Small Things On Sunday - Recalling (Audio Gourmet, 2010)

1 Floating In Space (Pulse Mix) 06:33
2 I Know You (The Dinosaur's Calling) 04:25
3 The Crow Warns: You Should Not Be Here 04:58

...The Small Things On Sundays project is spearheaded by the Copenhagen based Henrik Bagner and Claus Poulsen.

This artist has several releases available, varying in style across each album and over several weeks, we've been in discussion about getting together an atmospheric ambient EP depicting the quintessential characteristics of this talented duo's work. Finally, here it is in all its glory: 'Recalling', three tracks of high quality otherworldly and cavernous ambient drones. This is a thoroughly atmospheric listen from start to finish and although it has the typical short timeframe that comes as standard with Audio Gourmet releases, this record seems to draw out time through this short duration.
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Some News From Small Things On Sunday & On The Wrong Planet

Nous avons déjà parlé des deux projets de Henrik Bagner, en solo sous le nom de On The Wrong Planet ou bien en duo, avec Claus Poulsen, sous celui de Small Things on Sunday, chacun sort un CDr sur Striate Cortex, jeune label mais au catalogue déjà prestigieux.... / We have already discussed from the two projects of Henrik Bagner, solo under the name On The Wrong Planet, or in duo with Claus Poulsen under the name Small Things on Sunday, each released a CDr on Striate Cortex a young label but with an already prestigious catalog .. ..

On The Wrong Planet - First Visit (Striate Cortex, 2010)
The only new name here is On The Wrong Planet, but its the solo project of Henrik Bagner of Small Things On Sunday. Eight pieces in just under one hour. Since there is no information we have to do some guessing here. I think there is fair amount of field recordings going on here, sound processing (laptops are assumed) and as for instruments… guitars maybe, some sound effects. The outcome is along the lines of experimental side of ambient and drone music. I think some of these tracks are a bit long for what they are. No doubt they are set out to create ‘hypnosis’ or ‘trance’, but there is not always the right amount of variation in these pieces. The shorter are the best ones in this lot, with the haunting ‘You Can’t Break Me’ as the outstanding piece and the longest, ‘Revisit’, being the weakest link. Overall I thought this wasn’t bad, but it needed some more shaping. Edit down the best bits a bit more and the cosmic nightmare will fully take shape.
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After dunking my head in the lavatory of a recent CD-r batch, it looks very much like dark ambient styled music is too hit-and-miss a genre to ever provide a good run of really strong full album releases. The palette is so narrow that it’s instantly, and always, straining at the seams of cliché the very minute it begins to spin. Too often it lapses into shadowy safe territory, and then just refuses to budge. Thankfully the Copenhagen based duo of Small Things On Sundays aren’t shackled by the postures inherent in the genre tag, though they share the same cloakroom.

Things begin absolutely outstandingly with the opening “Powerstation”, a drag of five minute moody stasis that confronts the clock – intimidating time to stand still. The next two tracks summon up remembrances of moody, early Warp, The Caretaker, apple-cored-out brass instruments and the shudder of reality just beyond the listener’s fingertips. The mid album blip of “Cavernous” shows how easy it is to slip over the line into ho-hum, being as it is a piece of overlong, incoming mild fog tipped over into boring horrorshow drones. The final two tracks, a couple of very interesting moment dappled slabs, definitely show that Small Things On Sundays are up on the plinth, while the rest of the crowd are cackling around the burning dumpsters of dark ambient drone.
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Small Things on Sundays - Transformation/Decay (Menthe de Chat, 2010)

Henrik, un bon ami de ce blog, publie en ce début d'année deux albums du duo qu'il forme avec Claus Poulsen sous le nom de Small Things On Sunday / Henrik, a good friend of this blog, publishes two albums from the duo he forms with Claus, Small Things On Sunday....

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Small Things On Sundays – 4 AM (Moving Furniture Records, 2010)

4 AM is an album with dark structures created with guitar and vinyl. Music for the moment human activities are at a minimum. Dark droning ambient music.

Read what the duo has to say about their album:
“4 AM” is the first full-length release from the danish duo Small Thing on Sundays.

The members’ interest for music and vinyl records led to the formation in 2005, starting with free improvisations with electronic treatments of vinyl records in any tempo. Since then, Small Things on Sundays has refined their signature sounds, and added more sound sources. The duo works with different stylistic challenges in periods of time. Prior to Small Things on Sundays, both members have made music in various constellations – Henrik Bagner played in a free-structure noice-guitar band in the 90-es, which unfortunately never left the rehearsal space, and Claus Poulsen has been playing since his childhood in various bands, the best known is the noise-ensemble Alarm112.
“4 AM” came from a string of sessions using vinyl records at very slow speeds and detuned guitars played with a violin bow. This produced a string of organic, multilayered dark ambient tracks. On muliple playbacks, the listener will dig deeper into the layers of the music, exposing new details.
The title refers to the blurred line between night and day. Did you suddenly wake up or are you still in a dream? Perhaps the sounds will take you to a place of daydreaming. A movie soundtrack for your own inner film.
An other reference to the title is, that this is the hour of the day, where human activities are at a minimum. Surroundings are cast in darkness, but where will be a residue from human-made sources or the faint light from nature. And if you look up you will see a starlit sky or the white smoke from the nearby power plant. So perhaps we are romantic realists?

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