Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Just one look at the cover, and you know: you’re in for some of Zoharum weirdness. And when the promo sheet discusses everything but the music, you can be certain of it. Just about the only thing … Continue reading ZENIAL: Foil Punk
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Bat-Cave Productions Wrapping up our delve into Zoharum’s latest batch of promos, as the last of the litter we have Polish Opowieść’s second album Podróż. The project is elsewhere described as experimental post punk, which is quite … Continue reading OPOWIEŚĆ: Podróż
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum/Ubocze Records Eh, talk about a tough album to review. Not only is it another piece of weirdness from our friends at Zoharum, it’s also another album entirely in Polish. And apparently something of a concept album … Continue reading GALAKTYKA MIĘSA: Lejek Bólu
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum This is one of those cases, where I’ll readily admit I am completely out of my depth. The label’s promo sheet throws around terms such as minimal, dub, post techno, industrial and experimental when describing this 20 … Continue reading NOR_POL: +
Year: 2024Label: Zoharum You all know that reviews are totally, 100% subjective, right? Well, notwithstanding that technical errors in production and musicianship can be objectively critiqued, e.g. if there are flaws in reproduction or performance; but apart from that, whether … Continue reading BRUME: Syncronicity & Wandering Current
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum If you want weird, you got weird. Polish Królówczana Smuga’s sixth album is a veritable cornucopia of, well, just about everything. The label’s promo sheet mentions as influences and key elements keywords such as folklore, alternative, … Continue reading KRÓLÓWCZANA SMUGA: Konwulsanki
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum Once again I am faced with the task of reviewing a release by Polish Zoharum, and once again I find myself a bit stumped. This happens every now and then, especially when it comes to the … Continue reading RAFAŁ KOŁACKI: Mowa Tworzenia
Release year: 2024Label: Last Day Of The North Finnish Šamane are an act I’ve been following with some interest ever since their debut album Kaukana virtaa Eufrat (2019). The debut album was a bit of an uneven affair, combining elements … Continue reading ŠAMANE: Solstice
GENETIC TRANSMISSION: Offals Of Emotions Release year: 2004/2023Label: Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk/Zoharum This is where I admit my ignorance. Polish one man project Genetic Transmission and its sole member Tomasz Twardawa were what could be called notables in the … Continue reading Offals from the Genetic Transmission archives
CHORE IA: Postscriptum/Neogolizmowa Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum/Antenna Non Grata Experimentalism is a tough nut. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don’t. Maybe, when it comes to experimental music, sometimes it’s up to the listener. At any rate, Polish Chore … Continue reading The past and present of Chore Ia
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