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STILLUPPSTEYPA - Beach Jolanda

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Ultra Eczema Release Year: 2018 Note: after more than a decade Icelands STILLUPPSTEYPA is back with a full album working as a DUO again, with 12 tracks recorded at various locations from 2006-2017 and diverse guest musicians involved (as BJ NILSEN or OREN AMBARCHI), showing them at their most curious => "That is the music that deals with organ sounds, rhythm machines, exotic lounge music but then totally torn apart...There is a lot to smile about with this record." lim. 400, full-colour sleeve and insert Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.50 More Info “It’s taken 14 years for these extravagant Icelandic artist troubadours to follow up their last (untitled) album. (At least they managed to give this one a name ; imagine what else they’d be capable of if we’d waited another five years.) Beach Jolanda transposes their classic calipso – beach – bar – laptop – organ gibberish to the unmanned terrain of public lavatories in the dead of night. But it wouldn’t be a party without guests: BJ Nilsen, Oren Ambarchi, Porsteinn Eyfjörd, Gerard Herman and Kristin Anna all turn up here, wielding bottles and other unlikely instruments. Limited edition of 400 copies, full-colour sleeve and insert." [label info] "Despite the years on on-going collaborations between Stilluppsteypa and BJ Nilsen it has been some fourteen years since we last heard something by Stilluppsteypa as a duo. That last release might have been their eponymous CD for Atak, reviewed in Vital Weekly 452. In the decade before that, the trio (up to 2002, then a duo) released a whole bunch of records, starting as a punk band and then all electronic, moving from Iceland to The Netherlands, playing many concerts, armed with the then popular laptop under their arms. Their music being abstract, electronic, glitch, dwelling on quite a bit of sampling and plundering; in a short a wild bunch of interests. As BJ Nilsen and Stilluppsteypa they were mostly involved in producing drone-based records, so it's interesting to see where they are now. There are some guest musicians involved (BJNilsen, Oren Ambarchi, Þorsteinn Eyfjörð, Gerard Herman and Kristín Anna). Somehow, so it seems to me, Stilluppsteypa moves back to an earlier version of them and expand on themes they work with back then. That is the music that deals with organ sounds, rhythm machines, exotic lounge music but then totally torn apart. Still working with a lot of laptop technology has moved that sound forward and made it even wackier than before. On the B-side the guitar of Oren Ambarchi sustains in a fine prog-rock fashion along with some fake pompous organ chords (think Keith Emerson either drunk or deaf). This is some lovely stuff. It's all recorded quite loud, which is a pity as it takes away a bit of the detail, I think, but it's two sides of lovely, funny stuff, with some great titles ('Dusty Hofmann LSD', 'Boney Nilson' or 'San Dali'). There is a lot to smile about with this record. If this is going to be a comeback album I would certainly a lot more of these will follow. The world can do with a smile! (FdW/Vital Weekly) https://ultraeczema.bandcamp.com/