Swedish drone artist Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words has a new release available for free download: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=zero073&collection=zeromoon
Artist: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
Genre: Drone/Ambient
http://www.deadwords.org/
Reviews: Ashen like the sky (mp3) / Lost & losing (mp3) / This room seems empty without you (mp3) / A line: align / I could have sworn I heard them SING (mp3) / Fall, fall, falling / Ashen like the sky (mp3) / Old ghosts, new ghosts, all ghosts / In perfect and imperfect circles (mp3)
Articles: Top 10s for 2009: Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
Aa has announced that they will release "Open the gates of Mimer" from Swedish improv/noise act Skull Defekts in the beginning of November. The music was recorded live at Norberg Festival 2005 and features "55 minutes of energy, synergy and Hammarby." It comes packaged in artwork by Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and will only be available in a limited edition of 500 copies, so you may want to preorder now if you want one.
Swedish electronic artists Thomas Eklund (aka Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words) and Jonas Lindgren (Critikal, The Hurt I Feel Is My Hurt) team up for an EP of drone/glitch-punk as Dead + Hurt and offer up a free EP for download: http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collection=zeromoon&collectionid=zero666&from=collectionSpotlight
Ideal Recordings will be releasing a new CD from Nash Kontroll, a new improv/noise band featuring scene luminaries Mats Gustafsson, Lasse Marhaug and Dror Feiler. Look for it sometime later this summer. Ideal will also be releasing a series of 7"s from Mats Gustafsson doing duos with other artists, all featuring cover art from Leif Elggren. More info on that soon. Lastly, look for the new Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words CD later this summer as well.
Lost at Sea has published their second entry in a series on experimental music, this time covering ambient: http://www.lostatsea.net/LAS/archives/features/music/experimentalmusicguide/
Artists featured include Iceland's Stafrænn Hákon and Sweden's Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words.
Ideal Recordings has a new website with info on new releases from Henrik Rylander, Comb & Prosperous, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Martin Brandlmayr and Contemporary Punk Unit as well as news concerning upcoming live activities.