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Artist:	LATE GREAT FITZCARRALDOS, THE
Title:	The Late Great Fitzcarraldos
Label:	FAKE DIAMOND RECORDS (DENMARK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	FDR 007LP

LP version. The sound of The Late Great Fitzcarraldos is like sand between your toes. Bittersweet love songs paying homage to Otis Redding, Brian Eno, John Cale and Luther Vandross. This is sophisticated, melodic luxury music for a generation that has the history of music up their sleeve, but really just wants to meditate. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos is a Danish trio consisting of Tobias Buch-Andersen (vocals and keyboards), Jacob Funch (guitar and vocals, also known from I Got You On Tape), and Jakob Millung (bass and vocals, also in the band Choir Of Young Believers). The Late Great Fitzcarraldos are a volatile gas, which appears to have found temporary peace in a house built by Roy Orbison, Phil Spector and Motown's Berry Gordy only to be blown up with love in slow motion by Brian Eno and some of the other colorful producers from the '80s. The trio who records and lives in the U.S. and Denmark write elegant, luscious songs that make you dream away to a country where there are cocktails coming out of the taps, wall-to-wall carpeting is woven of marijuana, and a Caribbean sun washed in pastel colors 24-7. The eponymous debut album is a headstrong, eccentric oasis where edges are turned into curves. But the ideas, whether a harmonica on a long voyage, a comatose saxophone section or the recurring stiff-legged rhythm box, keeps the listener alert. And then Tobias Buch, a brilliant soul singer, in the midst of all this.

Artist:	COURS LAPIN
Title:	Cours Lapin
Label:	FAKE DIAMOND RECORDS (DENMARK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FDR 011CD

This is the debut full-length release from Cours Lapin -- a theatrical underworld of twisted French fairytales. The four Danish film composers Asger Baden, Peder, Jonas Struck and Louise Alenius have joined forces to create the project Cours Lapin. Baden, Peder and Struck's music creates a cinematic backdrop where Louise's melodies and challenging lyrics perform. French songs with a scent of melancholy and spring, with Louise's poetic vocals in focus. A mash-up of Tim Burton, doll theater, French chansons and the abyss. Cours Lapin's unusual combination of words, tones and accents leads us into a theatrical underworld consisting of French adventure shaped by the old "chanson" tradition. The moods of the album move from the dark and sensual to the naive and encouraging; one minute you are initiated in the rites and mysterious intrigues surrounding a murder scene in the '50s, and in the next you're following strange creatures on strings in a 20th-century puppet theater.

Artist:	PEDER
Title:	Dirt & Gold
Label:	FAKE DIAMOND RECORDS (DENMARK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FDR 012CD

This is the second album from jack-of-all-spades: Peder. Peder is known for releasing his debut on Ubiquity and working with the likes of Mo' Wax, Beastie Boys, The Prunes, Ninja Tune and DJ Krush. His music is a complex but well-balanced mix of soul-fueled electronic and bespoke indie pop for the new decade. "On Dirt & Gold I wanted to experiment. Do something that was both noisier and quieter, with many tempi, many singers, and many musicians. At the time everything I listened to was channeled onto the record," Peder says, and lists up names like Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Chet Atkins, Django Reinhardt, Ray Charles, etc. So you find surf guitar, hip-hop, French-sounding film music, Dracula-organ, ghost pop, 1980s-synth, and more on Dirt & Gold. Some of the results could easily appear on a very good upcoming Amy Winehouse release like "Love Lost City," featuring Oh Land, but there's more great input by the likes of Jacob Bellens, Claus Hemple, and Signe Marie Schmidt-Jacobsen. Asger Baden has been a close partner and co-composer and the lyrics are by Rasmus Olsen. Suitable for the many facets of the album, the tracks are generated individually between Peder's other projects -- in particular, film music in recent years and the other albums on Fake Diamond he's involved in. Thirteen tracks that melt together as one strong piece of music -- think Gonzales and Portishead meet in a Brooklyn drinking spot.

Artist:	ATOI
Title:	Waves Of Past Relations
Label:	FAKE DIAMOND RECORDS (DENMARK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FDR 013CD

This is the second full-length album from Atoi from Copenhagen, Denmark. Waves Of Past Relations reaches for threads to hold on to, which turn into funny balls of yarn and colorful sweaters. The music is knit together by four individuals that in assembly create a diverse outcome, played with an ever-changing instrumentation and odd pop melodies. It is fine Scandinavian electronic indie with a touch of northern melancholy -- soundscapes and sweet pop melodies that make you drift off to far away shores. The band released their cover of Björk's "Army Of Me" on her own record Army Of Me - Remixes And Covers and in February 2009, they released their debut album Youth Machine. To accompany the album, a remix EP was released, featuring remixes of different album tracks by renowned producers such as Opiate (Thomas Knak), Kasper Bjørke (Filur) and MhM One (Tartelet Records). Atoi has been a well-known figure in the Danish underground for some time, and the band has played concerts at some of the most recognized venues and festivals in Denmark and was also picked to support the Jenny Wilson tour in Denmark.

Artist:	LATE GREAT FITZCARRALDOS, THE
Title:	The Late Great Fitzcarraldos
Label:	FAKE DIAMOND RECORDS (DENMARK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	FDR 017CD

The sound of The Late Great Fitzcarraldos is like sand between your toes. Bittersweet love songs paying homage to Otis Redding, Brian Eno, John Cale and Luther Vandross. This is sophisticated, melodic luxury music for a generation that has the history of music up their sleeve, but really just wants to meditate. The Late Great Fitzcarraldos is a Danish trio consisting of Tobias Buch-Andersen (vocals and keyboards), Jacob Funch (guitar and vocals, also known from I Got You On Tape), and Jakob Millung (bass and vocals, also in the band Choir Of Young Believers). The Late Great Fitzcarraldos are a volatile gas, which appears to have found temporary peace in a house built by Roy Orbison, Phil Spector and Motown's Berry Gordy only to be blown up with love in slow motion by Brian Eno and some of the other colorful producers from the '80s. The trio who records and lives in the U.S. and Denmark write elegant, luscious songs that make you dream away to a country where there are cocktails coming out of the taps, wall-to-wall carpeting is woven of marijuana, and a Caribbean sun washed in pastel colors 24-7. The eponymous debut album is a headstrong, eccentric oasis where edges are turned into curves. But the ideas, whether a harmonica on a long voyage, a comatose saxophone section or the recurring stiff-legged rhythm box, keeps the listener alert. And then Tobias Buch, a brilliant soul singer, in the midst of all this.

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