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WRDs Keep Yr Cracked Eyes Shut is a dystopian mirroring of the city and its restless and monotonous movement. Towards future or past, anything but the present.The goal is imprecise. Like flies drawn to a lamp, the city lights has pulled us in. Our vision is blurry. Wanting to find that something, drawing us closer. Moving in beat with the city, feeling unique, afraid to be seen. Looking for pieces of love.
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Aerodynamour is the debut release from London based Night Angles and it’s proudly presented by Force Majeure.
Hailing from London's suburban landscape, Night Angles was born out of a nostalgia for the future and the infinite potential of outer space, culminating in a sound distinctly rooted in dusty sonic history but with more than an eye looking forward. Indebted to works of cinema and photography Night Angles production is vivid in its mental imagery often employing simple sounds to epic effect.
Aerodynamour is an EP rooted firmly on the dance floor containing four filmic, space age, disco soundtracks
pulling influences from Bowie's Berlin years, Trax records of Chicago, Daft Punk, Larry Levan and Vangelis.
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Museum Of Bellas Artes released their now acclaimed ‘Who Do You Love’ quite a long time ago. It was very well received and got a lot of attention from all around, and people soon began to ask us who they were. We didn’t really tell you much about them then, so we thought we’d share some information now, in preparation for their next big release.
The Museum is not a ‘band’ that was formed, recorded a song, and got famous. It was more a process of Darwinian natural selection, survival of the fittest if you will. One of the members is from Force Majeure’s own Nhessingtons, one is the vocals of Nhessingtons own ‘You’re the Summer’, from Force Majeures first release, and one comes - perhaps unexpectedly - from a history of lo-fi; with her own project After-School Sports. It was the idea and notion that different backgrounds musically shouldn’t have to hinder people from coming together and making something great. And it’s great what the Museum is cooking.
Remaining relatively silent for a while, they are now ready to open the massive outer gates of the museum and let you into their backyard of wonders. What started off with a joint release in collaboration with the much acclaimed Transparent label (who released the first single ‘Watch The Glow’ on a nice 7’’ this October), we at Force follow that up with their brand new EP that consists of said ‘Watch The Glow’ as well as three never before heard songs. ‘Watch the Glow’ needs no further explanation, whereas the other song...
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Sweden has produced a lot of great music during the last decade. Pop-music, most notoriously, preferrably with a twist of something exotic, to take us away from gloom and harsh winters. But we're in a new decade now.
BANDJO debuted in 2008, contributing to the first compilation of "Force Majeure; Force Vol.1: Tunguska", making up the whole B-side of that album with the noisy instrumental ”Black Corner” and the harmonical ”Icon”. Next out was the single "Fátima" - recorded and produced in Gotland, Sweden, during the end of that same summer. Shut away in solitude the band was already moving away from the explosive disco inspired sound of the first release. If "Black corner" was raw power set free at the birth of the band, "Fatima" was BANDJO learning to speak. It blended down their world of odd sound into a structured pop song that has to be listened to over and over for to see all the pieces.
And now they return with their first full length album - like skipping a few steps on the evolutionary chain and starting to run with your first steps, to finish the metaphor.
BANDJO’s first album stretches out like a fan, with some parts shimmering intensely and others remaining calm and collected. Then with a swift stroke of the hand, the whole picture changes and a brand new soundscape emerges. Because of the larger format this time around, the songs have been allowed to transform into their fullest potential, covering not only your basic need for speed a...
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This will not be about natural disasters, climate catastrophe or even the faintest solar eclipse. This will be about an extraordinary sound from britain. Force Majeure proudly presents: Liquid Vega – Dead Sun.
Two dreamers, who tend to speak in colors rather than words, builds up a small universe of tender yet dark sounds, never too enthusiastic, never too gloomy. Their first release on Force Majeure is a dazzling piece of echoes, harmonies and thumping rhythms. Also included in the release is a semi-trance remix by FMʼs own Museum of Bellas Artes.
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Who do you love’ was originally released in 1964. The autumn of 2008 Museum of Bellas Artes recorded a new version of the song as a start on a music project which was meant as a pastime while Stockholm was empty because of friends living abroad, basically everywhere between Tokyo and Oslo. Things happened faster than expected and the first recording reached a smaller success before anyone had even left the country.
In spring the roles were changed, and after two thirds of the band was totally blown away while running around
in a 10 km dried-out river in Spain for three months, a few more songs were finally recorded.
Museum of Bellas Artes is located on the north shore of Túria, ‘El Río’, where orange trees share space with swan boats, palms and endless avenues. Force Majeure are happy and excited to begin a new series of digital releases starting this summer, and expect nothing less than to see your feet get carried away into the sunset to the purity of 'Who do you love'.
