Name: What are we Waiting for by amiina
Duration: 5 min 26 s
Description: amiina's second album, puzzle, out on Sept. 22nd 2010.

Standing in the rain in front of the stage in Reykjavik 2010 this song sent goosebumps up and down my spine. Somehow it fit the situation I was in at the time 100%. Thank you so much!

リズム、ハーモニー、展開、雰囲気、音色すべてにグッと来ました。とても好きな曲のひとつです。生楽器と電子音のバランスも絶妙で素晴らしいアレンジだと思います！！

Powerplay

Glow Energy

Ambient 23

Amb23 - 15

Written & produced by Cloud Castle Lake
Recorded & mixed by Rían Trench at The Meadow
Mastered by Richard Dowling at WAV Mastering

Played by

Ross Chaney - drum kit
Rory O'Connor - bass guitar
Daniel McAuley - vocals, drum machines, synthesizer, percussion
Brendan Jenkinson - piano, guitar

With special thanks to Rían, Richard, Roscoe T, Ed & Fabian, and Scan.

Released on: 
16.03.15

Glacier

Caspian "R'oseco" from the forthcoming album, Dust and Disquiet, out September 25, 2015 on Triple Crown Records,  Hobbledehoy Records (Australia) and  Big Scary Monsters (Europe) 

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Caspian - "Ríoseco"

In the Dark  :  reprise (feat Bel)      -      The New Vigos

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Samorost 3 Soundtrack

Little Devils' Tune

amiina's second album, puzzle, out on Sept. 22nd 2010. 

What are we Waiting for

from 'Where We Were' [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]
available from May 2013 on all formats at [http://denovali.com/greghaines]

ON TOUR

21.04.2013 London (uk) - Denovali Swingfest

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



Denovali Records is happy to announce the release of Greg Haines' new album WHERE WE WERE on cd, double vinyl and digital, as well as the release of 2006-2012, a collection of Greg's first three albums Slumber Tides, Until The Point of Hushed Support and Digressions as triple cd and 5 x vinyl collector's box in May 2013.


WHERE WE WERE [CD|2xLP|DIGITAL]

“WHERE WE WERE”, the new album from GREG HAINES, may come as a surprise upon first listen. The cascading strings that played such an important role in his prior work have disappeared, and in there place are intricate layers of tape-worn synthesizers. Any recordings of piano have been transformed and affected until their sound is at times barely recognizable. Moments of quiet, slowmoving textures can still be found, but they are nestled between upbeat, rhythmically-driven tracks that at times could even be considered for deployment on open-minded dancefloors. Although taking a year to complete, the nature of this record is born in its spontaneity and impulsiveness. The acoustic instruments such as piano, vibraphone and other percussion that found there way on to the album were not the result of months of composing - rather they were entirely improvised and often left completely unedited and raw. At first the idea was these rough tracks, full of noises and hiss, would later be re-recorded, but as the process drew on, it became clear that these kind of loose, half-thought moments were what defined the album - often “out-oftime” or “out-of-tune”, but always adding another dimension to the hazy, analog world of sound. This hand-crafted approach led to almost everything being constructed in the old-fashioned way; not with mouse-clicks, but with two hands moving dials and everything running to an aged tape machine.

This album is the result of one person sitting alone in a room and creating something entirely personal, without the frustrations of organising large-scale sessions for other players or the laborious work of preparing scores. In fact, the few scored moments that were written were later disregarded, with a whole string session with PETER BRODERICK ending up on the cutting-room floor (sorry, Peter!), along with endless hours of other material. What is left is the condensed diary of a year of exploring old tape delays, analog synths and percussion - some of which played by percussionist/composer SYTZE PRUIKSMA (a member, along with Haines, of THE ALVARET ENSEMBLE, whose debut album was released in December 2012 by Denovali Records), and some of which played and recorded in a midnight daze at Haines' studio in Berlin. Working in this way led to a whole host of other long-term influences feeding into the music that had never found an outlet before. The experiments in dub conducted by the likes of KING TUBBY or LEE PERRY and continued by the likes of RHYTHM & SOUND had a profound effect, as did the iconic work of TONY ALLEN and other African composers. The spaced-out soundscapes found on early TANGERINE DREAM and KLAUS SCHULTZE had always had a subtle influence on Greg's work, but now armed with an arsenal of dusty studio toys, those sounds became warmer, richer and more prominent.

The influences evoked here may at first appear at odds with Greg's previous work, but an affinity between the dense poly-rhythms of Africa and beyond have long been an influence for contemporary composers such as STEVE REICH, and their reach and importance on western music is undeniable. But now the lines have been blurred, and its impossible to say where one “style” or influence stops and another begins – something that was perhaps the only concept for this record. The symphonic synth crescendo of “So it Goes” would not have the same impact if it were not following the head-nodding drive of “Something Happened”. The delicate arpeggios of “Wake Mania Without End II” only exaggerate the unrelenting, rhythmical explosion of “Habenero”, and without starting with the intimate piano of “The Intruder”, the album's cavernous ending wouldn't feel so otherworldly. Its all in there or at least whats left of it after the hiss, the dirt and the degradation of the tape machine destroyed it, reworked it, and spat it back out fullyformed.

Mixed and mastered together with NILS FRAHM at his Durton Studio, Berlin.

Where We Were

Greg Haines - The Whole

Mayday

amiina is a band based in Reykjavík Iceland. At present the band counts five people - Hildur Ársælsdóttir, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Sólrún Sumarliðadóttir, Magnús Trygvason Eliassen and Guðmundur Vignir Karlsson (aka Kippi Kaninus).
The group's origins go back to the late 1990s, when four girls studying string instruments at the Reykjavík College of Music formed a string quartet. The group started out playing classical music, but increasingly moved on to play all sorts of music with various bands in Reykjavík.
In 1999 the quartet joined Icelandic band Sigur Rós on-stage. The collaboration continued for over a decade, with amiina contributing strings to Sigur Rós’ music on tour and in the recording studio on the albums ( ) , Takk, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust and Valtari.
In 2004, amiina’s first EP, AnimaminA, was released, followed by the single “Seoul” (2006), the full-length album Kurr (2007), a Lee Hazlewood collaboration on a 7” vinyl Hilli (at the Top of...) (2008) and the limited release EP Re Minore (2009). In the autumn of 2007, drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen joined amiina on tour, adding percussion to the band’s textures. A few months later, collaboration between the electronic artist Kippi Kaninus and amiina was established while preparing a show together for the Reykjavík Arts Festival. The merging of Kippi Kaninus' electronics and rhythms with amiina's sounds and Magnús' percussion became the starting point for more established collaboration between the six musicians.
amiina’s second long playing album, the much acclaimed Puzzle, was released by the band in 2010 in Iceland, getting worldwide distribution the following year. The songs on Puzzle are more rhythmically rugged than amiina's previous work and feature heavier use of electronics. amiina's long-standing fondness for zero-g melodies and open-minded instrumentation, however, continues.
In 2009 amiina started to perform their original soundtracks to pioneering German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger's 1930's silhouette animations of the timeless fairy tales Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Aladdin. The so called Animagica program, originally performed at the Branchage film festival in Jersey, has now been put on show at Art festivals around the world.
The band released The Lighthouse Project in 2013, a work centered around some performances given in Icelandic lighthouses.
In between work with amiina and growing ever larger families, band members have also kept themselves busy, recording or touring with other artist such as Sigur Rós, Yann Tiersen, Spiritualized, Efterklang, Damien Rice, Yukihiro Takahasi, Canon Blue, Pétur Ben, Ben Forst Tilbury, Borko, múm, Jónsi & Alex, Kippi Kaninus, adhd, Moses Hightower and Sin Fang to name a few.

amiina's new album - Fantômas - will be released in November 2016. The release is inspired by the 1913 film Fantômas 2, which amiina is currently touring with an original live score.

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