Lykke Li Acoustic
2009.12.09
“I’m Good, I’m Gone” acoustic featuring Robyn, Lars Laakso and Mikael Hjalmar. Pretty cool.
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Scandinavian Culture Viewed, Reviewed & Interviewed
Free Scandinavian Gold
2009.11.06
Amazon has a nice little freebie today: a small compilation of six songs by El Perro Del Mar, Figurines, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, I Was a King and Johnossi. Enjoy.
New Jaga Jazzist Album, EP
2009.11.02
Jaga Jazzist has a new album, One-Armed Bandit, coming in January. The first EP with the same title will be available November 23.
Meanwhile, you can download One-Armed Bandit – the song, as a free MP3 courtesy of Ninja Tune.
Temporary Copenhagen
2009.11.02
From French filmmaker Vincent Moon:
In May 2009, I flew to Copenhagen, invited there to experiment some recordings. I had gone in search of this “new” Danish scene, mostly following Slaraffenland in their acoustic rendition of their new album, over one day all over Copenhagen. The result, “Temporary Slaraffenland”, is a 40 minute piece, including all their songs in “Take Away Show” style versions.
Two days later, we brought 9 local bands in one house, for one night, to experiment a certain relationship between music and images, and collaborate on something unique and ephemeral. The result is a 30min sound and visual piece, one take, no cuts, plus a lot of outtakes with each band playing one of their songs. A certain idea of a document on a city and its creative life.
Beside Slaraffenland, the nine bands are Murder, Choir of Young Believers, Efterklang, Slaraffenland, The Sad Lovers, Chimes and Bells, Thulebasen, Jong Pang and Valby Vokalgruppe. And, in bonus, there’s extra footage with takes of I Got You On Tape, The William Blakes and Taxi Taxi!.
Both projects are viewable, under Creative Commons licence, at temporarycopenhagen.com.
Thanks Rasmus.
Takk DMM Reissue Delayed
2009.10.15
Good news for vinyl fetishists: One Little Indian decided to reissue Takk. Sigur Rós’ 4th album was released back in 2005. The vinyl edition was superb, including two 12″ discs and a 10″ etched record. It was unfortunately expensive and only 1000 copies were made.
The reissue remains exactly the same than the original release, including the etched disc, however the recording was remastered and pressed using DMM on 200 gr wax. That should sound good. Originally expected on October 19th, the release has been pushed back to November 2nd due to some manufacturing problems.
One Little Indian also reissued other Sigur Rós albums using the same DMM technic.
Ágætis Byrjun DMM and Angels of the Universe DMM are a bit harder to find now.
Efterklang Performing Parades
2009.10.15
Efterklang is releasing “Performing Parades” on October 19, a recording of the performance the band gave a year ago at the Koncerthuset in Copenhagen with The Danish National Chamber Orchestra. The release includes a CD or 2LP featuring the 11-track live session and a DVD of the 55 minute concert plus many bonuses.
Nice hats! The very neat set artwork has been designed by Danish studio Hvass & Hannibal.
Efterklang’s guys are keeping themselves pretty busy these days. They are going to try again the “Performing Parades” stunt on October 28 at the Barbican Hall in London, this time with the Britten Sinfonia (and Jaga Jazzist as a supporting act). It’s not sold out yet!
After that, they will tour across Europe with regular shows. Four of these concerts in Denmark will screen the “Performing Parades” film before the show.
Finally, the band finished recording their third album to be released soon on Rumraket and 4AD.
- Preorder “Performing Parades” on Leaf
- Preorder “Performing Parades” on Rumraket
- Cutting Ice To Snow (MP3)
Via Efterklang.net.
Sony Soundville Campaign in Iceland
2009.10.14
In March 2009, Sony transformed the small town of Seyðisfjörður, Iceland in a massive sound system by installing hundred of speakers. This stunt was part of Sony’s campaign “Soundville” during which they played music for a whole week.
Via LikeCool.
New Single For Blue Foundation
2007.08.27
Blue Foundation released a new single, the first one in over 2 years: Enemy. Sounds different… The full song is available on the band’s myspace page, with another track (Watch You Sleeping) from their new album, Life Of A ghost, set to be released on September 24.
Blue Foundation will be on the road across Scandinavia this fall. More info on their website.
Sannah Kvist and Gustav Gustafsson
2007.08.27
Two young and talented Swedish photographer I like: Sannah Kvist (blog, flickr) and Gustav Gustaffson (myspace).
Prince Valium – Crying Hearts
2007.08.26
OK, this is kind of a shameless plug… Angryape offers a free download from Prince Valium’s latest album Andlaus: Crying Hearts. My better half wrote the lyrics and sings.
