Thomas Denver Jonsson - glockenspiel, silvertone organ, stylophone organ, dulcimer, accordion, electric and acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica, field recordings, handclaps, vocals
C-J Larsgarden - laptop, melodica, piano, field recordings, various electronics, electric and acoustic guitar, whistle, handclaps, vocals, production and engineering
Influences
In no particular order, and without claim to sound anything like:
Mogwai, Four Tet, Helios, Alva Noto, The Flaming Lips, Trad, Gras och Stenar, Kraftwerk, The Beach Boys, Stanley Brothers, The Ronettes, Tape, Essex Green, M Ward, Lungfish, Deerhoof, Do Make Say Think, Gillian Welch, Aphex Twin, Roky Erickson, Lionel Hampton, Erik Satie, Fridge, Antony & The Johnsons, Sonic Youth, Low, Jaga Jazzist, Black Flag, Superchunk, Neil Young, Go! Team, Pavement, Supersilent, Cat Power, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Tortoise, Gastr Del Sol, Rites of Spring, Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass, Wilco, S:t Germaine, Stereolab, Fugazi, Steve Reich, Lightning Bolt, Grandaddy, France Gall and more.
Two years after their eponymous debut, the experimental folk duo A Perfect
Friend is back with the new album TIMBER AND MODERN WAYS, After a happy
divorce from their previous label, the new album will be released via Knoppar late 2009. C-J Larsgården and Thomas Jonsson have indeed finetuned their expression during the last years and found a dense balance between the catchy and the experimental, between noise and ambience. Compared to their 2007 debut, TIMBER AND MODERN WAYS though noticable progress and increased density, still features APF's patented trademarks of long notes, minimalistic guitar and pianos, their silent pop nerve, the field recordings, Larsgården's sonic landscapes and Jonsson's vocals. APF mixes the neu-folk feeling of stuff like
Akron/Family, Bon Iver and early Cat Power with the one of experimental
and ambient acts such as Fennesz, Mogwai and Panda Bear.
The album's ten tracks have been picked from a number of recording
sessions made in different locations; in different apartments, a wooden
cabin and a hotel room. The track list includes the warm soothing
electronics of MAPLE and TIMBER AND MODERN WAYS, the dark folk tune BRANCH FEVER, the upbeaty ONION, folkpoppy SAIL THE SOIL (featuring Emma Sarius), the dystopic THE ARTIFICIAL LUNG and the sound collage of PONTOON.
During the last few years, C-J has been busy releasing numerous cds with
his drone-metal solo project ONDO as well as being active in projects,
bands and collaborations such as Pacta, Kane, Larsgården/Rowenta and
Yrsel. Thomas has toured frequently all over Europe on his latest album
The Lake Acts Like an Ocean as indie/folk-alias Thomas Denver Jonsson. He
is currently finishing the recordings of a conceptual album about polar
expeditions.
Live @ Cimatics07, Brussels BE (90 sec)
TIMBER AND MODERN WAYS OUT ON DIGITAL PRE-RELEASE OCT 1st
Timber and Modern Ways, the second album of A Perfect Friend, the indietronic
duo of Thomas Denver Jonsson & C-J Larsgården will soon be available on I-tunes,
Spotify and in a limited cd edition. October 1st though it's made public on the label
KNOPPAR's web-shop. Only 5 pounds for the whole album. The friend lives again!!
Timber And Modern Ways (KNOPPAR, 2009)
01. Inside The Walls
02. Onion
03. The Artificial Lung
04. Sail The Soil (feat. Emma Sarius)
05. Branch Fever
06. Pontoon
07. Maple
08. Timber and Modern Ways
09. Post Rock
10. Matro
APF's DEBUT ALBUM STILL AVAILABLE
"A Perfect Friend" (CD, 2007, Stilll )
Songs:
1. Rush Hour (2:33)
2. APF (3:27)
3. When the Temperature is rising(13:27)
4. Tdr Tdr Tdr ( 2:33)
5. Welcome Aboard (5:02)
6. Picture (9:33)
7. Strings of Hayden (3:20)
8. Jari Huotari (6:51)
Their debut album album was recorded early summer 2006, partly inside the studio, partly outside on numerous field recording excursions. The result is eight songs, from psychedelic folk tunes to deep suggestive electronica, a 45 minute indietronic experience. Sweet pop melodies, purring cats, quacking ducks, glockenspiel and finger picked guitar are streaming through warm layers of organic and electronic sounds.
press:
****
"[APF] is indeed exactly; A Perfect Friend /.../ Melodica-
drone made in heaven"
- De:Bug 114 July 07 (DE)
"El resultade, un disco magico /.../ Casi perfecto"
("The result, a magic cd /.../ almost perfect")
- Suburban Lab (ES)
"Like two perfectly boiled eggs"
- NWT (S)
Pick of the week
-P*dis (JP) (Japanese Distributor)
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Please support our Indie Pop "EP CLUB" presented by Series Two Records and Eggnog Records. It is a collaboration between an Indie Pop label in Nebraska and one in New Zealand. The indie pop EP CLUB's include artists from around the world.
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Tack för adden! Detta låter alldeles lysande. Kände till Tomas fina sologrejer sen tidigare, med det här är ju snudd på ännu bättre! Lycka till med nya plattan.
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