Mokira/Tilliander - 303/303/303/303 (video)
Some serious gear-envy going on here.
Some serious gear-envy going on here.
MoKira, one of Swedish electronic artist Andreas Tilliander's many aliases, will be releasing the new album "Time axis manipulation" on May 12 via .
Spinner lists their five favorite acts from by:Larm: https://www.spinner.com/2010/02/21/best-of-by-larm-festival/
The names: The Megaphonic Thrift, Altaar, Negash Ali. Kira Kira and Joensuu 1685.
The folks behind the Ja Ja Ja Scandinavian music showcase in London have made themselves a short doc on the November event featuring guests Kira Kira, I Was A King and TV Off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ffksvr_8oE
The Line of Best Fit talks to Icelandic artist Kira Kira: Kira-Kira/" target="_blank">https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2009/11/ja-ja-ja-Kira-Kira/
They missed their intended launch date, but it seem that the folks behind the Ja Ja Ja Nordic clubnights in London have finally got themselves their first showcase at The Lexington on November 19. As for the bands selected to grace the stage at this inaugral event, they were selected by Huw Stephens of Radio 1 Introducing and include a representation from every Scandinavian country except poor Denmark: Kira Kira (Iceland), I Was A King (Norway), TV Off (Finland), Francis (Sweden). Go to their website for more: https://www.jajajamusic.com/
MoKira is one of Andreas Tilliander's many aliases and "Persona" is his most recent release as such, his second for the label Type. Billed as an exercise in pure analog electronics, I expected to be greeted by various pleasant bleeps and bloops, but what I got instead was dull as doornails minimalist ambiance. Drone doesn't have to be dull, nor should it be, yet this record goes nowhere. It's odd too because it's generally pleasant to listen to, just entirely non-compelling. Witness "Lord, am I going down?", one of the album's slightly more dramatic tracks. The listener is treated to gentle waves of sound, deep, chiming echoes and subtle textural shifts, but it eventually just collapses into an extended wash. There's hardly any negative space and the total dynamics are near-nil. At the end it simply drifts effortlessly into the next cut. My emotional resonance is zero. After many repeated listens, I can only say: I don't care.
Mokira - Lord, am I going down?
Dusted reviews the new MoKira record "Persona": https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/4977
PopMatters reviews Andreas Tilliander's new album "Persona", released under his ambient moniker MoKira: Kirapersona" target="_blank">https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/72038-moKirapersona
Cokemachineglow reviews the new Andreas Tilliander ambient album "Persona" released under his MoKira moniker: Kira-persona-2009" target="_blank">https://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/4429/moKira-persona-2009
The Silent Ballet reviews Andreas Tilliander's analog alias MoKira and his new record "Persona": https://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/2236/Default.aspx
Icelandic act Benni Hemm Hemm is touring Europe this spring:
05/05 - Bevrijdingsfestival, Groningen (NL)
05/08 - Whelans, Dublin (IRL) w/Kira Kira
05/09 - Crane Lane Theatre, Cork (IRL) w/Kira Kira
06/12 - Le Nouveau Monde, Friburg (CH)
06/13 - B-Sides Festival, Lucerne (CH)
06/14 - Salzhaus, Winterhur (CH)
06/16 - tbc, Vienna (AUS)
06/17 - KFZ, Marburg (GER)
06/20 - tbc, Würzburg (GER)
06/24 - tbc, Berlin (GER)
Kira Skov (ex-Kira and the Kindred Spirits) has re-confirmed her debut solo album "The rail train, the meadow, the freeway and the shadows" for release on September 15.