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r e l e a s e . i n f o
Artist.....: The Idealist
Title......: I Am The Fire
Rip Date...: Oct-25-2006 Cat.No.....: NSRD007
Style......: Ambient Label......: Nosordo
Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album
Size.......: 78,2 MB Source.....: CDDA
r e l e a s e . n o t e s
A lifetime in the making (and a year or two or actual production),
"I am the Fire" is the full-length debut release by The Idealist,
a Swedish musician with a penchant for the subversive side of
atmospheric noise. This 6-track album is a through-the-keyhole
(earhole?) look at the mind of a man who lives, breathes and
dreams of sounds with an organic feel but an electronic bite.
Joachim Nordwall (b. 1975, Karlskrona, Sweden), The Idealist,
began his experiments in sound as a young boy. In 1987, he formed
the Alvars Orkester with Jan Svensson, in which they mixed
electronic sound with an interest in psychic broadcasting. He was
particularly active within the independent music scene of the
1980s and 90s, releasing work through the B÷rft Records label.
After a brief hiatus, Alvars Orkester has recently (January 2006)
released the "Interference" album on LondonÆs Ash International
label, showcasing their superb analogue sound experiments.
From 1998-2005, he was part of the avant punk rock trio Kid
Commando, a band that toured Europe several times. Also in 1998,
he founded the iDEAL Organization as a platform for his ongoing
work as an artist, label owner and curator of the near-legendary
iDEAL Festival for the last four years.
Nordwall has collaborated with many artists, including Henrik
Rylander, Lasse Marhaug and Leif Elggren. He lives and works in
Gothenburg, Sweden and is a founding member of experimental rock
band The Skull Defekts (also with Henrik Rylander) who have two
releases on AA: "Open the Gates of Miner" (AA04) and "Rotating
Feedback & Save the Skull" (AA05/IDEAL036), two limited edition
releases with deluxe card sleeves. The Skull Defekts are also
releasing a long-awaited full-length studio album in 2006.
REVIEWS & MEDIA
Joachim Nordwall was born in 1975 and started playing music in
1987 as the Alvers Orkester, so then he was thirteen... His
releases were on the Swedish B÷rft label (and in 2006 they even
had a great album on Ash International, see Vital Weekly 512).
From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of Kid Commando, 'an avant punk
rock trio' and also in 1998 he started the iDEAL organisation,
responsible for some fine releases and a festival. As The Idealist
he plays solo music, and so strangely enough 'I Am The Fire' is
his debut CD. I imagine that if you play this ultra soft, it would
be indeed ambient music, but the atmospherics captured by Nordwall
are all together of a much different kind. It's as beautiful as it
also painful, at the same time. Powerful drone music that won't
lull the listener into a deep sleep, but make the hairs on your
back rise up. Intense music that defies genres, belonging partly
to industrial music and partly drone/ambient, but is just right
on.
FdW - Vital Weekly 548
p l a y l i s t
01 the knives are my eyes 04:38
02 to make exact copies of every mistake ever made 17:35
03 i am not here 11:26
04 the cranium 05:17
05 the declaraaation of indeeependence 14:25
06 my head is on fire 03:53
57:14 min
g r e e t i n g s
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def - dh - disc0 - emp - drum - ftd - fwyh - gxe - hit2k - jfk
jrp - just - kinky - kw - om - rac - radial - sb - sfe - soup
sour - tr - trt - ube - uki // respect to music lovers worldwide
never forget : go to the show. buy the t-shirt. order the vinyl