ cassette or digital EP by Cinnamon Records

*fragment from Orlando Furioso: Canto 34/LXXIII by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

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Xiu Xiu is a famous experimental band. Many times on many site I red that it’s very good and very artistic, so I tried to make friends with their music, but it didn’t work. „Interesting” – thought about the previous Nina Simone cover album, but I will never listen to it again. Thanks, but there’re the originals. I have listened to their new album many times. Electronic noise, melancholic melodies, goth style lamentation, screams and cries. That’s all and not more. Too good and too artistic for me.

Angel Guts: Red Classroom LP by Polyvinyl (US) and Bella Union (UK)

A Belgian beer + a terrorist + a Finnish composer in a French man: Orval Carlos Sibelius. Once he played abstract electronic dance music, but now making very good psychedelic folk pop with 70’s British psych folk feeling and a little bit of surf influence. Asteroids

from the album „Super Forma” by Clapping Music. It was recorded 3 years ago.

Orval Carlos Sibelius: vox, electric, acoustic and bass guitars, drums, percussions, organ, electric piano, synthetizers, oud, guzheng, ukelin, autoharp, glockenspiel, tamboa, charango. All songs are written by him.

Sultan Bathery
1. is a town in Wayanad district of Kerala, India. Sulthan Bathery is situated at about 930 metres above mean sea level. One can find beautiful folded hills across the horizon. The climate is pleasant throughout the year.

2. is another brand new, young, fresh and amazing garage rock band from Italy. Debut LP by Slovenly

+ Wildmen / Sultan Bathery split 7″ by Surfin’ Ki Records. Preview

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The Lowest Pair is a duo of two banjo artists, Kendl Winter and Palmer T. Lee from the bluegrass band, Boys’n The Barrels. Intimate bluegrass & country melodies.

36¢ – CD and digital album by Team Love Records

A Tree In A Field is a Swiss independent record label.
Among their latest 4 releases perhaps this is the most special one

doomenfels – epilog

Very difficult to define Dominic Oppliger’s throbbing, ringing, rattling, jangling and clacking music. Doom or dark folk, but in this case the folk means that the music and the records were made by cheap equipment in a cellar. Well, consequently it’s underground doom folk. With medieval feeling for me, but maybe it’s only my fantasy (or my soul?) born feeling. Yes, fantasy and soul, this music requires those from you. Sometimes I also imagine a very little mystic Indian mood there. This music has a special sacral character, as if it would be a private religious music. The cover shows the doomenfelsian Paradise for you, where a satisfied, smiling hippo is lying on a tree’s branches, where the only sign of the humans is a towel, but maybe it’s stolen by a monkey with a big nose.

This EP reminds me the last line of Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut:

„You want to know something?
We are still in the Dark Ages.
The Dark Ages — they haven’t ended yet.”

More Trees In A Field

At first there was an unlucky name: Pangea. It has changed to a stupid one: together Pangea. Bay area soft garage rock.

Badillac LP by Harvest Records

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Gianni Giublena Rosacroce is the solo project of Stefano Isaia. He is known as the singer of the great Italian rock’n’roll band, Movie Star Junkies. Dedalo666, his mate in this project is also from the mentioned band. They make together mystic East-Mediterranean and North-African style* music on piano, marimba, clarinet, cans, glasses, bass and acoustic guitars, drums and percussions. (*Except for the first song, it’s an Indochinese theme.)
Maria Violenza is a Sicilian, who makes electronic music under the influence of her homeland’s mixed cultural heritage. She has written: electro// arabian//punk. I say: lo-fi dark arabesque synth punk.

Gianni Giublena Rosacroce / Maria Violenza split LP by NO=FI Recording (Rome), Lemming (Taranto), Escape From Today (Torino) & Brigadisco Records (Itri)

More music from signorina Violenza. A full show video.

The „vintage rocker” Michael Yonkers is one of the greatest hidden underground musicians like Seasick Steve, who won the Award for Best Breakthrough Act at his age of 66, or the 81 years old bluesman, Leo Welch with his debut album. Yonkers was born in Minneapolis in 1947. He has been making music since the early 60s, self-releasing some albums in the 70s, and stayed fully unknown until 2003. Then his unreleased album, the Microminiature Love, which was recorded in 1968 was released by de Stijl and Sub Pop. And boom. Fresh, fascinating psychedelic garage rock with a very unique sound, thanks to own made effects and a reshaped Fender Telecaster. It’s „like a fusion of stripped down Black Sabbath, The Troggs, Pere Ubu, and The Cramps.” It also comes the Stooges, the Godz and Joy Division to my mind. His previous albums would be reissued one after the other beside his new and unreleased materials.  Among his new stuff there are two collabs with the garage punk band, Blind Shake.

A marvellous acoustic chamber folk album The Borders Of My Mind with Jim Woehrle from 1974 is the brand new reissue by Drag City. Look!

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Texan harsh punk on drums, guitar and electronics. Burnt Skull

Sewer Birth LP by 12Xu

Special Swiss lo-fi doom folk by the one man act Doomenfels. Jahreszithen

from Epilog EP by A Tree In A Field Records

French-Canadian maximal noir minimal synth’n’strings

Essaie Pas – Nuit de Noce EP by Teenage Menopause

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Loretta Lucas is an indie folk singer-songwriter from Detroit. Digital single