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STILLUPPSTEYPA — Beach Jolanda
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Its taken 14 years for these extravagant Icelandic artist troubadours to follow up their last (untitled) album. (At least they managed to give this one a name ; imagine what else theyd be capable of if wed waited another five years.) Beach Jolanda transposes their classic calipso beach bar laptop organ gibberish to the unmanned terrain of public lavatories in the dead of night. But it wouldnt be a party without guests: BJ Nilsen, Oren Ambarchi, Porsteinn Eyfjrd, Gerard Herman and Kristin Anna all turn up here, wielding bottles and other unlikely instruments. Limited edition of 400 copies, full-colour sleeve and insert." [label info]
"Despite the years on on-going collaborations between Stilluppsteypa and BJ Nilsen it has been
some fourteen years since we last heard something by Stilluppsteypa as a duo. That last release might have been their eponymous CD for Atak, reviewed in Vital Weekly 452. In the decade before that, the trio (up to 2002, then a duo) released a whole bunch of records, starting as a punk band and then all electronic, moving from Iceland to The Netherlands, playing many concerts, armed with the then popular laptop under their arms. Their music being abstract, electronic, glitch, dwelling on quite a bit of sampling and plundering; in a short a wild bunch of interests. As BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa they were mostly involved in producing drone-based records, so it's interesting to see where they are now. There are some guest musicians involved (BJNilsen, Oren Ambarchi, orsteinn Eyfjr, Gerard Herman and Kristn Anna). Somehow, so it seems to me, Stilluppsteypa moves back to an earlier version of them and expand on themes they work with back then. That is the music that deals with organ sounds, rhythm machines, exotic lounge music but then totally torn apart. Still working with a lot of laptop technology has moved that sound forward and made it even wackier than before. On the B-side the guitar of Oren Ambarchi sustains in a fine prog-rock fashion along with some fake pompous organ chords (think Keith Emerson either drunk or deaf). This is some lovely stuff. It's all recorded quite loud, which is a pity as it
takes away a bit of the detail, I think, but it's two sides of lovely, funny stuff, with some great titles ('Dusty Hofmann LSD', 'Boney Nilson' or 'San Dali'). There is a lot to smile about with this record. If this is going to be a comeback album I would certainly a lot more of these will follow. The world
can do with a smile! (FdW/Vital Weekly)
https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/
"Despite the years on on-going collaborations between Stilluppsteypa and BJ Nilsen it has been
some fourteen years since we last heard something by Stilluppsteypa as a duo. That last release might have been their eponymous CD for Atak, reviewed in Vital Weekly 452. In the decade before that, the trio (up to 2002, then a duo) released a whole bunch of records, starting as a punk band and then all electronic, moving from Iceland to The Netherlands, playing many concerts, armed with the then popular laptop under their arms. Their music being abstract, electronic, glitch, dwelling on quite a bit of sampling and plundering; in a short a wild bunch of interests. As BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa they were mostly involved in producing drone-based records, so it's interesting to see where they are now. There are some guest musicians involved (BJNilsen, Oren Ambarchi, orsteinn Eyfjr, Gerard Herman and Kristn Anna). Somehow, so it seems to me, Stilluppsteypa moves back to an earlier version of them and expand on themes they work with back then. That is the music that deals with organ sounds, rhythm machines, exotic lounge music but then totally torn apart. Still working with a lot of laptop technology has moved that sound forward and made it even wackier than before. On the B-side the guitar of Oren Ambarchi sustains in a fine prog-rock fashion along with some fake pompous organ chords (think Keith Emerson either drunk or deaf). This is some lovely stuff. It's all recorded quite loud, which is a pity as it
takes away a bit of the detail, I think, but it's two sides of lovely, funny stuff, with some great titles ('Dusty Hofmann LSD', 'Boney Nilson' or 'San Dali'). There is a lot to smile about with this record. If this is going to be a comeback album I would certainly a lot more of these will follow. The world
can do with a smile! (FdW/Vital Weekly)
https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/