Moving Sand - "Secret Garden"

Jazzy P.J. Harvey (9/10) Le genre est plutôt multitendances, un peu de jazz, de folk de blues, la toile de fond est intimiste .le groupe est composé de quatre musiciens venants d'univers musicaux très différents.La toile de fond du groupe est la création d'une ambience intimiste. I don't know where others hear folk on this album. It's ridiculous. I feel as if I listened to a different recording. It's a jazz rock album without even smallest traces of folk. Nevertheless, it's really great rock album. Instrumental parts are very fine. The singer reminds me of P.J. Harvey and I love such dirty way of singing. So much is happening throughout each track that you want to listen to it again immediately after the album ends. Well done! [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Myspace]

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Nationale2 - "Painful Experiment"

Intelligent minimalistic electronica (8/10) Painful Experiment is a resolutely electronica album. It was entirely composed with a Roland MC-303, a vocoder MAM VF-11 and a speak and spell. Painful Experiment is probably, to date, the concept of the more intimate Nationale2. Folded back on itself after the loss of two years' compositions, because of the crash of a HDD, he began a return to the source with the machine's most controversial by the purists when it was released. Intelligent minimalistic electronica. When someone is creative, he does not need much equipment. Thank you for sharing your work. [mirror @ archive.org] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation on this page - use the button "Donate" in the upper left corner.

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Moving Sand - "Gray Cell"

Dolores O'Riordan meets P.J. Harvey (9/10) Album a tendance accoustique mettant en avant l'harmonie du chant et les textes. Creé dans un petit home studio avec du matériel plutôt sommaire.Vous souhaitons un beau voyage dans le monde de Moving sand A very powerful recording. I recommend it to every fan of intelligent rock music (I do not like a word "alternative" - who said crap is "regular" and good music is "alternative"?). I love the way everything is mixed on this album - an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, great percussion work, a Jew's harp, great female vocals, traces of jazz, instrumental improvisations. Oh, and one more thing - this whole "folk" thing. This album has nothing to do with folk music. Use of an acoustic guitar and a Jew's harp does not turn something into folk. I wonder if these "folks" ;-) that tag it as "folk" listened to a single one folk album in their life. I doubt it. [mirror @ archive.org] | [Artist's Myspace]

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Nationale2 - "19901999"

Nice straightforward techno (8/10) The album entitled 19901999 is a compilation of songs composed between 1990 and 1999 that were never marketed. N2 has selected titles that took the most heart and not lost any of their power despite the passage of time. Nice straightforward techno - minimalistic, but not primitive. Just check it out. [mirror @ archive.org] SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTISTS If you like this album and you can afford it, consider supporting the artist by making a donation.

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Lobotomia - "Kazik to ..."

Maybe next time (5/10)

Very short two-track minialbum from the Polish rock band Lobotomia. The first song is a pitiful attack on one of the greatest Polish rock singer-songwriters, Kazik Staszewski. Some of Kazik's recent actions are truly controversial, but this song is clearly reckoned on causing a scandal and gaining notoriety this way. Their whole idea of making fun of Kazik is based on calling him a prick. Wow... how creative. Bad production completes the picture. The second track is far more interesting. Forgettable lyrics do not get in the way this time and the music is quite catchy and better produced. But the funny thing is that so hated Kazik is their direct influence to the point of slavish copying of the style of his band Kult. They should really rethink their promotion strategy, because they obviously can do better than that. The album has been self-released by the band and is available for downloading at mediafire.com file-sharing website in mp3 format.

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