It has been revealed that will be doing a 7LP boxset of Arve Henriksen albums including 2LP versions of his three solo records for the label, "Sakuteiki" (2001), "Chiaroscuro" (2004) and "Strjon" (2007), plus bonus tracks and an additional LP called "Chron" which will include new material. More details to come...
"Wild horse wild dog" comes off of Susanna's latest album "Wild dog", out now via .
's next release will be the new Espen Eriksen Trio CD/2LP "What took you so long": http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/espen-eriksen-trio/rcd-2129-espen-eriksen-trio-what-took-you-so-long-cd/
Official release date is April 13.
Check out Susanna (aka Susanna Wallumrød of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra) performing the new song "Freeze" live together with Jenny Hval (Rockettothesky) and Hilde Marie Kjersem. Susanna's new album "Wild dog" will be officially released on March 16 via .
has posted details for the upcoming Susanna album "Wild dog", due out March 16: http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/susanna/rcd-2128-susanna-wild-dog-cd/
has posted details for the upcoming Motorpsycho double-album concept work and Ståle Storløkken collaboration "The death defying unicorn": http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/motorpsycho/rcd-2124-motorpsycho-and-stale-storlokken-the-death-defying-/
artists Jenny Hval and Phaedra will be making their London debut together at the Borderline on March 19. And in related news, labelmates Motorpsycho will be playing London as well, at the Garage on April 12.
Here's an update on 's release schedule for Q12012:
01/20 - Bushman's Revenge - A little bit of big bonanza (CD/LP)
01/20 - Bushman's Revenge - Never mind the botox (LP)
02/17 - Motorpsycho with <>Ståle Storløkken - The death defying unicorn (2CD/2LP)
03/02 - Astrïd - High blues (CD)
03/02 - Volcano the Bear (UK) - Golden rhythm / Ink music (CD/LP)
03/16 - Susanna - Wild dog (CD)
will be releasing two new records from Bushman's Revenge in January, along with the debut from El Doom & The Born Electric (ex-The Cumshots/Thulsa Doom) followed by, in February, a new double album from Motorpsycho. Samples at the label's website: http://www.runegrammofon.com/mp3player/
Jenny HvalThe poststructural feminists are going to have field day with this one. There's already been so much said on Jenny Hval, former alias Rockettothesky, that it requires some self-reflection of adding more unnecessary internet debris. I'll try to make this short and sweet. First off, "Viscera" -- the first effort released under her own name -- scares the shit outta me. Kicking off with a quirky avant-garde-like recitation, it dropkicks you like a welterweight champion of morbid genius. Heavyweights I'm referring to of course of dark siren goddesses and radical poets: Kate Bush, Siouxsie Sioux, Elisabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins, Patti Smith, Laura Nyro, etc. It's no wonder Ms. Hval wrote a Masters' thesis on Kate Bush, probably something as bad-ass as Lacanian readings on voice (think: Mladan Dolar's, "A Voice and Nothing More", MIT Press) or phonocentrism. Just as Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" was inspired by an Emily Brontë novel, Jenny Hval draws on strong literary influences. It takes special brains to not only extrapolate necessary understanding of one's music on paper, but be a decisive act/performance as well. And she certainly is.
An old music critic once told me you can tell everything about a band by reading their lyrics. Most of the time you do it reluctantly, with one-eye squeezed shut -- especially bands where English isn't their first language. It's painful to ingest the gaping vulnerability of text, so it's often treated it as a discardable or excess entity, sidelined by the "real" stuff. But here the music follows the imagery of the words, pieced together like limbs conjoined and changing; developing within itself, evolving, caving in, and even exploding ("Portrait of the young girl as an artist"). Jenny Hval exhibits beautiful harmonic development ("How gentle") but her songs never get so lost to return to a theme ("Blood flight"). It never so alienates it's listener should you understand it, and patience is rewarded abundantly.
- Ann Sung-an Lee
is doing a number of vinyl pressings of back-catalogue releases, including the following:
Elephant9 - Live at the BBC (LP)
Scorch Trio w/Mars Williams - Made in Norway (2LP)
Fire! w/Jim O'Rourke - Released! (10" EP)
The Last Hurrah!! - The great gig in disguise (10" EP)
All are officially released on December 9.
A look behind the scenes of the recording of Alog's new album "Underemployed", just released today via .
The new Alog album "Unemployed" is confirmed for release on November 11 via : http://alog.net/posts/205
will be releasing the new Albatrosh album "Yonkers" on October 21: http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/albatrosh/rcd-2117-albatrosh-yonkers-cd/
Albatrosh is the duo of young Norwegian jazz musicians André Roligheten on sax and pianist Eyolf Dale.
has posted details for their next release, the debut CD "Shoot!" from the guitar-based Hedvig Mollestad Trio: http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/hedvig-mollestad-trio/rcd-2115-hedvig-mollestad-trio-shoot-cd/
RG has also just released a box set reissue of label mainman Rune Kristoffersen's old band Fra Lippo Lippi, available on both vinyl or CD.
