Lovely Swedish Lo-fi indiepop entourage We are soldiers, we have guns (label mates of also ever lovely Social Services) are going on a north European tour. Would definently recommend anyone near any of these listed cities to drop by and lend them an ear or two if you got the time.
So christmas was over just like that..... oh well, its freakishly chilly outside (again), and i feel like recommending something warm and toasty for the cold. So... meet Gothenburg girl Susanna Brandin aka. Winter Took His Life. Once again, as in the almost endless Swedish cases of amazing in the shapes of such newer girl names- Lykke Li, El Perro Del Mar, Promise And The Monster, Britta Persson and beyond, one could wonder how there could be any room left for further greatness. But, fear not, Winter Took His Life found herself a quiet prosperous little picnic spot only a heartbeat away.
Her wonderful debut album- You know what it´s like to be alone and shut down, came out last year and can be found at Bless The Press. So if you (just like me), didnt get on the first one in time, there you go. It would be a shame not to follow up on this fantastic girl from the start.
The ever so super fantastic swede- ex. Bear Quartet member Carl Olsson and his brilliant solo project Paddington Distortion Combo, just announced his new album, set for release February 23rd 2009. There is no mention of a definite album title, though the following four song titles will be present on the upcoming release- -White mans clap, La La, Birth Defect and Defätismus.
So, if youre generally silly to the bone concerning Paddington or just excited about uplifting lofi kiddy electro combined with 80's kitsch/trash and swedish sub-suburban indierock "one man style". You gotta a wonderful surprise coming up in 2009.
Also, here's a cuddly live clip from a PDC show this summer at Potatiskällaren (The Potato Basement) in Luleå (north Sweden).
The video is part of a 4 piece liveshow recording, that is to be found here.
What if you could travel the seas between Sweden and Finland for 24hours accompagnied by a bunch of questinable bands, a couple of interesting, justified by a few awesome. Would you? Well, let me include the fact, that Swedish math-metal-maniacs Meshuggah are among the awesome, along swedish indie wonder Promise And The Monster and Porcupine Tree founder/singer Steven Wilson's own project (accompagnied by wonderful Danish artist, photographer and filmmaker Lasse Hoile).
To be quite honest, i dont even care much about who else is playing the Melloboat aka. Siljaline Galaxy cruiser that night and day the 24-25th of april. Just the fact that one can brag about sailing the dark baltic sea with the 3 artists mentioned above, already have me itching my backpocket.
I doubt it will the most important music event of the year (as stated in small print on the bottom of the poster), but the fact that you can get to witness a neat thing like this for a measly 100 swedish kroner (10 euros), or even get a nice room with a view for 900 swedish kroner (85 euro) pr. person along with, seriously should make this worth your while.
Personally Meshuggah and Promise And The Monster are two of my favourite artists of this last year. So in my opinion, this boat holds a great deal. If youre not familiar with my 3 personally recommended reasons to join this event, heres a taste of what to expect.
Not only does swedish Suffocate For Fuck Sake, have a scary badass name. Together with their almost 9 month old debut album title "Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a War Going On and I'm Marching In Heavy Boots" they definently set one of this years most interesting standards for not being subtle. Sffs is indeed a strong unknown piece of sweden, that i definently would recommend to fans of anything from Sigur Ros, Cult Of Luna, Mono and even more cinematic things like fellow Swede "collage musician" Hans Appelqvist. Want something sweet in your ears without leaving out the roaring blasts and the painful screams? Sffs is the place to look all of the above.
Go check out some of their fantastic tracks on myspace, or take a chance and jump straight into the purchase and get yourself an epic surprise out of the ordinary. Its available for only 9Euro at Bisaufsmesser.com.
Swedish indie postrock sensation Jeniferever, is undoubtably a fascinating and honorable nordic encounter in more than several ways. Ever since their lovely ep Iris, the magnificent album Choose A Bright Morning, and latest the Nangijala ep, a soaring well saturated post-pop sensation have stretched its cuddly arms around the lengths of time and impressed almost every attentive owl standing by. Though stranger phenomena are constantly lurking by the coasts of Jeniferever. Last year the band pulled a daring champ of an Ashes To Ashes (David Bowie) cover out of the hat, and now.......... believe it or not a cover of One Step Up (1987) by Bruce Springsteen. I am intrigued by their curious choices/doings and sit here pondering... really.... what the screech is going on. None the less. The One Step Up track is a feature for an upcoming Springsteen tribute album called "Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool" released by Where It's At Is Where You Are, prepped for release some time early 2009.
Go visit the still ever lovely Jeniferever at myspace for their albums, songs and above mentioned coversongs.
Originally i didnt feel like writing about this years Blip festival, mostly because of the fact that its just around the corner, and i cannot go. Have no time, have no money, and no chance in hell of convincing my boss that those days in New York across the planet from little ol' Denmark would be the perfect location for a company christmas get together. Ehhh.... Well, so me writing about it now, is pure therapy. I have to get it out my system someway, somehow. (And if possible i need someone to live it out for me and report back).
Blip festival is doing its 3rd annual run this december, 4 days straight, from the 4th to the 7th of december. It is undeniably the biggest bit-music event in our time, so far. Nearly 40 international musicians and visual artists occupying the sweet low-res cutting edge under the organization of Manhattan art organization THE TANK and legendary NYC artist collective 8BITPEOPLES.
To set the record straight, were talking hundreds of wonderful "geeks" and messed up indviduals performing, playing, modyfying and caressing/beating the living shit out of Nintendos, Gameboys, Amigas, Commodores (gaming consoles in general) or even homemade circuitry (and software), for the sake of creating ugly/cuddly bit tunes and art. Kinda gotta clue, but not quite sure what to think about that? Well, check this cheeky little promo from the documentary "BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET" (Promo featuring Nullsleep. One of my favourite bit-peeps).
Got some money stashed away? Gotta rich pappy? Got the balls to rob a bank or.... Could you really just go? Then you really should. Atleast if you fancy bit-rock, nintendocore, New York and beyond.
I myself still havent come to reconcile with the fact that im not even closely enabled to go, but i will try to make the best of it. So, when Blip festival kicks off. I will to. Every day from the 4th to the 7th of december, i will gather up and post the best of the free Blip-related bit-music downloads my webhotel can muster. Hopefully we will all enjoy it.
In the meanwhile, please go and check out all the fantastic artists and activities blessing this years Blip festival. Furthermore, heres a group of audio excerpts, from festival related artists.
Blogging is way too fancy a word for what i wanna do on this basic page. I promised myself i wouldn't take it too seriously, but at the same time also swore that i wouldn't just do a dumb blog. So here's the deal. I like wasting/spending my time on surfing, i like searching for things.... i like to discover things. May they be musical, visual, verbal or none of the above. I would love to think that i am good at finding, showing and stating interesting things. I would also love to think that i could make it a better habbit, trying to document that assumption.
That being said, with me being brutally honest- Only time can tell what might be posted for you to love or dislike in here. I wont take it too serious, and i will try not being to uninteresting. Plus, minus, whatever, whenever. This is it. Welcome on over.
A bleeding mess, a pile of words, some downloads, fuzzy images, reviews, recommendations, observations and Scandinavian shit-talk, twisted and turned in a love for music, design and weird scandalous/fabulous behaviour. Like vegetarian food at Mcdonalds, intriguing, yet fascinatingly questionable. Superantonym.
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