Oh No Ono tour blog: week #1

Phew… We’re pretty much back to normal after the first week of our Danish tour. It’s actually been about 2 years since we had a Danish tour like the one we’ve just started, so we’ve been both nervous and exited about going on the road again.

We played 3 shows last week at Sonderborghus, Fermaten & Kulisselageret and we REALLY had fun. The crowds seemed really enthusiastic and they where a joy to connect with. The venues were just as cool to work with. You can see some mobile shots from the concerts on our flickr page.

All of us – the band, our crew and our better halves –  stayed at Aske’s family’s summer house in Jutland near the ocean and drove from there to the venues. It’s a perfect place to relax in between shows, we played a lot of Mikado and fried quite a few Eggs (!).

Well the weekend offered many fun things for us… An invite to an amusement park, a dance with the audience at Sonderborghus to mention only a few.

The only thing left to say is that we look forward to this week’s shows at Forbraendingen, Gimle and Templet. We have some cool support bands for you as well. They’re called Ice Age and Friska Viljor. Hope to see you there.

All the best from Oh No Ono.

October 6th, 2009 | One comment

2009 so far

This year is turning out to be real interesting. So far there’s been a lot of amazing albums coming out, and since today is the exact centre of 2009 I thought I might mention the records that have been the highpoints for me so far. Here goes:

Grizzly Bear / Veckatimest
Definately my favourite GB record so far. Wonderful structure, wonderful production, wonderful melodies and exceptional songwriting. At some points it really reminds me of some later Beach Boys records like “Friends” for instance.
Here’s the single and the accompagnying video; Two Weeks.
Patrick Daughters directed it and it looks swell.

Dirty Projectors / Bitte Orca
As a long time fan I’ve had great expectations for this release, so when the first single “Stillness Is The Move” hit the www I was kinda surprised, but luckily in the cool “wow” way. The album is reinventing Dirty Projectors, and to me it is still one of the freshest sounds I heard for a long time. Spanning from Nico-like folk to Mariah Carrey-like R’nB to local african pop the album takes you on a mindblowing adventure of sorts. Clearly their most accessible work, and my god it’s good.

Animal Collective / Merriweather Post Pavillon
I heard the first glimpses of their new songs at a show in Cph in early 2008 in the shape of the enthralling “Brother Sport”. I was immediately captivated by the straightforwardness of it and went around the streets for weeks singing “open up your, open up your, open up your throat”. My expectations rose when I heard the leak of “My Girls” and they were fulfilled when the record hit the street.
There’s a ton of good jams on it but since I’ve been rambling on about “Brother Sport” here’s what I heard:

Taking these releases into consideration 2009 is already shaping up to be one of the best years musically speaking. We can only hope for more.

- Nis

July 15th, 2009 | Leave a comment

Celebrating Germany

Since we’re playing the very cool Klangbad Festival in August I thought it would be fun to pay tribute to some great German bands.
So here’s some of my favorite German artists & songs for your listening pleasure:

- Kristoffer

July 10th, 2009 | Leave a comment

Thulebasen

Now we’ve had the pleasure of playing two gigs alongside the brilliantly talented Thulebasen, and I can only say that I am deeply impressed by their beautiful and ethereal music. They are truly amazing.
Here’s a vid for their song Yzx.

Looking forward to seeing them again this weekend in Aalborg.

Nis

May 18th, 2009 | Leave a comment

The Sonovox

Some of my dearest friends showed me THE STRANGE SOUNDS OF THE SONOVOX (invented in the mid-thirties)- a precurser to the vocoder…

it uses small speakers attached to the singer’s throat which is patched through music instruments. The singer is mouthing the words of a song, and by changing the shape of the mouth and position of the tongue, changing the sound of the instrument.

PLEASE ENJOY!

This performance is from a 1940 film called “You’ll Find Out”…

Love,
Aske

April 29th, 2009 | Leave a comment

Check this out!

Our brand new album-cover… mmm-mmmm-mmmmmm

Malene Mathiasson made the booklet- visit her: www.malenemathiasson.com

KISS & HUGS FROM A HAPPY BOY (Aske)

April 28th, 2009 | 2 comments

Spring Playlist

As mentioned elsewhere we put together a playlist/mixtape for the perfect spring day over at gaffa.dk. Since your not able to listen to it from their page I’m putting it up here, so here goes:

Ruby Suns / Kenya Dig It

Animal Collective / Who Could Win A Rabbit

Pink Floyd / Candy And A Currant Bun

White Noise / Love Without Sound
(is also posted below, but hey….c’mon)

Scott Walker / Boy Child

Have a good Sunday

- Nis

April 26th, 2009 | Leave a comment

Radiophonic Workshop

We’ve just had a couple of weeks in Berlin and, as always, we searched around for cool music. My friend Kristian told me about a cool thing which happened at the BBC in the late 50′s.. It was called the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and it’s purpoise was to make soundscapes for tv shows and radio. They also scored the music for Dr Who.
They where some of the first people to really adapt some of the experiments of musique concréte , like tape manipulation, into broadcast. I really like the sound of their machines. I feel like you can tell that a lot of effort was put into the sounds, and it’s safe to say that it took a really long time to develop these pieces. Today we’re blessed with samplers, but back then they had to cut their tapes themselves and somehow I think you can tell.

Well enough of me. Here’s the music:

Theme from Dr Who

White Noise / Love Without Sound
Which was a side project of some of the producers from the workshop. David Vorhaus, Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson

And last. Here’s Delia Derbyshire explaining a bit about how you manipulate tapes.

Cheers, Nis

April 5th, 2009 | Leave a comment
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