(On 1st record) Øystein Sandsdalen (acoustic guitar, silvertone, jaguar, eb 2, rickenbacker 4001, floor tom, snare, sleigh bells, maracas, bells, vocals).
(live, +) Tord Riverendings (drums), Henning Sandsdalen (bass, double bass), Henrik Lie (baritone guitar, bass), Dag Stiberg (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone), Yngve Hilmo (percussion), Mette Breddam (vocals).
(New record "Evening chill/Montréal of the mind" +) Sissyfus (clarinette, baritone saxophone), Ergo (organs, whistling), Thomas Bratlie (tambourine), Tord (drums, percussion, banjo, acoustic guitar), Henning (double bass).
Influences
Bilinda Butcher, The Riverendings, Come, Mark Steiner, LEE RANALDO, Sonic Youth, Hanged Men Dance, MARIUS ERGO, Hanny, Thurston Moore, The Falcons, Jimmy Scott, Magnus MoriartyTM, Debussy, The Flames, Ronnie Hayward, Erik Satie, Joy Division, Slowdive, The Cure, Link Wray, A Place To Bury Strangers, Center of the universe, SKYWAVE, Ceremony, The Misfits (Static Age, Legacy of Brutality), Sun Ra, My Bloody Valentine, The Vandelles, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Max Roach, David Lynch, CHARLES MINGUS, Charles Ives, Charles Baudelaire, MIKLOS ROZSA, Béla Bartók, The Velvet Underground, Max Steiner, Angelo Badalamenti, John Fahey, Artie Shaw, Glenn Branca, Giacinto Scelsi, traditional japanese music, JOZEF VAN WISSEM, Wanda Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Virgil Exner, Jack Kerouac, Sylvia Plath, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Rosenquist, Kjell Aukrust, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, HENRI BARBUSSE - LE FEU (UNDER FIRE), LE CERCLE ROUGE, Erich Maria Remarque, Out of the Past, BLUE VELVET, Nathan Daniel (Danelectro mastermind) ...
all time favourite records (øystein): BROKEN CIRCLE/SPIRAL HILL - LEE RANALDO, GOO, DAYDREAM NATION, LEGACY OF BRUTALITY, MINGUS AT THE BOHEMIA, HALLOWE'EN/FLOWER 12".
Sounds Like
A cross between Erik Satie & the Ramones... Le Corbeau - L'Innocence Revient Encore/Rêve D'Ivresse from Dave Mahler on Vimeo.
HERE'S LINKS TO BUY THE RECORDS:
"Evening chill/Montreal of the mind" CD:
http://www.tigernet.no/epages/tiger.sf/no_NO/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Tigernet/Products/125621
"Evening chill/Montreal of the mind" LP:
http://www.tigernet.no/epages/tiger.sf/no_NO/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Tigernet/Products/125622
"Le Corbeau" CD:
http://www.tigernet.no/epages/tiger.sf/no_NO/?ObjectPath=/Shops/Tigernet/Products/120430
Here's a link to buy the first cd from Looop: Buy Le Corbeau from Looop
"EVENING CHILL/MONTRÉAL OF THE MIND, THE NEW RECORD IS OUT NOW ON CD & 12" VINYL!"
"Le Corbeau (the first record: 1. blood orange moon, 2. burnt violet sky, 3. yeux noirs, 4. 1957, 5. dreamland, 6. sawtoothed hills, 7. angels, 8. angelo) was recorded & mixed between september 2006 - september 2007 by Kenneth Amundsen (Mindy Misty/Handmade Records) & Pål "Påsan" Lillevold onto 16-track tape.
All the rules were broken. Imperfect intonation, a good deal of reverb, a good deal of repetition & verse-chorus-verse, sleigh bells & other bells are heard on almost every track. No editing, no hooks, no noise-breaks, just plain old impressionistic rock'n'roll riffs played thru from beginning to end.
Lee Ranaldo's guitar (left speaker) on Sonic Youth's "the bedroom" was used as reference for the guitar sound. "Lee No.2" for the acoustic guitar. An instrumental version of the Velvets' "Guess I'm Falling In Love" inspired the overall sound.
The song "Tsunami" by Skywave was a rough reference for the vocal sound, & like in the song "Come Back" by the Misfits, i put a lot of reverb on the bass, & tried to get a kind of really oldschool "1950's" bass sound.
The bird sounds, swallows, a raven, ++, come off old 7-inch records of bird sounds, recorded onto cassette.
The drums were a snare & a floor-tom.
The guitars and basses used were: A Silvertone 1457 amp-in-case, a 1966 Fender Jaguar (seen in the slideshow), Rickenbacker 4001 & Gibson semihollow bass + a couple acoustic flat-tops.
The only amplifier used both for guitars and bass was a Peavey Backstage Plus 35W transistor amp, which has really great reverb.
Mastering was done by the great Tom Kvålsvoll."
Take care, everyone! Dig the world!
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Jeg hadde en drøm i går kveld, jeg så et band komme ut av mørket, det spilte blandt sorte ravner og hvite svaner, en bølge, en elv, som Chihiro og Haku. Jeg hadde endelig funnet de fortapte barns by og det var deep down dark and beautiful, Le Corbeau...
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