She Said Destroy recording, Day 6

Snorre, SSD

The last day of recording. More guitars and weird noises. This has been the most fun day so far, because all the hard parts are done, and we can just sit back, listen to what we have done, and toy around with sounds and small ideas. And draw cocks. We came up with some shocking sounds by combining a few random pedals, I think we have successfully duplicated the midi soundtrack sound from the first "Prince of Persia"-game. Which means that we've done something with 10000 pounds worth of pedals, guitars and amps that someone else did with an Amiga 500. In 1989. Yet again, we are victorious.

Victory

Also, the facial hair situation down here is getting out of control. Bjørn Tor has looked like the Unabomber for a while now, but he is now getting to a stage where he looks like the subject of an episode of "Animal Cops".

One of them are in my band

Meanwhile, my own facial hair has also reached critical mass. Unfortunately for me, this only means that I look like I've just entered puberty, or that I'm a ski jumper from the eighties. I should really have a better beard by this age. But I don't. As my understanding of toiletries is limited, I only brought one rusty razor with me, but not foam. After severely disfiguring my chin and cheeks with only this razor and water, I opted to leave my upper lip alone, which only made it worse.

After finishing the tracking, we went and did something really cool, which was to go to a wool mill situated in an old stone building nearby and record some reverberations. We pumped out the drum tracks into the room and set up a set of mics in the other end to record it. It sounds great, and adding it to the track really makes it gel. Corin, our engineer, really is a genius.

A genius.

So, it's all done. We will overdub some acoustic guitars at a later stage, and then we will record vocals and mix this whole thing in February. Hopefully we'll get a release date in not too long. Check our Facebook for updates. I promise, the record will be worth the wait.

Thanks so much to Corin for his expertise and endless patience. Thanks to DC for flying over from the States to record this thing, you've done an amazing job. And a special thanks to Corin's parents for letting us stay in their house and for helping out. You've been amazing.

Reverb, beard.

What will he do next?

Something subtle.


Possibly downloading something unclean onto Corin's computer

Drummer, documentarian, great tan.

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She Said Destroy recording, Day 5

Snorre, SSD

We can now hear things starting to come together. A lot of time has been devoted to guitar sounds, trying to get all the parts as varied as possible, and trying to find a justification for me buying a ridiculous amount of effects pedals. We came up with a lot of very interesting things though, and we are now absolutely unlistenable to anyone in a Slayer t-shirt. Or just absolutely unlistenable. Being a metal guitarist, I am taking longer to record clean guitars than the distorted ones, because I just don't know how to play someting pretty. The concept of a guitar that isn't pointy confuses and scares me, to be honest.
But I'm learning

I'm very glad we brought all our equipment down, even though it looks like a joke when you stack it all up. It looks like we should be playing Wembley. However, being able to swap the amp around, or pick up a different guitar really gives the different parts personality. It's also a lot more inspiring than getting the sound you want and then playing everything with that one sound throughout.

More than 50 tracks of Pure Unlistenable.

The amount of pizzas consumed during the week is now intolerable. The locals are watching us in disgust when we buy our food now. But pizzas have one big advantage over other, less cardiac arrest-inducing food, which is that they come in a box that can be used instead of a plate. That way there is no washing up involved. Single men all over the world have known this for generations, of course, but we are perfecting the technique. Today I cut a pizza on the floor to avoid having to make room on the table. The kitchen smells a bit like poo, but we haven't tried to localize the source of the smell yet. It might come from me.

Smiling, because I don't understand

State of the art microphones

These two guys make the most unholy racket


This is all Corin needs to be happy

She Said Destroy recording, Day 4

Snorre, SSD

Today is when the distorted guitars happened, a high point for me as I am in many ways similar to Macaulay Culkin in the "Black and White" video.
Only much, much less cute


There is something primitively satisfying in cranking up a big amp as loud as you want. We had a few good references to compare our sound to, and after a lot of tweaking and crawling around with microphone stands we finally ended up with the massive, roaring sound that we wanted. The one that we have been geekily talking about for the last six months, possibly while wearing unfashionable clothes and being very, very uninteresting to non-guitarists.

But to us unhip people...

The day also saw us recording some bass overdubs, mostly effects. We thought it was a good idea to hook up all the fuzz pedals and amps that we had, and have DC play through it all at the same time. It sounded pretty awesome. Another mic blown.

My rhythm guitars are all done now, which is nice. We are now completely on schedule, which has probably never happened in the history of recording music, but I'm sure I can do something about that tomorrow, when I am doing all the clean guitars.

On a different note, Lampeter might very well be the nicest place in the UK. Despite the astonishingly bad weather we've had, I don't think I've seen prettier nature over here. And the people are so friendly. They actively try to help us wherever we go, whether it be to find beer, find pizza or find steak. I haven't been afraid of being stabbed in the eye with a stolen screwdriver even once, and that is an unusual feeling of freedom for someone living in the Liverpool city centre. I'm definitely coming back here.


The watchful eye of a fellow guitar player

Our secret weapon

The jury, listening to what I did. Corin is laughing.


Guitar/waterboarding corner

God i hate Kassabian and their shitty, shitty music.

She Said Destroy recording, Day 2+3

Snorre SSD

Ok, this should've been updated ages ago, obviously, but when lightning strikes and fries your internet connection, what can you do? Apart from the house it also hit the studio and my car, which was nice. We didn't need those microphones anyway.

So, the recording is sounding great. And i do mean great. Our fan will love this. He might even think it is the best thing we've ever done. Cause it is. I'd say that our drum and bass sound is incredibly heavy. I dread to use the word, cause I hate Zeppelin, but it really has that feel to it. Big, filthy, and natural sounding. Incidentally, two of those words also apply to our drummer.


We have been incredibly lucky with everything so far, apart from the lightning incident, which was probably due to me making Jesus jokes in the previous blog post. I promise I won't do it again.
I promise, Jesus

Working with Corin is always a pleasure, and my suspicions that he is in fact the most versatile engineer/producer in the UK at the moment are growing stronger by the hour. He also insists on wearing those nice orange trousers, which I find highly arousing. I honestly do not think we could have gotten a better result in terms of sound than we have been getting so far down here in Lllwwwllwaffllffllwwlfyynnggnlllffwwlingg, even if we went to a professional studio. It's incredible how far you can get with limited equipment as long as you (not me, I've no idea) know how to use it.

Her name is Glyn, she's Welsh, and her eyes are like stars in the sky.
She doesn't mind our limited equipment.

I honestly, again, do not know what we would have done without the Orange amps. They sound so heavy, and at the same time so clear, and thinking back at the sound that we have been getting from our amps earlier, I don't understand what we've been doing. The fact that we have just recently discovered the joys of playing at civilized tempos might add to my wide eyed wonder at how this is sounding, but it is nice not having to force the instruments to sit well together in the mix. This might all change when I waddle in with my guitars, though. In the meantime I'm enjoying the timeless sound of two bass amps screaming for mercy and an old Ludwig kit being beaten to submission.

Yes.

The manliest of all pictures

Yes. Yes.
Posing, Grevey style pt.1
Posing, Grevey style pt.2

Sometimes we let him run free in the garden

The sophisticated humor of men in studios

And again.

She Said Destroy recording, Day 1

Snorre, SSD

As part of our neverending quest to alienate music listeners all over the world, we are now in the process of recording a 25 minute long doom/noise/J-pop masterpiece. We are no strangers to giving our dedicated fan base what they want, so as a gesture to the 7 people that bought our last record we are going to tell you all about how we are going about making this one.

We've gathered all our equipment and brought it to beautiful Cellan, Wales. We did this utilizing the technique of log driving, only instead of logs we moved musical equipment and instead of a river we had thousands of sheep. Eschewing our normal recording process of tracking every instrument separately in a studio, we have instead decided to get down and dirty and are recording us playing together as live as possible, just as we said we would never do 5 years ago. So here we are, with our unnecessary amounts of equipment and an unhealthy obsession with distorted bass.

Getting to Wales in the middle of the night in the worst storm of the year and with more than 100 flood warnings in the area was not the most pleasant of experiences. However, a few pit stops on the way to get some healthy food gave us energy and helped us stay fresh and alert.
Pictured above: Freshness

We arrived at 8 in the morning, and after way too little sleep we went to work. Our bass and drum sound is now the filthiest thing ever, and we cannot wait to start tracking tomorrow. Thank you, Sindre Bjarne Skeie, for letting us use your drum kit. And thank you, Baby Jesus, for Orange Amps. We want more of them. Please give us more amps, Jesus.

Anyway, we would make Steve Albini proud with this record. No clicky typewriter-sounding kick drums, and most importantly no thousands of overdubs on the guitars. I guess all those people that I have been shaking my head over, all those people talking about "capturing the live feel, the sound of four guys in a room" were really onto something. Am I getting old? And possibly more ugly? Probably.

While what's left of my youth and beauty is rapidly fading, our handsome and talented engineer, Corin, is climbing on walls and ceilings, putting microphones in unorthodox places, ensuring that at least one serious injury will occur during this week. Dangling expensive electronic equipment from old wooden structures 3 metres above the floor? Why yes, of course. Anything to make the drums sound just a little bit less like they belong on a metal record.

We'll be back with less rambling and more information tomorrow, when we have actually recorded something, and probably also when things, as they always will, start going wrong.

Every bass player should at least once in his lifetime try and hook up two amps together and distort one of them.

Also, more people should speak with a Welsh accent.


The man, his pedals, his wedding dress


Comforting the snare

Anders
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Garage/studio

Drummer/model

Things are stirring in the She Said Destroy camp

hey people,

a short update from She Said Destroy can be found here

SSD will blog during the recording here at Promo Erectus HQ.

More info to follow.

Anders

Grünerlökken Hurtigmatforretning presenterer: Elephan9, DU, Spurtbass. 9. Oktober, Parkteatret Scene

Parkteatret Scene i samarbeid med Grünerlökkens Hurtigmatforretning presenterer med stolthet:

Elephant9
DU(Det är jag som är döden)
Sprutbass

9.oktober på Parkteatret Scene
CC: Kr. 150,-
Forsalg på billettservice.no og i baren på Parkteatret.

Dette kommer til å bli en av høstens deiligste konsertopplevelser i hovedstaden.

Elephant9 er en fantastisk trio bestående av Ståle Storløkken(Supersilent), Torstein Lofthus(Shining) og Nikolai Eilertsen(The National Bank). Intens psykedelisk jazzprog med mer enn et hint av 60- og 70-tallet. Kanskje norges drøyeste liveband.

DU
Det er DU som er Det är jag som är döden.
Bandet har spilt en mengde konserter på Parkteatret og vi liker å regne dem som vårt husband. Det er høye forventninger knyttet til deres kommende album. DU vil åpne kvelden med sin helt særegne form for synthpop og det er garantert duket for smakebiter fra nevnte album.

Sprutbass
Sprutbass aka Eivind Henjum fra Dødpop-kollektivet har begynt å gjøre seg gjeldende i den norske elektronikascena som Skwee-sjangerens fremste ambassadør. Sprutbass vil lime sammen kvelden med diggbare beats og frysningsfremmende synthlyder.

Grünerlökken Hurtigmatforretning er et samarbeid mellom artistrådgivningsbyrået Promo Erectus og ansatte i Parkteatret Bar.

for spørsmål, kontakt Promo Erectus(Anders Ugmod): promoerectus@gmail.com
tel: 92417588

Gig update++

Gig update:

Lucy Swann:
May 18 - Parkteatret - booklaunch for Øystein Wingaard Wolf
June 6 - Music Fest Oslo:
Youngstorget stage at 13:30
Pilestredet stage at 16:00
Blå stage at 21:00

Madder Mortem:
May 15 - Parkteatret - release party for "Eight Ways"

She Said Destroy:
June 6 - Music Fest Oslo - The metal stage(Grünerløkka) at 22:00
July 15-18 - Slottsfjell Festival - stage time and date has not been set yet
More shows tba soon

DAJSAD:
May 15 - Cannes Festival - see previous post for details
May 16 - Belleville, Paris(FR)

Snöras:

May 28 - Kråga, Kristiansand
May 29 - venue tba, Stavanger
May 30 - Landmark, Bergen

Next Life:

May 16 - Camp Indie, Rockefeller, Oslo
May 28 - Kråga, Kristiansand
May 29 - venue tba, Stavanger
May 30 - Landmark, Bergen
June 6 - Working Class Hero Festival, Drammen
June 26 - Fusion Festival, Hamburg(DE)
July 16 - Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg
July 24 - Zvera Festival, Saldus(LV)
August 1 - Storås Festival, Trondheim
August 11 - Øya Festival, Oslo. Stumfilm-konsert W/Killl
October 22 - Unsound Festival, Krakow (PL)
October 24 - Nødutgangfestivalen, Bodø

Manhattan Skyline:
June 6 - Music Fest Oslo, stage tba

Rumble in Rhodos:
May 28 - Siesta! Festival, Hässelhom(SE)
May 29 - Debaser, Stockholm (SE)
September 18 - Blæst, Trondheim

Currently in the studio:
- Lucy Swann, more info will come soon
- Delirium Bound, more info will come soon

She Said Destroy are currently working on material for an EP and their next album.

Bandet Det är jag som är döden (NO) spiller på stranda i Cannes under filmfestivalen kommende fredag.

Bandet Det är jag som är döden (NO) spiller på stranda i Cannes under filmfestivalen kommende fredag.

Det är jag som är döden er invitert til å spille konsert i forbindelse med årets avvikling av den internasjonale filmfestivalen i Cannes. Dette er en unik happening for bandet, og forhåpentligvis for omgivelsene. DAJSAD består av Hilmar Bergendahl Larsen, Nils Jakob Langvik og Kyrre Bjørkås. De trakterer ståtrommer, rytmeboks, twanggitar og et par grimme synthesizere både med og uten diskobass. Dertil kommer en mannevokal like sagnomsust som den er dobbel, kjent for å sprette fra myk som en plomme til sprø som en kjeks i en og samme melodi!

Bandet har tidligere laget filmmusikk til dokumentarfilmen ”Don’t fuck with the Lewises” av Nils Wærstad og Ronny Kristoffersen. Filmen ble vist på dokumentarfilmfestivalen i Amsterdam. Den fikk også oppmerksomhet for den særpregede cinematiske musikken, og det er gjennom denne at invitasjonen kom fra arrangørene i Cannes. Film er en viktig inspirasjon for bandet, og selve navnet er hentet fra en scene i Ingmar Bergmans ”Det syvende inseglet”. Det är jag som är dödens debutplate ”Hey space” ble i februar måned dette året utgitt i flere land i Europa. Nå arbeides det med en ny plate, som skal utgis i september iår.

Om eventet
Konsert og eventarrangørene Sinny & Ooko arrangerer for andre år på rad filmrelaterte konserter med ”Cineparty” på Cannes festivalen. Temaet skal være filmmusikk fra nord. Norge, Sverige, England, Island og Finland er representert. I tillegg til DAJSAD er også Kaada og Transjoik booket som representanter for Norge.

Norsk filmmusikk på stranden i Cannes
Det är jag som är döden reiser ikke alene! Flere nordiske filmkomponister vil stå for underholdningen under årets filmfestival i Cannes. Tre norske band inntar den store strandscenen Cinema de la Plage hver sin kveld i løpet av festivalen.

I forbindelse med den verdenskjente filmfestivalen i Cannes skal tre norske filmkomponister spille konserter på den store strandscenen Cinema de la Plage fra 15-17. mai. Konsertserien er en del av et spesialfokus på nordisk musikk, og er initiert av den franske fest- og konsertarrangøren Sinny & Ooko i samarbeid med filmfestivalen.

Norge er representert med de tre bandene Kaada, Transjoik og Det är jag som är döden, som alle har laget filmmusikk de siste årene. Kaada har jobbet med filmmusikk siden 2001, og har blant annet laget musikk til filmen O’ Horten, som er vist over store deler av verden. I tillegg har han samarbeidet med Faith No More-legenden Mike Patton, og er kjent fra bandet Cloroform. Transjoik består av fire musikere som bruker stemmene sine på helt enestående måter, akkompagnert av elektroniske looper, dyp bass og perkusjon, mens Det är jag som är döden til og med har tatt bandnavnet sitt fra en Ingmar Bergman-film. Bandet har tidligere laget filmmusikk til dokumentarfilmen Don’t Fuck With the Lewises.

Åpent for alle
Det er andre år på rad at det arrangeres konserter med filmmusikk på stranden i Cannes. I fjor handlet det først og fremst om fransk filmmusikk, men etter at Sinny & Ooko gjennomførte en tilstelning i forbindelse med Bent Hamer-filmen Factotum, hvor Kristin Asbjørnsen står bak filmmusikken, ble arrangøren inspirert til å hylle nordisk filmmusikk.

Utescenen Cinema de la Plage, som ligger like ved festivalområdet, Palais des Festivals, vil være åpen for alle. Med andre ord er det lagt til rette for en unik konsertopplevelse på den franske riviera. Etter konsertene vil det vises klassiske filmer på stranden, hvor tilskuerne kan nyte en kinoopplevelse under åpen himmel.

Konsertene er et samarbeid mellom festivalen, arrangør Sinny & Ooko, NOPA, Music Export Norway og den norske ambassaden i Paris.

Spilletider:
15. mai – kl. 20:00: Det är jag som är döden
16. mai – kl. 20:00: Kaada
17. mai – kl. 20:00: Transjoik

For intervju/mer informasjon:
Det är jag som är döden vokalist/trommeslager Kyrre Bjørkås, tlf: +47 970 79736

Vedlagt foto: Frøland/Fjerdingstad

Lucy Swann live April 16

Lucy will be playing again at Dattera til Hagen in Oslo on April 16.
Doors: 8pm
CC: tba

a norwegian review of her gig at Parkteatret last sunday can be found here

Promo Erectus related release dates and gigs

Release dates:

UK/Europe:
May 4:
Nextlife - The Lost Age (Fysisk Format - Code7)
May 18:
Manhattan Skyline - Curses (Fysisk Format - Code7)
Snöras - Plague Waters (Fysisk Format - Code7)
Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (Peaceville - Snapper Music)
June 1st:
Code - Resplendent Grotesque (Tabu Recordings - Plastichead)

Gigs:
March 29
Lucy Swann - Parkteatret Scene, Oslo
CC: NOK 80,-
Doors: 8pm

April 4
She Said Destroy - Parkteatret Scene, Oslo
CC: NOK 80,-
Doors: 9pm

April 11
Code - John Dee - Inferno Festival, Oslo
Gig starts midnight

She Said Destroy live at Parkteatret Scene in Oslo April 4th

It has been all quiet on the live front from She Said Destroy the last couple of months. Have they been stuck at home with their thumbs up their asses? Did they collapse from exhaustion after delivering one of the most interesting and violent albums in the last couple of years?
Whatever the reason, now they return in a blitzkrieg comeback at Parkteatret in Oslo on Saturday April 4th. This will be live extreme music at its best.

She Said Destroy released their sophomore album " This city speaks in tongues" in Norway in midNovember 2008(February 2009 in Europe) to much critical acclaim from both national and international press.
This band have previously made sure to prove to their audience what they are capable of on stage. And this night will not be an exception.

She Said Destroy have come to teach you a lesson in audio violence.

Support: tba

After the show DJ Ugmod will blast you ears off with only the best in metal.

CC: NOK 80,-
Doors: 21:00

She Said Destroy

Parkteatret

promosexuality coming your way

It took a couple of months, but finally we´ve got an info site up and running for Promo Erectus.

Promo Erectus is as it says on top of this site, an agency that mainly deals with artist promotion. We work with a broad spectre of artists, the only thing tying them together is that they are at the forefront of their respective genres. High quality music. Out of the ordinary.
Keep yer eyes on this blog for info on our associate artists and labels, or our own general retardedness.

For now enjoy the wisdom of the what goat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ri1v9Xucxs


ta-ta

Anders