Browse by Label: SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)

Artist:	ICEBREAKER INTERNATIONAL & MANUAL
Title:	Into Forever
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SHAKE 001CD

Extending a friendly hand to new collaborators, Sound Of A Handshake, this subdivision is named after one of Morr's
       best-loved tracks by Anticon hip-hop supremos, Clouddead, and sets out to explore the aural symbioses between
       established Morr artists and one-off collaborators. For Into Forever, the first instalment in this series, Morr
       Music favorite Jonas Munk (Manual, Limp) and New York conceptual artist and producer Alexander
       Perls (member of an early incarnation of Piano Magic) joined to weave and mingle sparse beats and song
       structures (Munk) with layered guitars and tricky melodic leads (Perls) into the ideal accompaniment to any first rate
       planetarium show -- and this is no mean praise.

Artist:	ICEBREAKER INTERNATIONAL & MANUAL
Title:	Into Forever
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SHAKE 001LP

LP version. "Extending a friendly hand to new collaborators Sound of a Handshake, the label's new subdivision named after one of Morr's best-loved tracks by Anticon hiphop-supremos Clouddead, sets out to explore the aural symbiosis between established Morr artists and one-off collaborators. For Into Forever, the first instalment in this new series, Morr Music favourite Jonas Munk (Manual, Limp) and New York concept artist and producer Alexander Perls (Icebreaker International and member of an early incarnation of Piano Magic) joined to weave and mingle sparse beats and song structures (Munk) with layered guitars and tricky melodic leads (Perls) into the ideal accompaniment to any first rate planetarium show -- and this is no mean praise."

Artist:	BENNI HEMM HEMM
Title:	Benni Hemm Hemm
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	SHAKE 002CD

Music from the heart of Iceland. A record that wants to boil over because of all its energy, lust and sometimes humor. A
       record, equally peculiar as idiosyncratic. Benni Hemm Hemm throws all possible ingredients in. It's a little big
       band with little big songs. In September of 2005, the record was released on the small label Smákökurnar, based in the
       Icelandic capital Reykjavik for the first time. It was re-released on Sound Of A Handshake, Morr Music's small, curious
       sister. An album that will grow with each time one listens to it, equally as Benni Hemm Hemm's band changes with each
       concert. In the center, there is Benni with his fervor and a mischievous smile, his acoustic guitar and his arrangements.
       Around him there are guitars, glockenspiel and the brass section. There are also raging waves and a deep, pure sea. You
       should listen to this record loudly and often.

Artist:	FLEISCHMANN, B.
Title:	Melancholie/Sendestraße
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	SHAKE 003CD

Music from the depths of the room. Music from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's
       transparent sculpture made of steel, concrete and glass. And in it there are the city lights, reflecting. On the occasion
       of the exhibition Melancholie -- Genie und Wahnsinn in der Kunst and a series of concerts that went were curated
       by de:bug magazine, the Vienna-based sound-bricoleur Bernhard Fleischmann has not only given a concert in
       the Neue Nationalgalerie, he has also composed a song only for that special night: 49 minutes and 15 seconds. Featuring
       the most melancholy of all instruments, the bandoneon, a cello and oscillating synthesizers. Melodies materialize softly
       and turn into bittersweet opulence, surrounded by short but central lines of loneliness recited from Rainer Maria
       Rilke's Herbsttag and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. On CD2, there is a picnic in
       the country, at the foot of a broadcasting mast outside of Vienna. Then, in summer 2003, it was the Kunstradio, the art
       channel of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Fleischmann took piano miniatures of the Austrian composer Franz
       Schubert as his source material. Again, the track is about 50 minutes long -- a journey from tumbling piano patterns
       to a drifty Vienna Wall of Sound, from Schubert to Fleischmann, if you want to. The tracks were performed live only once.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Music For Hairy Scary Monsters
Label:	SOUND OF A HANDSHAKE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	SHAKE 004CD

Originally released in 2007, Music For Hairy Scary Monsters is a special gift for Iceland from a few Icelanders and other fellows from the Morr Music landscape. Originally this compilation was put together because of two Morr Music label nights, one in Reykjavik and the other in Akureyri. Both terminated in early June 2007 under a glimmering sun -- a northern light that never goes out during that season. A perfect mood for shiny music. Benni Hemm Hemm opens up with a song already released on a 7", "Aldrei." "Skavars," another one from Benni Hemm Hemm, comes in a "Rainy Version" this time. Both songs are intimate and expressive at the same time. The Go Find follows up with its elegant pop -- "Ice Bear," a cold Arctic track, close to the ear and deep in the snow. "Perfume V" is a high-definition cover version of a Pavement classic. Both tracks are previously-unreleased and so far are only available on this compilation. ISAN plays without words but is never speechless. Electronic landscapes are painted with some references to Iceland. "Re-spring My Sing Reverse" is a newly-arranged remix of a Múm track. Seabear bring viola, guitars and glockenspiel, illustrating the easiness and complexity of pop music, somewhere between Belle and Sebastian under a wide-open sky. Last but not least, is Tarwater. Bernd Jestram and Robert Lippok offer two new unreleased songs that would fit quite nicely into their Spider Smile record, with its dub to blues, electronic to analog sounds. A fine sampling of music played in the northern climes.

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