what are SteamGifters listening lately?

Vampillia - my beautiful twisted nightmares in aurora rainbow darkness
https://open.spotify.com/album/20ZGNTdhRfQfcDPi0JFfWg

Indian Reservation

(followed shortly thereafter by...)

Come Out and Play

OK, maybe they're not happy tracks, but both are definitely worth remembering and thinking about.

Maxim Lubarsky (piano) Alexei Tsiganov (vibes) Yulia Musayelyan (flute) Fernando Huergo (bass) Pablo Bencid (drums)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDfXYOVyKHk

Tengger Cavalry - Universe & Shaman

Tengger Cavalry - War Horse

The answer to your question would be : my boss yelling for no reason... Not the best music still...

Two of the better 60s/70s psych collector albums. In pre Internet times, record collecting was more exciting than it is today. Somehow, you would have got hold of an address which would (paper!) mail you an obscure fanzine or mail order catalogue and there would maybe be an advert in it with yet another address and an even more obscure mail order catalogue at the end of it...Like a treasure hunt and finally coming across a record you had been looking for after months or even years carried a real sense of achievement!

A psychedelia mail order catalogue would have these mouthwatering one line descriptions of some album rarity you had never heard of as a "deranged mind melting acid fuzz monster packed with incandescent riffing distilled from hot lava" or similar...You would want to find out more and then see the price tag, which could be anything up to several thousand dollars..so much for finding out more, but clearly the experience would endow the album with a certain mystique in your mind and you would often wonder what acoustic holy grail you were missing...

Then TBL invented the Internet, and the bubble popped. Is it a surprise most of these albums turned out to be from high school bands choosing to release 250 copies of their basement rehearsal quality noodlings so they could say they had made a record? Probably to no one. Since then I have felt older, more cynical, and faintly resentful I have been forced to accept Santa doesn't exist. Even so, some of these collector "monsters" contain decent tunes and atmosphere (be prepared for filler), and are definitely worth a (free!) listen if you are interested in the genre.

Try these two if this sounds interesting

Ant Trip Ceremony - 24 Hours
(Favourite tracks: Four in the morning, Riverdawn, Violets of dawn)

Phantasia - S/T
(Favourite track: I talk to the moon)

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Dermot Kennedy - Moments Passed

MrSuicideSheep!

Huun Huur Tu - Altai Sayan Tandy-Uula

"Two years ago, we made an appointment. Now we are coming with this Nirvana phoenix to keep everyone waiting. "

Enticing. And this is actually very good. It's the debut album by a Chinese blackgaze band. The atmosphere is distinct, with elements such as throat singing (to link to the post above this) and Shakuhachi flutes (or their Chinese equivalent) as well as inspiration from "the Buddhist tradition". If most blackgaze is too much black and too little gaze for you, this might do the trick as the metal weighting is certainly not overwhelming. Delightful.

To any Chinese speakers - Is "Shinrabansho" meaningful in Chinese? It looks like a Japanese transcription of the characters to me (the second one doesn't seem to be a kanji), but in all fairness I know no Chinese and pretty much no Japanese. "Forest of many phenomena"? These languages are so difficult.

虚极 (BLISS-ILLUSION) -森 罗万象 (Shinrabansho)

Last couple of albums by Within Temptation. I discovered them just recently and instantly fell in love with the sound! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy8V0n4-jXU

Darci - Life

I love this music video

Sixx:A.M. - Prayers For The Damned

Darci - Won't

Rhian Sheehan - Between Us & The Dying Starlight

Illenium - God Damnit (ft. Call Me Karizma)

Trainwreck of Electro Swing
It's a bop

12AM - No Good 4 U