Artist  : BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa
Title   : Big Shadow Montana
Genre   : Electronic
Year    : 2011
Date    : 05/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 02
Label   : Helen Scarsdale Agency
Source  : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length  : 45:44 min
Size    : 71,2 MB

Tracklist:
----------

01.Big Shadow Montana 01                  23:38
02.Big Shadow Montana 02                  22:06
                                         -------
                                          45:44 min

After producing their frozen trilogy of
intoxicated dronemuzik for the Agency,
these Scandinavian gentlemen have
ventured into more absurdist territories
through fictionalized soundtracks for
imagined Mondo films and science fiction
serials. It is in this context that BJ
Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa present the
apparitional Big Shadow Montana, an
album of slow-motion delirium manifested
in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and
arcane tones from a variety of analogue
synthesizers. Amidst the near constant
wash of bleary-eyed etherialism, Big
Shadow Montana cycles through several
sonic themes and leitmotifs, displayed
in varying states of clarity. In these
transitions between half-remembered
phrases and bleary-eyed thrumming, the
album emerges as if it were the
aftermath from a protracted bout of
metaphysical channel surfing. Flickered
impressions flash in conjunction with
Breton's manifesto of Surrealism in the
form of the memories from happily drunk
escapades in the heart of winter, the
sidereal spells cast by the innerspace
travelers Klaus Schulze and Coil, and
the nagging questions of existential
portent: "Was that bassline from Goblin,
or was it German Oak? Maybe something
from Faust IV?"
The trio of Nilsen, Sigmarsson,
and Thorsson elegantly twist and bend
these fleeting images into a spiraling
symphony of bubbling electronics and
spectral drones that mutate on both
sides of the record into lugubrious yet
carnivalesque waltzes. When this first
appears, it is the echoing undercarriage
of a simple melody, bobbing amidst
rattling chains and cascading cymbal
crashes only to dissolve into sequences
of cold-war era tone beacons and
empathic swaths of maudlin sound design.
At the second occurrence, the melody
washes ashore on the Iceland beach,
where nude Viking men and women try in
vain to get a tan when the sun is just
barely going to rise above the horizon
in the winter months. It is a pyrrhic
jubilation of calliope harmonies set
down by organs and synths turning a
pale-blue hue in the wake of all that
white skin shivering underneath the
arctic sky.
A hauntological album? Quite
certainly. And yes, the vinyl does come
with a download code.

http://helenscarsdale.com



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Artist  : BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa
Title   : Big Shadow Montana
Genre   : Electronic
Year    : 2011
Date    : 05/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks  : 02
Label   : Helen Scarsdale Agency
Source  : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length  : 45:44 min
Size    : 71,2 MB

Tracklist:
----------

01.Big Shadow Montana 01                  23:38
02.Big Shadow Montana 02                  22:06
                                         -------
                                          45:44 min

After producing their frozen trilogy of
intoxicated dronemuzik for the Agency,
these Scandinavian gentlemen have
ventured into more absurdist territories
through fictionalized soundtracks for
imagined Mondo films and science fiction
serials. It is in this context that BJ
Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa present the
apparitional Big Shadow Montana, an
album of slow-motion delirium manifested
in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and
arcane tones from a variety of analogue
synthesizers. Amidst the near constant
wash of bleary-eyed etherialism, Big
Shadow Montana cycles through several
sonic themes and leitmotifs, displayed
in varying states of clarity. In these
transitions between half-remembered
phrases and bleary-eyed thrumming, the
album emerges as if it were the
aftermath from a protracted bout of
metaphysical channel surfing. Flickered
impressions flash in conjunction with
Breton's manifesto of Surrealism in the
form of the memories from happily drunk
escapades in the heart of winter, the
sidereal spells cast by the innerspace
travelers Klaus Schulze and Coil, and
the nagging questions of existential
portent: "Was that bassline from Goblin,
or was it German Oak? Maybe something
from Faust IV?"
The trio of Nilsen, Sigmarsson,
and Thorsson elegantly twist and bend
these fleeting images into a spiraling
symphony of bubbling electronics and
spectral drones that mutate on both
sides of the record into lugubrious yet
carnivalesque waltzes. When this first
appears, it is the echoing undercarriage
of a simple melody, bobbing amidst
rattling chains and cascading cymbal
crashes only to dissolve into sequences
of cold-war era tone beacons and
empathic swaths of maudlin sound design.
At the second occurrence, the melody
washes ashore on the Iceland beach,
where nude Viking men and women try in
vain to get a tan when the sun is just
barely going to rise above the horizon
in the winter months. It is a pyrrhic
jubilation of calliope harmonies set
down by organs and synths turning a
pale-blue hue in the wake of all that
white skin shivering underneath the
arctic sky.
A hauntological album? Quite
certainly. And yes, the vinyl does come
with a download code.

http://helenscarsdale.com



This NFO File was rendered by NFOmation.net