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Anne Laplantine: Spring Won't Find Us
TS03
Release date: 26-11-2009

Anne's music is characterized by her unique world of sounds. A world where the melodies, like raindrops in a digital nature, form a spectrum of colors, where delicate organic structures emerge and her voice carefully floats on top and creates a perspective of the landscape, where the compositions have a baroque feeling to them all the while she plays to her mistakes and limitations; the result is forever green pop music.

This material was recorded in 2006, when Anne, after declaring Berlin was a retirement home, had decided to move back to Paris and (just like Marcel Duchamps gave up making art for chess) leave music making for the board game Go. However, once she got to Paris she discovered, despite her farewell to music, that she had composed the material that we are now releasing on the four track EP "Spring Won't Find Us", which is the second in the series of 7 inch vinyls on Tona Serenad.

7" vinyl limited to 300 hand numbered copies.

Related links:
www.myspace.com/annelaplantine
annelaplantine.free.fr

Reviews:
"Anne Laplantine's Spring Won't Find Us includes four vocal-based electro-pop songs that sound like vignettes emanating from the Magic Transistor Radio Brian Wilson famously described in Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale), the bonus EP issued as part of The Beach Boys' 1973 albumHolland. The title track of Laplantine's release opens the release with a beguiling electro-pop lullaby with her echo-laden vocal emerging from a music box-like arrangement of sparkling sounds and sing-song melodies, after which “The River” opts for a swaying waltz time signature. On the B side, the instrumental “Maybe” features Laplantine's quivering voice shadowing a lightly swinging electro-lounge blend of keyboards, drums, and guitars, while “You So Lonely” finds her repeated utterance of the title casting a melancholy glow upon the song's downtempo lull."

*** Textura

Tracklist:

01. Spring Won't Find Us
02. The River
03. Maybe
04. You So Lonely

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Molnbär av John: I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose
TS02
Release date: 03-11-2009

A small selection of the sample-based compositions John Henriksson has made for the last few years have now been put together to a twelve minute sound collage titled "I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose", which makes up the debut of the solo project he calls Molnbär av John.

"I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose" is made from chopped and screwed sounds, humorous compositions and romantic melodies, where the image of Audrey Hepburn singing Moon River on the stairs of the fire escape and the hip-hop idols from younger days passing by on the streets below is constantly recurring. Collages of melodies, voices and sound recordings are collected with precision and warmth, sounds from countless - long forgotten - crackling vinyl singles mixed with dictaphone recordings; all in true hip-hop tradition since the early teens. Back and forth, to and from the cassette tapes, new cloudy horizons are created by sounds, where the crackling of the record is hard to separate from the sound of the rain, which is mixed together with the hissing of the cassette tape, which is hard to separate from the sound of the wind.

7" vinyl limited to 300 hand numbered copies.

Related links:
www.myspace.com/johnhenriksson

Reviews:
"On the surface, there’s not that much in it between “Nose” and the Datum LP—soft-as-a-cardigan stylus fizzle wiped across a pre-war lullaby—but thirty seconds in and you’re not quite so comfy. This one isn’t fit for the delicate relatives, and quickly drifts into the headachey abandon of waking up with a gramophone in a fishing hut, slats rattling thanks to last night’s mushrooms and lighter gas sucked from the flotsam. The vocals come telegrammed in from a similarly stricken outstation, the line’s thick with wind/hungry seagulls and the diva’s bray of “I wish I could draw her nose / Maybe I need classes” touches your guilt nerve for just long enough. Then garbled spools flicker to life and eat up a game show jingle. Quite simply, this is six minutes of spectacular Swedish reverie that makes for one fuck of a time-slip, and maps the sonic equivalent of catching food poisoning off a luxury roast dinner."
*** Cokemachineglow

"This one-man Swedish tape-collage artist stakes out an anthem of unwinding with this 7”. It’s one title, split over two sides, but two distinctly different beasts. The first half is innocent and playful. Voices and delicate melodic tones are juxtaposed with unraveling loops and the usual staticy hiss, but it breathes gently. It sounds timid at times, but so carefully assembled that it resembles a monument to the aesthetic. The pleasure is in finding and curating, and Molnbär av John know exactly what detritus to pick out. As night falls so does the second side, which stumbles along in its own circular logic. It’s a bit uneasy, but not uneven. It’s an inviting world, and one that can be menacing without any traces of distortion or noise."

*** Dusted Magazine

"That the cover photo of I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose includes an old-fashioned turntable is telling as much of its twelve minutes sound like bits and pieces resurrected from long-forgotten library archives of scratched vinyl discs and dictaphone recordings. John Henriksson (aka Molnbär av John) stitches chopped fragments of whistling themes, a torch singer's emotive vocalizing (of the title), vibes, organ, and orchestral sounds into a twelve-minute (obviously split in half by the vinyl presentation) plunderphonic sound collage of equally demented and nostalgic character. There's a hint of Philip Jeck in the material's woozy fluctuations and gouged vinyl crackle but I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose charts its own wormhole path in its evocation of half-remembered and half-imagined eras past."

*** Textura

Tracklist:

01. I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose
02. I Wish I Could Draw Her Nose

Musette: Datum (Japanese Version)
PDIP-6504
Release date: 08-10-2009
Licenced by: P*Dis

This is the Japanese version of Musettes debut album "Datum" released through P*Dis available only in Asia. It has some slight changes in the artwork and includes the cassette version of 9 november (from "Carefully Collected Cassette Tapes") as a bonus track.

Related links:
www.inpartmaint.com/pdis/
http://open.spotify.com/album/1OaJ3sflAe3TXyfBjCcw62

Tracklist:

01. 24 maj
02. 2 mars
03. 23 oktober
04. 10 juli
05. 17 oktober
06. 14 april
07. 18 juli
08. 24 januari
09. 1 juni
10. 1 februari
11. 16 oktober
12. 22 december
13. 9 november
14. 4 september
15. 9 november (cassette version) *

* Bonus track

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Musette: Datum
TS01
Release date: 24-02-2009

Patiently written down dates, noted with a piano and carefully collected on cassette tapes, one by one. An assiduous attempt to keep books of time, to sketch the events, the landscapes and neighborhoods with melodies and recordings of sound. For several years Joel Danell has been writing songs on a piano, all given the names of dates as if they were diary notes. The kind of notes where the writing, more than the words themselves, recounts for the moment of them being written: times of accumulation where the letters stand close to each other and reach far into the margin, moments of pensiveness where lines have been crossed out and others have been added and moments of excitement where the letters have gained in size and defied the ruling of the sheet.

"Datum" is the retelling of these notes with the help of violin, whistling, guitar, accordion and Dobro, recorded in Blackeberg January 2008. Pieces that recount for an otherwise forgotten day in April, that describe the view from a balcony in a Stockholm suburb in late October, that is a remembrance of the rushing bicycle and the passing landscape in the beginning of June.

Related links:
www.myspace.com/musettes
http://open.spotify.com/album/1OaJ3sflAe3TXyfBjCcw62

Reviews:
"When’s the last time you heard something truly whimsical? It may very well be possible to view live shots of Paris over electronic lines, but how long has it been since you experienced a purely innocent sensory input? If the answer is long in coming, you may find remedy in Joel Danell’s latest output." (read more...)

*** The Silent Ballet

Musette: Carefully Collected Cassette Tapes
Promo (CD-R) / MP3-release
Release date: 24-02-2009

This is the collection of cassette tapes, carefully recorded over the years, that became "Datum".

Made in 50 copies for customers of "Datum".

Related links :
www.myspace.com/musettes

Tracklist:

01. 15 oktober *
02. 2 mars **
03. 14 maj *
04. 1 juni **
05. 4 september pt 2 *
06. 9 november (1) *
07. 9 november (2) *
08. 18 juli **
09. 23 oktober *

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* without band
** with band