Nickie’s Niches #33: September 2024

Start Artist Song Time Album Year 0:02:22 Raphael Rogiński Šilinis Viržis (feat. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė) 3:52 Žaltys 2024 Clevelode 0:06:44 Clevelode Traffic Jam In The Bell Common Tunnel 2:25 Muntjac 2024 0:09:09 Clevelode Grimston’s Oak 2:39 Muntjac 2024 Yellow Saturnarians 0:12:33 Yellow Saturnians No Man’s Land 5:54 Vol. 1 2024 Vincent Carr 0:18:59 Vincent Carr’s SUMIC Piranesis Ruins 9:05 Yesterday is Gone (EP) 2024 Rolf Zero 0:28:35 Rolf Zero 1998 2:59 Grudge Party 2024 Dark Leaves 0:31:59 Dark Leaves Fast Wears The Night 5:19 Laid under leaf, under branches 2024 Sonus Umbra 0:37:56 Sonus Umbra Anthropocene Blues 6:01 Whiteout 2024 Elkhorn 0:44:30 Elkhorn Inside Spider Rock 7:42 The Red Valley 2024 Ozbolt 0:52:36 Ozbolt Interscape 6:29 Felt Interscape 2024 Žaltys by Raphael Rogiński favorite track Šilinis Viržis (feat. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė) Here is a wonderfully atmospheric offering from a gifted Polish composer/guitarist. The music is very layered and enigmatic, primarily all Raphael, but he is assisted by a fine ethereal female vocalist on two tracks. It’s inspired by the pastoral Suwalki region of northeast Poland, and he has perfectly captured the essence of rolling hills, lakesides, and the deep night skies of the countryside.   Grimston’s Oak Paul Newland is a singer/songwriter who moves adroitly from intimate folk to electronica, with dalliances in between. His vocals, guitars, piano, synths, drums and percussion are joined sparingly by some double bass and a delicate female backing vocal from time to time. The pieces are ruminations on Epping Forest and it’s environs, and it sounds a lovely place to be, indeed. favorite trackFC6 – Muntjac by Clevelode Vol. 1 by Yellow Saturnians favorite track No Man’s Land Great, gritty, gripping space psych from Russia, this band is easily one of the favourites of all at Progrock.com, me included. As their name would suggest,