Archive for January, 2010
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Dag Swanö - Permafrost
Skrow!Media is proud to present the digital issue of the latest masterpiece from Sweden’s own Dag Swanö, of the epic rock gods, Nightingale. An impressive multi-instrumentalist, every sound on the album is produced by Dag himself, with lyrics in Swedish by Jimmy “Dr. Dark” Thunlind. With 11 muscular tracks of dynamic progressive rock, including a re-envisioning of the Nightingale classic, “Falling,” Permafrost shows Swanö’s true commitment to bringing manly back.
You too can help bring manly back by purchasing this digital issue. Click here to listen to samples and buy the album for just 8 bucks and get your choice of highly quality mp3’s for your iPod, mp3 player or other listening device. We haven’t yet figured out how to wire the tracks directly to your head. Your purchase, however, takes just one extra step. Invite Mr. Swanö into your home via your computer today, and within minutes he’ll be all up in your brain. Warning: Dag has a sneaky habit of settling in, building a man cave in one’s cranium, and becoming a permanent resident. We’re sure you won’t mind.
Tracklisting:
- Undret (2:16)
- Paraden (3:23)
- Turister (3:20)
- Jag tänkte på havet (3:54)
- Kvinnojouren, var god dröj (2:23)
- Permafrost (3:25)
- Under ytan (3:28)
- Maten tystar mun (3:59)
- Hellre död än röd (2:57)
- Ställd till svars (2:34)
- Lösnäsan (4:28)
© All songs copyright Dag Swanö
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Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Awash in a ceaseless cloud of lost memories, reaching for light. We find ourselves in a sea of our own reckoning, clutching driftwood to our bared breasts, a subtle heat radiating from within that warms the cool mists around us. The atmosphere thickens, becomes as a gelatin which slows our existence and reflects us from within until, finally, we are encased in an unfrozen ice of our deepest fears and desires; static, yet internally vivified. We shatter into numberless shards, waltzing silently in scintillating bliss as we dissipate into the air. The cycle begins anew.
So it is that we present the first (and certainly not the last) split release from Skrow! fellows Ellipse and Saffron Slumber. It showcases arguably some of the greatest work of two fine artists of complimentary mentality and style while exploring a vast musical space of mystique and airy melancholia. Assume an appropriately fetal position and adorn your ears with a suitable binaural apparatus. Surround yourself in translucence, close your eyes and peer through.
Tracklisting:
- Ellipse - Drifting Endless Ethereal (11:33)
- Saffron Slumber - Viscosity (4:01)
- Saffron Slumber - Glass Variation (Silicon Dioxide) (5:46)