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4 years ago

#sold out
#wixel
#april
#slaapliedjes
#awesome stupid projects

Slaapliedjes by Wixel (sold out)

Silly update: don’t e-mail for Slaapliedjes anymore, i can’t fulfill all the orders that i received up until now. Those who haven’t got an e-mail back, will get one on tomorrow or tuesday. First e-mailers always get served first. I’m sorry these things sell out so quickly. If I could make them as fast as I sell them, I would do another batch.. but it’s simply too time consuming. And obviously I refuse to make them more expensive to make it go slower. I’m still thinking of way to re-issue them in some form that would be convenient and honest to all. In the meanwhile feel free to grab a copy over at bandcamp and burn a cd yourself. Thanks a lot!

I can already say that May will be a recording of the songs wixel plays live at the moment, but that never have been properly recorded before. So it will probably be a little louder, a little more rocky, a little more postrock. At least i’m going to try and do that. :)

4 years ago

#2009
#april
#awesome stupid project
#download
#slaapliedjes
#slaapwel
#wixel

Slaapliedjes by Wixel (finished)

Music to fall asleep by has always been one of my favourite working areas. I’m intrigued by making music sounding timeless, soothing and disappearing. Slaapliedjes is my second experiment with sleeping music. 10 songs that are very different yet very similar (a bit like constellations or stars) and always very humble. The only thing they differ in is pace and density. It is entirely built with an electric guitar played slowly and randomly and a lovely tube amp. While the idea of that may not seem very interesting, you might be surprised by the outcome if you accept to listen to it while you’re going to bed, playing this record each evening repeatedly. Maybe you should think of this cd more as something you’d want to keep close to your toothbrush, favourite pillow and pajamas rather than your record collection.

Artwork was made by Jo again who did an amazing job sewing the blanket to the packaging.

wolf 359 / hat-p-9 / sher 25 / gliese 229 / wr 102ka / ae aquarii / lbv 1806-20 / r 126 / 6 lyncis / messier 40

Cd is limited to 30 copies. I still have a few left, but e-mail me to find out. It’s 12 euro shipping included. You can download it for free (or whatever you want to pay) at http://2009.bandcamp.com

…and now it’s onto may. It never stops. :)

4 years ago

#wixel
#2009
#awesome stupid project
#music
#april
#slaapliedjes
#listen

Wixel - Slaapliedjes (aka the april record)

It is ready! I’ll update this post later on with more relevant info. If you like what you hear, and you want to buy it, send me an e-mail..

4 years ago (2 notes)

#wixel
#april
#2009
#mp3
#music

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Probably a song on the forthcoming april album. You wouldn’t believe how representative it is. :) aka all songs sound about the same, like this one. But i’m not sure if i’m happy yet. It feels like i should be able to get a lot more out of the idea behind april. The thing i like about it, is that you can’t really tell the songs apart from eachother, they all blur into the same vagueness.. but they’re not the same at all. There is no repetition of structure, melodies or rhythm. It’s just blur. So it’s the most varied music but really similar at the same time. It’s thing i’m after with slaapwel records most of the time. (Letting go of worldly structures and thoughts, drifting off into the vagueness/nothingness/blankness). Like a stream that always sounds the same, though it never is the same. Maybe i’m getting too metaphysical. It’s what i like about morton feldman. He messes with your sense of time and space.

ps: now i think about it, this songs is actually the most structured of them all. the rule for this song was: 2 notes, random timing. repeat. layer. but it sounds more or less the same as the others.