1. Adam Wiltzie – Eleven Fugues For Sodium Pentothal (2024) Let the first to take the helm be a living in Belgium navigator across the expanses of boundless sound. In addition to home recordings, this album required strings and an entire Hungarian orchestra. The joint effect of its complexity and surprising easiness to feel is echoed by the cover. Looking at it, it’s difficult to say anything at all without losing yourself in one of the perspectives. By the way, the title refers to sodium thiopental, a substance used as a general anesthetic. Get this album via bandcamp | spotify | deezer ..read more

Today our musical goose has chosen a mirage album for you. This is a hoax, fleeting and elusive. As you turn on this record, you will find yourself in a ghostly world made of reflections. Some of the images seem to fly from Asia Minor. Others are from mysterious India. (They write that the band’s front man is of Indian origin). Trends from Western psychedelia of the 20th century will not past your ears. Finally, it’s worth noting that the trio are actually from Melbourne. Thus you will be completely immersed in the warmth of the southern waves as well. The Glass Beams band intentionally leav ..read more

The new round of the time spiral returns 30 releases from the last months of the year 2023. Let’s inspect what saw saw the light these months, step by step. This tie, our musical goose has crossed at least 21 countries. Namely, the artists are from Afghanistan, Australia, Belarus, Italy, Iran, Ireland, France, Germany, Guatemala, Lithuania, New Zealand, Norway, Japan, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the UK and the USA. The division is a complete surprise and sheds light solely on variety of music ever arriving at the Selected Goosebumps blog. As before, we propose several ..read more

Today we listen to rock from Southern China. The name of this group can be translated as “paddling pool”. It refers to the real story of a backyard where future members of the group used to play as children. There was a puddle with tadpoles. Time passed and frogs grew out of them. The musicians grew up as well and over the course of several years they collected enough themes to make their own album out of them. These songs are mainly about growing up and facing the metamorphoses that any “specimen” undergoes. They tell about a world in which anything can happen, joy and sorrow, loneliness an ..read more

This episode is all about the moments of string at our vague past and no less vague future. The music that we are going to listen deals with shoegazing and beyond. The shoes are not necessary this time. 1. Ludalloy – Lumenari (2024) The starting point of our journey into the depths of ourselves occurs to be in the Finnish town of Seinäjoki. The music of this local band enchants in several dimensions. Here the gentle messages from autumn are followed by plunges into endless vibrations, which naturally flow into tenacious riffs. Then the noise comes, either pink or some kind of transparent ..read more

Transforming the energy into quiet power. Image by lunamontem In the ninth episode of the Continents series, we are going to listen to both acoustic and electronic, world music, ambient, and something more experimental. 1. Angophora – Together (2021) The Sydney based duo by Max Santilli and Jacob Fugar explore the moment as it is. Their music gently embraces and shares an intimate feeling. Acoustic instruments such as the guitar or smooth percussion meet electrified ones and some synths parties as well. It’s a narrow path to awareness which might be walked by any creature desiring to ..read more

Apostolos Sideris is a wonderful Greek musician, bassist and composer who interacts with several elements at once. Educated at Berkeley, he set out in search of the enchanting Mediterranean waves. His double bass served as the perfect instrument for this lifelong journey. Along the way, he assembled a team of gifted artists who had valuable skills in their baggage. Apostolos’ collection of treasures is impressive. Some are from Turkey, some from the Middle East, and there are also finds from more distant parts of the world. Let us just mention the participants. Argentine jazz pianist Leo Gen ..read more

Today we discover an extravagant quartet from Maastricht. Whether you expect to hear something that sounds European, shake off that anticipation and trust the imagination of these guys. A tiny gate to a parallel universe opens while you are listening to YĪN YĪN. Asia is bursting with lush colors, although such sounds could hardly have appeared in Japan or Vietnam. Looking from the other side, you’ll catch the wind from the Wild West. This is how two completely unrelated worlds meet each other. I also imagined something Turkish, but as soon as I tried to catch this phantom, it dissipated imme ..read more

Do you miss good upbeat rock? There’s an album for you that hasn’t gone viral but definitely deserves this. Listen to “Ominous Prominence” entirely. It worth it as not every time an album has so smooth and well made stuff. They did it without failures or any boredom. At the same time, the songs are quite diverse. Fans of the guitar sound will find catchy riffs, soft distortion and synths that fit perfectly into the context. It turns out that the team breaks out of raw punk into the realms of kraut and space rock. Let’s politely bypass any references and go down to the basement where these gu ..read more

Today’s spring episode consists of 4 romantic opuses by the artists who explore the feelings and share their passion with us. 1. Raffael Seyfried – Lines Of Flight (2022) Let’s start our story with this album by the German composer. It is currently the latest one to date and the velvet blue circle on its cover is almost filled. The music has also obtained fullness and power. As we can see, not everything is completed yet, which means there is a lot ahead. Get this album via bandcamp | spotify | deezer | apple | youtube 2. Oskar Tena – Fragmentos (2023) Then, we are listening to this ent ..read more