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NILSEN, BJ & STILLUPPSTEYPA - Man From Deep River

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Editions Mego demego007 Release Year: 2009 Note: music like an ongoing hallucination, when the reality dissolves to a dream... "drones with bones" ! Oversized cardboard-cover w. postcard Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Man From Deep River (DeMEGO 007), ein gemeinsamer Trip von BJ NILSEN & STILLUPPSTEYPA, scheint einer Route zu folgen, die in keinem normalen Atlas verzeichnet ist. Deutet zuerst Getrommel des ‚Dschungeltelegrafen‘ flussaufwärts Richtung ‚Heart of Darkness‘, ertönt plötzlich Georgel. Halluzination? Erinnerung? Der Schädel brummt so fiebrig, dass ein vernünftiger Gedanke oder auch nur eine Orientierung schwierig sind. Die Orgel dröhnt erneut mit einem ausgehaltenen Ton, eine Stimme flüstert etwas ins Ohr, von weiter her schallt Kinderlärm. Was dringt da in den Kopf ein? Wer entführt einen da mit Telemagie? Ist das nicht der alte H3O-Zauber? Die erste der drei Passagen endet mit Rauschen und Zischen, das in einer Melodie mündet. Der Mittelteil übernimmt davon ein harmonisch rumorendes Low-Fi-Gedröhn, das einen träumerisch weiterdriften lässt, wenn auch mit einem Pfeifen im Ohr. Wie unter Wasser hört man Gebrodel und verzerrtes Georgel. Spielt das - wie J. G. Ballards Fahrt auf dem ‚Mallory‘ (in The Day of Creation) - sich alles nur im Kopf ab? Der mehr als halbstündige Part 3 beginnt mit prasselndem Feuer. Dann wieder Wasser und Vogelstimmen. Dazu Gedröhn, Verzerrungen, Störungen, Stimmen - das Surreale spricht Französisch. Es rauscht wie Rushhourgehupe gemixt mit Lux Aeterna in den letzten Minuten der Odyssee im Weltraum, bevor man im Rokokozimmer landet. Der Klangstrom wellt sich als gedämpfter Chorgesang, sendet korkenzieherförmige Triller durch erhabene Keyboardsounds. Und endet einfach so, ohne Endpunkt." [Bad Alchemy] "The boiling up bottomless numbness. Slowly disappearing and so suddenly reappearing. A constant vivid reminder yet as honest as possible. The Man from deep River quickly develops between two lonely desperate individuals, and the savage natives around him turn just as quickly against their own mountain god. The 'illness' is caused by several deeply depressing circumstances and by the intense difficulty of other sickening circumstances happening around deep River. The underlining of this situation is precise but not quite naturalistic which has only a very limited influence on the god mountain. Those lovable Nordic heroes are back with a fourth album of intense listening and shined isolationist compositions. In doing so, they have issued yet another brief statement in defense of their research: 'Like another wall of jungle trees Man from deep River leaves us both stunned and disoriented. It is an environment of high tension but also with moments of temporary insanity and auditory hallucinations. Based on a found tape from 1975, which served as guidance for the compositions Man from deep River opens up a new development in their sound. Melodic passages with sweeping electronics and analogue synthesizers mixed with field recordings and disturbed voices creating a multifaceted piece. The Swedish born BJ Nilsen defines his work as 'focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on huMans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound.' He has numerous recordings on Touch and has collaborated with the likes of Chris Watson, Christian Fennesz, and Z'ev. The Icelandic citizens Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson and Helgi Thorsson are Stilluppsteypa, whose elec- tronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism." [label info] "Man From Deep River is another fantastic album in the ongoing Viking drone collaboration between BJ Nilsen, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, and Helgi Thorsson. Where their trilogy for Helen Scarsdale spoke the trials and tribulations of alcoholism through heavy minimalism, this one has a Mondo feel. The album is based upon a found tape from 1975, which served as the guide to their excursions; but even beyond this piece of audio verite, they frame the album as if it were the harrowing sound design for some fucked-up Italian pseudo documentary on any number of unsavory topics. The opening field recording of African mbira players and wood percussionists is tame enough, setting the stage for a narrative beyond their Scandinavian tundra. As these recordings degrade through incrementally increasing reverb, the signature Nilsen / Sigmarsson drone sound oozes forward amidst the chattering of European finches. Things quickly blacken with a Dracula haunting of carnivalesque organ chords played with heavy hands and minor keys. As all of this happens within the first 10 minutes, the album instantly has a very different feel than the alcohol trilogy's isolationism. Deadly serious, flatlined tones emanate beyond this point, coupled with those same bird recordings which have now been deformed into mutating coos and slow-motion clucks as if refracted through a fun house mirror. Bits of spoken dialogue also creep forward presumably from that aforementioned found cassette, but swimming in deeper than deep reverberation and intermingling with warbling carnivalesque overtures spawned from the almighty drone. After a rasping collage of electrified field recordings, Man From Deep River concludes through a series of spectral arcs of modulating sound radiate the night sky like the northern lights filtered through auditory hallucinogenics. Only during these brief concluding moments do Nilsen & Stilluppstyepa allow for a sense of beauty to emerge from an otherwise terminally unsettling, if blackly psychedelic album." [Aquarius Records review]