A small collection of sketches, demos and improvisations from '12-'18 that managed not to get lost due to broken computers, carelessness, absent-mindedness, and the like.

Nikolaj Bruus: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Prepared Guitars, Drums, Synths / Keys, Mandolin, Electric Bass, Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Percussion

Thea Thorborg: Violin

Frida Rolskov Pedersen: Piano, Backing Vocals

Mix & Master: Nikolaj Bruus

Two Mountains Collide (Demo)

Three Notes (Exercise)

This Tender Violence (Alternate Version)

No Weeping Melts the Armor (Instrumental Acoustic Live Version)

Martin Juno Impro

4Tet

#III

Impro January 28

Heavenly Engine (Demo Excerpt)

B-sides, demos, improvisations and the like related to Quiet Sonia (curated by Nikolaj Bruus). 

Quiet Sonia is a chamber-rock/folk ensemble that, at its fullest, comprises up to 10 musicians. Quiet Sonia plays big, sprawling yet intimate and highly dynamic emotional music with longer narrative-like structures, improvisational elements and intricate detailled arrangements. The band is led by songwriter and lyricist Nikolaj Bruus on vocals and acoustic steel-string guitar. Presenting a mixture of shoegaze, post rock, indie rock and experimental soundscapes combined with indie folk elements, Quiet Sonia leads “a riveting sound, one with a tendency for steadily evolving songs that swell from quaint beauty into effervescent heights” (Obscure Sound, US), a sound that Sun 13 (UK) likens to ”a campfire version of Broken Social Scene trying to reimagine Godspeed You! Black Emperor”.

Quiet Sonia

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