Contact Mike - playing guerilla gigs in gutters, making a racket in public places, & generally up to noisy no-fi goodness.

"That's the weirdest thing I've ever seen" - Capitol Hill Block party-goer & general rubbernecker

"Nifty gadget, awesome noise …. somewhere between R2D2 on speed and the end of the world at 78rpm." - Cyberphobe

"noisy no-fi nerders" - Garrison Heck

"legendary local guerrilla noise group" - Marcus Price 

"creating dissonant chaotic sounds using contact mics on every surface" - Meagan Angus

Figurehead: Dave Mike
Performing Members: Wild Mike, Chops Mike, Ice Bucket Mike, Mike Surprises, Cloudy Mike, Dusty Mike, Fidget Mike, Plastic Mike, Doll Mike, Thelonious Mike, Exit Mike, Umbilical Mike, Levitation Mike, Log Mike, Box Mike, Squirrel Mike, Junkle Mike, Dull Mike, DJ Mike, Mike Mike, Be Quiet Mike, Urban General Mike, Forget It Mike, Mar Mike, Magic Mike, Transformer Mike, Dad Mike, Itchy Mike, Siked Mike, Winceyette Mike, Dead Mike, Don Cheadle Mike, Crikey Mike, Boom Mike...

If you are a Mike... join us.

Sjoerd Nieuwkoop

Eager Waves Records www.facebook.com/eagerwaves 
www.eagerwaves.com

"20jazzfunkgreats has found its new chanteuse, Portable Morla, who produces digital torch songs to light data-rich landscapes, think of them as imaginary soundtracks for romantic indie flicks involving real-life nerds, its vignettes innocent and honest and devoid of the twee market-capturing antics that make 20jazzfunkgreats think of butcher knives and bike chains. Her music soars with golden wings of synthetic romance in an ethereal, wonderfully sentimental space intersecting the neon balladry of the 1980s robotic soul movement. Or, if you want to simplify, Planningtorock with a BSc with honours in a STEM subject. This is the sort of music we fall in love to. " -20jazzfunkgreats

"Playing synths, drum machines, melodica, and various toys, Portable Morla creates tunes that sensually slither into earshot. She composes low-lit torch songs that slyly seduce rather than slap you upside the ass. Dub influences her production style, lending her songs a lo-fi, intimate spaciousness...Morla's beats are relatively gentle, which allows more room for her lush, sparkling electronic embellishments to blossom. Overall, Portable Morla's introverted brand of electronic-oriented songcraft bears a distinctive sound palette and vocal tenor that will linger long after the last song dissipates into the ether." -Dave Segal (The Stranger-Seattle)

"Portable Morla just landed on our planet and offers us "the void that exists". A synthpop diamond in this garbage dump that is Earth. Never had the feeling that simplicity is a higher form of intelligence? Proof is here with this 8-bit manifesto about our modern civilization, aliens, technology, and art. Portable Morla wields delicate synth melodies, classy beats and a leading voice of a rare quality, to reach distant galaxies where unknown lifeforms deal with the same shit we kill ourselves over every day. The Void That Exists is part of an almost extinct species in the 21st century: Poetry." -The Darkest Love (France)

"Portable Morla is a one-woman minimal electro-dub project emanating from outer space – or, more correctly, Seattle, Washington. As the cover art might suggest, however, The Void That Exists is one of those rare little pearls that successfully uses themes you might find in old school, kitschy sci-fi and translates them into the world we experience everyday right here on earth, and from an entirely unique perspective too." -[sic]Magazine

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We highlight shows, artists, festivals, record shops, and other businesses that support independent music in Seattle and the larger PNW. http://nogoddamndancing.blogspot.com/

Peter Olof Fransson: All instruments, voices, arrangement etc...

These tracks were recorded in Berlin during 2009.

Thank you for your support and for listening!

Also feel free to check out some of my other music under different names (anagrams) such as:
Retep Folo: @peter-olof-fransson
Rolf Opete: @rolf-opete
Proof El Te: @proof-el-te
Each and one of them different to each other in musical direction, instrumentation and musical references.

Current collaboration:
The Owl Report (together with Svante Sjöstedt/Electric Guitar, Various Instruments, Vocals) - @theowlreport

Earlier collaborations with others (disbanded): 
Ester Elster - together with Oscar Sjölander/poetry - @e-115
Exhadley - together with Jörgen Andersson and Rickard Bosko Olsson (Sonson, Arrington De Dionyso and more…)
A Pocket Guide To Birds - together with Jacob Ljungqvist, Svante Sjöstedt, Hans Asteberg, Ingemar Johansson.

/Peter Olof Fransson

email: korpochskata@yahoo.se

© (2009) 2014 Peter Olof Fransson. 
All rights reserved.

Our solucyon ys cause of our coagulacyon; For the dissolucyon on the one syde corporall causyth congelacyon on the other syde spyrytuall.

Portable Shrines is following