The Faux Noise tell us that they get their inspiration from the early seventies and the music scene around Andy Warhol. And I can understand that, even though The Faux Noise’ music doesnt’ feel retro, rather like a contemporary interpretation.
The feeling I get from this is that I am in a river delta, where sound is flowing in from many directions, occasionally it’s raining, and in the middle of all this chaos I find a strong raft that safely brings me out to the sea, accompanied by beautiful melodies. Thrilling and interesting.

On their Soundcloud page you can listen to their music and also to a bunch of interesting remixes of their songs. You can also visit The Faux Noise on their site. Here is “Save Me” and the video to “I Can’t Stop Breaking You Down”:

Save Me

I Can’t Stop Breaking You Down:

I Can’t Stop Breaking You Down from The Faux Noise on Vimeo.

That I Am You We Are is different from most bands I’ve heard, is clear to me already after a minute or so in the first song “Love Song For the Mob”, from their EP “Masquerade”. An oriental-inspired melody played by transverse flute and accordion turns into something more folkish and  Phoenix and Anahitas voices give the song a somwhat different character.

The five songs on “Masquerade” are quite different from each other, where they vary the instrument set from song to song. They experiment with flutes, piano, accordion, guitars, djembe, trumpet and no set seem to be the same as the other. I can’t help thinking about that I’m listening to a mini musical, where the scene changes from song to song.

It’s different and interesting. You can listen for yourself below to the track “Love Song For the Mob”. On their Myspace page you can find more songs from “Masquerade”.

Love Song For the Mob

Already in 1980 Pål and Conny laid up their plans for wHaT iF. These included Pål’s yet unborn daughter Linea, so obviously they had to wait a little :-) In 2005 the time was right and the band wHaT iF was born. The one who waits…

I’m now listening to their third album “The Final Meltdown”, a really enjoyable album. Playful and experimental, catchy melodies, varied and a with a nice ambience. Linnea’s voice and the experimentation reminds me sometimes of Björk, while the concept, the atmosphere and the radiovoices gives me a lot of Roger Waters vibes.

You can find the band on wHaT iF’s site, on Myspace and on Jamendo. On Jamendo you can download, not only this album, but all three albums.

Listen to and download three tracks from “The Final Meldown”:

Rainy Days
Dream of Peace
Running Over Fields

Meet Fredrik Hillnor. He says his music consists of “various instruments joint together in small symphonies I record on my computer”. It’s instrumental electronica in a nice harmony with guitars and other instruments. He says he simply uses the instruments that comes his way and make him happy.

I feel rather comfortable walking around in Fredrik’s sound landscape, where different instrumental melodies ar interwoven into a whole. And it never gets boring, the music changes frequently as one instrument takes the lead from another, and I’m often fascinated how he brings it all together.

Judge for yourself by listening to some tracks below. To listen more, you can visit Hillnor on Myspace.

The Pt 10
Helt
Wood In the Hood

In the beginning of December I presented Twiggy Frostbite here on Meadowmusic. This was very much appreciated, judged by the responses afterwards. Therefore I thought it would be appropriate to throw in an extra bonus today; recordings from a radio session this Christmas. Naked, acoustic in Swedish national radio, and I think this is magical. Listen for yourself:

Heroes (live acoustic)
Messy Star (live acoustic)

You’ll find Twiggy Frostbite on Myspace