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Genre: Soundtrack

Despite the strange name, the French artist Butterfly Tea, or Olivier Renouard, has a discography of 7 albums full of gripping music that sounds like they came straight from a soundtrack of some sort. The music is orchestral and symphonic; alas however, the tracks are rather too short, most of them averaging around a minute or so in length.

Out of 7 albums, 5 of them focus on different themes. Magical and Fantasy Musics provides, as the title itself states, music that seems very fitting for a fantasy film. Ethnic Flavor provides an insight to different ethnicities, some of them not necessarily human. Adventure Action is full of gripping tunes that would fit in well with an action film. Drama - Emotion is an apt title itself to the describe the music, as it contains emotional music fitting for any emotional scenes or climaxes in films. Electro Synthe is Butterfly Tea’s take on electronic music, providing an album which is a weird combination of electronic music and orchestral effects that actually works very well.

The other 2 albums are compilations or reworks of Butterfly Tea’s other albums. Medley Best Of is composed of 5 tracks, each of them a long medley of his music according to a particular style. The HEAVENz BUTTERFLIEz is an album where most of his older tracks are reworked. In my opinion, this is his best album, not only because some of the tracks are slightly longer, but also because there is a definite improvement in the sound.

The albums may be downloaded from Jamendo from the links below:

Medley Best Of

Ethnic Flavor

Electro Synthe

Drama - Emotion

Adventure Action

Magical and Fantasy Musics

The HEAVENz BUTTERFLIEz

Genre: solo piano

Maya Filipič is a Slovenian artist from Ljubljana. Her first released album, Between Two Worlds, is described as a two-part album, where the first part is more recent and inspired by Ljubljana, and the second part is made up of older compositions.

The album is very relaxing, using dynamics very well and flitting from quick, melodic pacings to slow, atmospheric pauses. Although the album should be listened to in its entirety, the Stories From Emona series, Forever and Prelude in G Major are amongst my favourites.

The album may be downloaded from Jamendo by clicking this link.

Genre: Punk, Electronic

For those of you who frequently follow the blog, Avenpitch have been mentioned before. In fact, they had some of their songs featured in the Twin Cities Electropunk Compilations.

Todd Millenacker contacted me recently to send me a 10 track sampler available on Avenpitch’s website. It contains some tracks already featured on the Electropunk Compilations, but also some tracks from their older albums and their latest, upcoming album Cast Off.

Millenacker has very specific voice, but it works very well with Avenpitch’s sound. Nothing has quite a heavy riff as a chorus, and remains quite dissonant and dystopian during the verses. Jack The Idiot Dance, one of my particular favourites, is catchy and upbeat, as are Maybe I Was Wrong and Pregnant Pause, two songs from Avenpitch’s latest album Cast Off. Songs like Hacienda and Reactor are slower, more ballad-type songs which still work well.

The ten track sampler may be downloaded as 192kbps mp3s from Avenpitch’s official site over here.

Genre: Experimental, Electronic

Aptly named vocaltronica, That Crooner From Nowhere is Al Da Tosta’s solo vocal project. Every sound made on this album comes from Tosta’s mouth, or so it seems.

It seems that on This is Vocaltronica!, Tosta dabbles in different styles, from soundscapes, to funk. An innovative project, I expect to see more of Tosta’s work in the future.

Tracks of note include Donamiao’s Funky Panda, Happiness in Hell and Fun Fat Fun.

This album may be downloaded from the Internet Archives from here.

Genre: Folk, Acoustic, Ambient

Julia Kotowski has released a relaxing album called Hydrophobia. She plays all the instruments featured on this album and sings too. Spending hours recording in her parents’ living room using nothing but a USB microphone and a laptop, simplicity and calmness really shines.

This happens to be Entertainment for the Braindead’s second album. Her first album, Hypersomnia. This has also been released for free; however the download link has ceased to exist.

Tracks of note include Colours, Resolutions and Mi Corazon.

The album may be downloaded from the Internet Archives as VBR mp3s from here.

Genre: Hip Hop, Experimental

Son of a Bricklayer is a Copenhagen-based hip hop producer with a difference. For one thing, his music is instrumental. That’s right, no lyrics and no rapping. Another difference is the fact that it is rather dark as far as hip hop goes.

Sounding almost jazzy at times, most of the tracks sound bleak and dark, but relaxing also. As a consequence, the album artwork is also dark and dirty, you get the idea.

Tracks of note include Litarefni, Bloom, Off and La Chambre.

The album may be downloaded as 320kbps tracks from here.