Day 352

Pelvic Fins: Augusburg, Germany, has becoming a nice hotspot for indiepop. We have the fantastic Kleine Untergrund Schallplatten label there and today I discovered Gebrauchtemusik, another label from there I believe. Their latest release is a 15 song collection by the band Pelvic Fins. The album is called “Muxik Vorher & Nachher” and is available digitally. This is actually not a new release, this album came out back in 2003 in CDR.

Collapse: this Japanese shoegaze band is a new discovery for me. Their latest song is called “Vertigo feat. Ishikawa”. I believe Ishikawa is in a band called My Dead Girlfriend. There’s not much more info about the band or the release here, just that it is a digital only release. Sounds good though! Should check their previous releases.

The Keep Left Signs: I really like this Swedish band that features two ex-Lost Homeboys, Jimmi and Gustaf. The band released a new EP on December but as it’s only on digital platforms I haven’t been able to share it. The good thing is that on Youtube they’ve made a video for the first song of said EP and as soon as you listen to it you know it is a winner. The song is called “Make it Shine” and the video was filmed in Japan, while Charley was visiting last March. I hope it gets a physical release!

Lentillas de Colores: another new video! This one comes from Spain from the band Lentillas de Colores! The band has just released a 7″ EP and the song they’ve chosen to make a video is called “Arrancacorazones”. Thee video is really nice, with lovely and well thought aesthetics. Very p!o!p!

Haus Plants: and lastly we discover a new band from Lisbon, Portugal. Their latest track is called “Visual Diaries” and it is an upbeat jangly tune. Really enjoying it.

—————————————————————–

Back to the CDR days. The year is 2008 and there’s a label that’s been releasing a bunch of good EPs and singles. It is Cosy Recordings from Stockholm, Sweden. At this point in time I believe the label owner is cool with me, and we have sort of a friendship. That will change later on, but that’s not an interesting story. The story today is about the 11th release on that label, Little Big Adventure’s “Saltsjö-Duvnäs” EP.

Back then 100 copies for a CDR was a good idea. I wonder if today too? It was limited and hand-numbered, as was the trend that maybe I started with the Cloudberry mini CDs. It worked well. This EP with catalog number COSY 11 had four songs, the title song “Saltsjö-Duvnäs”, “Son of St Jacobs”, “Saltsjö-Duvnäs (Performed by Erik Halldén)” and “Saltsjö-Duvnäs ’08 (Performed by Erik Halldén and Little Big Adventure)”.

Little Big Adventure was Magnus Lindroos from Sundsvall and we can assume he had a good relationship with Erik Halldén. Erik Halldén perhaps should get an entry on the bog sometime. He was quite representative of the period, releasing albums on Bedroom Recordings as well as EPs on the very fine My Secret Garden Recordings. What’s interesting is that actually Erik Halldén was the one who wrote the song “Saltsjö-Duvnäs”.

Saltsjö-Duvnäs is actually a residential area in Nacka. That’s within Stockholm county boundaries I believe. Perhaps Erik hailed from that area? Or Magnus? That’s something to find out of course.

We also know that the other original song on the EP was written by Henrik Berggren. That means then a cover of the Broder Daniel’s song “Son of St. Jacobs”. Okay. What else do we know about this release? The artwork is credited to Lisa Persson and the layout to Karin Ringvist.

There are two compilation appearances. Both of them is with the same song, “Happiest Times”. The first one dates from 2008, it is on the “Club King Kong: Säsongen 07/08 – Med Musiken i Mitten Volym 3” CDR comp released by Donkeyboys Recordings (DKNYBYS003). I would really like to get all of these club King Kong CDRs… if anyone wants to get rid of them let me know. I am very curious about them.

The other compilation is one called “Stockholm Belong to Us” (PLAB139) that came out on Labrador in 2011. It was a CD and was also published in the Philippines that same year by Universal Records.

To my surprise there is even one more release by the band, a CDEP from 2009 on Labrador! So the band ended up leaving the CDR for a proper CD. The EP was titled “The Hateful Eye EP”. I totally missed it. This EP had four songs, “Happiest Times”, “The Hateful Eye”, “Any Questions?” and “Son of S:t Jacobs”. There was even a video made for “Happiest Times“!

Aside from this project, we know that Magnus Lindroos was in a band called Supertuff who released a split tape with the band There is Thunder in Our Hearts on 2014.

One thing that is confusing is that on Labrador’s website there is a bio about the band and that one is penned by Magnus Sätterström. Is it the same Magnus as Magnus Lindroos? That confuses me. Who’d know. The bio doesn’t give us much details about the band. At some point the band had a website and a twitter.

One thing that I figured out is that the band’s name come from the 1994 PC game Little Big Adventure.

Now if it is the same Magnus Lindroos, which I am quite confused by now, I found a Soundcloud with a song called “Vill Du Hälsa På Mig?” from 6 years ago. Sounds nice! And from there we find a Soundcloud for Little Big Adventure!

The songs are as old as 10 years old, but there are more recent ones, the latest from 2 years ago. The songs we find here are: “Lazy Kind of Flirt”, “Moop”, “Lba-Wow”, “Woods”, “20 ft. Until Ground”, “Bureaucrat”, “No Love Or True Affection”, “I Remember Things”, “Olof Broström”, “The Standoff”, “Run and Hide”, “My Last Wurds”, “Friends Wiv Nazis”, “To Whom it may Concern”, “Young People”, “The Further Away the Better I Feel”, “Little Boat”, “Gutted Fish + Bonfire”, “Paleremix”, “Ben and Jerrys”, “Visitoldpeople”, “The Easiest Thing”, “Call of Heart (Tcentralen)”, “Don’t Hurt My Eye”, “Powerpoint” and “Kids”.

And that’s I guess the last music he has published. From the photos it seems he has a family now and perhaps left music a bit on the side. Totally understandable. Still would like to hear any anecdotes, anyone that remembers the band? Maybe they played live? Who remembers them?

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Listen
Little Big Adventure – Happiest Times