Fere – Visceral; Daxma – Unmarked Boxes (2021)

Hey there. Here we are, midway through yet another week. And time once again to catch up on a couple releases from late last year. The first comes from a Portuguese instrumental post-rock/ambient/doom quartet, the other from a Californian post-doom/ambient/stoner-doom quartet — and both are absolutely worth checking out (otherwise why would I waste the effort talking about them or expect you to do the same reading about them)!

 

FereVisceral (Raging Planet Records, 15 November 2021)

 

DaxmaUnmarked Boxes (Blues Funeral Recordings / Majestic Mountain Records, 19 November 2021)

 

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Daxma – Ruins Upon Ruins (2019)

DaxmaRuins Upon Ruins (Blues Funeral Recordings, 26 July 2019)

 

Hey! In case you were wondering, we still talk about music around here, too. Sometimes. This morning let’s dive into a fascinating two-track EP that emerged over the summer, from the Oakland (CA)-based post-doom/drone crew Daxma.

The band’s name is a homophone (or perhaps simply an alternate spelling) of dakhma, the towers built in Zoroastrian societies as a place to cast dead bodies, where first vultures and other scavengers, and then the sun and other elements, will ultimately cleanse and purify the bones.

 

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