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Nordvest (aka Sleeparchive/Skanfrom) :: Grøndal (Suction)

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Grøndal is an 11-track LP of austere, synthetic ambience. Think Tangerine Dream as reinterpreted by Incunabula-era Autechre, and you might be getting somewhere close.

Austere, synthetic ambience

Suction Records welcomes Roger Semsroth back to the label—having previously released two 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. Grøndal is an 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.

Grøndal is available on Suction July 3, 2020 as vinyl LP and digital.

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An independent electronic music enthusiast originally from Windsor, Ontario, located just across the border from Detroit, and now based in Southern California since 2001. Founder of Igloo Magazine, made possible by s://kimo music, one of the pioneering experimental electronic music mail-order services of the mid-late 1990s, and is also the co-creator of Digital::Nimbus Radio (formerly Audio::Nimbus). In addition, contributed articles to notable U.S.-based publications such as Grooves, e/i, and The Circular Cosmic Spot Magazines during the late 1990s and early 2000s, covering a diverse range of experimental electronics and the emerging genre of IDM music.