A few sound bites from the 12" vinyl EP released on Gone Beyond Records. Available for purchase here:
http://gonebeyondrecords.tictail.com/

Gone Beyond Records 12" EP Sampler

Lifelines

Patchwork Pt. 1

Tindra

A song from the album  When All Is Sad and Dawn, released 2010 by Airwaves

Atlantis

Island

Uptown

Silver sands (Michael Rother cover)

Shida Shahabi is a Swedish-Iranian pianist / composer, currently based in Stockholm. The beautiful, intimate and homespun piano of ‘Homes’ marks Shida’s debut release and the fourth in a row of new albums by female-fronted artists released on 130701 this year.

The entirety of the album was recorded at various home locations. During the writing process, Shida was renting a one bedroom appartment which she used as a studio space, before moving to a new house in the midst of the recording. So the music was actually written in one home studio and recorded in two different living rooms, hence the title, ‘Homes’. A sense of this homeliness and unpressured ease is clearly audible across the album – something utterly natural and unforced. There are no whistles and bells attached here, no big name guest performers or hired studio hands. Absolutely beautifully played and composed, it is a deeply charming record that exudes a confident warmth and an emotional depth and honesty in every note. Its production eschews the prioritising of cleanliness, with a warm, fuzzy noise floor audible from the very first track immediately immersing the listener into this sublime yet imperfect reality – as though the whole existed beneath a layer of dust. It posits comfort over obsessive cleanliness. Living comfortably with traces of wear and decay, the recording makes audible intimate acoustic details and imperfections – creaking and hissing; tiny distortions; the pressure exerted by fingers and feet against the piano’s pedals and keys.

Homes

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Shida Shahabi - Abisme

This song was recorded in...... 2000 or  2001, by Sebastian Jörgensen.
Written and performed by Mackaper

Beppe

Tale of Tales, a song from Mackapers debutalbum " When All is Sad and Dawn" released 2010 by Airwaves.
http://youtu.be/2uPpqbm7Q98


Tale of Tales

First track taken from the second album by swedish organ-duo (now a 5-piece band) Mackaper. The album Mot Ljusare Tider will be out on Flora & Fauna on december 19th. 

Patchwork Pt. 1

ELIAS KRANTZ