editions vaché
Love Skyphone, wish they made a pile more of music- we actually have had this since its release, just bought it again.....just because.... ss/am Favorite track: Lares.
Gyakkun
Amazing how consistent this album feels considering the sheer variety of sounds and ideas that they employ. In lesser hands, this sort of work would rapidly fall apart!
Favorite track: Aventoft.
Lost Tribe Sound
A wonky, perfect mashup of folk, rock, jazz, electronic. I have loved every album these guys have made, and Hildur is a definite further progression of their unique sound, even adding in a trace amount of vocals. A lot of groups make quirky electronic music with real instruments mixed about, but few maintain Skyphone's sense of style, repeat enjoyability and playfulness!
Favorite track: Scamander.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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• 180 Gram Audiophile Grade Vinyl
• Heavyweight Reverse Print Jacket
• Hand Numbered Edition of 200
• Bandcamp DL code for Hildur
• Download code emailed the same day as purchase/pre-order
• Lacquer Cut by Gotta Groove
• Mastered for vinyl by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering
• Vinyl sleeved in interior white poly-lined sleeve
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edition of 200
Purchasable with gift card
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Normal Retail $40, plus saves on shipping
• 180 Gram Audiophile Grade Vinyl of Hildur & Marsh Drones
• Discounted bundled shipping outside US
• Heavyweight Reverse Print Jackets
• Hand Numbered Editions of 200
• Bandcamp DL codes for Hildur & Marsh Drones
• Download code for Hildur emailed the same day as ordered
• Lacquer Cut by Gotta Groove
• Mastered for vinyl by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering
• Vinyl sleeved in interior white poly-lined sleeve
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SHIPPING COST UPDATE:
NON-US Customers interested in ordering multiple items, please email us directly at info(at)losttribesound(dot)com and ask for custom shipping quote. Should save a lot on shipping
Includes unlimited streaming of Hildur
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
• Heavyweight Reverse Print Jackets
• Hand Numbered Editions of 200
• Bandcamp DL codes for Hildur & Marsh Drones
• Download code for Hildur emailed the same day as ordered
• Lacquer Cut by Gotta Groove
• Mastered for vinyl by Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering
• Vinyl sleeved in interior white poly-lined sleeve
• We take a great amount of extra care in shipping our vinyl, more than many other labels or shops we've come across. Vinyl ships between two cardboard stiffeners, held in place by blue painters tape, biodegradable peanuts around the top, bottom, and sides add an additional layer of cushion. Then we pack the vinyl in a corner protected shipping box.
Includes unlimited streaming of Hildur
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Lost Tribe Sound is honored present two albums from the Danish trio, Skyphone. ‘Marsh Drones,’ their first new album in over 5 years releases along side their previous album ‘Hildur.' While ‘Hildur’ was digitally self-released to a limited audience back in 2014, LTS felt the album deserved far more attention than it received. Plus, what could be more satisfying than hearing it on high quality vinyl for the first time.
Our admiration for Skyphone’s music has gone on longer than LTS has been in existence, beginning with the release of their first album ‘Fabula’ on Norwegian label, Rune Grammaphon in 2004. Our first experience came during the Mary Anne Hobbs show, when the song “Kinamands Chance” came on the air. The music felt alive, there was a delicate warmth to it all its own. Even if the music could be lazily classified as electronic, the sonic components felt as if they’d been 3D printed, then hand-aged by a smith. It had this incredibly tactile feel to it, as if these sound objects were in the same room as us, skittering about, performing ear-bending stunts and blurring the lines between the acoustic instruments and their synthetic counterparts.
From that moment on we were hooked, keeping a close ear on Skyphone’s music ever since. It’s quite surreal to now be helping to the trio to release not one but two albums. Though we’d stop shy of declaring Skyphone the Godfather’s of this type of highly intricate electro-acoustic music, they definitely brought new levels of inventiveness and authenticity to the scene. They are masterful at combining a multitude of instruments and genres that could easily go wrong in lesser hands, where rogue electronic rhythms, half-drunken synths, and slow burning jazz and dub fueled progressions give way to velvet-coated layers of guitar. It’s the kind of music where anything seems possible.
‘Hildur’ was recorded at Hotell Hildur, an abandoned railway hotel, located in Everöd of south Sweden. The trio utilized a number of location throughout the hotel to lend to the acoustics of the recordings. Mads recalls, “There was a really particular vibe at the place, the acoustics were great and there were hallways and rooms that allowed for different kinds of recording. And an old drum kit that we recorded using a very wide stereo setups (using high-end mics) – you can hear remnants of those recordings all over the album. Also, the slightly out-of-tune piano was recorded there.”
Back when ‘Hildur’ saw its initial release in 2014, the mighty Headphone Commute had this to say, “Hildur is at once a more mature and cohesive work, combining elements of cut-up stitches of acoustic instrumentation with a strong song structure at the center of each piece. Even the cover art conveys a collage of a layered cityscape, with an imaginative interpretation of what I can only guess to be an abstraction of Hotell Hildur.” HC’s review makes a number of great observations regarding ‘Hildur.’ Of course, the incredible depth to Martin Sønderlev Christensen’s collage art for the album fits the LTS aesthetic perfectly, so much so, there was no question that we had to have Christensen’s artwork for their brand new album ‘Marsh Drones’ as well. It’s hard to believe there could be more fitting visuals for the surreal, dystopian, near-alien soundscapes that Skyphone inhabits. Headphone Commute also mentions many of the connections Skyphone has to other early contemporaries in this left-field breed of music, sighting names such as Boards of Canada, The Remote Viewer, Telefon Tel Aviv, and Dictaphone. Those names make complete sense, and to modernize this list a bit, fans of Hubro, Geir Sundstøl, The Gentleman Losers, and Tape should feel right at home listening to Skyphone.
With the stunning physical editions of ‘Hildur’ and their brand new effort ‘Marsh Drones’ releasing on the same day, along with the captivating artwork of Martin Sønderlev Christensen, both albums being mastered for vinyl and digital by the impeccable ears of Emil Thomsen at ET Mastering, there isn’t much more long time fans of Skyphone could hope for! The albums make clear why Skyphone (Thomas Holst, Keld Dam Schmidt, and Mads Bødker) have stood the test of time. There is a clarity, a warmth, and a consciousness to their music that remains a rare commodity even to this day. ‘Hildur’ and ‘Marsh Drones’ will be available in limited runs of 180gm audiophile vinyl, produced using the lacquer cut method. The vinyl comes housed in a beautifully textured, reverse print sleeves. Each is hand-numbered and limited to only 200 editions for each album, with no repressings or second editions.
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released August 22, 2019
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Originally released on Lost Tribe Sound. See Catalog: losttribesound.bandcamp.com
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"One thing that should be noted other than the musical styles and the vibrancy of the music is the playfulness and fun vibe that comes across. A contented ebullience is easily observed across the eleven tracks as well as some outstanding mastering, which draws you in and makes the process of discovery that much easier." - DRIFTING, ALMOST FALLING
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Skyphone works with some kind of genre melting folk-futurism, combining almost recognizable melodies, synthetic and shape
shifting counterpoints with field recordings and meticulously edited acoustic sessions. Recommended for psychogeographers, fabulators, and the wanderers of time....more
An absolutely stunning release. The music is fraught with cicadas and mimosa blooms, and blends beautifully with the lazy southern haze of the afternoon. Heading back in for a second spin. Thank you for releasing this album. Randy Arnold
Harry Towell has a way of relating to sound that is unique, and we realized we didn't own a copy of this release...its a keeper ! am/ss/tm editions vaché
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In an alternative time line or an alternative reality this would be the soundtrack to the groundbreaking US television series The Leftovers. Harsh Agarwal
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The ambient songs on this EP start small but expand slowly, like the rays of the sun spreading across an early morning sky. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 16, 2021
I love listening to this striking collection of compositions and imagining what sort of films they were meant to accompany. It's hard for me to believe, however, that any visual component would be much more than a distraction from the singular emotive power of the music. Gyakkun
