Skjølbrot / Maersk
Album: Maersk   Collection:General
Artist:Skjølbrot   Added:Dec 2011
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-01-19 Pull Date: 2013-03-24 Charts: Classical/Experimental
Week Ending: Mar 24 Feb 10 Feb 3 Jan 27
Airplays: 1 2 2 4

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 25, 2016: The Offbeat Generation
I Am Better Now
4. Feb 07, 2013: minimum entropy ii
Migrated
2. Mar 21, 2013: minimum entropy ii
Migrated
5. Feb 02, 2013: Everything 2.0
Rue Victor Masse To Gare D'austerlitz
3. Feb 07, 2013: The Sunset Life
I Am Better Now
6. Jan 30, 2013: minimum entropy
Ballad Of Windfarming

Album Review
Caleb Rau
Reviewed 2013-01-11
Artist: Skjølbrot
Album: Maersk
Label: Dan Bennett

Skjølbrot’s experimental ambient music incorporates on-location recordings of train stations, supermarket refrigerators and demolition crews (to name a few) with slow droning piano and strings. The result is dark and cinematic – and would serve magnificently as a horror movie score. Anxiety, paranoia and death. Instrumental (No FCCs).

1.(4:22): Dissonant piano chords over train-station droning and metallic string noodling. Tense and distorted.
2.(7:22): Distant reverberating bird songs and wind chimes with a deep, decayed bass. Makes your stomach drop.
3.(2:26): A ghostly choir with departing sighs/breathing and clipping wind. Beautifully sad.
4.(6:23): Machine feedback, intense piano and metal clanging. Like walking through a foggy, abandoned shipyard at midnight.
5.(4:54): Long, resonant strings, static and radio voices. Post-apocalyptic feel.
6.(8:27): Refrigeration, compressed air, and effected voices. Sigur Rós sound, but darker.
7.(4:51): Storm of distortion and dissonant tones. Noise.

Track Listing
1. Rue Victor Masse To Gare D'austerlitz   4. Shipbreaking
2. Migrated   5. Idel Fleet
3. I Am Better Now   6. Ballad Of Windfarming
  7. Emma