Day 69. Tired of wearing a mask. My glasses get foggy all the time. Yesterday went to the post office and was able to mail the orders from Spain, Germany and Japan that I couldn’t in the past. I have mailed everything now. Don’t owe any records. That feels good.
New music:
The Royal Landscaping Society: The Facebook page From a Social Distance has been putting together some videos of bands playing live from home. And that is really cool in these times of Covid-19. The latest one is by my talented friends from Seville. 15 minutes of pop perfection. Totally enjoyable. I really can’t wait to release them!
Daiistar: this one man project hails from Austin. I don’t know the name of the person behind it, but it looks like it is just the one telling from the photo on Bandcamp. He has just released a 3-song EP digitally, where the songs are burst of noisy/fuzzy wall of guitars. Nice!
Fryturama: this duo from Mexico formed by Fryda Magaña and Arturo Tranquilino have released a shoegazy EP called “El Mutante Más Lindo”. There are 6 songs of hazy shoegazy with female vocals. It is quite interesting, first time I hear a band from Mexico sounding like this. Are they from Mexico City? or where?
Anna’s Bones: from the town of Manningtree in the UK, comes this trio with what looks like their first song ever as a band! It is called “Sow” and was released on May 1st. The band is formed by Rebecca Simmonds (vocals), Aaron Munday (bass and synth) and Harry Dickens (guitar).
Stomp Talk Modstone: and our last stop in this tour will be Japan. This cool band formed by Takamitsu Kawashima, Naoki Nishino, Kouta Hoshino, Megumi Asai and Mimu Sano, have recorded two wonderful shoegaze/dreampop songs and are now on Bandcamp. They are “Fade Out” and “Untitled”, both very enjoyable! I need to check their back catalogue as they are new to me!
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“Skafferi”. It means pantry in Swedish. It is also the name of a compilation released in 1996 by Slask Records (GOSPEL! 3). If my memory serves me right, it was my friend Jörg Winzer who recommended me to get it, mostly because it had two songs by a band called Iller. Two songs sung in Swedish. Two superb songs.
The names of the songs by Iller are “Innan Jag Förstår” and “Om Fägerna Bleks Ur”. As far as I know these are the two only songs released by them. I am hoping of course that there are more recordings by them as I would love to hear them someday. Other bands in this compilation include Eden, Index and Polio. Each of them contributing two songs as well.
Of course for many the interesting part is that Iller features Per Idborg from Girlfrendo, and The Golden Boy (as well as the Kakofoni label), on vocals, guitar and bass. The other band member was Lars Mattsson on bass and tambourine. They got help from Carl-Magnus Mattsson on trumpet and Mathias Svenungson-Erestam on violin on both tracks.
It is also worth mentioning that this tape was curated by Stefan Zachrisson, who is well known by running the superb magazine Benno. He was then doing a fanzine called Gospel! and so together with Bo Stefan Lundquist who was running the label Slask, they put together this comp, named after a song by Webstrarna.
All the bands on the comp hailed from Gothenburg. Stefan wrote about this compilation and he gives us a few interesting facts about Iller. He mentions that before the compilation was put together the band had already put together demo tapes. What songs were on it? We don’t know. How many demo tapes? Don’t know. But they did get interviewed on a fanzine called “Nowhere”, on it’s sixth issue (winter 1994/spring 1995). This fanzine was made by the brothers Gelin.
Iller’s track “Innan Jag Förstår” got very good reviews on Pet Sounds and Twisterella. In Twisterella it says it should be considered a Swedish pop classic. I agree with Kristoffer Lecander, the reviewer.
Not much written about them on the web. Of course it would be great to find out if they played live or not. And most importantly find out about those demo tapes. If there are more songs. I would love to listen to them. Maybe there are enough for a compilation? Wouldn’t that be something?
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Listen
Iller – Innan Jag Förstår
