Penpals Forever (& Ever)
Svarte Greiner
| Available Formats | No. of Tracks | Price | Buy | |
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| Download Album (mp3) | 5 tracks | £3.99 | ||
| Download Album (flac) | 5 tracks | £4.99 | ||
| Download Album (wav) | 5 tracks | £4.99 | ||
| Download individual tracks | from £0.75 | |||
Description
Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever (& Ever)
Svarte Greiner is the nom de plume of Deaf Center's Erik K. Skodvin. Hailing from Norway, his solo efforts are always stripped bare, white-knuckle sojourns through dark, haunted ambient sonic corridors. "Penpals Forever (and Ever)" is the imaginary tale of a long dead Baroque painter and his telekinetic correspondence with a flightless bird. It feels archaic; experimental death marches circa 1622. Like Guercino's Et in Arcadia Ego, once the end is realized there's nowhere left to go. It's beyond our experience and sometimes you never recover from the shock.
Despite its rather cheery title, "Penpals Forever (and Ever)," is another step toward the abyss. Musically sparse, Svarte Greiner finds new channels connecting desolate landscapes through ethereal nightmares. It is music best served cold. Chattering, looping guitar lines that feel like muscle being separated from bone slowly build into aching piles of aural dissonance. It's painful to a point. Recorded voices speak a language you can't understand underneath ominous, echoing single notes. Distant metal fragments scrape the dirt from detuned strings while a nefarious feathered minstrel bows dying instruments in the background. No hope left, death is just around the corner.
As it ever was, Svarte Greiner is again weaving something deliciously sinister. This is music that is uncomfortably bare. Within its blood-stained confines there is nowhere to hide. Skodvin's tangled, gnarled tale goes back and forth into infinity until it becomes clear that the flightless bird in question lives inside your skull. Drowning slowly into one's own twisted mind, "Penpals" is the soundtrack of loss; the procession of fears gradually becoming so overbearing that you can't escape your own demons.
Tracklisting
Download Album (DIGI056DD)
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Svarte Greiner - A1
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Svarte Greiner - A2
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Svarte Greiner - A3
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Svarte Greiner - B1
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Svarte Greiner - B2
mp3 downloads
Downloads
| Track Number | Listen | Track Name | Track Length | Price | Buy |
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| 1 | A1 | 11m 27s | N/A | N/A | |
| 2 | A2 | 14m 24s | N/A | N/A | |
| 3 | A3 | 9m 28s | N/A | N/A | |
| 4 | B1 | 5m 27s | £0.75 | ||
| 5 | B2 | 9m 19s | N/A | N/A | |
| Entire MP3 Download Album ( 5 tracks) | £3.99 |
- MP3 format technical details
- These mp3 tracks have been encoded with LAME using the '--preset extreme' VBR setting, providing you with a very rich listening experience. No DRM or copy protection is built in to the mp3s.
Unfortunately at this time we can't offer all the Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever (& Ever) tracks as individual flacs, as some of these tracks exceed the shops maximum (9mins) download length.
These longer flac tracks are available in the full album download.
wav downloads
Downloads
| Track Number | Listen | Track Name | Track Length | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A1 | 11m 27s | N/A | N/A | |
| 2 | A2 | 14m 24s | N/A | N/A | |
| 3 | A3 | 9m 28s | N/A | N/A | |
| 4 | B1 | 5m 27s | £0.75 | ||
| 5 | B2 | 9m 19s | N/A | N/A | |
| Entire WAV Download Album ( 5 tracks) | £4.99 |
Unfortunately at this time we can't offer all the Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever (& Ever) tracks as individual flacs, as some of these tracks exceed the shops maximum (9mins) download length.
These longer flac tracks are available in the full album download.
flac downloads
Downloads
| Track Number | Listen | Track Name | Track Length | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A1 | 11m 27s | N/A | N/A | |
| 2 | A2 | 14m 24s | N/A | N/A | |
| 3 | A3 | 9m 28s | N/A | N/A | |
| 4 | B1 | 5m 27s | £0.75 | ||
| 5 | B2 | 9m 19s | N/A | N/A | |
| Entire FLAC Download Album ( 5 tracks) | £4.99 |
- FLAC format technical details:
- These FLAC tracks are superior to MP3 in that they are compressed without any loss in sound quality. For further technical details or player tips, visit the Help section
Unfortunately at this time we can't offer all the Svarte Greiner - Penpals Forever (& Ever) tracks as individual flacs, as some of these tracks exceed the shops maximum (9mins) download length.
These longer flac tracks are available in the full album download.
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