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Experimental / Psychedelic

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Member Since	12/18/2005
Band Website	http://www.deafcenter.net
Band Members	Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland
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Type of Label	Indie

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After the critical acclaim of their Neon City EP, Pale Ravine is the long awaited full-length realization of Erik Skodvin and Otto Totlands musical ideals. Taking up where Neon City left off with its epic sound collages and textural soundscapes, Pale Ravine manages to provide a sound altogether more Lynchian and grimly cinematic. Using influences from further back in their lives, the two Norwegian musicians have looked deep into their own family histories to piece together a dusty and nostalgic epic.

Inspired by old silent 8mm film reels, the historical architecture around them and the call of the alluring Norwegian landscape, the duo set out armed with microphones to record whatever they could to capture these feelings. Sounds from battered old records, cash registers, broken machines and a half-dead piano were all blended into the mix to add a warm, homely depth to the recordings. These sounds are most evident in the track Loft, where knocks and wooden creaks give an almost claustrophobic feel to the music. Again on The Clearing a subtle field recording gives the track a rich and involving background and helps build up the mysterious aura before launching a skewed 1930s circus-waltz.

One of the most stand-out influences on Pale Ravine is theatre, or at least the romance of all things theatrical. Not so much theatre in all its pretentious excesses, but the childhood apprehensiveness and the sinister undercurrents. From the muffled ticket booth ambience of Lobby to the solemn dance of White Lake it all appears draped in thick billowing velvet. The dense narrative technique the duo employs is almost like a reverse to a silent film the soundtrack is provided to be accompanied by the imaginative visuals of the listener.

Pale Ravine is an album which again manages to blend elements of classical music with electronic music, yet there is something decidedly different which sets it apart from the competition. While there are elements that can be compared with contemporaries such as Max Richter, Marsen Jules or Ryan Teague Deaf Center is altogether more other-worldly, darker and ultimately very rewarding.

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:lip.id	Jul 6 2009 10:30 PM yo...new song...more art...yada,yada,yada... best 2u
Tardiss	May 18 2009 7:08 PM Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know the Tardiss album 'Behind the Blind' is finally available on iTunes. Please stop by and listen to some of our tracks. Check us out on Last.fm too. You'll see a lot of Deaf Center plays on there. Thanks!!
Julien Boulier Online Now!	May 18 2009 7:08 PM Hello, excellent music ! Really beautiful ! Have a good week, from Brest, Julien
Collothen]	May 8 2009 10:16 AM gorgeous(: kind regards, _collothen
Kanta Hishinuma	May 7 2009 7:51 AM thank you for the add. musica fantastica.
idoru	May 5 2009 12:13 PM THANKS FOR THE FRIENDSHIP,LOVE THE MUSIC.
Valentina Piccinni	May 5 2009 12:12 PM Thanks for the add! See you soon Valentina www.myspace.com/pikappaci Photo by Valentina Piccinni
iller eye	May 5 2009 12:12 PM Thank you
One Is Won, now Waves Of Fire: go to the new page!	May 4 2009 6:35 AM Thanks for the "friending"!
potw	May 4 2009 6:35 AM Thanks for the add!!
chernobyl.	Apr 30 2009 12:35 PM Your music is amazing, it evokes an emotion I can't put into words.
Kamistan	Apr 29 2009 7:43 PM loved pale ravine. It makes film music seem shallow :)
Simon Scott	Apr 24 2009 4:04 PM http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4136609?shoegaze LIVE: Machinefabriek, Simon Scott + Xela @ Salford Trinty Church- Manchester: 11 May '09. *Simon Scott, Svarte Greiner + The Sight Below: 1st July @ Hare and Hounds-Birmingham (Epic 45 Dj set) , 2 July @ Scared Trinity Church- Manchester, 3rd July@ The Luminaire- London and 4th July '09 Leeds The Royal Park Cellars. Simon Scott "Navigare" album coming summer 2009 on Miasmah Recordings.
INquiete	Apr 21 2009 11:04 AM ..great music to walk... thank you
Amiel Balester	Apr 20 2009 3:18 PM the real meaning is behind the harmony
Dilemma	Apr 20 2009 3:18 PM Yes, I know from where I came! Ever hungry like a flame, I consume myself and glow. Light grows all that I conceive, Ashes everything I leave: Flame I am assuredly. Friedrich NİETZSCHE THANKS FOR THE ADD.YOUR MUSİC İS REBELLİON OF YOUR SOUL.
Euhedral Online Now!	Apr 14 2009 8:35 PM Hello & Thank you! Really enjoying your soundscapes
Julie Jamieson	Apr 11 2009 4:36 PM Thanks for networking - hope you enjoy my music. Nice music you have.
VERNARBTER RISS	Apr 8 2009 8:16 AM nice stuff, greetings from LE!!!
Killa Pips	Apr 7 2009 11:08 AM White Lake is stunning - the music is so cinematic
MUTATION URBAINE	Apr 6 2009 11:21 PM So deep and so beautiful ! pure enchantment to listen your music. My best regards from Paris Le Hibou
Freischaffen	Apr 6 2009 3:32 PM Thanks for the great music!
Ödland Online Now!	Apr 6 2009 12:32 AM Thanks for the add. Merci Pour l'ajout. Lorenzo.
Nicolas	Apr 6 2009 5:47 AM absolutely lovely music!!! thanks for joining my page, love, peace, vibes & doodeloo!!! ;n
John Balikos	Apr 6 2009 10:54 AM REALLY GREAT SOUNDS,GUYS...BEST GREETINGS FROM GREECE..

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