Preorder: new ALVARET ENSEMBLE album + HYDRAS DREAM debut

Hey.

From today on we're offering the second album of THE ALVARET ENSEMBLE and the HYDRAS DREAM debut full length. There's sadly further delay for the FEDERICO ALBANESE vinyl version – we're hopefully able to ship it next week.


PREORDER
:::: den184 | The Alvaret Ensemble, Kira Kira, Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson, Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Borgar Magnason - Skeylja Cd | 12''
:::: den196 | Hydras Dream - The Little Match Girl Cd | 12''

Listening:
www.denovali.com/thealvaretensemble
www.denovali.com/hydrasdream

Skeylja is an international multimedia project, based around the ideas of improvisational music and the coming together of musicians from different countries and musical backgrounds to create a spontaneous sonic landscape.

Hydras Dream is a special collaboration between the Swedish musicians Anna Von Hausswolff and Matti Bye (winner of the Guldbaggen 2014 price for scoring the film drama "Faro" and composer of the film score for "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"). The concept behind this project is to interpret stories, movies and myths into musical landscapes. For their debut album "The Little Match Girl", von Hausswolff and Bye construed the beautiful and melancholic story by H.C. Andersen of the same title.


NEW ARTIST
We're delighted to inform you that the wonderful Never Sol is part of the Denovali family from now on. We're going to release her debut album "Under Quiet" in May 2014. Further details will follow soon.



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DENOVALI SWINGFEST LONDON + BERLIN 2014 UPDATE
The first day of the Berlin edition and the second day of the London edition are almost sold out. Tickets: www.denovali.com/swingfest

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MAILORDER NEWS
The current mailorder update includes the new Hauschka album, the ''Only Lovers Left Alive'' OST, Nils Frahm ''Spaces'' Vinyl version, new Scraps of Tape, John Coltrane vinyl restocks, Asmus Tietchens vinyl editions etc.

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THE ALVARET ENSEMBLE, KIRA KIRA, EIRíKUR ORRI ÓLAFSSON, INGI GARðAR ERLENDSSON, BORGAR MAGNASON - SKEYLJA CD | 12'' | DIGITAL



Skeylja is an international multimedia project, based around the ideas of improvisational music and the coming together of musicians from different countries and musical backgrounds to create a spontaneous sonic landscape. The project started when The Alvaret Ensemble (Greg Haines, Jan & Romke Kleefstra, and Sytze Pruiksma), who you may know from their eponymous debut on Denovali in 2012, travelled to Iceland to try to find a shared music language with the Icelandic musicians Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Kira Kira, Borgar Magnason and Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson . They were joined by the 33 1/3 Collective, a group of visual artists from the Netherlands, who began to collect footage that would later be used as source material for the visual side of the performance.
Some months later, after a successful week of traveling to beautiful locations and playing music together, the group met again, this time during the Oerol festival on the island of Terschelling in the Netherlands, for a series of nine sold-out shows in an old church, all of which were being recorded. Each artist "curated" a rough plan for one evening, which could be anything from hand-drawn images to be interpreted musically to more precise plans of structures and combinations of musicians to be explored. Never were the notes, or the content of the music itself, discussed - this was instead left up to chance and developed through listening intently to each-other, trying to create an atmosphere where each player was vital, but where everyone always worked towards the whole.
After ten intense days on the island, all that was left were the memories of the audience and, luckily, a hard-drive with over ten hours of recorded music. After everyone had had a chance to listen back to rough mixes of each night and make comments, the material was taken to Greg Haines' Electricity Works studio in Berlin, where the long process of selecting, editing and mixing began. Finally, almost two years after that first initial meeting in Reykjavik, the album is complete and ready to be released into the world. We hope you enjoy it.

Stream: www.denovali.com/thealvaretensemble
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/alvaretensemble

Vinyl – LP:
::: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x ultraclear
::: regular edition: 350x black
::: price: 16.00 euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro



HYDRAS DREAM - THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL CD | 12'' | DIGITAL



Hydras Dream is a special collaboration between the Swedish musicians ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF and MATTI BYE (winner of the Guldbaggen 2014 price for scoring the film drama "Faro" and composer of the film score for "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"). The concept behind this project is to interpret stories, movies and myths into musical landscapes. For their debut album "The Little Match Girl", von Hausswolff and Bye construed the beautiful and melancholic story by H.C. Andersen of the same title. Asked about the reason for this particular choice, the two musicians state: "It was her tragic faith in the winter's cold that inspired us. She is freezing to death with no money and no comfort, she is all alone, dreaming of a warmer place. When death strikes her she is filled with magical illusions and dreams. Oddly enough, hypothermia and death are the only two comfort zones we experience in this story. Sad but beautiful."

The music of Hydras Dream is mostly made through improvisation and by using repetitious patterns and melodies. Indeed, the two musicians state "We want to use intuition and spontaneity as two key elements in the compositions, and therefore we don't pre-record anything. We just play whatever feels good and fits the theme and press rec." Thus it is no surprise that "The Little Match Girl" was written and recorded during only three days in Matti Bye's studio. Exploring the entire spectrum of their instruments, von Hausswolff and Bye ingeniously combined their virtuosity in order to craft an eclectic and delicate album, located somewhere inbetween neo-classical experimentalism and avantgarde dream-pop. One can virtually image how the notes of this debut faintly resound behind the candle-lit windows which separate the little match girl from the life-saving warmth, how their echoes join her in her inevitable fate ...

Stream: www.denovali.com/hydrasdream
Download: www.denovali.com/mp3shop
Facebook: www.facebook.com/hydrasdream

Vinyl – LP:
::: thick sleeves + thick printed inner sleeves
::: download code
::: limited edition: 150x clear
::: regular edition: 350x black
::: price: 17.00 euro

Cd
::: nice digipak
::: price: 13.00 Euro



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den070 | N(22) - Goor 2x12''
den174 | Floex - Gone 10''
den175 | John Lemke - People Do Cd | 12''
den176 | Sebastian Plano - Arrhythmical Part of Hearts Cd | 12''
den177 | Sebastian Plano - Impetus Cd | 2x12''
den178 | The Dale Cooper Quartet - Quatorze Pièces de Menace Cd | 2x12''
den179 | Celeste – Animale(s) 2xCd | 2x12''
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den185 | Saffronkeira + Mario Massa - Cause and Effect Cd|2x12''
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den187 | Ensemble Economique - Light That Comes, Light That Goes Cd|12''
den188 | Origamibiro - Collection 3xCd | 4x12''
den189 | Birds of Passage - This Kindly Slumber Cd | 12''
den190 | Talvihorros - Eaten Alive Cd | 12''
den191 | Origamibiro - Odham's Standard Cd | 12''
den192 | Carlos Cipa & Sophia Jani - Relive Cd | 12''
den193 | Federico Albanese - The Houseboat and the Moon Cd | 2x12''
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