Dread! - Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words Newsletter - February 2009

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Dread!
Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words Newsletter
February 2009

=== Content ===

1. New Releases
2. Media
3. Rituals
4. Forthcoming releases

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== 1. New releases ==

Teeth - Black Hole Heart
C20 on Klorofyll Kassetter
Limited edition of 100 copies

Teeth is the pitch black nightmare of a haunting ritual of death.
Building up a dreaded fear impossible to block out this recording is
not for the weak hearted. Thomas Ekelund (Dead Letters Spell Out Dead
Words, Dead Violets) is the creater of this black hole of dispair, and
he declares Teeth to be the disease whereas DLSODW is the symptoms of
this disease. The 
music is minimalistic and crude, slowly getting
darker and darker, denser and denser, and as the ritual evolves voices
breaks through the muddy drone reaching for your reprobated soul.

www.teeth.se
www.klorofyllkassetter

I do not have any copies of these for sale, and the label is almost
sold out so act fast if you want one.

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Various Artists - Sink Or Swim
Cassette on Hästen & Korset
Limited Edition of 100 copies

Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words - Fall, Fall, Falling
Download via iTunes on Kalligrammofon
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=300844915&s=143456

Don't for get that there's a number of out of print cassette release
available via Klicktrack:
http://www.klicktrack.com/dlsodw

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== 2. Media ==

There's a long interview in the latest issue of The Sound Projector.
http://www.thesoundprojector.com

A shorter interview done by Tokafi:
http://www.tokafi.com/news/dead-letters-spell-out-dead-words-lost-reflections-attempt-deal-ghosts/

Spartacus Roosevelt included "Lost & Losing" in their latest Podcast
http://www.spartacusroosevelt.com/xoops/modules/wordpress/?p=122

Hungbunny featured "This Room Seems Empty Without You" in Podcast 153:
http://www.simulations.net/podcasts/hungbunny

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"Lost In Reflections" has been getting quite a number of favourable
reviews lately. Some examples:

From Connexion Bizarre:
"Lost in Reflections is not all void and darkness, shrouded
apparitions and pervasive melancholy. Full of warmer tones, richer
hues and softer timbres, we can accept that ensconced somewhere among
the meticulous layering is a mind at odds with its environs, and by no
choice of its own"

Read In Full: http://www.connexionbizarre.net/reviews/r_deadlettersspelloutdeadwords_lir.htm

From Tiny Mix Tapes:
"There is a type of invitation here, a form of calling into
loneliness. We are not asked to empathize with this album, and we are
not dragged screaming by its tendrils into the heart of darkness.
Instead we are nudged, led quietly by our hands to a place where
someone has found something of value, and then we are left there. A
child’s fortress inside a giant rotting stump deep in the forest, a
dock with no boat or house on the shore of a lake long since turned to
swamp — we are left alone, sure, but we are also left with the hope of
coming to terms with that fact and of finding something worth being
alone for."

Read in full:http://www.tinymixtapes.com/Dead-Letters-Spell-Out-Dead-
Words

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From Textura:
"While the deranged wail of a thousand tormented souls holds the first
half hostage, epic melodies played by what sounds like strings,
mellotron, and bells gradually rise to the fore during the second
half. “Himmelschreibenden Herzen” hardly provides an easy exeunt to
the album but it's definitely an incredible one"

Read in full: http://textura.org/reviews/deadletters_lostinreflections.htm

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From Groove:
"Hade Lost In Reflections spelats in med bara en gnutta mindre nerv av
en bråkdelen mindre begåvad musiker, hade det här svindlande
svartsynta projektet förvandlats till en teatralisk travesti. Så blev
det dock lyckligtvis inte, utan istället välsignades musikvärlden med
den felande länken mellan Deathprod, Ennio Morricone och Godspeed You!
Black Emperor – med musik så ärlig och innerlig att den kommer att
beröra även den mest inbitne fiende till drone slash dark ambient."

Read in full: http://www.groove.se/site/recension.asp?recId=3167&mediumId=1

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From Göteborgs Posten:
"Det som kännetecknar DLSODW allra mest är det personliga i musiken.
Instrumental dronepop, suggestiva soundscapes, djupborrande
klanglandskap, men alltid med ett hjärta som bultar, något som andas,
känslor som virvlar omkring."

Read in full: http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=172&a=461912

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From The Sound Projector:
"Nothing will prepare you for the ever-changing slew of emotional
experiences that this work dares to unleash – veering from the
ecstatic to the suicidally miserable, with a range of new and unknown
emotions in between."

Read in full: http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2008/12/22/vinyl-voltroons/


== 3. Rituals ==

March 1st 2009
Ny Musik För Hållbar utveckling @ Lava, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
http://www.myspace.com/nmfhu

== 4. Forthcoming Releases ==

Teeth - »So Sick of the Reflection in the Mirror« 2xC60 on iDEAL
»No Words« on Six iDEALIST For iDEAL Ten C60 on iDEAL
»Lost In Reflections« CD on Killer Pimp
»Four Walls« 7" + Tape on iDEAL