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Another Split effort from Daywand (USA) and Lezet (Serbia) - two musicians who linked up on the late Jared C Balogh's internet group ALTERED STATE REFLECTIONS and have regularly collaborated since their first split in 2017

credits

released June 27, 2021

Dylan Anderko - Daywand

Igor Jovanovic - Lezet / Visual Artwork

painting by Piotr Szreniawski

DAYWAND and Lezet's third split record is out on the newly founded A Long Night on A Short Leg label (USA)!!!!

worth checking for the incredible world Dylan's music inhabits alone !

For fans of ambient music, Trip hop and experimental music

The second split effort from Daywand and Lezet is out on Restless Life Syndrome (USA)!

truly honoured to have done another fine album with the inimitable Dylan!

Daywand - Dylan Anderko

Lezet - Igor Jovanovic

Visual art Photo by Dylan, edit by yours truly

bandcamp:

A TRIBUTE TO JARED C.BALOGH is out!

a joint release celebrating the music of late great Jared C Balogh

featuring:

{AN} EeL

Evgeny Gerasimchuk

Ergo Phizmiz

Protecious

Wilfried Hanrath

Pendro

Seiei Jack

Mean Flow

t0rphy

Janne Nummela

Zoran

Origami Repetika

awser derf\

Daywand

Jukka-Pekka Kervinen

George Christian

M.NOMIZED

The Hauchzart Ensemble

Dick Clark's Anarchy Pleasant Valley

HippoPie

Chris Silver T

Topi Reta

TLqvC

ANIMAL MACHINE

mhzesent

Lezet

Koobaatoo Asparagus

and Jared C.Balogh

Jared C. Balogh was fearless at everything he did. His music had a distinct sound and a unique feel to it, a playful quality truly celebrated life. It drew upon a plethora of genres and styles of both classical and popular music and he managed to incorporate all of them into his pieces. Whether taking up a new instrument or embarking on collaborations with other artists or forming new bands, this egoless music maker managed to make great music and true friends wherever his musical imagination took him. He was also an aspiring visual artist whose outsider art quickly gained admiration and respect of the local art scenes and I’m absolutely sure he would have become a huge name of American Art if his life hadn’t been cut short.

The artists featured on this tribute album covered, remixed, reinterpreted and re-imagined Jared’s work. The way original tracks so successfully lend themselves to different approaches and styles only show how important Jared was to the entire global underground music world. I’m sure we’ll be hearing echoes and traces of Jared’s music in our own original tracks for years to come.

We miss you, dear friend!

out on

THRONE OF BAEL (UK)

https://throneofbael.bandcamp.com/album/a-tribute-to-jared-c-balogh

ANTSY (NORWAY)

First compilation on SIKESTFU(N)K - this is awesome! Much love to all the amazing artists who made this happen! Contains booklet and infos. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! ??????

featuring:

Dave Fuglewicz ,DJ Dry Bones ,Mean Flow ,Daywand ,Protecious ,The Hentai Noise Experiments ,Yaka-anima,ZUMAIA ,Lord Cernunnos ,Wirephobia , Dr. NoiseM ,{AN} EeL ,Reverend Spo0ky ,Chainsawfallingintoplace ,Lezet ,Peristalsis ,YANN PILLAS

bandcamp:

https://sikestfunk.bandcamp.com/album/free-candy-halloween-compilation-2018-sf014

https://sikestfunk.bandcamp.com/album/free-candy-halloween-compilation-2018-sf014

Lezet's contribution

released October 31, 2018 license

all rights reserved

tags

experimental ambient atmospheric drone experimental halloween harsh noise horror noise synth wave Berlin

The good dudes at Third Floor Tapes hooked got ahold of me a few weeks back and told me about their ultra limited releases that had coming out on cassette. So, without really even checking them out online I struck while the iron was hot and picked all of their current releases up. The first tape I’m going to review is Daywand‘s “Eternal Santuary” which is a highly experimental, electronic and even has some guitars in the mix. It definitely has a psychedelic mood to it and has a shoegaze / New Wave like progression through out the entire tape. The undertones of Philly’s emerging noise scene are interesting touches as well! This may very well be one of the most diverse and most experimental tapes in my collection to date and thats a very good thing!

The disintegrating nature of most of their songs definitely gives a dark vibe to the majority of the tracks. If I’m being honest “Eternal Santuary” is so different that I’m having a bit of difficulty coming up with ways to describe it. It’s definitely an album that will challenge you musically and if you’re into music like that you’re going to want to give Daywand a listen and see for yourself. In most of my review I go over each instrument and state their stand out qualities, yet, on Daywand’s album it stands to be futile as there are so many elements I fear I might bore you more than talking their cassette up, so in this rare instance for a review, I’ll let you the listener be the judge of stand out qualities on this album.

In addition to one of the more original sounding tapes it’s also the longest in duration. There are 14 tracks on this album and while in actuality it’s pretty long the songs are so entrancing that it didn’t seem long at all! The dreamy, fuzz driven “You’ll Never” starts the A  Side of the cassette and steadily moves forward with a driving force that is one of the few rockers on the album. The electronic side of the band comes out in “Micromansion McNightmare” which is a steadily progressive dark wave track that holds a steady beat and shows off a lot of their keyboard playing technique. The psych rock track “Webs” incorporates more guitar, but with a ton of noise and random sounds behind it. This track also rocks pretty hard with subdued lyrics and a killer drum beat. The track “Romancebot” is a very strange and disturbing vocal distortion of a voicemail that will haunt your dreams… The steady new wave-esque track “Hustlemania” features a straight drums, bass, keys and noise that is pretty fucking awesome for focusing hard on whatever you’re doing. Possibly the strangest track on the tape “Spider Killed A Fly” sounds like Daywand’s version of an 80’s ballad with instrument hits just a millisecond off time. The dreamy “I Lust What I Lust” has really soft synth pads, a smooth bass line, delayed guitars and dead pan vocals that keep the momentum of the album in a steady pace leaving out a tremendous amount of weirdness this time. The A-Side finishes with “Sweat Hound” that starts with a pace similar to the last song, yet with noise tracks and distorted guitars it slowly devolves and unravels until its eventual ending.

The B-Side starts off with “Ghost” that is primarily an acoustic singer-songwriter track with deep and ominous vocals and about half way through the slow electronic swell of keys and noise pick up the pace. This brings the song to it’s complete polar opposite formation by the end of the track with rocking drums and wayward guitar solos. The noise driven opening to “Bossman” starts off the track right where it’s predecessor left off. This track definitely let’s their experimental flag fly but with a consistent beat that holds it all together. The more upbeat “Spooky Dancer” has a catchy drum beat that is way up front in the mix and an awesome bass line. Layered over top is some swelling keys and noise as well as vocals that are pitch shifted a few octaves higher than any track on the album. This track is one that shows off some of their energy in a really exciting way. Experimenting even further with a ton of lead synths is “Tranquilizer Gun” that is all keys and interesting asian vocal samples that are heavily effected. The beautiful start to “Pink Flowers in July” that is just delayed guitars and a bass line shows what you can do with just two instruments! The best part about this track is how it builds and for it’s 8 plus minute duration it’ll engulf your senses for sure! Finally, “Away” samples some classical Asian music to start and slowly the noise builds until a drum beat comes in about two minutes into the track. The amount of tension this track builds before it ends is pretty insane and it actually ends this cassette in a very amazing way!

This is possibly one of the longest reviews I’ve ever written for a band and Daywand is deserving of such an amount of description. Their sound is so complicated that any less and I would think I did their band a disservice with this review. “Eternal Sanctuary” is one of the most interesting and experimental efforts I’ve heard that I actually enjoyed in 2015 so far! While I’m usually open to bands pushing the envelope, reviewing certain electronic, experimental artists can be tedious as to which elements I’d like to feature that are great in my mind. Thankfully I can say that “Eternal Sanctuary” was anything but tedious and more of a pleasure to listen to than some of the other music I check out on a daily basis. You can pick up your copy on Third Floor Tapes’ website and I definitely recommend you do if you’re into really interesting music. So, get stoked on Daywand and stream their album below to make your own conclusions to this highly experimental, electronic act!