'Anthology Of Experimental Music From Canada is part of the 'Sound Mapping project' published by ©Unexplained Sounds Group, and featuring anthologies of music from the African continent, the Middle East region, Latina America continent, Persia, Lebanon, Indonesia, China, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, South Africa, Finland, the Balkan region.
released August 6, 2024
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BANDCAMP (The Best Experimental Music on Bandcamp: August 2024)
Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group compiles interesting experimental music from places all over the world, including Lebanon, Japan, Persia, Peru, and more. Their latest anthology features 15 artists from Canada, offering a pretty wide range of fascinating sounds. Much of it is drone-based and seems generated with electronics, but the amount of territory covered is impressive given those parameters. There are mesmerizing held tones, waves of ambience, hints of busy field recordings, and swells that evoke movie soundtracks. Kaunsel’s “Geometry Problems” has a mechanistic beat that’s like abstract dance music; e. dulanowsky’s “Time to Go Outside” ripples like an unidentified outer space transmission; Kuma’s “An Ending Given Human Form” suggests the far-off sounds of an ancient ritual. Every track has a little story to tell, making Anthology of Experimental Music from Canada as much of an experience as a sampler.
Luminous Dash
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Bepi Crespan
The Anthology of Experimental Music From Canada is the latest in a series of regional or country-specific collections from Unexplained Sounds Group. Each ‘Anthology’ is an audio adventure in its own right. As with other USG anthologies and local experimental music collections from the past, the styles represented here are numerous: from the drones of Clinker and Mark Hjorthoy, to cinematic pieces by Richard Begin and Kuma; from cinematic pieces with interspersed field recordings from Michael Trommer and Au Vol, to outright noisy romps delivered by Sound Is Energy, John Oliver, Brandon Auger, Dan Potter, and Jacob Audrey Taves. Whether you’re a community radio programmer or not, the Anthology of Experimental Music From Canada is a great introduction to some of the most challenging and left-field music being made in Canada today.
Ver Sacrum
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This Is Darkness
With a delightful range of musical styles, the 15 talented musicians each offer something different – from dark ambient to drone, to experimental electronica, and even abstract dance – and yet the album retains a single sense of identity and sound… testament to the skill of Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst) who curated and mastered the album. Superb!
Avant Music News
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Blow Up
Vittore Baroni dedicated two pages to the tireless activity of the Unexplained Sounds Group, giving substantial space to one of the label’s most defining projects, the ‘sound mapping,’ an almost encyclopedic endeavor that has so far covered, counting only physical releases, more than twenty countries or geographical areas. The goal is exploratory but even more one of discovery, making the enterprise all the more commendable, as it focuses on names that are little to entirely unknown. In the section dedicated to Canada, with the usual balance, the journey traverses various drone proposals such as Clinker, with tapes buzzing in Teslas Opening Of THEARC For The Awakening, with dark hues and metallic residues in Notions élémentaires de correspondance by Richard Bégin, or a distinctly dark ambient tone in Aether Pilot. As usual, it does not hesitate to span distant poles, from the ambient essence of Michael Trommer, Kuma, Mark Hjorthoy, with the glitch particles of A Heart Full Of Hollow Wounds which take form in Brandon Auger, to more challenging episodes, from John Oliver's industrial roots to the unfiltered experimentation of Jacob Audrey Taves and Sound Is Energy, from e.dulanowsky's minimalism to the plagiarist piece I Don’t Recall by Dan Potter. [7.5] Paolo Bertoni
Published by ©Unexplained Sounds Group.
Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).
Layout by Matteo Mariano.
Cat. Num. USG099.
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