NORDVEST
"Grøndal"
suction051
2020
• LP Black Vinyl
• LP Limited Bone-White Vinyl
• Digital Download
TRACKLIST:
A1. Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Five
A2. Scribbles Nine
A3. Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Seven
A4. Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Eight
A5. Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Four
B1. Sleepless Six
B2. Sleepless One
B3. Scribbles Two
B4. Sleepless Two
B5. Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Six
B6. Scribbles Seven
Suction Records welcomes Roger Semsroth back to the label - having previously released 2 full-length albums with us under his retired electro-pop alias, Skanfrom. “Grøndal” (suction051) is the debut vinyl release under a new alias, Nordvest. These days, Semsroth is best-known for his stark and minimalist techno project, Sleeparchive. The material on Grøndal - icy, melodic, and mostly beatless - is comprised of tracks that were originally released digitally as Sleeparchive, via Bandcamp. The releases were met with general disinterest from Sleeparchive fans, prompting Semsroth to re-brand them as Nordvest, before removing them from Bandcamp altogether.
We’ve chosen 11 highlights from 3 of those digital albums, “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets”, “Scribbles”, and “Sleepless”, for a cohesive 11-track LP of austere, synthetic ambience. Think Tangerine Dream as reinterpreted by Incunabula-era Autechre, and you might be getting somewhere close. While “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Seven” recalls Sleeparchive, and “Sleepless Six” could very well be a lost Skanfrom track, the rest of the LP clearly warrants a new alias - Nordvest is a new side of Semsroth that we haven’t heard before.
PURCHASE VINYL:
> Suction Shop (North America)
> Suction Shop (Europe)
PURCHASE DIGITAL:
> Bandcamp
AUDIO PREVIEWS:
Coming soon…
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