We told you about it in an earlier blog post that gogoyoko has partnered with Northern Wave Film Festival in nominating the best Icelandic Music Videos of 2011. All in all, gogoyoko nominated 20 music videos and starting today we will post one video a day for the next 20 days.
The first nomination we like to tell you about is for the song Slow Lights by Sin Fang. The video was directed by Máni M. Sigfússon.
For the second year in a row, the organizers of the Northern Wave Film Festival have asked gogoyoko to nominate the best Icelandic music video of the year. Last year saw Berndsen’s Young Boy take the price, directed by Helgi Jóhannsson. Heading the panel last year was none other than french director Romain Gavras, best known for his music video work for M.I.A and Justice.
Starting today, we will post one nominated music video here on the blog.
Minnesota rock quartet Howler have been at the receiving end of a wave of support lately, with bloggers competing to dub them as the saviors of good old fashion chord-based rock’n'roll. It’s understandable that people take notice when Rough Trade’s Geoff Travis signs a relatively new band (Howler was formed in 2010) when he was the guy who broke The Strokes 10 years ago.
Glitterhouse Records is the label of the week and it is one of Germany’s longest running independent labels.
Glitterhouse Records maintains a strong reputation by releasing diverse artists like Tamikrest, Sixteen Horsepower, Wovenhand, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (featuring Nick Cave, Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan, Isobel Campell, Mick Harvey etc.) , Dirtmusic, The Walkabouts and many more.
Icelandic singer-songwriter Snorri Helgason just premiered a new video on KEXP.ORG yesterday. The video is a for Mockingbird from his Sindri Már Sigfússon-produced sophomore album Winter Sun and it was directed by Elisa Vendramin from Italy.
France’s Maison Neuve have made a cohesive and grand sounding album that recalls a image of a naive version of Velvet Underground or Red House Painters.
Probably one of UK’s most out there math-rock outfits is Brighton’s I’m Being Good. The band’s history goes back to the beginning of the 1990s and initially started out as a bedroom project of guitarist/singer Andrew Clare. The band has five albums, a compilation, 7 inches and loads of free form digital releases up their sleeves and mostly released on Andrew’s label Infinite Chug but they’ve also released for labels like Kill Rock Stars, Jonson Family, Ché and their latest album, Mountain Language, was released by Nottingham’s indie label Gringo Records.
A mesmerizing mixture of chilled out trip-hop beats, clarinet and haunting female vocals reminiscent of Fever Ray at times.
One of Canada’s most favored and rooted experimental guitar players and songwriters, Eric Chenaux, is releasing a new album on Constellation Records. The album is abruptly titled Guitar & Voice and it’s his fourth release for the label and it features the song below. The release date is March 6th.
The Berlin-based mystery man o F F Love released Let Us Know A Secret exclusively on gogoyoko last year and he now has a new video for the track Be Around You.
o F F Love is going on a European tour with Chairlift and it’s starting in Stockholm on February 14th.
Feb 14 Stockholm, Sweden — Debaser
Feb 15 Gothenburg, Sweden — Parken
Feb 16 Aarhus, Denmark — Voxhall
Feb 17 Copenhagen, Denmark — Vega
Feb 19 Utrecht, Holland — Tivoli
Feb 21 Gent, Belgium — Charlatan
Feb 23 Hamburg, Germany — Knust
Feb 24 Berlin, Germany — Gretchen
Feb 25 Munich, Germany — Atomic Cafe
Feb 26 Zurich, Switzerland — Abart
Feb 28 Strasbourg, France — La Laiterie
Feb 29 Paris, France — La Maroquinerie
Mar 2 Rennes, France — Ubu Club
Mar 3 Tourcoing, France — Le Gd Mix
Mar 4 Brussels, Belgium — Botanique Rotunde
Mar 5 Amsterdam, Holland — Bitterzoet
Mar 6 London, UK — Borderline
