Eclectic Vibes
by Andrew Frey
Dreamscape - 5th Season
Dreamscape5th Season
Label: Locomotive Records
Progressive metal from Munich, Germany portrayed with theatrics and grandeur. The male vocals are sung with just the right finesse between intense and emotive plus the headbanging grooves are parted with a friendly amount of atmospheric interludes.
• Dreamscape Website • Dreamscape WikiFarmer's Market - Surfin’ USSR
Farmer's MarketSurfin’ USSR
Label: Ipecac Recordings
Improbable permutations of traditional Bulgarian melodies along with jazz, folk, and rock that have been percolated to oblique perfection. The songs often lead with uptempo folk rhythms that are broken with soundtrack-ish ambiance and other delightful distractions.
• Farmer's Market Website • Farmer's Market WikiID Guinness - Cure For The Common Crush
ID GuinnessCure For The Common Crush
Label: Guinness Records
A creative Canadian dripping on the goss of Bowie and Pink Floyd via his anthemic psychedelic rock platitudes with ambient quagmires and juxtapositions of frilly frivolity ultimately producing sustained excitement.
• ID Guinness WebsiteMannhai - Hellroad Caravan
MannhaiHellroad Caravan
Label: Locomotive Spain Records
Heavy groove rockers from Finland with ex-Amorphis front man Pasi Koskinen handling the vocal crooning and cajoling. Their stoner rhythms have a tendency of headbanging their way into my heart and CD player.
• Mannhai Website • Mannhai WikiVanishing Point - The Fourth Season
Vanishing PointThe Fourth Season
Label: Locomotive Records
Australian born melodic metal with synth and actual singing. Hints of goth and a mixture of progressive and power metal elements manage to magnificently funnel the guitar riffs into a formidable force that has been seen around the globe.
• Vanishing Point Website • Vanishing Point WikiYellworc - Icolation
YellworcIcolation
Label: Metropolis Records
Dark and creepy gothic industrial perturbed by prickly electronic tantalizations of unforeseen atmospheres in a realm of unrequited synthetic love and hate. Icolaiton is the conceptual continuation of the infernal “Trinity- journey.”
• Yellworc Website • Yellworc WikiAfter All - This Violent Decline
After AllThis Violent Decline
Label: Locomotive Records
Sturdy, powerful, galloping, and thrash-attacking guitar riffs propel this head banging Belgium juggernaut. The vocals are gruff, but understandable and quite appropriate, for the power metal they purvey.
• After All WebsiteBleeder Project - The Systematic Subversion of Fear and Insecurity
Bleeder ProjectThe Systematic Subversion of Fear and Insecurity
Label: Toystaar Records
Gabriel Scott is the prolific front man at the helm of this project that focuses on heavy industrial rock and strong early Nine Inch Nails-like angst with pop hooks to it.
• The Bleeder Project WebsitePutumayo Presents - African Party
Putumayo PresentsAfrican Party
Label: Putumayo World Music
Celebrating Putumayo’s 15th Anniversary with a great compilation that pays tribute to the spirit of the music that inspired the label’s inception. With 20 million CDs sold, Putumayo’s world music party has been a global hit and “African Party” is another to add their list of success.
• Putumayo Presents Website • Putumayo Presents WikiJamshied Sharifi - One
Jamshied SharifiOne
Label: Ceres Records
Ambient world atmospheres blend into trance imaginations as this release conscientiously crosses paradoxical global musical boundaries. This prolific and award winning multi instrumentalist and composer utilizes a smorgasbord of high profile guest musicians to become “One.’
• Jamshied Sharifi Website • Jamshied Sharifi WikiJann Klose - Reverie
Jann KloseReverie
Label: 3 Frames Music
Framed by his multi-continental global up-bringing (Born in Germany, relocated to Kenya, then South Africa, Ohio and New York), this impressive singer and songwriter displays a wide variety of soulful ballads and emotive light rock ditties culled from a number of recording sessions with a variety of musicians.
• Jann Klose Website • Jann Klose WikiMustasch - The Latest Version of the Truth
MustaschThe Latest Version of the Truth
Label: Regain Records
Rip snortin’ hard n’ heavy rock ‘n roll that, at times, reminds me of newer Metallica, but with much more diversity and integrity. These refined rockers have even been nominated for a Swedish Grammy!
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