Desire Avenue

According to a listing in the Norwegian newspaper VG, we should expect a new Stina album in 2006 - however no date or time is set!



Source: "PLATE?RET 2006"/ VG 2006-01-03.

woww... so exciting.

I hate it when we should pick up this news from a newspaper instead of the artist herself. But we'll see wether this news is true.

that's great

But, On Falling Remix is not released yet.....

makes me wonder what the hell a new album will sound like...

If I remember rightly, TWIS had been done and dusted for quite some time before it was released, and by then Stina had already started on the next album. So if she's been working on it since before the release of TWIS, it probably is ready to go.

As to sound, she asked for people to send in audio samples, didn't she? Then complained they weren't good enough. So who knows.

i'm getting excited [crazy] [rolling] I'm hoping she's put some electronic sounds in... but if it continues on from the last album it can only get better

I also hope that Stina will add some electronic stuff in the music. That would be a new direction for her.

I guess she dared not use electronic musik for differentiation. (or she has no interested in electronica.)

In fact, there were selections for This Is. She could select producer Jim O'rourke or Michell Froom&Tchad Blake. so she picked out Michells team.
If she chose Jim as producer This Is might have been a electronic album.



but, I am interested in Jim's direction than Michell's.
I like Stina's electronic remixes(The End Of, Get On, Parliament).

The choice to have four tracks remixed by dance-artists gives hope for the future.

It seems that Stina and her management are well aware of the huge amount of people who can be introduced to Stina's music through the dancefloor.

The remix of Get It On With Your Life was very strong in my humble opinion. But next time they should try to hire a more high profile remixer like Ti?sto or Armand van Helden. I'm really curious if they could make a dancefloofiller out of Stina's music.

Of course Stina's voice was already very well used in Yello's 'To the Sea'; which was a great dance track i think, just didn't get that much attention maybe? But i wouldn't want Stina's album to be purely dance, just have an electronic undertone, just like Erlend Oye or R?yksopp use it...

On TWIS Stina used a lot of material from the documentary 'Jean-Claude'.In the light of that,perhaps we should look at what we KNOW Stina has done over the past three years,which might find a place within album number seven.
So-she invited people to make samples for her to use-here is the exact text:-
'i am working on new material for my 7th album and want alien contribution. i want strangers to send loops, bits and pieces of non-musical sounds, documentary, everyday sounds - as well as beats. naturally it is potentially more interesting with sounds i can't associate to. the other thing i will be looking for is how the loops are constructed, put together. i don't want to be too specific as a lot of time the best is in the unexpected. so, i am not asking for any particular style. i want things out of the ordinary, with character, inspiring. in any way. i don't want songs. i don't want harmonies. i want construction pieces.'
...but nothing seemed to come of that-unless they were used for her exhibition piece last year-the Magasin Project.I for one would love to hear that-sounds like some kind of sonic collage.Here's the press release bumph on that:-
'At Magasin 3 Projekt Stina Nordenstam shows a newly created sound installation based on catastrophes, traumas, UFOs, love and life in general. Some people with special histories speak. But how much of what they tell is really true? Documentary style storytelling is interwoven with fiction and newly written music. As a visitor you're invited to literally step into the piece which is located at the pavilion on the venue
The music in the piece came about as a parallel to the work on the texts. In the text and in the music lies a common touch that in Stina Nordenstam's words mirror the melancholy joy of being alive and the acceptance of the fact that life doesn't last. Like nature and the time around school ending for the summer: numbingly beautiful, but already bloomed and gone almost in the blink of an eye. '
Then there was the Isen's Fasor project.Given that Stina borrowed some of the music for that (Johan Strauss etc),leaving essentially one multitracked voice and percussion piece,it seems unlikely that any of that material would be recycled,especially since it was so specific to that haunting docudrama.Plus there were no 'songs',per se.
There was the fragment of music for 'My Father's films',namely 'Sov du lilla videung'.One of Stina's strange covers,it wouldn't be out of place on PAS-except that it's sung in Swedish,and something tells me she wouldn't do that on a mainstream release.
Which leaves 'Tarantula',Stina's recent theatre project.We know that songs formed some of the musical material,so I would hazard a guess that some of them might appear.But there are other things too.Here's part of a revealing interview Stina gave about 'Tarantula':-
'For "Tarantula" Stina Nordenstam wanted to give the music a commenting role of its own, a role to act with and act against. A welcome advance for her is that she has been able to compose a cohesive suite of instrumental music, something she hasn't done before to this degree. It's possible that it ends up on a record.
-(Stina) My vocal expression can be a restriction, it takes all the attention. The music also deserves to be heard.
Peder Bjurman wanted two songs in the play that the actress Anna Pettersson was supposed to sing. But during rehearsals it showed that it didn't work with the role.
- (Stina)Which one of her was supposed to sing?
That is how Stina Nordenstam describes the dilemma.
The songs were recorded instead. One of them is now sung by a young boy and the other by herself. She wrote the lyrics herself. '

Did anyone actually go to the exhibition after all? Daniel, maybe?
And did anyone hear the Tarentula songs?

Stina goes dance styleee, please no, say its not true, probably be very interesting mind you

pgss wrote:The remix of Get It On With Your Life was very strong in my humble opinion. But next time they should try to hire a more high profile remixer like Ti?sto or Armand van Helden. I'm really curious if they could make a dancefloofiller out of Stina's music.

Yeah, what a great idea.
She can hire someone to wreck her music and make it mindless club filler like Armand did to Tori's song 'Professional Widow.'

Yuck.