Something Happened – A retrospective for the year 2015 (in sounds)

So “another year’s over“, as that guy from Liverpool used to sing. Starting this blog has been probably the most important thing for me this year, and with this I want to thank everyone who actually read, and felt, and understood why and out of what kind of vision and intentions this blog was born.
It would be pretentious to list a “Best of” 2015. First it’s clearly impossible to listen to any release, there are too many. Second, I like things very different, it’s more a matter of attitude than of actual sounds.
So this is just a list of music that has been inspiring and mind-opening and heart-moving during the last twelve months, listed more or less in chronological order with no aim to create a chart.
Keep asking the sky. Always.

Follakzoid – III

Angles of walls of skyscrapers made with steel, glass and concrete.

Spectres – Dying

Radical. Uncompromising. The rebels with a cause.

Serpent Power – Serpent Power

A kaleidoscopic journey to the shores of the wildest and most unconstrained fantasy. Technicolor surreal.

10000 Russos – 10000 Russos

Dance to the underground, to the abandoned underground of a lost civilization. The new barbarians.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Freedom Tower / No Wave Dance Party

Can you feel it? Can you feel the blues? Can you stand their bites and can you walk with them? They can.

The Telescopes – Hidden Fields

Not strawberries fields definitely. Un voyage au centre de la Terre.

Singapore Sling – Psych Fuck

For we’re all lost in a labyrinth of morphing mirrors, life itself is probably just an illusion, and a good heart these days is very hard to find.

Gunman & The Holy Ghosts – The Story of Radiate & Novocaine

That book with the melancholic ending you have finished to read before going to bed, and you dream about in the night. Tales for the new bohemians.

The Japanese Girl – Sonic-Shaped Life

A cursed castle overlooked by bats and a full moon. A sorcery. Let’s do that time warp again.

Throw Down Bones – Throw Down Bones

A leap of pure faith. A flight on the wings of the white dragon.