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1.Porn Sword Tobacco - New Exclusive Olympic Heights (CCO)
2.Move D - Workshop 02 (WORKSHOP)
3.Voltaic - Oxidize EP (Point One)
4.Burning Star Core - Amelia (No-Fi)
5.Lusine - Drip (Apparat Remix) (Ghostly)
6.Echospace - The Coldest Season Pt 1 (Modern Love)
7.STL - Qrz (Something)
8.Peverelist - The Grind EP (Punch Drunk)
9.Shed - Remixes In 4 Parts - Pt.3 (Soloaction)
10.Baby Ford & Zip - Glidin' Along The Riverbed (Perlon)
New review from the magazine WIRED
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New review from digitalisindustries
- For the new album -"New Exclusive Olympic Heights" is Henrik Jonsson's third release under his Porn Sword Tobacco moniker. Following his self-titled debut EP and "Explains Freedom" from 2005, this album presents an artist self-assured enough to make the best of his stylistic versatility that is so evident on "New Exclusive Heights".
Encompassing the piano-and-glockenspiel bliss of "Pappa! Min kärlek är gravid" as well as the uncharacteristically beat-driven "Cubical Fever", this album is easily Jonsson's most accessible output to date. Without sounding polished or formulaic, he has managed to bring his tracks more to the point. Porn Sword Tobacco's standout tracks have always tended to clock in at about a mere two minutes and on "New Exclusive Olympic Heights" Jonsson's ability to condense atmospheres, to charge 120 seconds without overcharging the track becomes more apparent than ever.
Recorded in the Swedish town of Koppom, which a quick google search reveals to be full of red log cabins, German tourists and the occasional elk, "New Exclusive Olympic Heights" counterbalances digital electronics with beautiful piano parts. Without, however, ever coming close to anything that might be called 'weird forest electronics'. Instead, a track like "En hyllning till cyckeln" is a marvellous example of those miniature piano pieces that we have come to love and expect from Porn Sword Tobacco - and from electronic music today.
Drifting between tongue-in-cheek IDM-leftovers ("Giftwrap yourself, slowly"), meticulously executed chamber music and epic, cinematic tracks that are characteristically short, Jonsson's latest release sits comfortably between Hauschka, Goldmund, Deaf Center and Machinefabriek. "New Exclusive Olympic Heights" might as well have been released on John Xela's Type imprint as it is slightly more atmospheric and texturized than your regular CCO release - a fact particularly evident in the album's final track, "Vingar av svärd", with its electronic drones, unpretentious but utterly beautiful piano parts and a hissing sound that could be everything from falling raindrops to your girlfriend taking a shower next doors to forgotten oil hissing in an old frying pan.
Beautiful as most of the tracks are, "New Exclusive Olympic Hights" somewhat lacks coherency as an album. That said, few artists in electronic music would be able to cover the same territory without losing quality or focus. 8/10 --
Jan-Arne Sohns (8 May, 2007)
Balladen om Fanny
- a swedish review -Någonstans mitt ute i de svenska skogarna finns en affär som bara säljer gamla porrfilmer, tobak, vapen och souvenirer. Hon som står bakom kassan heter Fanny. Fanny har egentligen inget med den här lilla skivan att göra. Inte affären heller.
Historien kommer däremot från Henrik Jonsson, mannen bakom Porn Sword Tobacco. Från en resa han gav sig ut på kort innan han spelade in skivan med samma namn.
Och jodå. Namnet är inspirerat av just den där butiken. Musik är musik, i sina bästa stunder fri från tids- eller rymdbundenhet. Med bara sig själv som ram. Men det är ändå lite värmande att höra talas om anekdoter som den om Fanny i anslutning till en skiva. En liten extra krydda som förvandlas till ett försiktigt leende.
Recensionen är hämtad från dagensskiva.com där du kan läsa artikeln i sin helhet.
Porn Sword Tobacco
- a german review -"Porn Sword Tobacco". Stünde anstelle von "tobacco" das Wörtchen "killing" oder auch "dragon" im Albumtitel, hätten wir die Scheibe ohne zu Zögern an unseren Elch-Experten Edele zur Rezension geschickt. Doch obwohl der Göteborger Musiker Henrik Jonsson aus eben jener Stadt kommt, die auch für melodischen Death Metal bekannt ist, hätte Meister Edele wohl wenig Freude an den kontemplativen, düster flirrenden Klangcollagen des Pornoschwert-Rauchers.
Gemeinsam mit ein paar Freunden frickelte Jonsson einen seelenvollen, komplett beatfreien Instrumental-Soundtrack zusammen, der recht gut die Umgebung beschreibt, in der er aufgenommen wurde: einem hundertjährigen Haus mitten im tiefsten, schwedischen Wald. Bandmaschinen schleifen monoton ("Wife Beater"), Sound-Gewitter poltern wie Hagelschläge über dem Hörer hernieder ("Jeff Bronx The Heavy Witter"), und ziellos tröpfelnde Piano-Sequenzen ("Evans Sundown Corp.") vermitteln eine Eiseskälte, wie sie auf Leinwand wohl nur ein David Lynch zu inszenieren weiß.
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