International electronic artists Tim Exile (UK), Mental Overdrive (NOR) and Boska (SWE) are teaming up for a special Occupy Wall Street-themed performance at the Insomnia Festival in Tromsø, Norway on October 21 and are asking for protest participants to upload sound, pictures and video footage to be incorporated into the event. They say, "We will then use snippets of this media as the basis for a sonic and visual real-time event to show both our support of those who work for a more just global financial system, as well as to celebrate the immediacy of our wonderful world of present time communication technology." Submit sounds here via SoundCloud; post videos and other media via Facebook.
Little Gang, the new band of Jacob Snavely (Dag för Dag), Carl von Arbin (Shout Out Louds), Rebekka Karijord and Erik Nilsson, will release their debut album "Half of everything" on October 19 and have a new website where you can preview a few tunes: https://wearelittlegang.com/
Swedish dark ambient act Raison d'Être has a nice new website that's no longer purely Flash-based: https://raison-detre.info/
As always, Raison d'Être mastermind has lots of new releases on the way including "Music for film and exhibition I + Natura Fluxus" 2CD+DVD under his legal nom de guerre Peter Andersson, a new version of the Necrophorus album "Underneath the spirit of tranquility" and an upcoming live album from Raison d'Être entitled "When the Earth dissolves in ashes" that will be released via . Definitely looking forward to that last one for sure -- samples and more info at the link above.
Fenriz has selected Uppsala hardcore thrashers Obnoxious Youth as his band of the week: https://www.myspace.com/officialdarkthrone/blog/544502897
Personally, I'm not so into this style, but in no way can I deny that they excel at it.
Swedish post-punks Cut City have announced that their fantastic swansong album "Where's the harm in dreams disarmed?" will be getting a proper vinyl release on December 2 via //. As promised, anyone who purchased the digital version will receive a discount on the physical edition, should they want one. As for everyone else who appreciates good music, I'll be sure to post details when preorder info is available.
has picked up Danish act Treefight for Sunlight for North America and will be releasing their album "A collection of vibrations for your skull" over here on November 8.
In a move that really shouldn't surprise anyone, Rasmus Kellerman has signed with for his next project which, apparently, will not be under his given name, Tiger Lou, nor electronic alias Araki. More: https://rasmuskellerman.com/?p=1233
The Wire reports that Susanna Wallumrød of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra is starting a new digital-only label called : https://thewire.co.uk/articles/7633/
Her first release with the new endeavor, which is designed to release single tracks as opposed to albums, will be a cover of Roy Harper's "Twelve hours of sunset" on November 1.
The full tracklist and cover art for the upcoming Scraps of Tape album "Resident flux" has been revealed: https://scrapsoftape.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/370/
As mentioned before, the band will be doing a few dates in Germany (and at home) to support the release of the album, due out October 26 via .
Scandinavian/international adventurous/experimental music blog 300AD has come back after a short absence with a glut of excellent new music, including stuff from Hemliga Skolan (posted above), Natassja, a collaboration between the two, plus Sharku and more: https://300ad.tumblr.com/
Recommended!
Kashmir will taking advantage of the 11/11/11 date to release a career retrospective album entitled "Katalogue". Said collection will include 32 songs including the obligatory new single "Electrified love" as well as a few live recordings from DM i Rock circa '93.