Skyphone - Avellaneda

Skyphone belong to a new generation of Danish musicians that also include bands like Under Byen and Efterklang. Musically it´s possible to place them somewhere between Efterklang, Sigur Ros and Swedish group Tape. In the Rune Grammofon catalogue Skyphone is probably closest in spirit and musical ideology to Svalastog and the more melodic sides of Alog.  ”Avellaneda” is their second album release, their debut ”Fabula” was released back in 2004 to great reviews. In their early thirties, Keld Dam Schmidt, Thomas Holst and Mads Bødker are childhood friends who grew up in the rainy marshlands of southern Jutland. Having played in various rock outfits during most of the nineties they slowly moved towards the electronica scene and the German dub scene before starting Skyphone in 1999 in the leftover room at a painters studio in Copenhagen. Since then they have steadily developed their own style, combinig traditional rock instruments with electronics; scratching and carefully damaging the surface of the digital sounds, creating melodic pop-songs-without-singing, leaving it to the listener to infer what the songs actually could have been and what is lurking virtually beneath the constrained, deliberately ambiguous surface of the song. With ”Avellaneda” they have further developed these ideas into a seamless blend of acoustic and electronic elements, rich in detail and sonic refinement, with the occasional touch of Scandinavian folk music providing a strong melodic base. The album title refers to Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda (a pseudonym) who wrote an unauthorized follow-up to Miguel de Cervante´s classic ”Don Quixote” in 1614. The band haven´t decided to what extent the amusing myths surrounding these books are relevant to the album...

Trackilsting:

Cloudpanic, All Is Wood, River Of Kings, Dream Tree Lemurs, World Station, Schweizerhalle, Quetzal Cubicle, One Step Closer To The Ground, Tweed / Puck´s Dye, Leafchisel, Yetispor

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