#120 Lucidity

I've been waiting for the release of the album I'm about to quickly present you for a long, long time...meaning years. Frankly said, I will be quite biased in my comment because it is the second album of one of my closest friends. His name is Daniel - a great friend, multi-instrumentalist, producer and a musical inspiration (to me)... and  on top of that he is quite young given his musical maturity.  The guy plays ....God knows how many instruments and sings quite well (which you will hear in the album). Heptagram - a one-man project is his and it totally kicks ass.

Basically, the album Lucidity is recorder by him with the assistance of a few other musicians - you can hear very interesting combinations between the usual rock instruments and saxophone/kaval (a traditional Bulgarian instrument). You can find out more about it at his bandcamp site! Also, you can download the whole album for free or decide how much are you willing to pay for it - it is up to you. As far as I know from my personal conversations with him, he just wants to spread the music out there and... its for whoever you like it.

Regarding the album, I had the opportunity to listen to it 3-4 times and now I'm focusing on abusing the replay button of specific songs, but of course it is up to you whether you are going to like it. My only piece of advice and personal recommendation is to listen to it once from the beginning to the end - you won't miss out. Even if it is not your cup of tea, the album is pretty diverse in my opinion - there are various musical genre influences which you can find through the songs.

ps. my personal favourites so far are Boundless, Ten Foot Samurai, Heritage and Lucidity... just for the record ;)

#74 First breath after come /post-rock/

I just checked my last.fm page and I noticed that there is a song I played significantly more than any other song..so I played it again. And again. People describe it as psychedelic math rock (The music is often intended to have a disorienting or destabilizing effect, or to otherwise act on the listeners’ sense of “normalcy”) - you gotta love that description, right? It is not really music for the masses but hey, its pretty cool once you get into it. 

The band is Giraffes? Giraffes! - When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme. ...haha

Ok, now let's throw some post-rock in the mix.. Explosions in the sky, which hopefully I will see live in November - First breath after coma

aaaand something a bit more hard Russian Circles - Station

#8 Adrenological /alternative, progressive rock/

Okay, despite the fact I should do something like reggae/hiphop, will post you probably the most listened bands by me in the past couple of years. They definitely rocked my last.fm page quite a lot. Ah, yeah I would classify them as a weird mixture between alternative, progressive and my favourite label - shoegazing (cannot not love that name). Not sure if they actually are related to shoegazing but, cmon - you gotta admit its a fucking cool name for a music genre!

Dredg - saw them live a couple of years ago. Before that I really liked them, now I love them. I really cannot post just a couple of videos so I'm gonna list my top songs. Hope you enjoy them.

dredg - bugeyes
dredg - information
dredg - catch without arms
dredg - zebraskin
dredg - spitshine
dredg - ode to the sun
dredg - hungover on a tuesday
dredg - matroshka

Ok, next are my other favourites - Oceansize. Amazing musicians, and I would definitely kill to see them live. The numbers of songs I would recommend are also quiet a lot, so I'm gonna list some of them. In general, I would advice to listen to the band in a quiet and calm environment, some of their songs are really relaxing and ... sounds funny but...deep (bleah).

Oceansize - Commemorative T-shirt
Oceansize - Trail of fire
Oceansize - Women who love men who love drugs
Oceansize - Savant
Oceansize - Amputee
Oceansize - New pin
Oceansize - Legal teens
Oceansize - Heaven alive

Third, but not last I decided to post a definitely less popular project than the bands above, called Cire. Nevertheless, the two guys are extremely talented.

Cire - Adrenological

Just to write a little conclusion, cause I really care a lot about those bands - in my opinion, everyone, even people who in general do not listen to that kind of music, can find a little piece for themselves in that music. It's all about environment. Anyway, maybe I shouldn't go that poetic. I'm playing adrenological and posting this thing out there.