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Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Next Life - The decisive
02. TALK 1
03. Florence Valentin - Spring Ricco
04. Scraps of Tape - Bring the heavy
05. Slaraffenland - I'm a machine
06. TALK 2
07. PowerSolo - Pirates of the oblivion
08. Efterklang - Mirador
09. 18th Dye - Soft the hard way
10. Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band - Ten cities beyond
11. TALK 3
12. High Hats - The end
13. Samuraj Cities - Spoonful of talk
14. Jesper Norda - Gentle and slow with a new sharp edge
15. Division of Laura Lee - Violence is timeless
16. TALK 4
17. Kristofer Åström - Twentyseven
18. Turboweekend - Something or nothing
19. Dyno - Deliverance
20. Abcess Exil - Stormens öga
21. TALK 5
22. Ironville - The wild
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU, except for this week when it aired on Monday with a repeat on Tuesday (tonight). That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Pretty much every single Danish act at SXSW will be performing together at a special "Danish Dynamite Dayparty" taking place on March 20 at the Inhouse Gallery from 1-7pm. The lineup: Slaraffenland, Choir of Young Believers, Efterklang, Murder, 18th Dye, Oh Land, Powersolo, Tina Dico, Snake And Jet's Amazing Bullit Band and The Wong Boys. I'm gonna go ahead and throw my hat into the ring and say that this looks like a can't-miss opportunity for any lover of (Scandinavian) music, so if you find yourself in Austin at SXSW, you know where to be.
Danish label Rumraket reports that they'll be releasing Slaraffenland's 3rd album in April and will also be putting out Taxi Taxi!'s much-anticipated full-length debut (produced by Johan Berthling of Tape/Häpna) later on in 2009, as well as a live album/DVD from labelheads Efterklang.
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Rumraket is offering a new 4-song live EP from Slaraffenklang, a collaborationg between Danish acts Efterklang and Slaraffenland, as a free download: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=48345632&blogID=457285946
Danish act Slaraffenland is in the studio with producer Fridolin working on a new album for release in the spring via Rumraket.
Danish shoegazers Slaraffenland will release their new "Sunshine EP" on October 6 via Rumraket and will also be heading out on some European dates around that time as well:
10/07 - Astra Stube, Hamburg (GER)
10/08 - Steinbruch, Duisburg (GER)
10/09 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER) w/Handsome Furs, Jacob Faurholt
10/11 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER) w/Ef
10/12 - Ut Connewitz, Leipzig (GER)
10/14 - Jadlodajnia Filozoficzna, Warsaw (POL)
10/15 - De Kreun, Kortrijk (BEL)
10/16 - Cul de Sac, Tilburg (NL)
10/17 - Platformtheater, Groningen (NL)
10/25 - Spot on Denmark @ TIVOLI for the Nordic Blizzard Festival, Utrecht (NL)
10/31 - La Fléche D'or, Paris (FRA)
11/01 - Novosonic Festival, Dijon (FRA)
11/02 - Dqliq, Luxembourg (LUX)
11/07 - De Nachten Festival, Antwerp (BEL)
11/14 - Spot on Denmark @ AB, Brussels (BEL)
New Slaraffenland tourdates:
10/07 - Astra Stube, Hamburg (GER)
10/08 - Steinbruch, Duisburg (GER)
10/09 - Schokoladen, Berlin (GER)
10/11 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER)
10/12 - Ut Connewitz, Leipzig (GER)
10/16 - Cul de Sac, Tilburg (NL)
10/17 - Platformtheater, Groningen (NL)
10/25 - Tivoli, Utrecht (NL)
11/14 - Spot on Dennmark, Brussels (BEL)
Danish postrock act Slaraffenland will release the new EP "Sunshine" this coming fall via Rumraket. Listen to the track "I'm a machine" at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/slaraffenland
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Building off the demented amalgamation of space-rock, Björk, and industrial-tinged electronica that was present on "This is the one", Danish oddity Marybell Katastrophy has crafted another challenging, yet abundantly rewarding EP. "You are the two" is as difficult to portray with language as its predecessor, if not more so, lavishly borrowing vehicles of expression from almost every popular contemporary genre: electronic arrangements that amble along like Four Tet and other times prowl despondently, evoking early the Cooper Temple Clause; songwriting that at times feels akin to the masterfully bizarre work that Astrid Swan accomplished on "Spartan picnic" - see: "Nightwalk" - only later to feel more like a dangerously unhinged, "Amnesiac"-era experiment - see: "Silence"; even the stand-out track "Hidden agenda" seems indebted not only to the strength of Marybell Katastrophy's songwriting, but Czech electronic artists Khoiba and British prodigy Patrick Wolf's ability to congregate darkness with pop sensibility. Out of all of these myriad approaches and sounds, Marybell Katastrophy brings a powerful sense of coherence and lucidity, similar to the way the Notwist and Slaraffenland are able to explore numerous avenues without making their albums feel like a series of detours. If "This is the one" put Marybell Katastrophy on my radar, "You are the two" finds me pleading for a full-length effort to place high up within my Best of 2008 list.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Danish postrock shoegaze acts Efterklang and Slaraffenland will team up for a US tour in May:
05/06 - Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO
05/07 - Urban Lounge, Salt Lake City, UT
05/09 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR w/Subtle
05/10 - Nectar Lounge, Seattle, WA w/Subtle
05/11 - WOW Hall, Eugene, OR
05/12 - Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA
05/13 - The Brewery, Visalia, CA
05/14 - Spaceland, Los Angeles, CA
05/15 - Casbah, San Diego, CA
05/16 - Plush, Tucscon, AZ
05/17 - Modified, Phoenix, AZ
05/19 - Hailey's, Denton, TX
05/20 - Mohawk, Austin, TX
05/22 - Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, GA
05/23 - Local 506, Chapel Hill, NC
05/24 - Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington DC w/Subtle
05/26 - Sanctuary, Philadelphia, PA
05/27 - The Space, Hamden, CT
05/28 - Knitting Factory, New York, NY
05/29 - TT the Bears, Boston, MA
05/30 - Zoobizarre, Montreal (CAN)
05/31 - El Mocambo, Toronto (CAN)
06/02 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
06/03 - Record Bar, Kansas City, MT
PopMatters lists Ida Maria as their favorite CMJ discovery: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/50120/belles-of-the-ball/
Also listed are Datarock, New Violators and Slaraffenland.
Slaraffenland is blogging while on tour in the US: http://www.slaraffenland.blogspot.com/
Marybell Katastrophy