Ioseb leaves us alone in a small hut out on the northern highlands, where we can experience the windswept empty plains, while the winter i biting our cheeks. That’s where we start on Iosebs second postrock-sounding album “agartha” (I wrote about their first album here). As a whole it’s more dynamic than that where we get to hear everything from a desoletely minimalastic piano version of “Ack Värmeland du sköna” up to grand melodic crescendos. Here are two tracks:

Ioseb on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp

The productive Conny Olivetti released his tenth album “Probing the Sonic Heritage” this Summer, and like with earlier albums I wonder over the change of scenes from album to album, the creativity and the details. I guess the title refers to his sources of inspiration, but even if I can sense some of them and note a direct reference here and there, it’s Conny’s own soundscape I enter.

And this time it feels dark, from the suggestively mysterious to the ominous to the direct frightening as in songs like “Die Hüter des Gesetzes” and “Room 13”. The filmic feeling is even more prominent this time, like if the songs are small films in themselves, constantly in movement and changing, enhanced by new details and voice samplings. An album that demands some attention from the listener and which certainly deserves it.

Conny Olivetti’s site – on Facebook – on Bandcamp

sink \ sink is a project started by the musician Gareth Schott, hailing from New Zeeland. Planning the new album “a lone cloudburst” he asked Ylva Krantz, hailing from Stockholm, to become a part of the project, which resulted in Ylva supplying lyrics and vocals to the music, sometimes in English and sometimes in Swedish.

The music balances on the border between the pure ambient music and melodic songs. It’s calm and beautiful, dreamy, at times a bit spooky or suggestive where Ylva’s voice comes sweeping in  like a light breeze in an enchanted forest, creating movement. It’s an interesting and to a large part organic sound, which takes hold of me more and more each time I listen, like if I get stuck in cobweb.

sink \ sink on Facebook – on Bandcamp

I wrote about Echodeck already in 2008, and it took them some years before they felt satisfied enough with the material to release an album. In Spring “Flying Machine” was finally released, a beautiful instrumental creation where man meets machine, monotony meets dreams, hammer blows meet tender melodies, into a whole which still feels warm and hopeful. Listen here to a couple of tracks from the album.

Echodeck on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Bandcamp

The Stockholm quartet Natten (The Night) leaves for nocturnal instrumental journeys with the help of a trumpet, bass guitars and electronica. Not necessarily that pitch black but full of mystique, nightly pulse and scents from foreign places. So far they have released three EP:s and a couple of singles, the latest ones the EP “Dhalion” and the single “Nairobi Night”. In the song “Makt” (“Power”) here below they are joined by Örjan Högberg from Fleshquartet on electric violin.

Natten’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud