Swedish post-rock act Once We Were has posted two new songs from their forthcoming double album "Contra" for downloading: http://www.oncewewere.net/

The Silent Ballet is a new webzine to be launched this fall dedicated to instrumental/post-rock music and to kick things off, they have released a free downloadable comp in association with the Lost Children netlabel. Why am I mentioning it here? Well, said comp features songs from Norway's Samuel Jackson Five and Sweden's Once We Were: http://www.thesilentballet.com/
I fully expect them to be covering lots of other Scandinavian post-rock in the future as well.

Download a song from Swedish post-rockers Once We Were: http://www.oncewewere.net/mp3/oww_ep01_the_heart_asks_pleasure_first.mp3
The track comes from their first EP "Winter kept us warm" which can be purchased right here.

Swedish post-rockers Once We Were report that they are now halfway done with their forthcoming double album. It should be done in time for a May release.

Check out a video for the song "Em" from Swedish post-rock act Once We Were: http://www.oncewewere.net/video/em.mov

Tenderversion has posted a new free websingle from Swedish post-rock act Once We Were: http://www.tenderversion.com/mp3_singles.php
The band's debut double-album (!!!) will be released later this year.

Check out an article from DecoyMusic on the Swedish post-rock/instrumental scene including the acts September Malevolence, Scraps of Tape, Ef, Ellis the Vacuumchild and Once We Were: http://www.decoymusic.com/vb/showthread.php?t=4442

Sweden's Scraps of Tape will be releasing a new 7" on Jezebel Recordings this fall as part of some sort of "post-rock trilogy" the label is doing. In other news, the band will do a few dates around Northern Europe with Tenderversion labelmates Once We Were and then will be back again in November on their own. Dates:

09/24 - Rote Flora, Hamburg (GER) w/Once We Were, Daturah
09/23 - Integendeel, Nossegem (BEL) w/Once We Were, Wixel
09/22 - Carlo Levi, Liege (BEL) w/Once We Were
09/21 - tba, Groningen (NL) w/Once We Were
11/19 - VEB, Lübeck (GER)
11/18 - Nexus, Braunschweig (GER)
11/17 - Duncker Club, Berlin (GER)
11/15 - Club Keller, Frankfurt (GER)
11/14 - Immerhin, Würzburg (GER)
11/13 - Alcatrazz (tbc), Liberac (CZ)
11/12 - Café Emil, Zittau (GER)
11/11 - G16 HC Lives, Leipzig (GER)
11/10 - Mikrokosmos, Magdeburg (GER)

Tenderversion also reports that Once We Were just wrapped up a recording session with Mathias Oldén (Logh) at Mission Hall. Six songs were recorded and the band plans to lay down some more acoustic/electronic/beat-based stuff on their own to pad the material for use on their forthcoming album.

In other Tenderversion-related news, labelmates Scraps of Tape and Once We Were will hit the road in March as well:

03/03 - Panora, Malmö (SWE)
03/04 - Scsi, Den Haag (NL)
03/05 - Club Vera, Groningen (NL)
03/07 - Nexus, Braunschweig (GER)
03/08 - University Fouer, Louvain-La-Neuve (BEL)
03/09 - l’Escalier, Liegé (BEL)
03/10 - tba, Fredericia (DK)
03/11 - Wermlands nation, Lund (SWE)
03/12 - tba

The Tenderversion website has a new websingle from Kinesis Sonata, a new band featuring members from many of the label's acts including Audrey, Once We Were and Scraps of Tape: http://www.tenderversion.com/
More songs coming soon!

Check out the video for "Em" from Swedish post-rockers Once We Were: wmv / qt

The mailorder database is now updated with new releases from Tenderversion Recordings including Audrey, Once We Were, Scraps of Tape and September Malevolence: [click here]

Swedish post-rock act Once We Were has finished recording their new EP "Winter kept us warm" and will see it released on November 15 via A Tenderversion Recordings. In other news, the band will tour Sweden in December with pals September Malevolence.

Once We Were just finished work on an EP for release on A Tenderversion Records sometime around later September/early October. The recording was done at Mission Hall with the esteemed Mathias Oldén of Logh manning the board and lending his Steve Albini-esque sound aesthetic to the proceedings. Check out the song "Em": http://www.oncewewere.net/mp3/oww_ep01_em.mp3