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Uneasy Listening EP

by Electrond

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Apogee 02:41
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2.
Stretch 03:31
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3.
Elp & Sam 03:01
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Cicada 03:42
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Marpi 04:55
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Impossible Kalandra 03:08
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Git 02:59
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Polyflex 03:36
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On this album the cult musician merges analogue and digital synths and electronics, sample instruments made from everyday sounds, field recordings and circuit bent instruments, and creates music with aspects of dark ambient, a hint of psychedelia and prog, stirred with a little new age, resulting in something strange, and at times refreshingly uncategorizable.
The EP consists of eight short songs that show a different side of Electrond. The music is instrumental and not intensely rhythm driven, and when drums and percussion appear, it’s mainly the fragile, unstable, and unpredictable rhythms of the Bastl Kastle Drum and a circuit bent Roland drum machine.

This is not a departure from the usual hectic and multifaceted progtronica, rather more of a sidestep. Electrond comments: “It’s something that I’d been thinking about for a while, and this is a sidestep to darker, more downbeat musical landscapes that mixes many of my earliest electronic musical influences, like for instance Cluster, Conrad Schnitzler, Vangelis, John Foxx, Harmonia, Brian Eno and Ashra/Manuel Göttsching. Their use of repetition, minimalism, simple melodies, sampling, and drones have always inspired me, and I wanted to create music that was merging these influences with my interest in field recording and making sample instruments of everyday sounds”.
This album was recorded mainly using pocket-sized synths, samplers, and drum machines. Electrond explains: “I am living in an apartment with a small bedroom studio, and if I need to record synths and drum machines, I usually must bring them out of the cupboard and rig them up, something that takes time and may disrupts the workflow. For this EP I focused on a few key pieces of small synths, drum machines, samplers, and drone boxes that I can easily reach and record, and I decided to explore them fully. I supplemented these small boxes with a few Ableton devices and a Chase Bliss Mood micro looper''.

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released November 15, 2022

Written, arranged, performed, and produced by Electrond at Oscillator Studios, Oslo, September–October 2022

Cover by Thomas Meidell

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Electrond Oslo, Norway

Electrond plays epic electro-prog and is the solo project of Trond Gjellum, drummer of the Norwegian progressive rock bands Panzerpappa and Suburban Savages. As Electrond he fuses progressive rock and electronica, and his sources of inspiration range wide, and he is inspired by artists like Tangerine Dream, John Carpenter, Goblin, Kraftwerk, Front 242, Disasterpeace, King Crimson. ... more

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