Our Solar System
(feat. members of Dungen, The Amazing, Me and My Kites and more)
Announces New Album "Vårt Solsystem" Out October 29th on Beyond Beyond is Beyond
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Stream new song "Mars" from Our Solar System here!
"Call it kosmische, call it a collective, call it sonic space exploration, unrestrained by gravity, led by Dungens Mattias Gustavsson with the assistance of some very talented friends call it whatever you want, but you can be sure the sounds of Our Solar System will call out back to you, in an endless, radical, reverberating transmission. - Ryan Muldoon, Revolt of the Apes
The idea was born in a lunch room during the recording of Lisa o Pius debut album in summer 2009 when Hr M, who had been called as a producer, dreamed away in a poster of the solar system. "Our Solar System! Imagine what a great band that would be!" The idea slowly grew among the friends. The concept was obvious, but how would it be expressed? Then one day in the spring of 2012 Hr M was to play at a festival with his band but decided that now was the time! The idea was ripe! He asked if any others wanted to join him and perform Our Solar System, and quickly there were ten musicians ready.
Each musician would represent a planet, including the asteroid belt and Pluto, and together would illustrate a journey from the Sun past each of the planets along our path through the solar system out into space. Each planet was described in a few keywords, a fusion of our mutual associations based on emotion and poetry rather than science. A glass bead game for the mad! These keywords became the score they've been working on since. Our solar System aims to reflect the innermost human in the planets whirling dance with the Sun through the universe. Interplay and chaos, joy and insecurity, rhythm and ambiance and so on.
Our Solar System designs costumes adorned with the planetary symbols to highlight the concept's power over the individual. While in agreement that each session is a ritual in which they strive, through the mirroring of Our Solar System, to manifest the utopian desire, the perfect interplay and ego dissolution, but by the end re-emerge as more genuine individuals rooted in solidarity with both chaos and cosmos . A synergistic way to catharsis!
Our Solar System Live is an evolving collective, as long as they are ten planets they play. The involved to date also plays in bands such as Dungen, Life on Earth!, The Amazing, Promise And The Monster, Lisa o Piu, Me and My Kites, Siri Karlsson, AnnaMy, Vox Vulgaris and others.
This album was recorded live one hot summer afternoon in the amphitheater at Raven mountain in Vårberg, and one cold November night at a magical party in an old movie theater in Kärrtorp. For those who want to compare this work with other musical journeys, one can draw parallels to Alice Coltrane, Pärsson Sound, Sigur Rós, Can and early Pink Floyd.
Our Solar System is a community without a leader, a floating crowd of people, where everyone who wants to be part of creating within these cosmic frames are welcome. The dream is to one day see representatives of Our Solar System around the world, illustrating the concept in all the arts in all kinds of contexts for all kinds of audiences. Only your imagination sets the limits!
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"Vårt Solsystem" Track List:
1. Merkurius
2. Venus
3. Jorden
4. Mars
5. Asteroidbältet
6. Jupiter
7. Saturnus
8. Uranus
9. Neptunus
10. Pluto
(feat. members of Dungen, The Amazing, Me and My Kites and more)
Announces New Album "Vårt Solsystem" Out October 29th on Beyond Beyond is Beyond
Stream new song "Mars" from Our Solar System here!
"Call it kosmische, call it a collective, call it sonic space exploration, unrestrained by gravity, led by Dungens Mattias Gustavsson with the assistance of some very talented friends call it whatever you want, but you can be sure the sounds of Our Solar System will call out back to you, in an endless, radical, reverberating transmission. - Ryan Muldoon, Revolt of the Apes
The idea was born in a lunch room during the recording of Lisa o Pius debut album in summer 2009 when Hr M, who had been called as a producer, dreamed away in a poster of the solar system. "Our Solar System! Imagine what a great band that would be!" The idea slowly grew among the friends. The concept was obvious, but how would it be expressed? Then one day in the spring of 2012 Hr M was to play at a festival with his band but decided that now was the time! The idea was ripe! He asked if any others wanted to join him and perform Our Solar System, and quickly there were ten musicians ready.
Each musician would represent a planet, including the asteroid belt and Pluto, and together would illustrate a journey from the Sun past each of the planets along our path through the solar system out into space. Each planet was described in a few keywords, a fusion of our mutual associations based on emotion and poetry rather than science. A glass bead game for the mad! These keywords became the score they've been working on since. Our solar System aims to reflect the innermost human in the planets whirling dance with the Sun through the universe. Interplay and chaos, joy and insecurity, rhythm and ambiance and so on.
Our Solar System designs costumes adorned with the planetary symbols to highlight the concept's power over the individual. While in agreement that each session is a ritual in which they strive, through the mirroring of Our Solar System, to manifest the utopian desire, the perfect interplay and ego dissolution, but by the end re-emerge as more genuine individuals rooted in solidarity with both chaos and cosmos . A synergistic way to catharsis!
Our Solar System Live is an evolving collective, as long as they are ten planets they play. The involved to date also plays in bands such as Dungen, Life on Earth!, The Amazing, Promise And The Monster, Lisa o Piu, Me and My Kites, Siri Karlsson, AnnaMy, Vox Vulgaris and others.
This album was recorded live one hot summer afternoon in the amphitheater at Raven mountain in Vårberg, and one cold November night at a magical party in an old movie theater in Kärrtorp. For those who want to compare this work with other musical journeys, one can draw parallels to Alice Coltrane, Pärsson Sound, Sigur Rós, Can and early Pink Floyd.
Our Solar System is a community without a leader, a floating crowd of people, where everyone who wants to be part of creating within these cosmic frames are welcome. The dream is to one day see representatives of Our Solar System around the world, illustrating the concept in all the arts in all kinds of contexts for all kinds of audiences. Only your imagination sets the limits!
"Vårt Solsystem" Track List:
1. Merkurius
2. Venus
3. Jorden
4. Mars
5. Asteroidbältet
6. Jupiter
7. Saturnus
8. Uranus
9. Neptunus
10. Pluto