A sample tune from the upcoming label showcase LP, due out May 16. Side A will feature exclusive cuts from the label's electronic roster with acts such as Daniel Savio, Rigas den Andre and so on while the flip will reflect their label's more acoustic side with artists like Sjöarna, Siri Karlsson and The Bethlehem Beard Corporation.
Sonic Router is streaming the new album "Paper boat" from Swedish skweee duo Markis Sage, aka Rigas den Andre + Mesak: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2012/01/first-listen-markis-sage-paper-boat-losonofono/
SonicRouter interviews skweee mainstay Rigas Den Andre and also gets him to put together a mixtape for the site: http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/06/sr-mix-86-rigas-den-andre-flora-fauna/
Rigas den Andre has a new track streaming at SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/florafauna/rigas-den-andre-dead-ponies
The new album "Speed run" will be out in May and will be available either digitally or on a series of 7"s (as all skweee was intended to be released).
Mr. Henrik von Euler reports that he will be releasing a new Rigas single on May 4 called "Make it rain" which will feature guest appearances from Baba Stiltz and Anna Maria Espinosa. The new Rigas full-length "Bring the dead" will then follow in September. As for Henrik's skweeee alias Rigas den Andre, he's got a new album coming as well -- it's called "Speed run" and it will be out in May.
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Håkan Hellström - Kann ingen sorg för mig Göteborg
02. TALK 1
03. Enforcer - Katana
04. Existensminimum - 1993
05. Ludwig Bell - Kärlek slutar alltid med bråk
06. TALK 2
07. Karla-Therese Kjellvander & The Rockridge Brothers - New season
08. Lapko - Summer nights
09. CEO - No mercy
10. Night Minutes - Lord I can never be your mirror
11. TALK 3
12. Dungen - Marken låg stille
13. My Brother the Wind - Electric universe
14. Rigas den Andre - W.A.S.P. (R2 remix)
15. TALK 4
16. Waklevören - Oslo spy
17. Okkultokrati - Tail of the snakewind
18. Haust - Vomiting
19. TALK 5
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.
Swedish skweee artist Markis Sage (aka Rigas Den Andre + Mesak) has a great new video for their single "Creature of lagoon", out now via : http://vimeo.com/12129696
The title track for the new O'Spada album "Pay off" now has a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pNbLgvl2ME
Get the Rigas den Andre remix of the same here: http://www.despotz.se/email/pay-off-rigasdenandre-remix.mp3
I tried listening to said album yesterday and wasn't really feeling it, but will probably be giving it another chance before I write it off completely.
Check out the brand new Rigas den Andre video for "Guilty feet, no rhythm": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsY5ePwkHy0
This is the title track from his new album, due out later this week via Flogsta Danshall. Recommended!
Flora & Fauna is giving away another Rigas track ("Simple") as a free download: http://rigas.blackside.org/EP/02_Rigas_Simple.mp3
Expect a proper new single in August with an album to follow plus a new skweee album as Rigas den Andre, due out September 11 via Flogsta Danshall.
Check out Rigas Den Andre brand new video for "Distordelle (it's so easy)", a track off the new Ramp Recordings skweee compilation "Skweee tooth": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okQ6_EXVM4&fmt=18
Renown skweee label Harmönia has new releases on the way from Rigas den Andre and Yöt and you can now preview a track from each at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/harmoenia
I almost forgot, but here's the playlist for this week's radio show:
01. Jesper Norda - Tommorrow you'll be forgiven but tonight you will have your teeth knocked out
02. TALK 1
03. On Volcano - Out of sight
04. Monday Monkey Riot - Go ape
05. Dmitry Fyodorov - Warcollapse!
06. TALK 2
07. Wired for Mono - Don't look down
08. Small - Come around (vs Hippo remix)
09. September Malevolence - ...accidents happen so fasr
10. TALK 3
11. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Facelessness erase every trace of humanity
12. Napoleon - Send me a woman
13. Rigas Den Andre - I am crane
14. TALK 4
15. Mist - Subjective pop song
16. Ebba Grön - Tyst för fan
17. Neveres - Pause
18. Pascal - Cadillac
19. TALK 5
20. Komeda - Blossom (got to get it out)
Reminder: my show on Sirius Left of Center (channel 26) is now on Sundays at 11pm ET with repeats on Monday.
One of the best things about the Swedish festival scene is all the unexpected friendly faces you run into. Not only did I get a chance to hook up with a ton of bands, label/industry reps, and fellow journalists/bloggers, but I also ran into Henrik von Euler aka Rigas/Rigas den Andre, someone who I had no clue would be there. Apparently he was there supporting friend/associate/bandmate Parken, one of the acts I missed due to my delayed arrival. But! Someone was kind enough to point him out to me and introduce us, thank god because there's no way I would've recognized him by his Skitsystem hoodie. As for Parken, he was nice enough but he also spilled half a beer in my lap so fuck him! Who cares if his latest single is something of an indie-dance hit, I'm all about the skweee instead.
Surprisingly, that was the only party foul I was personally involved in outside of losing my copy of the apartment key the very first day of the fest. And honestly, it really wasn't that bad- I just like to complain. As for other fest casualties, well let's just say that there were plenty, I'm just glad it wasn't me.
As for the ongoing Swedish tour, today (Monday) is my last real day in Stockholm and then it's off to Malmö!
Rigas den Andre - I am crane
If you enjoyed that skweee track I posted yesterday, check out Rigas den Andre's contribution to the "Museum of future sound vol. 2" compilation over at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/102670709