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evil madness “super great love” long playing record

  • divine sensual love fantasy (2:40)
  • sexy feeling all year long (3:53)
  • exciting night games (2:40)
  • isabelle adjani (5:26)
  • café eindhoven (2:21)
  • bruoubillinn (5:32)

  • maxim's goldfinger (11:15)
  • hunk of a man (4:52)
  • stundin okkar (4:04)
february 2011 release ; ... not sure how to wrap my head around this set of cheesy contemporary euro-disco from jóhann jóhannsson, bj nilsen, and both components of stilluppsteypa ...

but then again i don’t have to ; moving on ...
editions mego press release...
demego018 / evil madness
super great love
lp

evil madness are:
bj nilsen
jóhann jóhannsson
helgi thórsson
sigtryggur berg sigmarsson
pétur eyvindsson

cover artwork by helgi thórsson
recorded and mixed 2007 - 2010
cut at dubplates & mastering, december 2010.
this album is dedicated to franz graf

evil madness has been described as the traveling wilburys of icelandic electronic music. behind the name stand men like petur eyvindsson, johann johannsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, helgi thorsson and bj nilsen (who is not "quite" icelandic but was born in a country "very" near iceland).

this album, "super great love", presented by editions mego will be their 4th album since the time their formation in 2006. now for those of you reading who know the music of evil madness will know for sure that this band does what ever they damn well pleases when it comes to making the music.  with "super great love" they want to get people in the "good" mood for the fresh new year and present them with some upbeat icelandic "disko" tunes. 

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editions mego (austria) #demego 018 cd
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evil madness “super great love” compact disc

  • divine sensual love fantasy (2:40)
  • sexy feeling all year long (3:53)
  • exciting night games (2:40)
  • isabelle adjani (5:26)
  • café eindhoven (2:21)
  • bruoubillinn (5:32)
  • maxim's goldfinger (11:15)
  • hunk of a man (4:52)
  • stundin okkar (4:04)
april 2011 release ; ... not sure how to wrap my head around this set of cheesy contemporary euro-disco from jóhann jóhannsson, bj nilsen, and both components of stilluppsteypa ...

but then again i don’t have to ; moving on ...
editions mego press release...

demego018c / evil madness
super great love
cd

evil madness are:
bj nilsen
jóhann jóhannsson
helgi thórsson
sigtryggur berg sigmarsson
pétur eyvindsson

cover artwork by helgi thórsson
recorded and mixed 2007 - 2010
this album is dedicated to franz graf

evil madness has been described as the traveling wilburys of icelandic electronic music. behind the name stand men like petur eyvindsson, johann johannsson, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, helgi thorsson and bj nilsen (who is not "quite" icelandic but was born in a country "very" near iceland).

this album, "super great love", presented by editions mego will be their 4th album since the time their formation in 2006. now for those of you reading who know the music of evil madness will know for sure that this band does what ever they damn well pleases when it comes to making the music.  with "super great love" they want to get people in the "good" mood for the fresh new year and present them with some upbeat icelandic "disko" tunes. 

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editions mego (austria) #demego 007 cd
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bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “man from deep river” compact disc

  • man from deep river part 1 (24:08)
  • man from deep river part 2 (13:32)
  • man from deep river part 3 (32:23)
january 2009 release ; travelogue-lineage electro-acoustic pieces, “based on a found tape from 1975” from benny nilsen, sigtryggur berg sigmarsson, and helgi thorsson ...
editions mego press release...
demego 007
bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa: man from deep river cd
release date: 26.01.2009

total time: 69:59
compiled and mixed in berlin and reykjavik 2008
mastered at piethopraxis, köln july 2008

the boiling up bottomless numbness. slowly disappearing and so suddenly reappearing. a constant vivid reminder yet as honest as possible. the man from deep river quickly develops between two lonely desperate individuals, and the savage natives around him turn just as quickly against their own mountain god. the ‘illness’ is caused by several deeply depressing circumstances and by the intense difficulty of other sickening circumstances happening around deep river. the underlining of this situation is precise but not quite naturalistic which has only a very limited influence on the god mountain.

those lovable nordic heroes are back with a fourth album of intense listening and shined isolationist compositions. in doing so, they have issued yet another brief statement in defense of their research:

like another wall of jungle trees man from deep river leaves us both stunned and disoriented. it is an environment of high tension but also with moments of temporary insanity and auditory hallucinations. based on a found tape from 1975, which served as guidance for the compositions

man from deep river opens up a new development in their sound. melodic passages with sweeping electronics and analogue synthesizers mixed with field recordings and disturbed voices creating a multifaceted piece.

the swedish born bj nilsen defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound." he has numerous recordings on touch and has collaborated with the likes of chris watson, christian fennesz, and z'ev. the icelandic citizens sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson are stilluppsteypa, whose electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism.

limited to 500 copies.

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the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 020 lp

bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “big shadow montana” long playing record

  • big shadow montana (1)
  • big shadow montana (2)

  • big shadow montana (3)
  • big shadow montana (4)
april 2011 release ; ... a gorgeous album of fleeting combo-organ rhythms, coated in environmental gloss & barely-heard / remembered voices & clanking “underground lair” effectuals from bj nilsen & the stilluppsteypa duo of sigtryggur berg sigmarsson & helgi thorsson ...
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bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
big shadow montana
the helen scarsdale agency : hms020 : lp
release date: april 26, 2011

after producing their frozen trilogy of intoxicated dronemuzik for the agency, these scandinavian gentlemen have ventured into more absurdist territories through fictionalized soundtracks for imagined mondo films and science fiction serials. it is in this context that bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa present the apparitional big shadow montana, an album of slow-motion delirium manifested in occluded smears, nocturnal gasps, and arcane tones from a variety of analogue synthesizers. amidst the near constant wash of bleary-eyed etherialism, big shadow montana cycles through several sonic themes and leitmotifs, displayed in varying states of clarity. in these transitions between half-remembered phrases and bleary-eyed thrumming, the album emerges as if it were the aftermath from a protracted bout of metaphysical channel surfing. flickered impressions flash in conjunction with breton's manifesto of surrealism in the form of the memories from happily drunk escapades in the heart of winter, the sidereal spells cast by the innerspace travelers klaus schulze and coil, and the nagging questions of existential portent: "was that bassline from goblin, or was it german oak? maybe something from faust iv?" 

the trio of nilsen, sigmarsson, and thorsson elegantly twist and bend these fleeting images into a spiraling symphony of bubbling electronics and spectral drones that mutate on both sides of the record into lugubrious yet carnivalesque waltzes. when this first appears, it is the echoing undercarriage of a simple melody, bobbing amidst rattling chains and cascading cymbal crashes only to dissolve into sequences of cold-war era tone beacons and empathic swaths of maudlin sound design. at the second occurrence, the melody washes ashore on the iceland beach, where nude viking men and women try in vain to get a tan when the sun is just barely going to rise above the horizon in the winter months. it is a pyrrhic jubilation of calliope harmonies set down by organs and synths turning a pale-blue hue in the wake of all that white skin shivering underneath the arctic sky. 

a hauntological album? quite certainly.

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the helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 013 cd
helen scarsdale agency (usa) #hms 013 cd

bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “passing out” compact disc

  • passing out (67:50)
a single hour-plus construct/suite jointly composed by the stilluppsteypa duo of sigtryggur berg sigmarsson & helgi thorsson and bj nilsen ; not exactly the ice-cold blast of scandinavian warmth you might expect, but a rather zonked cut-up of tape-speed mangle & deviant synth-patterns - of the triptych of albums that make up the trio’s work for hms, this one’s my favorite (for obvious / aesthetic reasons) ...
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bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
passing out
cd

release date: april 2008

the first chapter found the drink.
the second came after a night of intoxicated shouting.
the third chapter is inevitable: passing out.

the nordic sound artists bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa have authored the last component to a trilogy of isolationist compositions for barren field recordings and lumbering electric drones, thematically linked in the psychotropic effects of alcohol. in doing so, they have issued a brief statement in defense of their research: "it's been four years and three studies, passing out being the final. even in its most general, colloquial usage, passing out indicates the occurrence of a state that is incompatible with active behavior. it is possible that the individual could experience both consciousness and unconsciousness at the same time while encountering passing out."

yes, passing out is a crepuscular recording, with the flickering of twilight further dimmed by the distant arctic sun in wintertime and the blackened numbness of too much drink. with one singular track that spans 60 minutes, a nearly constant thrum and rumble of monochromatic low frequencies casts a grim pall upon the precisely dialed-in modulations and vibrations. spectral guitars, maudlin tunes from haunted radios, angrily growling voices, and field recordings of wind-whipped snow and ice bury themselves deep amidst these subharmonic drones. all of these tease at the edge of perception, sculpting the narrative of the drone into a vehicle for unhinged expressionism of varying degrees of horror, melancholy, beauty, and oblivion.

the swedish born bj nilsen defines his work as "focused upon the sound of nature and its effects on humans, and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound." he has numerous recordings on touch and has collaborated with the likes of chris watson, christian fennesz, and z'ev. the icelandic citizens sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson are stilluppsteypa, whose electronic abstractions engage absurd theatrics that mar the pristine surface of minimalism.

passing out features letterpress and silkscreen artwork in an edition of 1000. there are two separate versions of the artwork: one with all black, the other with the white overprint on semi-opaque vellum.

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bj nilsen / stilluppsteypa “drykkjuvísur ohljódanna” compact disc

  • svefnlaus / sömnlös (14:44)
  • elstöt / rafstuf (12:36)
  • undir ahrifum / sundurlaus (12:29)
  • supbröder / drykkjufélagar (6:15)
  • undermaskin / töfra maskína (4:20)
  • skuggbild / skuggamynd (13:28)
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bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa
drykkjuvisur ohljodanna cd

release date: september 26, 2006

in scandinavia, it's not uncommon to hear of someone's mother, grandfather, uncle, or plumber who drank him-or-herself to death at an early age; and the swedish drone artist bj nilsen has felt the alcoholic pangs which may foreshadow his own demise. in recent years, nilsen has turned to his icelandic neighbors sigtryggur berg sigmarsson and helgi thorsson (collectively known as stilluppsteypa) in existential sympathy over the problems of their collective lust for alcohol. drykkjuvisur ohljodanna marks the second collaborative document of abject minimalism that these three have composed; and like its predecessor vikinga brennivin, this album is spiked with drunken thought. any alcohol induced euphoria has been tempered by perturbing blackouts, moments of cruelty, and an all-consuming nihilism. beyond their shared scandinavian heritage, their expressionist urge for the frigid drone, and their penchant for drink, bj nilsen and stilluppsteypa intend this recording as an open ended experience, wandering through their sound without the burden of any exegetical text that may get in the way.

drykkjuvisur ohljodanna resolves itself as a grim kaleidoscope, where the bleakness of the wintry scandinavian landscape and the langour of a drunken escapade constantly mutate through the highly refined sensibility of dronescaping. sonar pings announce the beginning of this album, with its echoes returning as an amorphous fog and locating little but a gloomy pall upon the event horizon. clattering electronics scurry across the barren sounds like death-watch beetles upon the tundra; and creaking doors offer something much more foreboding than what pierre henry envisioned for musique concrete. drykkjuvisur ohljodanna adheres to the psychological dis-quiet through sound design that alan splet provided for eraserhead or that nurse with wound achieved on salt marie celeste. yet for all of their tendencies for brooding and desolation, bj nilsen & stilluppsteypa retain a compulsion for a glacial beauty through their intoxicated visions of the sublime.

bj nilsen has released numerous records for touch and ash international, both under his given name and as hazard, often focusing the sound of nature, its effect on humans, and the perception of time & space as experienced through sound. he has also previously collaborated with christian fennesz and chris watson. stilluppsteypa have unleashed well over a dozen releases in their tumultuous existence of electro-absurdism laced with subversion, blackhumour, and horror.

drykkjuvisur ohljodanna is a limited edition pressing of 1000 copies.

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