Small Things On Sundays

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4...according to our Phil on Thu 20 May, 2010.

The band name is appealing to me. I often feel like a small thing on a sunday after a week here. I don't know who this is or anything about it indeed but what I do know is that it's limited to 100 copies on the Striate Cortex label (who specialise in Bjerga Iversen releases) and it's packaged in an an oversized DVD-style case. The music is alien soundscapes of an ambient variety. It veers in between light and dark.... strangely enjoyable considering the day I've had, my head is mashed. Weirdly soothing. That's as much as I can presently muster.

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”More” is the follow-up to ”4 AM” which was released January 2010. Small Things on Sundays continue to explore sounds between dark ambient and drone. This time the duo digs deeper into the darkness with more industrial and powerful sounds.

”More” is a journey into apparently desolate sites or constructions devoid of human activity. The music is a sonic interpretation of these places. It could be the vibrations of machines in empty buildings or the distant waves crashing in on the shoreline. It could be the wind audible in an old factory vent or the hissing sound underneath the car-tires on a rainy motorway, its still hard to tell which is the original source.

If you should draw a parrallel to film-making, Tarkovsky would be obvious as an inspiration. The desolate passages and slow panning by the camera in long sequenses with no obvious story seems comparable to what we try to achive.

On ”More”, Small Things on Sundays continue to use vinyl samples, destroyed guitars and other sound sources,........ distorted, re-sampled and mutated, again and again, until a new expression is obtained.

Small things on Sundays was formed in 2005 in Copenhagen by Claus Poulsen and Henrik Bagner. This release is based on a string of studio improvisations using laptop, guitar, turntables, found sounds, and other electronic devises. At this moment there seems to be dark ambient/drone-side and a more anachistic noise side to the project.

tracks:

1.      Powerstation

2.      Pioneers

3.      Bark beatles

4.      Cavernous

5.      Hull

6.      From a distance

Produced by Henrik Bagner and Claus Poulsen

Mastered by Claus Poulsen

Cover by Artwerk

www.smallthingsonsundays.dk

© 2010

5...according to andy robinson .

After dunking my head in the lavatory of a recent CD-r batch, it looks very much like dark ambient styled music is too hit-and-miss a genre to ever provide a good run of really strong full album releases. The palette is so narrow that it’s instantly, and always, straining at the seams of cliché the very minute it begins to spin. Too often it lapses into shadowy safe territory, and then just refuses to budge. Thankfully the Copenhagen based duo of Small Things On Sundays aren’t shackled by the postures inherent in the genre tag, though they share the same cloakroom.

Things begin absolutely outstandingly with the opening “Powerstation”, a drag of five minute moody stasis that confronts the clock – intimidating time to stand still. The next two tracks summon up remembrances of moody, early Warp, The Caretaker, apple-cored-out brass instruments and the shudder of reality just beyond the listener’s fingertips. The mid album blip of “Cavernous” shows how easy it is to slip over the line into ho-hum, being as it is a piece of overlong, incoming mild fog tipped over into boring horrorshow drones. The final two tracks, a couple of very interesting moment dappled slabs, definitely show that Small Things On Sundays are up on the plinth, while the rest of the crowd are cackling around the burning dumpsters of dark ambient drone.
8/10 -- Scott McKeating (9 June, 2010) ~ Foxy Digitalis

http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=5626

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