New album „Your Star Smells Like Mine“ out
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Topic: New album „Your Star Smells Like Mine“ out
Posted By: crystalhorizon
Subject: New album „Your Star Smells Like Mine“ out
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 12:22
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Hi, Mi new album „Your Star Smells Like Mine“ is out Here you can listen to it https://alexandernantschev.bandcamp.com/album/your-star-smells-like-mine" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp
Hope you like it. It’s a blend of Progressive and Psychedelic which I call Progadelic. |
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Posted By: Lights Faces
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 20:32
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For some reason, I was expecting a rather amateur project (the kind you usually expect from a random publishing something they made on a somewhat anonymous forum post), so I was taken offguard when listening to the album. I really do hear (and "read") the psychedelic aspect of the album, inspiring both the music and the lyrics. It makes the whole thing quite crazy as well as destructured. The lyrics and singing together make a sort of blend, reminding me (based on my poor musical knowledge) of Marillion, Big Big Train, Steven Wilson. It often sounds dysharmonious and weird to me, I'm more into more ""melodic"" pieces. It might be like coffee and chocolate, maybe it is something I'll learn to enjoy at some point in the future. The ""dysharmonic"" character I find also in the music in itself, it goes in circle, it breaks. It also gets often fixed because of the singing, and at times I get frustrated, because I'd want fewer words, less singing, so the pure instrumental can detached and find its own rhythm. - Indeed, I find more spiralling than melodies and rhythms. But that kinda matches your spirit. You have a solid appreciation of your own music, with its sort of own lore behind. I haven't listened to your first album, I'll do that later, it might bring some more light into your creation. I really respect that self-appreciation, that level of seriousness in your production and how you evaluate it. It's to a very high degree though, and this paragraph in particular "And then there’s Schichten. The last recorded attempt to categorize this track ended with the auditor staring into the void for 47 minutes, muttering something about layers within layers within layers. Layers that unfold, layers that disappear, layers that were never there to begin with. Schichten inside Schichten inside Schichten." sounds very... um... not showing a high level of humbleness I would say, even though it's based I think on your level of deep implication with you music, in such a manner that it becomes really important to you and living. As a matter of fact, there is clear life in that album and that production. Of creativity. Even though I'm personally not a big fan of pieces that are too destructured, """"dysharmonious"""" / """"unmelodic"""", it is the way it is and it breaks a lot of walls, so as to expand, release itself, fulfilling a lot of potential. It gets dreamy, jazzy, chaotic, "high", throughout a rich musical journey. "Madman" is I think the song I have enjoyed the most. Well, it's partly also that I tend to prefer the songs without too much involvement of the male voices, which I like less. Though in that said track, madman, the part muttered in German is quite interesting. Note that I am myself a very little-knowledged in music, I just tell it the way it feels to me.
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Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 20:48
I listened to some of this material. It's quite pleasant. The foreign-accent English vocals sounded a little jarring to my ear at first, but after a few seconds, my ears adjusted and it was fine from then on. I'd suggest you try singing in your native language for a change. I think it would be cool. ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
It’s a blend of Progressive and Psychedelic which I call Progadelic.Posted By: Lights Faces
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 21:06
| Some of the tracks are sung by a female voice that doesn't have a strong accent by contrast, at least to my (non native) ears. See Madman and Walking without walking. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: February 04 2025 at 21:22
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TBH, Alexander Nantchev's accent is fine. I just can't help but imagine the potential "what if scenarios" in my mind. ;) ------------- “On the day of my creation, I fell in love with education. And overcoming all frustration, a teacher I became.” — Ernest Vong |
Posted By: crystalhorizon
Date Posted: February 05 2025 at 01:23
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Posted By: crystalhorizon
Date Posted: February 05 2025 at 01:32
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Hi there, Thank you for taking the time to listen and share your thoughts! Im glad you appreciate the blend of Progressive and Psychedelic elements in my work - what I like to call Progadelic - and its great to hear that it aligns well with the Psychedelic/Space Rock label. Im also pleased that, despite the initial adjustment to the foreign-accent English vocals, you found the material pleasant overall. Your suggestion to try singing in my native language is intriguing, and I´ll definitely keep that in mind for future projects. As an example me singing in german from my previous album, please check out the track „ https://alexandernantschev.bandcamp.com/track/das-ende" rel="nofollow - https://alexandernantschev.bandcamp.com/track/das-ende “ Thanks again for your thoughtful feedback and support! Best, Alex |