MP3 RELEASES
Between January and December 2007 Friendly Noise released mp3 singles, free to download. It was a complement to our CD- and vinyl-releases, a chance to easily distribute great songs, in cases where the album context isn’t necessary. These two ways of distribution aren’t contradictory, they’re related.
In March 2008 a selection of the songs will be released as a compilation album on CD, titled “Splendid Isolation”
December 27, 2007:
Now it’s time for the very last of our free mp3 single releases, the series was a 2007 project. Thank you for listening! We end it with:
FYN 65 / NEW YEAR’S EVE
Space shuttle clues
Raining in cubicles blank space
Everything’s glowing intensely asleep
- this is New Year’s Eve
Fireworks and mirth
Dancing in Technicolor firth
Gliding lanterns of imploded dreams
- this is New Year’s Eve, covertly
New Year’s Eve (MP3, 3,9 MB)
December 11, 2007:
FYN 64 / ERIK DE VAHL
I really wish that “Running” could have been a much happier song than it turned out to be. That’s a wish that goes for a lot of other stuff as well, and maybe that’s what this song is all about. Initially I wanted to write a song about the blessing of traffic-rhythm at work, but it ended up as a song about waiting and working for hope instead. “Whatever We Want” is more irreconcilable with whatever is bad.
Erik de Vahl
1. Running (MP3, 9,1 MB)
2. Whatever We Want (MP3, 8,5 MB)
Photo by Lisa Engström
FYN 63 / FLOW FLUX CLAN
2007 has been quiet for Flow Flux Clan - the extracurricular activity of Tomas from Differnet and Sarah from Action Biker and The Dreamers - but now they return with “Shut Out”. A radical, electronic, high-energy dance floor interpretation of a song from The Walker Brothers’ 1978 album “Nite Flights”, augmented with a long ravey Scott Angel remix.
1. Shut Out (MP3, 3,6 MB)
2. Shut Out (Scott Angel Remix) (MP3, 11,3 MB)
Photo by Sara Smedman
November 18, 2007:
FYN 60 / ACTION BIKER
So here are two very different songs. “Refridgerator” feels, to be honest, a little bit what people expect of me but I am pleased with it. It’s about times when I wouldn’t sleep and spent nights in the kitchen listening to music and getting excited about it and seeing my reflection dance on dark windows. Probably around seventeen years old.
The other song, “Vinden susar i advent”, is an Advent song. I used to live in Helsinki in Finland, working in a kindergarten. In December last year we all went to church and there was this local child trio, piano and two flutes, and a children choir singing this song. It blew me away. I’d never heard it before. I had to talk to the music teacher of the children afterwards and she let me borrow a copy of the music. The song is not very well known in Sweden these days.
Sarah Nyberg Pergament
1. Refridgerator (MP3, 7,8 MB)
2. Vinden susar i advent (MP3, 3 MB)
Photo by Jens Eriksson
October 30, 2007:
FYN 59 / MOST VALUABLE PLAYERS
For those who’ve followed a group from the start, eagerly awaiting new tracks is probably the main activity. That is besides listening to already existing ones. It’s the same as with art in general, the joy of – finding, seeing, hearing, reading, experiencing – something new, also creates the crave for something even newer. It’s not the case that the current experience isn’t satisfactory enough, more likely the opposite. How would it be to one day feel ultimately fulfilled? The most satisfactory of all is perhaps when something agrees with your expectations but still has the strength to surprise: a night that somehow knows the day. When its company seems natural, easy, eventually we’ll feel like changing.
Erik Ogenstedt
1. Rondo (MP3, 4,4 MB)
2. Open Night (MP3, 3,5 MB)
FYN 58 / ROBOTBOY
When I started making music I was heavily influenced by mixtapes that I got from my friends. Most of the songs I wrote were written late at night and recorded without rehearsing and without the knowledge of how to make them sound… normal. But I often liked what I found in the mornings after those recording sessions, and some of those crackled tunes ended up on cassettes and cd-r:s, usually handed out to the same friends who gave me the inspiration in the first place. Then nothing happened. Being spontaneous can sometimes take a lot of time in preparation. But here are now two new songs from that place where, hopefully, naïveté succeeds.
Petter Strömberg
1. September (MP3, 5,2 MB)
2. Les Enfants Terribles (MP3, 2,5 MB)
September 26, 2007:
FYN 54 / ENHETEN FÖR MUSIK OCH MELODI
“Sol genom lövverket”. Medium tempo bossanova, sunshine, dreaming, careless, playful, innocent, melodic, romantic, wordless female vocals. “Hemlig ljudupptagning”. Syncopated waltz, dramatic, melodic, big brass section, repetitive guitar, wordless female vocals.
1. Sol genom lövverket (MP3, 4,8 MB)
2. Hemlig ljudupptagning (MP3, 6,6 MB)
August 31, 2007:
FYN 51 / I GODAN RO
In june me and my fellow Kissing Mirrors-band member Mathias Nilsson (also of Sarto and Twig fame) produced a 52 page fanzine called “I godan ro” filled with collages, morbid drawings, interviews with the two of us, some right wing-bashing, and other assorted dementia. We only did 10 numbered copies for sale, sealed them up so people couldn’t take a sneak peek before buying, and charged 200 kronor (roughly about 30 US dollars) for the darn thing. And lo and behold, we sold every single one! Which we deserved, ’cause it took us a lot of hard work to finish, and it was a damn good little mag. It even had a little bit of nudity on the cover.
Included with the zine was an 11-track cdr with mostly unrealeased songs from a bunch of our friends (the single unexclusive one was the Kim Ki O track, which was taken from their highly recommended selfreleased cdr-album), and since we’re feeling a bit generous now at the end of the summer here are some samples from the “I godan ro” compilation. We Feed them Knives is me and Mathias messing about in a night of drunken stupor, Alphabet Extravaganza is Åsa Bergström from Stockholm who usually record great, dreamy pop under the alias Harbour, the aforementioned Kim Ki O makes dark, monotonous postpunk from Turkey (but more about them in the future, check the FYN news page in the forthcoming months…), and The Radio Dept. are, well, The Radio Dept. And “Bachelor Kisses” is of course a Go Betweens cover. Enjoy!
Per Johansson
1. We Feed Them Knives - Kissing You Is A Waste Of Time (MP3, 8,3 MB)
2. Alphabet Extravaganza - Don’t Pay Attention (MP3, 3,7 MB)
3. Kim Ki O - Gene Oldu (MP3, 6,3 MB)
4. The Radio Dept. - Bachelor Kisses (MP3, 5,2 MB)
July 23, 2007:
FYN 49 / BAND IN BOX
Band in box is a neat collection of old and partly broken pottery, carefully packed in a banana carton also housing a girl and her thirteen instruments. “Elevator theme” grew in the old garden of Monet. Someone accidentally dropped it there, when trying to escape the dusk. An old woman then stole it and traded it for a clarinet. “Leaving smears” was found wrapped in an old quilt next to a flute in a shipwreck. If you’d been the first on the spot where the divers discovered the ship you’d probably mistaken the song for a sea bass. They’re almost identical.
Siri af Burén
1. Leaving Smears (MP3, 6,1 MB)
2. Elevator Theme (MP3, 4,6 MB)
June 25, 2007:
FYN 48 / TESTBILD!
Where you and I are, that’s where Summer is
Testbild! return after one year of silence with two recordings that are as fresh as can be. “En gång i Stockholm” (translated “Once Upon a Time in Stockholm”) is a wintry song in the middle of summer, written by Bobbie Ericsson and Beppe Wolgers, and originally performed by Monica Zetterlund in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1963. It got zero points in the poll. “Dedicated to Therese Holm” was written for our friend Therese Holm (Yo Amoeba).
1. En gång i Stockholm (MP3, 8,7 MB)
2. Dedicated to Therese Holm (MP3, 4,5 MB)
May 28, 2007:
FYN 46 / PETER NILSSON
Sometimes I make stuff on my own. Sometimes I hear something so good I want to incorporate it with my compositions. Sometimes I feel a little lost in my music and need to sense the presence of someone or something else in there. Sounds from the 70s, words from the 60s, machines from the 80s, things I’ve done and places I want to go. Roughly sketched out in these two songs.
Peter Nilsson
1. Get Nowhere (MP3, 8,8 MB)
2. Song for Stina (MP3, 8,3 MB)
May 1, 2007:
FYN 44 / VED
In these tracks, I have tried to dig deep into my own listening and make something I would have appreciated myself as a teenager. I was both drawn to kind of funk-inspired things and also liked fooling around with tapes and sounds in a more “industrial” way. Later in life I saw more and more connections between different worlds of sound, and was inspired by music that seemed to float between genres. About a year ago I was the last person in the known universe to see Dario Argento’s “Suspiria”, and was blown away by the soundtrack by Goblin.
“Liquid shadows” is made as a tribute to Goblin more than anything else. Please contact me if you are a young and promising occult horrormovie-director.
Mattias Nihlén
1. Stratoscope (MP3, 7,4 MB)
2. Liquid Shadows (MP3, 6,1 MB)
April 19, 2007:
FYN 43 / PETER JACKSON _DIRECTED BY…
Unlike most of my friends involved in creative arts, I lack patience and quickly lose interest in the things I am pursuing, always jumping to new and equally hopeless projects. This explains why these pieces have ended up being so short and repetetive: they are all skeletons, rough drafts, unfulfilled promises. In fortunate cases, pieces like these receive the undeserved honor of getting enmeshed in larger Differnet compositions. Here, they all stand alone, like broken Trötentöne. My name is Peter Jackson, a name I happen to share with a famous film director who likes trolls and goblins. I do not wish to conceal that fact by choosing some tiresome pseudonym. I like Richard Wagner. He also liked trolls and goblins.
Peter Jackson
1. Hultviksvägen 7 (MP3, 1,6 MB)
2. Postojna (MP3, 2,2 MB)
3. Hashish in Nizza (MP3, 1,9 MB)
4. Dopyera (MP3, 2,8 MB)
5. Bognor Regis (MP3, 1,8 MB)
6. Almost close (MP3, 1,7 MB)
March 8, 2007:
FYN 40 / REDMALM
Redmalm, from Uppsala, is a one man band formed in 1981.
Redmalm is my last name, my family name, and my father’s father was the first one to use it. He wanted the name Redberg, which is the name of the part of Gothenburg where he wasborn, but it was already taken, so he was asked to try the randomly generated name Redmalm instead. And so he did. My name is the perfect postmodern name, relieved of all meaning and social connotations. No bedeutung at all. None at all. I’ve been thinking about replacing my name with a number, like 0123456789, xxxxxxxxxx, but I’m not sure that it is allowed. Yet.
David Redmalm
1. Things And Thoughts (MP3, 5,9 MB)
2. The Bravest Person I Know (MP3, 5,7 MB)
February 23, 2007:
FYN 39 / JIAN
In August 2006, I spent five days in solitude for the first time in my life. I sat in a summer cottage with just a computer, a guitar, a mixer and a microphone to keep me company. One of the aims of my voluntary isolation was to record a series of interpretations of some favourite songs of mine. The other aims were to go swimming, read books, have some new potatoes, and think. I managed to reach them all. After five days, during which I learnt a great deal about myself, I got a visit from a few of my closest friends. They described the look I had when I came to meet them at the bus stop as slighly mad and almost eerily welcoming.
Douglas Holmquist
1. Just A Little Lovin’ (MP3, 5,9 MB)
2. Ivy, Ivy (MP3, 7,2 MB)
FYN 38 / MALKOVIC
“1959y” is dedicated to Boris Vian (1920-1959), French writer. “Leto” is the Russian word for summer. Malkovic are from Moscow, Russia, their self-released debut EP “RoomSound” is out now.
1. 1959y (MP3, 8,9 MB)
2. Leto (MP3, 7,5 MB)
January 23, 2007:
We will begin this new series with two releases! It’s actually re-releases of two very rare records, by Differnet and Viktor Sjöberg. They were originally released as limited edition 3” CD-r:s available only during the night when we celebrated our fourth year with a party at Underjorden/Koloni in Göteborg, November 4, 2006.
FYN 37 / VIKTOR SJÖBERG _…IMAGINES A HOUSE
This record is documenting the live interpretations of the Testbild! album “Imagine a house” that I performed around Sweden to mark the release of that album. These performances took place in Stockholm and Malmö in the early days of the summer of 2006. This disc contains altered versions of two songs that were performed on these occasions. They were recorded live in the Sonores studio space and edited in Chinatown. October 2006.
1. (Jack) Lullaby (MP3 15,3 MB)
2. Caryatides (MP3, 12,3 MB)
FYN 36 / DIFFERNET _MPKG 2: CHOCOLATE EDITION
The 3” CD-r came packaged in chocolate (that’s right, Valhrona chocolate to be more precise!)
1. Curriculum Circular (MP3 8,3 MB)
2. Upprepade (MP3 5,7 MB)
3. Dialogue Number Two (MP3 1,3 MB)
Cover by Plans + Design