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  • Three Easy Pieces

    ASCUDRE01

    Artist: Son of Clay

    Label: Komplott

    All tracks were written, recorded and produced by Andreas Bertilsson in Berlin between 2002-2003. These tracks are selected from a bunch of leftovers that were not included on any release. However, in our opinion they deserve a second chance. "Thyme, Hyssop, Thrift and Box", from 2002, were composed during my work with Face Takes Shape. It was originally supposed to serve as a bridge between "Two Polar Sleds" and "For Astrid" but was edited out. "We don't interpret (We Analyze)" and "Western Civilization Died Within Me" were composed at the very early stages of "The Bird You Never Were". The album later evolved dramatically in other directions and the tracks ended up on backup CDs.

  • Two Abstract Paintings

    MITEK20

    Artist: Son of Clay

    Label: Mitek

    Two Abstract Paintings is the third full-length album by Son Of Clay (Andreas Bertilsson). The album consists of a 46 minute piece divided into two parts. The piece is a poetic soundscape, carefully constructed of microscopic pieces, made up almost entirely of the recorded sounds of things like dry leaves, bits of wood, paper and dust -- things that can hardly even be called things, mere particles of matter, most of them on the verge of falling apart. Bertilsson turns matter into material, treating each of his recordings with utmost care and minutely crafting them into a vibrant mesh, a still life that is by no means still, an anthology of very small things that is alive with crackling, sparkling, shimmering beauty.

  • The Bird You Never Were

    ESCUDRE04

    Artist: Son of Clay

    Label: Komplott

    " Before you play two notes learn how to play one note - and don't play one note unless you've got a reason to play it. " - Mark Hollis (1998)

    It's been nearly two years since Komplott released the higly acclaimed debut album from Son of Clay, "Face Takes Shape" and it's with great pleasure that we now present the follow up. With "The Bird You Never Were" Andreas Bertilsson refines the fusion between acoustic sounds, field-recordings and digitally processed material introduced on the debut album. The result is a transparent and poetic work where the sound and the timing itself is everything. Behind every manoeuvre there is a decision.

    In Bertilsson's musical works we find contrasts between the digital and the analogue, between nature and urban life and between chance and structure. The first track on the album is more closely linked to the debut album with its intense atmosphere, while the following tracks are more freeform and present a more elaborate use of wood- and metal sounds and processed instruments like the guitar and the clarinet. Lingering and tentative tones mixed with swift attacks of sound unite, form a structure and then deconstruct to start all over again. The seemingly simple grows into complex musical compositions full of detail, of precise and restrained intensity where silence form a balance between disturbances and tranquillity, the surreal and the ordinary.

    The music of "The Bird You Never Were" is, despite its abstractedness, bare, personal ...

  • Face Takes Shape

    ESCUDRE02

    Artist: Son of Clay

    Label: Komplott

    Face takes Shape is the title of this exceptional soundexperiment from Swedish newcomer Son of Clay. All 11 tracks on his highly personal first album is composed solely of samples retrieved from his apartment, the stairwell, the balcony etc. All those simple sounds of everyday life - reshaped, deconstructed and reassembled, often distorted beyond recognition - make out the elements which have been put together to form complete entities of sound. Those noises of everyday life - the buzzing, the humming, squeak, creak, rasping and clinking - work together to create strange and mystical melodies and progressive rhythms.