Rune Grammofon : Where should I start?

You don't really expect Radiohead/Coldplay comparisons in RG press releases:

Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses: Maelstrom (CD/2LP)
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PRICE: 199,00 NOK
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The 2LP vinyl edition includes an exclusive 10-minute track not available elsewhere.
The first 500 copies include the CD version of the album.

Stian Westerhus is best known as one of Northern Europe’s most fascinating abstract guitar stylists. His recent album Didymoi Dreams with vocalist Sidsel Endresen was a unique pairing of extreme guitar abuse with gibbering vocal explosions. As well as collaborations with Puma, Nils Petter Molvær, Jaga Jazzist, the Britten Sinfonia and others, he has released three acclaimed solo albums on Rune Grammofon since 2009. In Pale Horses, an electronic rock trio formed with keyboardist Øystein Moen (Jaga Jazzist) and drummer/percussionist Erland Dahlen, songs are given the freedom to ebb, flow, elongate and contract, much like a more improvised set. Breaking out of a verse-chorus mould, debut album Maelstrom is a deluge of fluid and highly emotive tracks that rely on the superb musicianship and unforgettable vocals of the leader, who proves himself capable of expressing pain and joy in equal measure. Perhaps the most obvious similarities – surprisingly – are with the experimental side of Radiohead and Coldplay, but you’ll also hear traces of Scottish bedroom romantics The Blue Nile and the psychedelic solemnity of late Talk Talk. A track like ‘Bed On Fire’, which rises from subtle digital textures to a full-on guitar solo, fully reveals these players’ exploratory backgrounds; while ‘Chasing Hills’ might have sat comfortably on Radiohead’s leftfield-swerving Kid A.

We do recommend the vinyl edition. In addition to the bonus track it sounds really good.

Released 28.03.14

Minibus Pimps: "sounds something like a flock of rabid seagulls pecking flesh from rotting cadavers on a radioactive, post-apocalyptic beach invaded by alien craft," according to Boomkat.

There will be a new Hedvig Mollestad Trio album, Enfant Terrible, in April.

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Just been listening to this, on first listen it doesn't sound as good as the last one, but still pretty damn good.

New Susanna & Jenny Hval album coming up:

https://soundcloud.com/susannawallumroed/jenny-hval-susanna-i-have-walked-this-body-album-out-in-august

(Felt sure I had posted this so apologies if this is elsewhere, too).

Great label. Recent Motorpsycho releases there find them at the top of their game, I think. Other faves:

Bushman's Revenge – A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza (2012)
Phaedra – The Sea (2011)
Bushman's Revenge – Thou Shalt Boogie! (2013)
Bushman's Revenge – Never Mind The Botox (2012)
El Doom & The Born Electric – El Doom & The Born Electric (2012)
Fire! Orchestra – Exit! (2013)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – All Of Them Witches (2013)
Supersilent – 6 (Rune Grammafon, 2003)
Bushman's Revenge – Jitterbug (2010)
Hedvig Mollestad Trio – Shoot! (2011)
Svalastog – Woodwork (2006)
Supersilent – 8 (2007)
Huntsville – For The Middle Class (2006)
Elephant9 With Reine Fisk – Atlantis (2012)
Ultralyd – Inertiadrome (2010)
Thomas Strønen – Pohlitz (2006)

I haven't looked lately at what else they've come out with this year. Recommendations?

The upcoming Fire! Orchestra album, Enter, is great. It's a studio disc, not a live one like Exit, but just as sprawling and awesome.

Found two compilations I'd made ...

1. Alog - Drunk DJs
2. Svalastog - Reconnecting Joints
3. Phonophani - Cook Islands
4. Spunk - Thing That Hurts
5. Arve Henriksen - Opening Image
6. Information - Sufficient Sunlight
7. Spunk - Det ...
8. ? - Dance!
9. In The Country - Viggo
10. Biomekano - A Radical Co-ordination
11. ? - Holography
12. Alog - Idea Changing Liquid Alchemy
13. Phonophani - The Boiling Fjord Orchestra
14. Deathprod - Dead People's Things
15. Svalastog - The Wood Metal Friction
16. Alog - Fires for Burning

1. Deathprod - A Dream For Ted Greene
2. Arve Henriksen - No Horizon
3. Susanna - Goodbye
4. In The Country - Ashes to Ashes
5. Svalastog - Timberwork
6. Phonophani - Take Off Your Wooden Coat
7. ? - Neil
8. Phonophani - The Atlantic
9. Humcrush - Mono Hum (live)
10. In The Country - Everyone Live Their Life
11. Susanna - Forever
12. Alog/Spunk - Picnic Avec (live)
13. Alog - Son of A King
14. Susanna - Lay Your Love On Me

In the sort of geeky mood where I may end up compiling a third volume.

Will any one be buying the new Henriksen?

"Supersilent 12" coming in September.

djh - do you mean chron / cosmic creation, or is there a newer one?
( chron / cosmic creation is flipin ace - frosty COLD hassellisms not so much trumpet, more textures )
both henriksen/ tatsihisa yamamoto / giovanni di domenico discs are way awesome and worth searching out.
been digging elephant9 recently (stale storlokken goes jon lord / hansson&karlsson via white hot rollicking fusiony whipcrack sense of rhythm)

oh "places of worship"? that was perhaps a little bit "meh". all things being relative, though y'know pretty grand in the overall scheme of things despite the cloying (and "cloying" is sometimes a problem w/ henriksen) concept and one of his co-conspirators doing a sylvian-u-likey vocal

There's a new one, The Nature of Connections, due next week or so.

ohh thanks didn't know. write-up on the RuneG site sounded a bit lacklustre, but the soundcloud tuneage turned me round:https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/hambopolskavalsen

I know I ask this on an annual basis ... but any (new) recommendations?

I presume there are people who follow the label *properly*?

I'm mildly tempted by RCD2173 - Espen Eriksen Trio: Never Ending January.

^ Anyone heard this?

https://soundcloud.com/espen-eriksen/05-brian

It sounds nice from clips.

Not technically Rune Gram but there's a new Susanna album on its way:

https://www.normanrecords.com/records/158502-susanna-triangle-

Hmm ...

Deathprod ‏@Deathprod · Apr 12

Deathprod and Supersilent will be joining the label Smalltown Supersound @supersound for future explorations. More news to come.

This sounds nice, from the clip:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23342-towards-language/

"I know I ask this on an annual basis ... but any (new) recommendations?"

Also, there's a new Susanna album of covers (Not on RG) coming up plus a Bonnie Prince Billy album of Susanna covers ...

Have been playing the first compilation mentioned above (in 2014) this evening.

Ridiculous thought for the evening: might try and compile the Supersilent albums I own into a single disc "Best of".

"I know I ask this on an annual basis ... but any (new) recommendations?"

The Terje Rypdal-tribute cd "Sky Music" is pretty good.

Thanks - will check it out.

I put the first of those (homemade) compilations on Spotify, as my original CD is unplayable. There are a couple of gaps where I've not been able to figure out tracks:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0L1ItHNuc9sLjYqtcUw8ra

The new Elephant9 record, 'Arrival of the New Elders', is really something. Didn't know whether to put this in a rolling jazz thread or w/e, but it's the business. Like a spiritual electronic jazz record. Crazy good musicians.

I loved Psychedelic Backfire 1, so you are speaking my language.