Joachim Nordwall
Co-founded Swedish experimental label Borft Records. Left label and Sweden in 1994. Later returned, and formed the iDEAL Organization including the iDEAL Festival in Göteborg and IDEAL Recordings.
Co-founded Swedish experimental label Borft Records. Left label and Sweden in 1994. Later returned, and formed the iDEAL Organization including the iDEAL Festival in Göteborg and IDEAL Recordings.
Member of: Sins For Beginners
Soul Music 2
Swedish iDEALIST, Joachim Nordwall spills the psychic contents of his skull temple in Soul Music 2, just over two year since his 1st volume, also for Entr’acte. Technically a collaboration with Dungeon Acid on percussion, this album pursues a rich seam of solo releases under Nordwall’s own name since 2010 with a typically ascetic approach to hypnotic, icy minimalism, dissonant tone and plaintive rhythm.
As you might expect from a core member of The Skull Defekts, Fire! Orchestra, and Saturn and …
Prepresence
Recorded live in concert at iDEALFEST, Fylkingen, Stockholm on February 28th 2011. Heavy, lo-fi, monster drone set, featuring two of Sweden's most engaging performers. Sounds generated from the combination of electric hair clippers and analogue synthesiser are amplified, smashed and ground to a pulp, reformed and catapulted into the stars.
Concert
Nordwall is here captured - perhaps on cassette, given the self-confessed terrible quality of the recording - during a 17-minute set in Oslo, in 2008. It's too bad that we can't really get a hold on the actual gradations generated by this 'skull transmission' (I had thought about an Alvin Lucier-like performance with wires linked to the artist's head, then read that JN is a member of Skull Defects) because what transpires is positively stimulating. These sounds might have ranked in the field of …
Soul music
Soul Music consists of six pieces built from monotonous percussion and bent analogue synthesizers. Pulse is central to these works. Taking inspiration from acid house, primitive trance music and 1960s downtown NYC minimalism, Soul Music is music from the skull of Joachim Nordwall. This is his soul music, and its path is circular, rhythmical and intense. Joachim Nordwall runs the iDEAL Recordings label. He is a founder member of The Skull Defekts and also plays with Alvars Orkester and Oceans of …
When The Ice Is Leaving, Scandinavia Is Burning
Recorded at different locations in Scandinavia in 2002-2005 era maximus by Johannes Heldén, Lasse Marhaug & Joachim Nordwall. Field recordings as sound source, later computer processed. Shadows were present. Notes were taken. Save yourselves.