The best curated musical festival and most courageous started yesterday with the amazing act of Iran’s Sote in Polland’s Krakow. Ata Etbekar brought a vision of solidarity to this year’s Unsound: blending the new and the old, the analog with digital: the Persian folklore instruments, namely Tar and Lute, with various versions of their electronic elaborated synthesized counterparts. The beauty of Sote is also the flagship Zabte Sote label, the academic artifacts of Ata Etbekar, who teaches, leads and builds a new generation of Iranian composers in the field of electronic experimentalism.

"Tonal Transfigurations" dwelves into the industrial music, drones, noise, modularism, IDM, spectral and hyperspectral and other types of obsessive music. Some of these are born into music research institutes, thus the case of spectralism explored within the "Ciprian Porumbescu" institute in Romania or other timbre altering research stories from IRCAM in Paris or the Tape Music Centre in San Francisco; some of the unheard music is celebrated within versatile festivals such as Atonal, CTM, Terraforma and Unsound.

RVNG: ‘According to writer and long-time friend of LeGuin, Moe Bowstern (who pens the liners for the Freedom To Spend edition of Kesh), Barton built and then taught himself to play several instruments of Le Guin’s design, among them “the seven-foot horn known to the Kesh as the Houmbútaand the Wéosai Medoud Teyahi bone flute.” Barton’s crafting of original instruments lends an other-worldly texture to the recordings of the Kesh, not unlike fellow builders Bobby Brown and Lonnie Holley. Bowstern notes, “Other musician / makers have crafted their own Kesh instruments after encountering the earlier cassette recordings that accompanied some editions of the book.”’

This year's Unsound thema is "Flower Power" a counterculture exercise which honors topics related to main humanity spaces of interaction: time, nature, (a)social media, technology and drugs. All in the slightly dark spirit of Unsound: a world of bliss and pain that curates on the edge music, visual art, philosophy and movies.  Mat Schulz is the artistic director and co-founder of the festival that has transformed again Krakow's venues in a hub of on the edge performances and installations. 

RVNG:
'Syrinx’s Tumblers From The Vault will be released in October 2016 as triple LP set, double CD, and digital formats. An accompanying documentary about Syrinx by artist and filmmaker Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty will screen selectively."'

RVNG:
'Helado Negro’s Private Energy will be re-introduced to the public via RVNG Intl. in expanded form on May 5, 2017, appearing on vinyl for the first time alongside new CD and digital editions. Supplemented with three brand new “versions,” this iteration of Private Energy will continue the strong narrative of Helado Negro’s spectral and transmissive 2016 opus."'

“My brown me is the shade that’s just for me / I’m never not missing anything but me, “the song’s lyrics state, offering insight into the infinite possible variations for individuality and self-invention that animates the music and ethos of Private Energy.'

Third edition of the Electronic Experimental Night is happening this week in Bucharest's Control. Be sure to make it.

Following the latest album, ‘No Further Ahead Than Today, on 4th November 2016 through his label Scripted Realities, Ulrich Schnauss expresses a renewed interest in more direct electronic sounds, and aims to substitute traditional verse-chorus-verse structures for more freeform atmospherics.

Created in 1998, architect has always been a mixture of many styles, from bass music to techno, from ambient to breaks, all inexhaustibly explored by german mastermind daniel myer, who has been connected but never belonged to a host of scenes and styles.

Electronic music artist, Victor Popescu, aka BLN (Brazda lui Novac) started his solo project in 1997. His latest and the third album is “Moldern”, while the second came out at Raumklang Music Records label (DE) in 2013.

"The goal of Grant Phabao and RacecaR's collaboration was not from day one to be in competition with their other projects, or to jump on the beatmaking bandwagon, but instead to explore where both of their musical worlds could meet. What if they tried recording one's hip hop rhymes over the other's reggae, ska, afro, jazz or funk productions ?Exploring some new rare grooves with rhyming and rapping, is uncharted waters in terms of tempo for a boom-bap aficionado ! indeed there's no boom bap here, no maverick beats, no wonky, no wobble — all breaks, skanks, drops and more polyrhythmics. The word was : "let's turn our worlds upside down, and make something different together"."

RVNG Brooklyn:
"Sunergy brings together synthesists Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani for the thirteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG Intl.’s intergenerational collaboration series.

For this edition, a panorama of the Pacific Coast provides the place and head space for exploratory Buchla synthesizer passages that meditate on a life-giving form vast and volatile with change.

In comes GAIKA, a phenomenon clearly rooted in this socio-political ungenreficable musical stream. It is the most special fusion. Not quite Vybz Kartel’s auto-tune dancehall, nor Roll Deep’s and Boy Better Know’s solid state grime, his sound bridges the gap between strange rap and droney-electro.

Zece ani mai tarziu, Grimus isi spune povestea si live, aceasta urmand a fi sarbatorita printr-un concert aniversar ce va avea loc la Arenele Romane din Bucuresti, in cort incalzit, pe 26 februarie.

Cei sase clujeni vor avea alaturi invitati, artisti si trupe prietene cu care au impartit scena de-a lungul celor zece ani de istorie Grimus, dar si fosti membri din vremurile de inceput ale formatiei.

Trupa timișoreană JazzyBIT lansează astăzi cel de-al doilea album din carieră. "Horizon" poate fi ascultat și cumpărat (CD fizic sau în formă digitală) de pe pagina de Bandcamp a formației: jazzybit.bandcamp.com

Trupa Crowd Control lansează primul clip de pe mixtape-ul Loud Blood Youth, colaborarea cu Rodion G.A Paradox, întâlnirea a două lumi, trecutul muzicii electronice românești cu noul val de indie-electro.