Preview for Ubeboet – Archival
This is track 3 from the forth-coming album Archival by Ubeboet.
The album will be available on vinyl LP by the end of May.
It will be limited to 200.
Later this week we will make the release available for pre-order.
OUT NOW: A Vibrant Struggle – Between The Woods And Frozen Lake
The amazing album “Between The Woods And Frozen Lake” by “A Vibrant Struggle” which we mentioned last week already is now finally available.
The cd-r is limited to 100 so it is advised to be quick (for more info please read the previous post or click on the player above)
Choose one of the options below to order your copy:
Preview: A Vibrant Struggle – Between The Woods And Frozen Lake
Next week will see light of the new release on MFR by A Vibrant Struggle, but now you can already preview the album by clicking on the player down here:
A Vibrant Struggle – Between The Woods And Frozen Lake
The Bjerga/Iversen – staplerfahrer connection dates back to 2003. In that year staplerfahrer released his first works via Iversen’s “TIBProd.” label and participated in a remix project based on Iversen’s work. Later on, in February of 2006, Bjerga/Iversen came over to tour the Netherlands and played shows in Den Haag, Tilburg and Amsterdam. Staplerfahrer joined in on some of these gigs and visited Norway in September of that year, to play a Bjerga/Iversen curated program at the Stavanger NuMusic festival. Finally in 2007 the three came up with the idea to join forces in electro acoustic free improv outfit “A Vibrant Struggle”.
As weekly sessions weren’t the best option, the three decided to plan a long weekend session during the fall of 2007, in a cabin up in the mountains of Norway. Fueled by öl and a bit too much greasy fast food, they started to record tape after tape in the eerie silence of an abandoned ski resort. With their equipment scattered all over the cabin’s wooden floors and each one of them taking their place in one corner of the living room, the 4-track started recording while the stove was eating away it’s given logs and time passed by. Long days and long nights delivered a stack of tapes with blissful drones, crackling/clanging electro-acoustics, wood thumping and the occasional guitar picking.
“The Molten Snow Tapes”, as these outtakes of the sessions have been named, saw their release on some fine labels from across the globe. This one on Moving Furniture Records is the tenth release in the series. Earlier ones where published by The House of Alchemy (USA), 2:00AM Tapes (USA), 905 Tapes (USA), Small Doses (USA), Gold Soundz (NO), Dim Records (NL) and Bum Tapes (GB).
More info about A Vibrant Struggle can be found at www.myspace.com/avibrantstruggle
4 AM reviewed in Vital Weekly
Frans de Waard from Vital Weekly wrote a nice review for 4 AM by Small Things On Sundays:
SMALL THINGS ON SUNDAYS – 4AM (CDR by Moving Furniture Records)
One Henrik Bagner and one Claus Poulsen are behind Small Things On Sundays. They hail from Copenhagen, Denmark and create their music using guitar and vinyl. As a band they exist since 2005, “starting with free improvisations with electronic treatments of vinyl records in any tempo”, with a background for both of them in rock bands. Their ’4AM’ release was recorded during various sessions using very slow speed on the turntable and a guitar played with a bow. Actually I must admit I didn’t realize this until I looked the information up on the label’s website. For all I knew until then it might have also been processed field recordings. I am not sure if the recordings were later on edited in one form or another, I assume so. The music is best described as very dark, very ambient and much drones. Its quite a fine release I thought. Nothing spectacular in the the world of drone music, which is hardly surprise, but its played with some great imagination. Maybe seven pieces/sixty two
minutes is a bit long I thought – in that respect the album lacked a bit of variation. Say four tracks/forty minutes would have made the same statement and most likely a better release. Still, this is a nice release for anyone who loves labels like Moving Furniture or Mystery Sea. (FdW)
Address: http://www.movingfurniturerecords.com
Read Vital Weekly at http://www.vitalweekly.net/717.html
Out Now: Small Things On Sundays – 4 AM
Moving Furniture Records is proud to announce
MFR007: Small Things On Sundays – 4 AM (Limited to 100)
4 AM is an album with dark structures created with guitar and vinyl. Music for the moment human activities are at a minimum. Dark droning ambient music.
Listen at Bandcamp
Read what the duo has to say about their album:
“4 AM” is the first full-length release from the danish duo Small Thing on Sundays.
The members’ interest for music and vinyl records led to the formation in 2005, starting with free improvisations with electronic treatments of vinyl records in any tempo. Since then, Small Things on Sundays has refined their signature sounds, and added more sound sources. The duo works with different stylistic challenges in periods of time. Prior to Small Things on Sundays, both members have made music in various constellations – Henrik Bagner played in a free-structure noice-guitar band in the 90-es, which unfortunately never left the rehearsal space, and Claus Poulsen has been playing since his childhood in various bands, the best known is the noise-ensemble Alarm112.
“4 AM” came from a string of sessions using vinyl records at very slow speeds and detuned guitars played with a violin bow. This produced a string of organic, multilayered dark ambient tracks. On muliple playbacks, the listener will dig deeper into the layers of the music, exposing new details.
The title refers to the blurred line between night and day. Did you suddenly wake up or are you still in a dream? Perhaps the sounds will take you to a place of daydreaming. A movie soundtrack for your own inner film.
An other reference to the title is, that this is the hour of the day, where human activities are at a minimum. Surroundings are cast in darkness, but where will be a residue from human-made sources or the faint light from nature. And if you look up you will see a starlit sky or the white smoke from the nearby power plant. So perhaps we are romantic realists?
To investigate further into the sounds of ”Small Things on Sundays” you can approach:
www.myspace.com/smalthingsonsundays
Solo-works:
A wee bit of delay.
Today would be the official release day of the Small Things On Sundays release, but due to work I won’t be able to get the site updated with all the payment information today
Hopefully tomorrow.
Though, if you are interested you can already send an email and I will make sure a copy is put aside for you.
Full-Length Preview the forth-coming Small Things On Sundays
Next week the first full-length release by Small Things On Sundays will be released, but now we already have a preview for you. You can listen to the whole album by keeping this open.
Or if you want to skip through the tracks to get a short preview you can also go to http://movingfurniturerecords.bandcamp.com/album/small-things-on-sundays-4-am and click through the pieces.
The album will be available next Wednesday (27-01-2010) as a CD-R release limited to 100 ex. If you want to be sure to have a copy for yourself don’t hesitate to send a mail already at info@movingfurniturerecords.com
Small Things On Sundays – Below The Surface video
Next week the release the first full-length CD-R release 4 AM by Small Things On Sundays will come out, but now you can already have some previews (more to come this week).
For the first track Below The Surface they have also made a very nice video which can be watched at youtube:
Erstlaub – Broadcasting on ghost frequencies in top 10 lists
Ruaridh Law of The Village Orchestra put Broadcasting On Ghost Frequencies at his number 2 place in his top 10 list for the year 2009.
This got published at FACT magazine and over at his own website http://ruaridh.marciablaine.com/?p=26
Check it out among all other releases.
Christopher McFall mentioned in top list for 2009
Red is the color of price by relation got mentioned in the top list for 2009 by Daniel Crokaert from Mystery Sea/Unfathomless on the and/OAR website.
See all lists over at http://andoar.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-of-year-lists-2009.html
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