Elektronavn / Sacred Songbook /albums:
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Audiography
Letters From Emptiness, CD/LP/Download Empty Sounds Rec. 2010
Rationale Mystique // Audelà l'inconnu, 2CD Empty Sounds Rec. 2009
Quantum Vacuum, CD Humbug June 2009
Blind Turtle Analogy, cdr Rural Faune february 2009
Cosmic Continuum, cd Ikuisuus february 2008
Uton/Elektronavn collaborationtracks on; Uton: Radio Olio metaphysica, cdr Om ha sva ha ksha ma la va ra yam recordings 2008
Black Zurnai, casette Not Not Fun October 2007
Wailing Bones, compilation cdr vol 13 on Digitalis nov 2007
Songs of Impermanence cdr Ikuisuus July 2007
Cosmic Depth/ A sense of coherence 7" BSBTA vinyl 2007
Audelà l'inconnu (vertical)/For Theo Ang... cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 05/2007
Audeà l'inconnu (horisontal) cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 2005/007
A l'inexistant centre d'un espace sans forme cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 2005/2007
Rationale Mystique cdr Empty Sounds Rec. 2004/2007
I-IV, VII cdr Empty Sounds Rec 2004/2007
Albums available through distros, labels or please just contact Elektronavn or Empty Sounds Rec. (distro)
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Out Now 2010:
Elektronavn Sacred Songbook: Letters from Emptiness
CD/LP/Download march 23rd 2010 [Empty Sounds Rec.]
Timeless texts confronted with 21th century hybrid soundscapes.
“And if ever I may be having prophecy
and I should know the mysteries and all the knowledge
if ever I may be having all the faith
Nothing I am” (from: Corinthians 13 & 14)
Tracks on the album:
#1 Her departing Sighs 3:52 [MP3 Frag.]
#2 Blind making Sounds 6:02 [MP3 Frag.]
#3 Speaking of The Angels’ Love 2:50 [MP3 Frag.]
#4 Long Road 3:35 [MP3 Frag.]
#5 Plum Blossom 3:44 [MP3 Frag.]
#6 A Prisoner in a Stonehut 2:51 [MP3 Frag.]
#7 Another’s Fact or Hope 4:14 [MP3 Frag.]
#8 Det er Hvidt herude 6:02 [MP3 Frag.]
#9 As a Ground of Being 4:05
t.t. 37:18
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Out Now 2009:
Rationale Mystique // Audelà l'inconnu ------> 2CD September 2009 [Empty Sounds Rec.]
2CD in nice textured ecopaper 6 panel digifile with art booklet.
2CD Buy it here:
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Quantum Vacuum [Humbug]
Elektronavn: Quantum Vacuum - CD (Humbug, may 2009)
#1 Humanity is just a grain of sand on this vast cosmic beach [12:55] Mp3 frag HERE
#2 Daf Trance Area [13:21] Mp3 frag HERE
#3 Ground Mist [01:49]
#4 Ecstatic Ghosts Suite [22:40] Mp3 frag HERE
Total time [50:52]
All music recorded, played, composed and produced by Magnus Olsen Majmon 2007/2008.
Order it via Empty Sounds Rec. (distro) or Humbug from June 2009
"New long-awaited release by Danish gentleman Magnus Olsen Majmon's ELEKTRONAVN. It is called "Quantum Vacuum", and like its predecessor "Cosmic Continuum" on the Finnish Ikuiisus label, sees Magnus plunge headfirst into some seriously disorienting and achingly beautiful, slug-like tonefloat. Very nice... Magnus has a unique approach which applies a human depth as well as a metaphysical longing for the outer 'dark'. His compositions gently flutter across a broad canvas on which he smears anything from fragile invocations for gently plucked guitar and bamboo flute, incidental environmental sounds, to awkward tape-work and stately kitchen-sink ragas. " - humbug
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Blind Turtle Analogy [Rural Faune]
ELEKTRONAVN: Blind Turtle Analogy - Cdr (Rural Faune, 2009)
#1 Blind Turtle Analogy [09:49] Mp3 frag HERE
#2 Echinacea Purpurea [11:13] Mp3 frag HERE
#3 Chant of Spiral Continuum [06:26] Mp3 frag HERE
#4 Rebirth / A Thousand Lives [15:56] Mp3 frag HERE
Total time [43:30]
All music composed, played and produced by Magnus Olsen Majmon 2007/ Instruments such as violin, cello, voice, kyotaku, mandolin, field-recordings, gongs, computer-manipulations, bells and more.
app 80 copies/ buy it via Rural Faune or via Empty Sounds Rec. (distro)
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Out Now 2008:
Cosmic Continuum [Ikuisuus]
ELEKTRONAVN: Cosmic Continuum - CD (Ikuisuus, 2008)
1. Cosmic Continuum I [18:46]
2. Cosmic Continuum II [19:24]
Elektronavn AKA Magnus Olsen Majmon is a Danish sound sculptor that shapes a claustrophobic, almost physical experience with haunting drones constructed from an arsenal of instruments such as clarinet, distorted voice, guitar, organ, flute, gong, harp, field recordings and percussion.
The music is pretty much impossible to lump into any particular genre but there is a significant folk vibe that runs through a lot of the music, even the more experimental and psychedelic parts. This might have something to do with the ample use of exotic instrumentation, but the end result goes far beyond folk music, providing an abstract gateway of overtones that are bent beyond the world of imagination to a spiritual figure, greater than you and me.
BUY it via Ikuisuus or Empty Sounds Rec. (distro)
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Uton: Radio Olio Metaphysica [2cdr on Om ha sva ha ....]
Elektronavn has two collaborationtracks on the second cdr....buy it here
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Out Now 2007:
Wailing bones vol 13 ( compilation cdr with a.o. elektronavn on digitalis)
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Black Zurnai [Casette on Not Not Fun]
NNF093—CS ($4)
"In Pink Luminous Invocation, Magnus Olsen Majmon works the fog machine, emitting sensory deprivation clouds of holistic brain smoke. But in his solo universe as Elektronavn, his duties run darker and deeper. Black Zurnai showcases a recent pair of summer collage-composition offerings from his Danish pedal factory, and they both traverse strange terrains of chain-shaking hymnals, enchanted echo attic exploring, and timeless vocal phantasmagoria. Personal, parallel odysseys into devotion and repetition. A forthcoming Qbico LP will only heighten the post-hypnotic haze. In hand-sewn cloth cases entwined with purple mesh and gold beads. Limited to 99."
Sold out from Not Not Fun but available from several distros like fusetron (us), bisaufsmesser (eu), Ikuisuus (eu), empty sounds rec. (Distro).
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Songs of Impermanence [Ikuisuus]
Listen: Loss. Grief. Perishableness [frag] Impermanence. Emptiness [frag]
Cdr 2007. Two tracks [ t.t. 32:54]
#1 Loss. Grief. Perishableness [18:31] #2 Impermanence. Emptiness [14:19]
Vocal, clarinet, zurna, violin, (bowed) guitar, bells, organ, bansuri flute, bass drum, feng gong, field recordings, blues harp and more. Songs on a.o. love, grief and impermanence mixed into a complex soundscape.
First issued by Empty Sounds Rec. Reissued by Ikuisuus summer 2007. Buy it from ao. Ikuissus (eu) or mimaroglumusic-sales (us)
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Cosmic Depth/A Sense of Coherence [BSBTA-vinyl]
Listen: cosmic depth/ A sense... [frag]
A split 7" vinyl with Exquisite Russian Brides and Elektronavn. Heavy drone mystique made of a.o. zurna! Out for sale from medio March 2007 through BSBTA
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2007/2005 (re-issues)
Audelà l'inconnu (vertical)/For Theo Angelopoulos [Empty Sounds Rec.]
Cdr re-issue 2007. Two tracks. [ t.t. 29:45 min]
Re. Audelà l'inconnu (vertical): A classical soprano (Trine Vestergaard), a medieval hurdy-gurdy player (Søren Hammerlund) and an impro-guitarist (Stephan Sieben) were - one by one - asked to improvise in a long tunnel under some railwaytracks in the southwestern part of Copenhagen. Elektronavn/ M.O.M recorded it, computerized it and composed a work were each part/layer is presented horisontally [ESR 006] and later on this work where the parts have been mixed to a hybrid vertical collage track. [15:30 min]
Re. For Theo Angelopoulos: This work has earlier been released as 'forme' but has now been given a new name corresponding more to its sounding allusions. [14:15 min]
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Audelà l'inconnu (horisontal) [Empty Sounds Rec.]
Cdr re-issue 2007. One track. [t.t.34:52]
A classical soprano (Trine Vestergaard), a medieval hurdy-gurdy player (Søren Hammerlund) and an impro-guitarist (Stephan Sieben) were - one by one - asked to improvise in a long tunnel under some railwaytracks in the southwestern part of Copenhagen. Elektronavn / M.O.M recorded it, computerized it and composed this work were each part/layer is presented horisontally.
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A l'inexistant centre d'un espace sans forme [Empty Sounds Rec.]
Cdr re-issue 2007. 4th ed. of 'A l'inexistant....' with four tracks.
Listen: A l'inexistant Centre D'un espace
A l'inexistant, Centre, D'un espace, Sans forme [t.t. 27:55min]
An album showing Elektronavns thinking of explicit hybrid music. Scapes and samples from different soundcultures are created and mixed together with a explicit pluralistic approach.
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2005
A l'inexistant centre d'un espace sans forme/Audelà l'inconnu
Hybrid music
Listen and about: Look above (releases 2007)
The double cdr-release (2nd and 3rd ed.(extra track on cd2)) in dvd-case is sold out. Will be re-released as three seperate cdr-releases very soon.
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The first ed. with 2 cdr's in a book-version with transparent pictures inside is sold out. [ESR 003]
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2004
Rationale Mystique [Empty Sounds Rec.]
Field-recordings transformed to obscure mystique soundsscapes.
Five track cdr.
#1, #2, #3, #4, #5 [t.t.33:39]
Field-recordings transformed to obscure mystique soundsscapes. Mind-labyrinths in sound. Audio-rooms and collages of blurred memories.
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I-VI, VII [Empty Sounds rec.]
hybrid electroclash disorder
Listen: I /Ebirth II/Udoage III/UNconsciousE
Five track cdr. cover-design in cardboard still available. Though another front than above.
I, II, III, IV, VII [t.t. 21.27 min]
This album is Elektronavns debutalbum. It mixes hybrid electroclash disorder scapes with nostalgia moods and strange voices and samples. All in all a dadaistic-like collage-album with noises, sentimentals and cut-ups.
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