American metal mag Decibel Magazine just broke the big news with the exclusive premiere on the new Valerian Swing video, for the track Pleng. “Oddball Video Complements Oddball Band”???? You bet yyyya! Here you go!!!!! But oh… don’t forget to read up on what they have to say about it all, right here: http://www.decibelmagazine.com Yummiiiieee!!!!
And… Best of all, there’s a magnificent little making of video aswell. Nothing lige grown men with big beards dressing up as cute little animals. :)
These are the solid dates, be sure check up on the SXSW updates or check Time Columns and Valerian Swing’s designated facebook profiles. Bound to be updates over there aswell. Hope to see some of you out there. :)
There you have it!!!!! First piece of audio from Time Columns debut double LP “Mana”. Produce Communicate Transport Destroy directed by Time Columns drummer Jordan Miller. Ahhhh… Now if that’s not an epic first taste, we don’t know what is. Wauv!!!
Time Columns is asking for some help in regards to the U.S release of their new album Mana along a tour down from NYC to SXSW promoting it (SXSW included). It’s all happening over at Indiegogo, so please watch this video (click on it above) and feel free to head on over and support with all the power you can muster. If not directly, then please help spread the word either by linking to the Time Columns facebook page, the campaign itself or… this very post. :) Thank you!
And!… Just in case you didn’t know, Subsuburban (That’s us!) is releasing the Time Columns - ManaLP in the EU in the spring 2012 and we’re extremely…. Extreeeemly excited about getting to share more news in regards to that, soon. But… in the meantime, why not jump over to the Time Columns bandcamp and grab yourself the Time Columns EP, it’s quite free if you know how to funk the system ;) Get in the mood! Stay supportive and thou shall be rewarded. ;)
It’s dirt cold up/down here in Denmark these days…. 1000 daggers and needles type’o cold. So we try to keep warm with readymade pizzas, cheap candles, homemade clapping games and these awesome x-mas video-hymns on repeat, repeat and repeat. Yo! Santa, bring more candy!
Enjoy and have a great December. (Oh and remember, it’s a playlist… 24 vid’s… so if you get bored, just click next) ;)
6490 Km…. 4032 Miles… That’s exactly how much distance is between Copenhagen, Denmark and Frederick, Maryland, Usa. For some unexplainable reason we felt like digging into that “feeling”…. We sat here just staring into a google earth rendered image of the atlantic ocean… When suddenly… we got this brilliant idea of wanting to somehow break down that distance. We took the 6 the 4 the 9 and the 0 (of the km distance) and translated them to letters with a simple alphanumeric method, though with the original understanding of numbers, soo… 0 is essentially the lowest number. 0 would be A, 1 would be B, instead of the normal 1 is A, 2 is B. When completed, the 6490 becomes Geja. Instanly we thought… Holy shit!…. Geja sounds like Gaya…. That’s incredible!……. But…. ofcourse we couldn’t stop there….. So, when looking up a meaning for the word Geja, this is what came out: The Ethiopian term “Geja” literally translates to Stupid. Hmmm??? At first it felt like an insult… But then it became somewhat of an epiphany… A silent yet quite synchronized nod went around the room……… Well, we couldn’t agree more. Distance is a really stupid thing, yet, that’s what’s so amazing, it provokes us to mind the gap, take bigger steps, reach for more and at times dare do things we wouldn’t normally do. Which brings us to this very essential bit of news:
Meet Jordan Miller and Kenny Eaton aka Time Columns of Frederick, Maryland, Usa. A fearless and nothing short of astounding instrumental duo with a debut album, which we are incredibly honored and excited to announce for release in what seems to be around early/mid March 2012. An album which is justifiably entitled Mana. It is produced by Emmy award winning sound designer Harry Snodgrass and Time Columns themselves. The album is currently in the process of entering it’s final mixing stage… and so, in a few months, we shall gracefully carve it into a double vinyl beast of a release, bearing some neat details and surprises. :) We can’t wait to get this to the printers and we cannot wait to show it to you.
So in the meanwhile, feel free to head on over to Time Columns and say hi, check out their bandcamp and listen some tracks and… Last but not least approve of our common fortitude while we stand here on our seperate beaches, pointing towards each other, laughing in the silly face of distance. No! Not even an ocean shall stand in our way! Not even an ocean. :)
It’s been a week with a whole heap of turbulence (still going on, now with a massive storm over Denmark) and we haven’t even got the grips on it all just yet. There’s good news and there’s bad news. Let’s start with the bad.
The Fluorescent Heights album Tourism have met some complications and we did not get it to Copenhagen in time for the original release date. A small error on the vinyls had snuck thru and we’re currently dealing with a new estimate, awaiting another release date. You who have pre-ordered have been noticed and once again we thank you for sticking with the release, you shall not regret it. It sounds great (and better without flaws) :) News on the postponed release date will be up during the upcoming week.
Good news…. Well… It’s sooo good news…. Actually! We’re bringing in some more releases and this next one’s gonna be a huge deal in every aspect. We really can’t wait to tell you all about it. Yes, we’ve been very secretive about it for a while now and we really hope that you can bear with us for just another 1-2 days and then, we shall spill those damned royal beans. Uhhh… Can’t wait. :)
Soo… Bad… and good… Sometimes it’s weird handling all these mixed signals. One second your sad about time and details, next minute, your picking oranges with your label mates celebrating better things. It can be very frustrating. Though, if just some of you, keep enjoying what eventually comes out over here. That’s good enough for us.
Thank you for staying tuned.
Loads of stormy winter love
The Subsuburban Kids of Copenhagen, Horsens and beyond
A small flaming lake of lava tumbled down a crooked hillside… Halfway down it ate some old wooden cabins… At the foot of the hill, it engulfed a rusty old truck filled with VHS horror movies… Eventually the lava ran towards the ocean, only to jump off the harbour front, plunging into the peaceful depths of darkness, fulfilling its destiny as a cold and mysterious, yet somewhat admirable romantic lump of simple nature and sleepy synthetics embedded with outdated memories and dead noise. Once cooled off… We hired some sailors to help us bring it to land. We sliced it up, plastered some writing on it, wrapped it in paper and set it for sale.
It is with great pleasure we get to introduce to you, the soaring drones and panes of Fluorescent Heights, the musical moniker of young Stockholmer Henrik Stelzer. Together we will embark on the release of his debut album Tourism, due November 28th. Tourism is a peaceful 40 minute, 9 track stretch of unique lo-fi lullabies and creeping analogue ambiences. The whole thing spinning of an oceanic blue 12” LP including full digital download with the options of Flac, Mp3, Aac and Ogg Vorbis at the neat price of 11.5 Euro/16 Dollars or 85 Dkr (excluding postage). It’s available for pre-order and streaming at our Subsuburban shop this instant and it ships within 2 days of the release date.
But that’s not all… There’s a reason for all of this. Bloodlines!. Bloodlines is a new project we’re toying with. It’s a series of records connected to a blog driven by the artist in question. It’s a new way for us as a label to go out and explore, find and practice completely raw inspiration at it’s best. It’s simple really. We know that there are tons of people out there, hiding in their living rooms, dorm rooms and bedrooms, making wonderful secret sounds, music, art and beyond. We wanna reach those nooks, play with it, give it the window it wants. But all in all, it’s a quiet social science experiment, one artist hopefully leading us to the next, helping us build new musical bonds. Growing a family none of us knew we could have.
So… Fluorescent Heights will lay the first stone. Tourism will see the light of day, while before and after the release, he will post and unravel things about his music, inspirations, networks, his country, some videos… H***, anything he wants. Now and then we will interact with him, ask stupid questions and so on… But eventually, another relevant artist (and release) will enter that blogosphere and take over gradually. How, when and why? I guess we will have to see for ourselves.
The Bloodlines blog will start running from around the 1st of November, leading up to the release, almost one month later and then beyond… untill something else happens. :) We hope that you, just like us, will get a big kick out of loving it, hating it or perhaps everything in between. All is good. Phewwww… we talk waaaay too much….. Enjoy!
Yup, someone caught this neat video of some new Silian Rail stash, just a small week ago, isn’t it wonderful? Those shimmering guitars ohhh… Those powerful drums…. It can only be Silian Rail and you know it. :)
Introduced in the late 70’s, by the same nation who among a gazillion things gave us Battling Seizure Robots…. and now…. almost 40 years later, this wagon still blows our puny minds. We’re not saying that it’s the best way to “destroy” your records, but it looks fun (and mesmerizing). It ain’t cheap either, but ahh welll, useless gadgets rarely are. ;)
Icy Demons - Miami Ice(2007) is the band’s 3rd album since 2003 and also one of my absolute all-time favorite vinyls. Why you ask? Well….. It’s just packed with energy, awesome drums and infectious rhythms. It’s raw, uneven and there’s an amazing sharpness to it, that is impossible to ignore. For some reason It also reminds of old pedigree pal (dogfood) commercials.
- Michael @ Subsuburban.
Here are a couple of neat Icy Demons videos from the interwebs.
Are you a poet, noisemaker, instrumentalist, painter, dreamer, entrepreneur, graphic designer/playpal, lumberjack…. or just an amazing observer?. Well, you should consider packing your shit and head for the relaxing countryside of Låsby, Sweden.
Kvae is the Norwegian word for amber, the natural resin that flows from coniferous trees. It is the tree blood. When kvae comes in contact with air, it begins a process of transformation.
Kvae festival is what you make of it. What we offer is an opportunity for creative people to freely interact within an open context. The festival invites to experimentation and testing of ideas, within an alternative forum for creative exchange. We are a festival by artists for artists.
The festival is open to anyone who bears a creative spirit, so don’t hesitate to head on over to the kvae festival site and read up on the details. So far, around 40-50 artists/individuals/musicians have signed up for what looks to be a really refreshingly great festival.
