The Anekdoten Newsletter #22, October 2005
Greetings and welcome to newsletter #22! It has been almost one and
a half years since the last newsletter and this, of course, is far
too long. But now that I finally updated the mailing-list I intend
to keep it that way, so you should hear from us more regularly in
the future. Stay tuned, folks!
Waking The Dead
The Big News this time around is that we have a new album out! It's
a live album entitled "Waking The Dead, Live In Japan 2005" and it
was recorded during our two shows at Tokyo Kinema Klub in February.
Japan has been special to us ever since the release of "Vemod", so
we wanted to give the fans something special when we did our first
shows in Tokyo in five years. Our repertoire was bigger than ever
before and we also played longer sets than ever, which meant that we
had 25 songs, most of them in 2 versions, to choose from for the
album. We wanted to put as much music as possible onto 1 CD/2 LP's
and the tracklist that we came up with was:
1. Monolith
2. From Within
3. Kiss Of Life
4. Hole
5. SW4
6. Moons Of Mars
7. The Sun Absolute
8. Ricochet
9. Gravity
10. This Too Will Pass
11. Sad Rain
Nicklas came up with the basic idea for Moons Of Mars during the
soundcheck for the second days performance and the "song" is mainly
performed on three Mellotrons.( See pics
http://www.geocities.jp/mellotronics/anekdotenliveinjapan2005.html)his Too Will Pass is a previously unreleased instrumental and Sad
Rain was originally featured as the bonus track on the Japanese
Vemod edition. The rest of the songs are from our two latest studio
releases "From Within" and "Gravity". None of the songs on "Waking
The Dead" were featured on our previous live album "Official
Bootleg, Live In Japan". The running time is approximately 79
minutes.
The album was recorded by Akinobu Mukaedani, mixed by Hans
Fredriksson and Anekdoten at Rommarö Studio and mastered by
Christoffer Stannow at Cosmos Mastering. Initial reactions have been
positive and we are also very happy with the way it turned out. We
hope you'll enjoy it too!
The CD was released by Disk Union on September 22 and is available
from them in Japan, and from this day also through our webshop at
www.anekdoten.se.
At the moment we are putting the final touches to the vinyl version
(2 LP). It will be released on our own Virta-label in October and I
will send out a separate newsletter with more information about it
as soon as we have received the LP's from the manufacturer.
New Additions To The Webshop
We are happy to inform you that all the Japanese Anekdoten-releases
on the Arcángelo label are now available from the webshop. This
means that all Anekdoten and Morte Macabre merchandise that is in
print is available from us.
You are able to buy the following items directly from us:
- "Waking The Dead, Live In Japan 2005" - the Japanese CD-edition of
the new release
- "Gravity" - the latest studio album, both on CD and LP
- "From Within" - 3rd studio album, both on CD and LP
- "Official Bootleg, Live In Japan" - Japanese 2 CD released in
1998, CD only
- "Live EP" - Japanese 4 track live EP recorded in 1996, CD only
- "Nucleus" - 2nd studio album, both on CD (remastered with bonus
track) and LP
- "Vemod" - first album, both original and Japanese edition
(including Sad Rain) on CD
- Morte Macabre "Symphonic Holocaust", Nicklas and Peter from
Anekdoten, Stefan Dimle (Paatos) and Reine Fiske (Dungen) playing
horror-music their own way, both on CD and 2-LP
- Anekdoten Gravity t-shirts. Make an enquiry about availability
before sending any money, as some sizes are sold out
You will find information about prices and how to order if you click
on "Shop" at www.anekdoten.se .
More From The Live Front
Our gig at the Burg Herzberg Festival in 2004 came to a premature
halt about 55 minutes into our set. A thunderstorm appeared as out
of nowhere when Nicklas had sung the opening lines of Gravity. The
storm almost blew us off the stage so we had no choice but to abort
the show. The arrangers were kind enough to give us another go this
year. This time the thunderstorm came earlier during the day and
when we played (in the slot before Love) the sun was shining again.
A great gig, as always in Herzberg! The German tv-show Rockpalast
did a 3 hour special of the festival, but unfortunately Anekdoten
was not featured on the programme as the audio from our performance
was lost in a computer crash. Too bad. Anyway, thanks once again to
Elmar and the Herzberg team for being so kind to us. It's great that
the festival is back - better than ever!
So, no Anekdoten filming from Herzberg, but what we ∗can∗ offer you
is a small view into our rehearsal room at www.anekdoten.se. Tord
Lindman and Daniel, who also did the The War Is Over-video, filmed
parts of the dress rehersal for the Anekdoten/Ritual-tour in April
2004. A while ago we published the song From Within from this
rehearsal on www.anekdoten.se (click on Audio/Video and press play).
Thanks again, Tord!
Current Activities
After a lazy summer we have now started rehearsing more regularly.
We are in the process of writing new songs for our next studio
release and the work is progressing nicely. No live dates are
scheduled at the moment, but check out www.anekdoten.se every once
in a while for eventual updates.
You'll hear from me again when the "Waking The Dead"-vinyl is out.
'Til the next time, thank you!
Jan Erik Liljeström
anekdoten@...www.anekdoten.se
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