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HÄPNA

Häpna was founded in 1999 by Klas Augustsson and Johan Berthling. The Stockholm based label releases all kinds of experimental music, from Rüdiger Carl, Sven-Ake Johansson, Oren Ambarchi, David Grubbs and Loren Connors via Giuseppe Ielasi, Marcus Schmickler, Hans Appelqvist and Anna Järvinen to Tape, Musette, Sagor & Swing and Tenniscoats.

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3/4HADBEENELIMINATED - A YEAR OF THE AURAL GAUGE OPERATION (CD - USED m-/m-)

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TAPE - MILIEU (CD - USED m-/m-)

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MUSETTE - A COSMIC SERENADE (LP)

"The eagerly awaited follow-up to Drape Me in Velvet is here! In the making for quite some time it features a large cast of players and in the midst of it all Mr Musette himself - Joel Danell. This man has carved a niche for himself with a sound world merging both the ...
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PILLOW - THREE HENRIES (CD - USED m-/m-)

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APPELQVIST, HANS - SJUNGA SLUTET NU (CD)

"Sjunga slutet nu (Sing the End Now), the new long-awaited project by Hans Appelqvist, consists of both an album and a film. The work is about the angst and silencing of death and the meeting with the final end. The film and album have the atmosphere of a fairy-tale ...
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MUSETTE - DRAPE ME IN VELVET (CD)

"The starting point of Drape Me in Velvet was a large collection of cassettes and reel to reel tapes from the 1950s and 1960s, many inherited from relatives. During the three years the album was recorded on these tapes, they were treated and mistreated with tools and ...
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OHAYO - THE STATE WE ARE IN (CD)

"Andreas Söderström (Ass), Johan Berthling (Tape) and Per Eklund makes the music of Ohayo. At the end of a tour as backing band for Swedish artist El Perro del Mar these three musicians decided on forming a new band and make music on their own. They started with just ...
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JÄRVINEN, ANNA - MAN VAR BLAND MOLNEN (CD)

"Anna Järvinen's debut album "Jag fick feeling" ("I Got Feeling") received a substantial amount of attention when it was released in October 2007. The follow-up "Man var bland molnen" ("One Was Among the Clouds") is produced and recorded by Gustav Ejstes (from the band ...
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JÄRVINEN, ANNA - JAG FICK FEELING (CD)

"Born in Helsinki, at the age of six moved to Täby outside Stockholm due to mother's new marriage, always had a longing back, will not return. Sang and wrote songs in Granada 1998-2004. Granada released three albums and one ep produced by Björn Olsson and Mattias ...
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A TASTE OF RA - MORNING OF MY LIFE (CD)

""When we moved to tent and the light was golden and we were young, and the magazine was all there was to bring, and you woke in the night when the birds were singing just for you and the smell of soil and the warm breath over through you, ohh it moved you. All there ...
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APPELQVIST, HANS - SIFANTIN OCH MÖRKRET (CD m-/m-)

last copy, sold out "Hot on the heels of his last record Naima, released in November 2006, Hans Appelqvist has a new album ready. It's called "Sifantin och mörkret" and is his third release on Häpna. The music shows Hans from a new side, the album being more open and ...
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SCHMICKLER WITH HAYDEN CHISHOLM, MARCUS - AMAZING DAZE (CD)

"Marcus Schmickler is internationally well known in heterogeneous contexts of contemporary music. He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and over the last years he has worked in different fields of electronic, instrumental, improvised, experimental and new ...
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APPELQVIST, HANS - NAIMA (CD)

"After two years of work since my last album 'Bremort', a new album is finished. This time, the record is about Naima, an entity who in different ways is present to the persons on the album. Sometimes she interferes with their lives and speaks directly to them, ...
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A TASTE OF RA - A TASTE OF RA II (CD)

"When your ears are gates and they're wide open. Levels of sound will chase you down, collide, kiss and fight. In the yard that you now found. The past will meet the present, you're paying past with present. When you finally hear her voice that make you leave your body ...
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BELFI, ANDREA - BETWEEN NECK & STOMACH (CD)

"Andrea Belfi was born in 1979. He has been playing drums since the age of fourteen. He studied art in Milan and has been working in the experimental music field since 2000. In 2002 AB embarked on a vast project, which, in time, would become Between Neck & Stomach. The ...
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H.29 | HÄPNA

IELASI, GIUSEPPE - GIUSEPPE IELASI (CD)

"The new untitled album by Giuseppe Ielasi lives in a land of lights and shades. The mist lies thick but close to the ground it's glowing and sparking. Reflections shoot wildly in ambiguous patterns. The log-cutters are working with their loved and hated timber. This is ...
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DAHL, ANDERS - HUNDLOKA, FLOCKBLOMSTRIGA I (CD)

"Hundloka (cow parsley) is one of our most common meadow flowers; a weed whose distribution is restricted with great difficulty. Hundloka is also the name of three pieces of music which, in similarity to their namesake, grow in areas between the wild and the cultivated, ...
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A TASTE OF RA - A TASTE OF RA (CD)

"Free flowing folk from one of Sweden's most unique voices. The album is song-based with a very relaxed atmosphere. Organ, piano, guitar and flutes blend with percussive elements and sounds from open windows. This together with the highly original vocals and a ...
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IELASI, GUISEPPE - GESINE (CD)

""Gesine" marks the return of the guitar as dominant voice, this time a rarely-treated almost acoustic sound occupying a far more subdued setting. Backed only by finger-snap-size percussion, a few earth-toned hums and feedback drones, the instrument enters within the ...
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SINISTRI - FREE PULSE (CD)

"Sinistri, formerly known as Starfuckers, is an experimental music unit based in Italy. Starting from an original, raw, minimal and high power approach to the rock language, they soon developed a personal direction exploring the space between proto-punk, black roots and ...
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MATHIEU, STEPHAN - ON TAPE (CD)

""On Tape" is a pivotal work for Mathieu as this is the first time we hear him leaving his source material unprocessed by digital means. Stephan started building this piece from recordings provided to him by Swedish trio Tape and saxophonist Magnus Granberg. Adding his ...
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TORSSON, PATRIK - GÄSTHAMNAR (3"CD)

""Gästhamnar" ("Guest harbours") is about one of the most obvious things of summer: the life of people in small boats. The coastline and the archipelago are embellished with white sails on the horizon. This record paints, through its quotations from the Swedish ...
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TORSSON, PATRIK - KOLVÄTESERENADER (CD)

"This is the first release from Swede Patrik Torsson. It¹s a CD about life onboard an oil tanker. The music is electronica with spoken stories (in Swedish) about memorable moments onboard. Other instruments/sounds include guitar, piano, keyboard and field recordings. ...
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SAGOR & SWING - ALLT HÄNGER SAMMAN (CD)

"The myth of Sagor & Swing tells that they are children of nature that grew up in the forest. That they at an early age built theit first instruments and isolated form the noise of civilization invented a music of their own. What we know for shure, however, is that they ...
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SAGOR & SWING - MELODIER OCH FÄGLAR (CD)

"Sagor & Swing is Eric Malmberg on Hammond organ and Ulf Möller on drums. This is the follow up to their debut album Orgelfärger. Melodier och fåglar (melodies and birds) is minimal and timeless, naive and simple. Eric calls his melodies 'Nothing music'. Something to ...
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