This is my new record! Online for free download at the lovely Resting Bell Netlabel. These are the liner notes:
“In June 2007, Sven Swift aka The Love Songs performed a 25-minutes live-set at the DIY 2.0 festival in Dresden. The whole set consists of one well-structured, tension-filled piece of drone music, created with analogue synthesizers and effect-feedback only (an exception is the little nightingale-chant framing the performance). The complete recording is naturally placed atop the sound of the audience and city underneath, people chatting around, an ambulance passing the venue. It was Alexander Peterhaensel who carefully recorded all of this.”
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“Listening to his recording will engage you with the enormous dynamics and ornamental structures of Sven’s composition. It starts with the solely song of a nightingale, very soft and quiet. After a little while there are the first background-noises more harsh, combined with harmonic keyboard-patterns. These soft patterns are raising to a deep and warm drone-blanket, sometimes disturbed by sharp noises and feedback. All this ebbs away in the end, as you hear the nightingale sing again.”
Thanks to Kati Meden for the sweet artwork (isn’t it?), Alexander for the recording and Christian Roth for giving me the possibility to release at this label. Furthermore, hugs and kisses to Grit Ruhland and Konrad Behr who organized the whole event.
Release-Site: The Love Songs – “Live in Dresden”
Download: The Love Songs – “Live in Dresden” ZIP
Netlabel: www.restingbell.net
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/svenswift
