Artist: Andreas Tilliander
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Mokira is one of Andreas Tilliander's many aliases and "Persona" is his most recent release as such, his second for the label Type. Billed as an exercise in pure analog electronics, I expected to be greeted by various pleasant bleeps and bloops, but what I got instead was dull as doornails minimalist ambiance. Drone doesn't have to be dull, nor should it be, yet this record goes nowhere. It's odd too because it's generally pleasant to listen to, just entirely non-compelling. Witness "Lord, am I going down?", one of the album's slightly more dramatic tracks. The listener is treated to gentle waves of sound, deep, chiming echoes and subtle textural shifts, but it eventually just collapses into an extended wash. There's hardly any negative space and the total dynamics are near-nil. At the end it simply drifts effortlessly into the next cut. My emotional resonance is zero. After many repeated listens, I can only say: I don't care.
Mokira - Lord, am I going down?
Håkan Lidbo and the folks behind Swedish Radio electronic music program Ström have put together a collection of new music for national mourning, sent music into space and now they've gathered a crew of some of Sweden's finest electronic artists to cover the music they hate. Instead of paraphrasing, let's cut + paste:
In 2009, the radio show Ström gave an assignment to Swedish artists that make electronic music.; to make an interpretation of a song that they really do not like, sometimes even hate. The purpose was some sort of musical regression therapy. By making a cover of a song they dislike and make it into their own, the artists could get in touch with their musical origin, the place in their soul where the creativitiy is coming from. And by doing so, get a deeper understanding of themselves as humans - and as artists. The influential songs are easy to point out, and easy to cover, but the hated ones can be shameful and hard to confront. Sometimes those can partly explain why the artist sound the way he or she does.
The result: "Musiken vi hatar", due out June 10. Tracklist:
01. Fever Ray - Here Before (Vashti Bunyan)
02. Roos - Polly (Nirvana)
03. Andreas Tilliander - Dub that she wants/All That She Wants (Ace Of Base)
04. Familjen - Mine Øyne De Ska Se (Lis Sørensen)
05. Little Jinder - Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground)
06. Cilihili & DaBook - Orinoco Flow (Enya)
07. Ebb - Trash (Suede)
08. Trig - Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)
09. Lisa Nordström - LIke To Get To Know You Well (Howard Jones)
10. Håkan Lidbo - Born In The USA (Bruce Springsteen)
11. Alf Tumble - Klubbland (Håkan Hellström)
12. Vaerelsen - Diska!/Washing Up (Tomas Andersson)
13. Den Finska Nikotintanten - 122 Hours Of Fear (The Screamers)
14. Roll the Dice - Motorcycle Emptiness (Manic Street Preachers)
See the comments area for a track-by-track breakdown of why each artist chose the song they did.
Adrian Recordings is giving away a few remixes to celebrate the release of the new Andreas Tilliander album "Show": http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=232
Contributing artists are all labelmates and include Boeoes Kaelstigen, Familjen and Pellarin.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Anna Järvinen
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Camera Obscura
04. Bob Hund
05. Andreas Tilliander
06. Loney, Dear
07. Kent
08. The Fine Arts Showcase
09. Montt Mardié
10. Jens Lekman
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PopMatters reviews Andreas Tilliander's new album "Persona", released under his ambient moniker Mokira: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/72038-mokirapersona
Cokemachineglow reviews the new Andreas Tilliander ambient album "Persona" released under his Mokira moniker: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/4429/mokira-persona-2009
New in stock and ready to order from Adrian Recordings:
The Fine Arts Showcase - Dolophine smile (CD)
Andreas Tilliander - Show (CD)
Emil Jensen - 300 eMIL (DVD/CD)
The official release dates for all three are still a bit off in the distance, but if you order now, there's a very good chance they'll show up early.
Here's the video for the new Andreas Tilliander single "Caught in a riot": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_rMYKjLeLg&fmt=18
The Silent Ballet reviews Andreas Tilliander's analog alias Mokira and his new record "Persona": http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/2236/Default.aspx
The new Andreas Tilliander single "Caught in a riot" (ft. guest vocals from David Fransson of Division of Laura Lee/New Moscow) is now available as a free download: http://www.adrianfiles.com/02.Caught_in_a_Riot.mp3
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. TALK 1
02. Culkin - Breathholders
03. Max Peezay - Boven i droven
04. Detektivbyrån - En annan typ av disco
05. Billie the Vision & the Dancers - You'd better watch out, 'cause I like you
06. TALK 2
07. Sad Day for Puppets - Marble gods
08. Viola - The hardest hit
09. Samuraj Cities - Spoonful of talk
10. Kalle J - I skydd av mörkret
11. TALK 3
12. Murmansk - Vague language
13. Boeoes Kaelstigen - Radius (Dmitry Fyodorov Radius Relaxation Remix)
14. The Low Frequency in Stereo - Texas fox
15. David Åhlén - We sprout in thy soil
16. TALK 4
17. Paper - Out of it into it
18. Andreas Tilliander - Caught in a riot
19. On Volcano - Out of sight
20. Entombed - Seeing red
21. TALK 5
22. Säkert! - Någon gång måste du bli själv
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Adrian Recordings is going deeper and deeping into techno/electronica and will be releasing the new Andreas Tilliander album "Show" on May 6. The lead single "Caught in a riot", featuring guest vocals from David Fransson of Division of Laura Lee/New Moscow, will precede it on March 4. Other guest vocalists include Kent members Jocke Berg and Martin Sköld plus more tba.
Aftonbladet reports that Jocke Berg and Martin Sköld from Kent will appear on the next Andreas Tilliander album: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/article4316623.ab
Poor Martin gets resigned to footnote status!
Watch a video clip of Swedish techno artist Andreas Tilliander performing a track in the studio old-school style (w/machines, not computers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iKDSMjPCHY&fmt=18