Fever Ray at #9 on Pitchfork album list
Fever Ray comes in at #9 on Pitchfork's top albums of 2009 list: https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7744-the-top-50-albums-of-2009/5/
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Egil Olsen - Hard work and fate (video, feat. Jenny Hval)
Check out a video of Norwegian artist Egil Olsen performing "Hard work and fate" together with Jenny Hval aka Rockettothesky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urrol_SJM1U
Free downloads from 22-Pistepirkko
Legendary Finnish act 22-Pistepirkko are giving away a bunch of free demo tracks and outtakes and whatnot as they prepare to celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2010: https://www.22-pistepirkko.net/download.html
Popsicle pop comps
Popsicle Recordings has posted 10 volumes of Swedish/Scandinavian pop samplers for free download: https://www.popsiclerecordings.com/samplers/
These were originally distributed as freebies with orders to Popsicle's distro, but since the bottom has fallen out of the CD market (for most of us), they are no longer being made.
New Torpedo tunage
Torpedo has a new song in an Audi promotion: https://microsites.audi.com/a1onlinespecial/html/popup.html
Atlas Losing Grip to play Germany, France, Belgium
Atlas Losing Grip are doing a short Euro tour in January:
01/13 - Rote Flora, Hamburg (GER)
01/14 - Sputnikhall, Münster (GER)
01/15 - The Sojo, Leuven (BEL)
01/16 - Le Pixi, Paris (FRA)
01/17 - De Slekke, Kortrijk (BEL)
01/18 - De Rots, Antwerpen (BEL)
Steso Songs - Now it's dark (video)
Steso Songs has a new video for the song "The worse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B99jjjvCOGw
Her new album "Now it's dark" comes out February 17 via .
The High Hats - I know it's Christmas
Swedish pop-punk act The High Hats are now streaming a new (old) Christmas tune at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/highhats
Le Sport - 16 December
Hey, look! Another new track from the recently reborn Le Sport: https://www.lesportmusic2.tk/
Pfork best albums of 2009, pt. 1
The first half of Pitchfork's top 50 albums of 2009 are posted and Scandinavian artists featured so far include jj (#35) and Röyksopp (#30): https://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7744-the-top-50-albums-of-2009/
Lorentz & M. Sakarias - Lever min dröm (video)
Check out the new Lorentz & M. Sakarias video for "Lever min dröm" (feat. Newkid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMxPehgUHto
El Perro Del Mar, Taken By Trees to tour US
El Perro Del Mar and Taken By Trees are touring the US together next year:
02/14 - World Café, Philadelphia, PA
02/16 - Le Poisson Rouge, New York City, NY
02/17 - Knitting Factory, Brooklyn, NY
02/19 - Cambridge Family YMCA, Cambridge, MA
02/20 - Il Motore, Montreal, Quebec
02/21 - The Mod Club, Toronto, Ontario
02/22 - Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL
02/23 - Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
02/26 - The Triple Door, Seattle, WA
02/27 - Biltmore Cabaret, Vancouver, British Columbia
02/28 - Doug Fir Lounge, Portland, OR
03/02 - Café du Nord, San Francisco, CA
03/03 - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
The Silent Ballet reviews Midaircondo
The Silent Ballet reviews the new Midaircondo album "Curtain call": https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/2962/Default.aspx
Kristofer Åström covers TST?
Is that a TST cover I see on the new Kristofer Åström EP? Look: https://www.soundpollution.se/product.aspx?id=32386
Mats Björk - Sound of the sun
Check out a short video presentation on the new solar-powered musical creation invented by artist Mats Björk and released in a (very) limited edition by the label : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSod4s1OSfY
More info: "Connected to a pair of headphones, you one can choose to listen to one of the two parts this composition basically consists of. With the lid open, the circuit (that also makes out the musical score) with its oscillators, is carefully tuned for broad daylight to capture the intense piercing and powerful energy, here manifested in the mantra of a clear but uncertain six tone chord. Slowly shifting in pitch as the sun wanders the sky and occasionally hides behind a small cloud, this part of the composition lets you sink in to the relations between the tones themselves and between light and tone. By more actively interacting with the sun, or exploring the sounds of artificial light, the piece moves into its more chaotic experimental phase and you as a listener approach the role of the musician. Like zooming in on the exploding fire bursts of the solar surface, the experience of minimal noise clusters, related to all kinds of light, is revealed."