A small selection of the sample-based compositions John Henriksson has made for the last few years have now been put together to a twelve minute sound collage titled "I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose", which makes up the debut of the solo project he calls Molnbär av John.
"I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose" is made from chopped and screwed sounds, humorous compositions and romantic melodies, where the image of Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River on the stairs of the fire escape and the hip-hop idols from younger days passing by on the streets below is constantly recurring. Collages of melodies, voices and sound recordings are collected with precision and warmth, sounds from countless - long forgotten - crackling vinyl singles mixed with dictaphone recordings; all in true hip-hop tradition since the early teens. Back and forth, to and from the cassette tapes, new cloudy horizons are created by sounds, where the crackling of the record is hard to separate from the sound of the rain, which is mixed together with the hissing of the cassette tape, which is hard to separate from the sound of the wind.
7" vinyl limited to 300 hand numbered copies.
Tracklist:
I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose (A)
I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose (B)
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Musette "Datum"
TS01
Release date: 24-02-2009
Patiently written down dates, noted with a piano and carefully collected on cassette tapes, one by one. An assiduous attempt to keep books of time, to sketch the events, the landscapes and neighborhoods with melodies and recordings of sound. For several years Joel Danell has been writing songs on a piano, all given the names of dates as if they were diary notes. The kind of notes where the writing, more than the words themselves, recounts for the moment of them being written: times of accumulation where the letters stand close to each other and reach far into the margin, moments of pensiveness where lines have been crossed out and others have been added and moments of excitement where the letters have gained in size and defied the ruling of the sheet.
"Datum" is the retelling of these notes with the help of violin, whistling, guitar, accordion and Dobro, recorded in Blackeberg January 2008. Pieces that recount for an otherwise forgotten day in April, that describe the view from a balcony in a Stockholm suburb in late October, that is a remembrance of the rushing bicycle and the
passing landscape in the beginning of June.
Tracklist:
24 maj
2 mars
23 oktober
10 juli
17 oktober
14 april
18 juli
24 januari
1 juni
3 februari
16 oktober
22 december
9 november
4 september
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Musette "Carefully Collected Cassette Tapes"
Promo (CD-R/MP3-release)
Release date: 24-02-2009
This is the collection of cassette tapes, carefully recorded over the years, that became "Datum".
Made in 50 copies for customers of "Datum".
Tracklist:
01. 15 oktober *
02. 2 mars **
03. 14 maj *
04. 1 juni **
05. 4 september pt 2 *
06. 9 november (1) *
07. 9 november (2) *
08. 18 juli **
09. 23 oktober *
* without band
** with band
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