Music from Sweden

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 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 …

Cello and voice. Lene Grenager (1969) is a cellist and composer from Norway, internationally well known from the ensembles Spunk and Lemur. Swedish singer and composer Sofia Jernberg (1983) is mainly a soloist, but she also works with different gropups, The New Song, Paavo, Yun Kan 10. CD in a yellow cover with text by Thomas Millroth.

After lots of delays and mishaps, we are now happy to announce the release of this massive box set. Offered here is three full length vinyl LPs by the Swedish master of harsh noise minimalism and perversity -- BLOD.In the late 90's, Blod released two full length tapes that were only distributed in a mere handful of copies. Both these recordings are now presented in this box, on one LP each. The third LP contains the Blod tracks from his split CDR with Goat on the Japanese Xerxes label -- it was …

1996 reissue. The first in our new series called Swedish Underground Archives. The series will focus on classic yet mostly unreleased recordings by known and unknown to mythical Swedish progressive/psychedelic groups from the 1960s/70s. First out is the best ever recording from the legendary Trad Gras & Stenar (Trees Grass & Stones) recorded at the first ever Swedish outdoors summer hippie festival in 1970. The sound is just amazing: a stoned lysergic wall of acid guitars jamming away and never …

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.

Six works by Åke Parmerud from 1986 to 1999, including Strings & Shadows for harpist Sofia Asunción Claro, Retur on a Charlie Parker solo for the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, and the Bourges-winning Repulse.