Nye låter

From the album "Say, the illocuted way", released October 27, 2017.
Lyrics and melody by Sara Lena Yri Cools, arrangement by S.L.Y.C.

Anthony Barratt: Keyboard
Sigurd Bergflødt: Drums, percussion
Sara Lena Yri Cools: Keyboard, vocals
Daniel Meyer Grønvold: Guitar
Thomas Meidell: Bass, synth, samples, percussion, drum machine, additional guitar

Jørgen Sissyfus Skjulstad: Vocoder, synth, drum machine

Arranged and produced by the group and mixed by Thomas. 
Lyrical consulting by Barry Kavanagh.
Recorded by Anthony, Sara and Thomas at Metronopolis and satellites. Mastered by Marcus Schmickler; special thanks to Christian Næss.

Artwork by Aslak Gurholt / Yokoland

MEAU.0093.LP
Old rites rehearsed
(c) & (p) Metronomicon Audio, 2017

We Move To Make New Words

How can an album recorded by childhood friends in a potato cellar in the most national romantic part of Norway conjure sonic images of neon palm trees, coconut hipsters and  tropical paranoia?

Norwegian explorative synth-rockers Curvs' debut album, "Hauntropics", is a travelogue from the obscure parts of the subtropics: Hitchhiking rides along the Khyber Pass, opium farmers on the run, decadent hybrid environmenst in Port Louis, flamboyant eunuchs in Delhi, intoxicated pilots, disillusioned veterans, coconut hipsters and psychotic backpackers.

In this landscape Curvs moves into a cross field of dark electronic rock, tropical psychedelia, kraut and new wave.
Childhood friends, Hjalmar Myksvoll-Singh and Øystein Redalen together go by the moniker of Curvs. Half-indian/half-norwegian Hjalmar met his partner in crime and lifelong friend and companion Øystein in an Oslo suburb at the age of five.

With skateboards under their feet, weird instruments in their hands and even weirder music in their ears, the seeds of the dynamic duo were sown, that would bloom years later when the two immersed themselves in a studio bunker built in an old potato cellar, accessible only by rowing boat in the rural province of Telemark. There, the Hauntropics sound, inspired by short and long stays in the tropics and the desire to bastardize musical genres, was born out of home made compressors, rare pre amps and echo valves coupled with old drum machines, odd strings and analog synths from Japan.

The album is composed, performed and produced by Curvs and partly mixed by both Curvs and Nick Terry (The Libertines, Klaxons, Serena Maneesh, Kvelertak). Their live bassist Lasse Saurbrey joined in for the final mix of the song Atlantic Cologne.

On stage they are joined by brothers in arms Lasse Saurbrey( Lazy K) on bass and Joachim Amundsen Trana( Casiokids, Hypertext) on drums.

Hauntropics

Khyber Pass Pt 1

meau.bandcamp.com/album/use-your-illocution

"Use or illocution" is a collection of remixes from the album "Say, the illocuted way"

meau.bandcamp.com/album/say-the-illocuted-way

Use your illocution

Bandcamp

S.L.Y.C. - Use Your Illocution (Center Of The Universe)

New Highasakite single 'Out Of Order' released 13th April 2018 via Propeller Recordings: highasakite.lnk.to/OutOfOrder

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Highasakite - Out Of Order

New album, "14",  by Supersilent. Out Sept 28th via Smalltown Supersound.

Supersilent - 14.7

New album, "Say, the illocuted way", out on Metronomicon Audio: https://meau.bandcamp.com/album/say-the-illocuted-way

Ambient folk and liminal pop from Oslo, Norway.

Contact: saracyri@gmail.com