This time just a short overview newsletter because we're very busy with the preparations for Denovali Swingfest London + Berlin.
NEW RELEASES
The following three releases are available now - all your preorders are shipped and the stores are equipped. Thanks again for the nice feedback!
den072 | Switchblade - s/t (2003) Cd | 12'' (10 years anniversary reissue)
den164 | Petrels - Onkalo Cd | 2x12''
den165 | Dominic - Persona Cd | 12''
All releases are also available digitally via www.denovali.com/mp3shop
DENOVALI SWINGFEST UPDATE
::::: Denovali Swingfest Berlin starts next week - day one is now completely sold out - due to the higher capacity there are currently enough tickets for day two left - you can preorder your ticket till Wednesday (April 3)
::::: tickets for Berlin and Denovali Swingfest London (Scala - April 20 + 21) are available via www.denovali.com/swingfest
DENOVALI LABEL EVENING VII
::::: Hidden Orchestra (uk) + Poppy Ackroyd (uk)
::::: 07.04.2013 - Bochum - Christuskirche
::::: Tickets + details: www.facebook.com/events/302847233165945
::::: presented and organized by Urban Urtyp + Christuskirche Bochum
FREE DOWNLOAD DEBUT SINGLE OF JOHN LEMKE
In July we'll release the debut album of John Lemke (also live partner of Poppy Ackroyd). You now can download his first single for free.
::::: Details: www.denovali.com/johnlemke
::::: Facebook: www.facebook.com/johnlemkemusic
GREG HAINES - MAY album release TOUR
Greg Haines will present his new album live in May - he will play with Olafur Arnalds, Poppy Ackroyd and Carlos Cipa. We've attached the dates for you below.
::::: Facebook: www.facebook.com/greghainessounds
DENOVALI MAILORDER UPDATE
In the past days we've received a lot of nice new mailorder items: Herbie Hancock restocks, Floex - Zorya repress, new Light Bearer album, new Terra Tenebrosa album, Greg Haines LP restock, new Low record, new Kvelertak, Portico Quartet restocks etc. - a complete list available further below
Thanks a lot for your support.
Denovali
www.denovali.com/mailorder
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PETRELS – ONKALO CD | 2xLP' | DIGITAL
Onkalo is the follower of the highly praised Petrels concept debut album Haeligewielle. ("Petrels has provided us with what has to be the strongest solo debut from a musician so far in 2011." (Fluid Radio) + "The album is a masterpiece of narrative, a blackened ship with a broken mast that defies the storm and in so doing discovers its own dark destiny." (8.5/ 10 - The Silent Ballet)
Onkalo ('hiding place') is the name of the spent nuclear fuel repository currently under construction in Finland to house hazardous nuclear waste. It is designed to last a minimum of 100,000 years - a scale of time unimaginable when the oldest surviving man made structures have endured not even a tenth of that time. The human species as we know it is thought to have existed for approximately 100,000 years - is it possible for humankind to build something that will endure a timescale that vast again? And what will be left to uncover it if it does so?
Taking this as a starting point, Petrels second album - after acclaimed debut Haeligewielle - draws on a fascination with how we deal with what is left over, both physically and mentally. With this thread running through Onkalo, Petrels also takes inspiration from speculative science, immense time scales, retro-futurism, personal history, and how the post-war optimism of the dawn of the atomic age has come up against a more uncertain vision of the future.
Stream: www.denovali.com/petrels
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/petrels
Vinyl - 2xLP:
::: thick gatefold sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150 kelly green
::: regular edition: black vinyl
::: price: 19.50 Euro
2xCd:
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 euro
DOMINIC - PERSONA [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
It's been four years since their previous album, but now DOMINIC is finally ready with album number three, “Persona”.
In the first years since their beginning in 2001, DOMINIC have mainly focused on concerts and live shows and have toured Europe a lot especially after 2003. Many DOMINIC releases have seen the light of the day during these years, including two full length albums. Most of these recordings had been done live and as quickly as possible. The band has had its focus on catching the nerve and roughness the live format adds, without spending too much time on post production.
With the new album DOMINIC took a different approach and thus Persona marks a new step in their history as a band. DOMINIC started working on the songs for the album shortly after their previous album “Nord” was released in 2009. Since 2010 there have been fewer live shows, but a steady and continuous work on the material for Persona. Finally DOMINIC have been in and out of the recording studio in the Summer and Fall of 2012 to finish the record.
The album name “Persona” is borrowed from the psychiatrist Carl Jung, who defined “the persona” as a mask, the facade we try to maintain in social settings. The persona-mask occurs between the individual and the society around, and is not more real than the characters played in a fictional play. Both in fiction and in real life, the mask has two functions; to make a certain impression on others, and to hide the true nature of the individual.
Stream: www.denovali.com/dominic
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/dominicnord
Vinyl - LP:
::: thick gatefold sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x clear golden
::: regular edition: black vinyl
::: price: 16.00 euro
Cd:
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 euro
SWITCHBLADE - S/t (2003) [CD|LP|DIGITAL]
This celebrated and long sold out self titled 2003 release of Switchblade is finally available again on both CD and vinyl, remastered and with a modified artwork.
A 6 song, 47 minute journey, this album is the definition of epic. A dense sonic storm of ambient soundscapes, driving repetition, and dark instrumental passages, that's building to an immeasurable wall of sound and power. All with just sparse use of vocals. Switchblade have been seething and writhing within Sweden's prolific underground music community since 1998. Their progression was quick. In only a few years Switchblade went from wearing their influences on their sleeves to making major waves in a still young sub genre. Shaped equally by their love of the morose sounds of Joy Division, Swans, The Melvins, Neurosis, Isis, etc. 10 years later and with three further albums plus a Swedish Grammy nomination under their belt, Switchblade's sounds has shifter a bit, and Switchblade are now rather fans of Autopsy, Eagle Twin, Uriah Heep, Celtic Frost, Black Sabbath, Bohren & Der Club of Gore etc. Yet, Switchblade are still titans of minimalism and their 2003 marks an integral part of their discography as anybody can judge for himself.
Stream: www.denovali.com/switchblade
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/switchbladeduo
Vinyl - LP:
::: thick gatefold sleeves; 180g vinyl
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x grey vinyl
::: regular edition: black vinyl
::: price: 16.00 euro
Cd:
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 euro
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STILL ACTUAL
den143 | The Contemporary Noise Sextet - Vinyl Collection 4x12''
den144 | Oneirogen - Hypnos 2x12''
den145 | Oneirogen - Veni Nox Anima 12''
den146 | Switchblade - s/t Cd | 2x12''
den147 | Thisquietarmy - Exorcisms 12''
den148 | Thomas Köner - Novaya Zemlya 2x12''
den149 | Blueneck - Epilogue Cd | 12''
den150 | Hidden Orchestra - Archipelago 2x12''
den151 | Lento - Anxiety Despair Languish Cd | 12''
den153 | Iroha - Shepherds & Angels Cd | 12''
den154 | Poppy Ackroyd - Escapement Cd | 12''
den155 | Talvihorros - And It Was So Cd | 12''
den156 | Talvihorros - Let Us Be Thankful We Have Commerce 10''
den157 | The Alvaret Ensemble - s/t Cd | 2x12''
den158 | N(25) + Jim Campbell - Tapemeasurekid - Ours Is A Stubborn Monster 12''
den159 | N(26) + Jim Campbell - Tapemeasurekid - Zero Is An Even Number 12''
den160 | Saffronkeira - Tourette Cd | 2x12''
den161 | Field Rotation - Fatalist: The Repetition of History Cd | 2x12''
den162 | Oneirogen - Kiasma Cd | 2x12''
den163 | Thisquietarmy - Aftermath + Setting Ashes 2x12''
MAILORDER NEWS / RESTOCKS
Ac4 - Burn The World 12'' [14€]
Aidan Baker - Aneira Cd [14€]
Alexander von Schlippenbach - The Living Music 12'' [23€]
And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures 12'' [21.5€]
And So I Watch You From Afar - All Hail Bright Futures Cd [15.5€]
Ascetic - Self Initiation 12'' [13.5€]
Ascetic - Self Initiation Cd [12€]
B/B/S/ - Brick Mask 12'' [16€]
B/B/S/ - Brick Mask Cd [15€]
B/B/S/ - Half Moon 7'' [6.5€]
Baptists - Bushcraft 12'' [18€]
Bong - Live at St Mary's Old Church & Burial Ground 12'' [17.5€]
Bonobo - The North Borders (deluxe) 7x10'' + Cd Boxset [48€]
Bonobo - The North Borders 2x12'' [19.5€]
Bonobo - The North Borders Cd [14.5€]
Brandt Brauer Frick - Miami 2x12''+Cd [24€]
Brandt Brauer Frick - Miami Cd [16.5€]
Bvdub - I Remember (Translations of 'Mørketid') Cd [14€]
Celer - Without Retrospect, the Morning Cd [14€]
Cloud Rat / Republic of Dreams - Split 12'' [10€]
Current 93 - Honeysuckle Aeons / Dreams of The Crucifixion With Christ And Two Thieves Ascending 12'' [19.5€]
Dälek - Absence 2x12''+Cd [23€]
Doom - World Of Shit 12'' [16€]
Downfall Of Gaia - Epos 12'' [12€]
Downfall of Gaia - S/t Cd [12€]
Downfall Of Gaia / In The Hearts Of Emperors - Split 12'' [12€]
Ensemble Economique - The Vastness Is Bearable Only Through Love 12'' [16.5€]
Ensemble Pearl - S/t 2x12'' [23.5€]
F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm - Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity (limited edition) Cd [21€]
F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm - Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity 2x12'' [29€]
F.S.Blumm & Nils Frahm - Music For Wobbling Music Versus Gravity 2xCd [19€]
Floex - Zorya (Clear Sky-Blue Vinyl) 12'' [16€]
Galvano - Two Titans 12'' [18€]
Greg Haines - Moments Eluding 12'' [16.5€]
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill Cd [18€]
Hair Police - Mercurial Rites 12'' [17.5€]
Henry Mancini - Combo! 12'' [18.5€]
Herbie Hancock - Death Wish OST 12'' [17€]
Herbie Hancock - The Imagine Project 2x12'' [22.5€]
Herbie Hancock - Trust 12'' [17€]
Inter Arma - Sky Burial 2x12'' [19.5€]
JD Emmanuel - Time Traveler 2x12'' [21€]
Jerusalem In My Heart - Mo7it Al-Mo7it 12'' [21€]
John Carpenter - They Live 12'' [23€]
June Paik - S/t (2013) 12'' [10€]
Justin Greaves - The Devil's Business (OST) 12'' [23€]
Kongh - Sole Creation 12'' [17€]
Kongh - Sole Creation Cd [16€]
Leonard Cohen - Angels At My Shoulder 2x12'' [22.5€]
Leven Signs - Hemp is Here 12'' [17.5€]
Light Bearer - Silver Tongue 2x12'' [17€]
Light Bearer - Silver Tongue Cd [12€]
Low - The invisible Way 12'' [17€]
Low - The invisible Way Cd [15€]
Machinefabriek - Vergezichten 10'' [13.5€]
Mogwai - Rano Pano 7'' [6.5€]
Momentum - Herbivore 12'' [12.5€]
My Education - A Drink For All My Friends 12'' [13.5€]
My Education - A Drink For All My Friends Cd [12€]
Nails - Abandon All Life 12'' [19€]
O - Black Sea of Trees 12'' [12.5€]
OM - Addis Dubplate 12'' [14€]
OM - Conference Of The Birds (Pic Disc) 12'' [18.5€]
Portico Quartet - Isla Cd [14.5€]
Portico Quartet - Knee-Deep In The North Sea Cd [16€]
Portico Quartet - Live / Remix 2xCd [18.5€]
Portico Quartet - S/t 12'' [19.5€]
Portico Quartet - S/t Cd [14.5€]
Purling Hiss - Water on Mars 12'' [17.5€]
Roedelius - Selbstportrait 12'' [19.5€]
Ryan Teague - Field Drawings 12'' [15.5€]
Sigur Ros - Valtari 2x12'' [27€]
Soap & Skin - Sugarbread 7'' [6.5€]
Stygian Stride - S/t 12'' [16€]
Sun Ra & His Arkestra - Lost Arkestra Vol. 2 10'' [12€]
Tame Impala - Mind Mischief 12'' [12€]
Terra Tenebrosa - The Purging 2x12'' [24€]
Thalia Zedek Band - Via 12'' [16.5€]
Thought Forms - Ghost Mountain 12'' [18€]
Titan - Burn 2x12'' [16€]
Úlfur - White Mountain 12'' [18€]
V.A. - Reservoir Dogs OST 12'' [22€]
Young Dreams - Between Places 12'' [16€]
GREG HAINES - ALBUM RELEASE TOUR
07.04.13 Berlin (ger) - Volksbühne
21.04.13 London (uk) - Scala - Denovali Swingfest (release concert)
08.05.13 Eindhoven (nl) - Muziekgebouw
10.05.13 Groningen (nl) - De Oosterpoort
11.05.13 Amsterdam (nl) - Paradiso
12.05.13 Trier (ger) - Synagoge Schweich
13.05.13 Paris (fr) - Café de la Danse
17.05.13 Münster (ger) - Black Box
18.05.13 Utrecht (nl) - Le Guess Who Festival May Day
19.05.13 Essen (ger) - Welterbe Zollverein
20.05.13 Brussel (bel) - Ancienne Belgique Club
21.05.13 Hamburg (ger) - Nachtasyl
22.05.13 Bielefeld (ger) - Nummer Zu Platz
23.05.13 Hannover (ger) - Feinkost Lampe
24.05.13 München (ger) - Einstein
25.05.13 Geneva (ch) - La Graviere
26.05.13 Varano Borghi (it) - La Sauna Recording Studio
28.05.13 Bratislava (slovakia) - Atelier Babylon
29.05.13 Budapest (hun) - Akvárium Klub
30.05.13 Prag (cz) - Palac Akropolis
01.06.13 Gdansk (pl) - Club Zak
02.06.13 Warsaw (pl) - Cafe Kulturalna
ON THE ROAD IN THE NEXT DAYS
PIANO INTERRUPED (UK/FR)
29.03.13 Münster (ger) - BlackBox
30.03.13 Mannheim (ger) - Jetzt Music Festival
31.03.13 Freiburg (ger) - Haus der Jugend
THE PIRATE SHIP QUINTET (UK) + PETRELS (UK)
29.03.2013 Zottegem (bel) - Dunk Festival
30.03.2013 Liege (bel) - CPCR
31.03.2013 Paris (fra) - Espace B (Paper Scissors Festival)