1.0 rich SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com 400 100% "Sleepless Six" by Nordvest PRE-ORDER: Europe - http://suction-eu.shop/products/nordvest-grondal North America - http://suction.shop/products/nordvest-grondal Artist: Nordvest Title: Grøndal Label / CAT#: Suction Records / suction051 Format: Vinyl LP / digital Release date: July 3, 2020 Suction Records welcomes Roger Semsroth back to the label - having previously released 2 full-length albums with us under his retired electro-pop alias, Skanfrom. “Grøndal” (suction051) is the debut vinyl release under a new alias, Nordvest. These days, Semsroth is best-known for his stark and minimalist techno project, Sleeparchive. The material on Grøndal - icy, melodic, and mostly beatless - is comprised of tracks that were originally released digitally as Sleeparchive, via Bandcamp. The releases were met with general disinterest from Sleeparchive fans, prompting Semsroth to re-brand them as Nordvest, before removing them from Bandcamp altogether. We’ve chosen 11 highlights from 3 of those digital albums, “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets”, “Scribbles”, and “Sleepless”, for a cohesive 11-track LP of austere, synthetic ambience. Think Tangerine Dream as reinterpreted by Incunabula-era Autechre, and you might be getting somewhere close. While “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Seven” recalls Sleeparchive, and “Sleepless Six” could very well be a lost Skanfrom track, the rest of the LP clearly warrants a new alias - Nordvest is a new side of Semsroth that we haven’t heard before. https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-zvrpa66fVKoysN8Q-Azw6Cg-t500x500.jpg <![CDATA[<iframe width="100%" height="400" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F840873886&show_artwork=true"></iframe>]]> Suction Records https://soundcloud.com/suction-records