ARTIST: Slaraffenland
TITLE: Private Cinema
LABEL: Hometapes
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 179kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 50m total
RELEASE DATE: 2007-05-15
RIP DATE: 2007-04-17
Track List
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1. Sleep Tight 6:54
2. Show Me The Way 2:12
3. Polaroids 5:19
4. This One Will Kill Us 6:35
5. The Run Up 2:31
6. Road 2:16
7. Watch Out 6:23
8. Groen 2:07
9. You Win 7:21
10. Ghosts 5:09
11. How Far Would You Go 3:54
Release Notes:
So, we were surfing the interweb one day and came across these dudes whose name
apparently meant "The Land of Milk and Honey," they played music that ran the
gamut of things we loved. They had awesome band photos, and they seemed to have
a sunny demeanor. We wrote them an email...turns out, they live in Denmark. We
shared a lot of common interests, and figured out that working together would be
a good idea. So here it is, we've signed our first band from another continent.
Their music: a revelation. Their future: bright. Hopefully they will be coming
across the pond soon, to lay waste to all who cross their path.
Here are the Danes in their own words; questions by us / answers by them:
Where are you from?
WeÆre from Scandinavia - Denmark and Sweden. We all grew up in the provinces.
Jeppe grew up very close to Copenhagen. Mike, Christian (they are twins) and
Bjorn about 60 kilometers from Copenhagen. Niklas is from a small town in
Sweden.
Where are you now (and why)?
We all live in Copenhagen now. Of 5.5 million people in Denmark 1.5 of them are
living in Copenhagen. ItÆs the Scandinavian metropole and from here we can
easily get to Stockholm, Oslo, northern Germany etc. Some of us are studying
here.
In Copenhagen thereÆs a lot of different musical tendencies. The environment we
have here is very important for us. The scene is very inspiring.
Why do you do what you do?
We create our music because we need to. This is our way of being. To be creative
and expressive and hopefully we will keep on creating music like we do now.
What's your musical history?
As a band weÆve been together for about 5 years - even longer as friends. WeÆve
put out two records on our own label Honningmand Records and thereÆs more
beautiful music to come from that label. We started out playing jazzy stuff
picking inspiration from all over. The last couple of years have been like a
journey for us. We are specializing the music and our inspiration comes from all
over now! Our own voice in the music is clearer now (At least we hope so).
What have you been listening to/reading/watching lately?
Actually the 5 of us have about the same musical tasteà That being we all like a
lot of different stuff. We are all record collectors and buy quite a lot of
records / cd┤s.
Think these names are quite frequently on a lot of our cd-players: Animal
Collective, Blonde Redhead, Coltrane, Nirvana, Peter Br÷tzmann, Boda Boda Duo,
Sufjan Stevens, Hidden Cameras, John Cage, Ligeti, Charles Ives, Sonic Youth,
Blur, Radiohead, Broken Social Scene, Paul Duncan, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody
Valentineà Just to name a few.
Must admit that 4 out of 5 in Slaraffenland have read Da Vinci Code. Our reading
habits are not that originalà
What's next?
Hopefully we will come to the States again in order to promote Hometapes and our
record on the label. We where stunned by the open minds receiving our music in
October 2006 when we played a lot of shows in NYC. More of that to come.
We are currently working on the Hometapes album and itÆs going to be great!
Unlike our previous two records this one is going to have some vocals on it.
ThatÆs new for us. Also we are allowing ourselves to work longer on this record.
We recorded the first two records (almost) live in the studio. Only a few
overdubs. Now we bought recording equipment so that we can record it ourselves
and be sure to get the very best take of a particular song.