Today’s Random Album of the Day is WHNZ:57:WAMAWA from Keijo. This is a Free Folk artist from Ukraine. They self tag as experimental and Forest Folk for what it’s worth. It definitely has psychedelic influences.
I’m impressed with the sort of ambient psychedelic sounds they create. It’s all very melodious given its experimental nature. This is good music and it’s all very good. It flows as an album in a very effective way. I’m a bit unclear if this is a live album or what but it works as a conceptual album either way.
With all that said, it does get a bit old after a while. I think that it can feel a bit repetitive. So while consistent, some vocals are something would help provide variety. There are vocals on the last track which helped a little. Though they weren’t striking vocals. In any case, overall good album.
Rating: 8.8
Favorite Track(s): “To a Nest to Rest” is really cool. “All Alone” also cool. Very melodious. “With the Blue of the Time” is very bluesy.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: