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r e l e a s e . i n f o







Artist.....: The Idealist

Title......: I Am The Fire





Rip Date...: Oct-25-2006 Cat.No.....: NSRD007

Style......: Ambient Label......: Nosordo

Quality....: VBRkbps Type.......: Album

Size.......: 78,2 MB Source.....: CDDA







r e l e a s e . n o t e s







A lifetime in the making (and a year or two or actual production),

"I am the Fire" is the full-length debut release by The Idealist,

a Swedish musician with a penchant for the subversive side of

atmospheric noise. This 6-track album is a through-the-keyhole

(earhole?) look at the mind of a man who lives, breathes and

dreams of sounds with an organic feel but an electronic bite.



Joachim Nordwall (b. 1975, Karlskrona, Sweden), The Idealist,

began his experiments in sound as a young boy. In 1987, he formed

the Alvars Orkester with Jan Svensson, in which they mixed

electronic sound with an interest in psychic broadcasting. He was

particularly active within the independent music scene of the

1980s and 90s, releasing work through the Börft Records label.

After a brief hiatus, Alvars Orkester has recently (January 2006)

released the "Interference" album on London?s Ash International

label, showcasing their superb analogue sound experiments.



From 1998-2005, he was part of the avant punk rock trio Kid

Commando, a band that toured Europe several times. Also in 1998,

he founded the iDEAL Organization as a platform for his ongoing

work as an artist, label owner and curator of the near-legendary

iDEAL Festival for the last four years.



Nordwall has collaborated with many artists, including Henrik

Rylander, Lasse Marhaug and Leif Elggren. He lives and works in

Gothenburg, Sweden and is a founding member of experimental rock

band The Skull Defekts (also with Henrik Rylander) who have two

releases on AA: "Open the Gates of Miner" (AA04) and "Rotating

Feedback & Save the Skull" (AA05/IDEAL036), two limited edition

releases with deluxe card sleeves. The Skull Defekts are also

releasing a long-awaited full-length studio album in 2006.



REVIEWS & MEDIA

Joachim Nordwall was born in 1975 and started playing music in

1987 as the Alvers Orkester, so then he was thirteen... His

releases were on the Swedish Börft label (and in 2006 they even

had a great album on Ash International, see Vital Weekly 512).

From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of Kid Commando, 'an avant punk

rock trio' and also in 1998 he started the iDEAL organisation,

responsible for some fine releases and a festival. As The Idealist

he plays solo music, and so strangely enough 'I Am The Fire' is

his debut CD. I imagine that if you play this ultra soft, it would

be indeed ambient music, but the atmospherics captured by Nordwall

are all together of a much different kind. It's as beautiful as it

also painful, at the same time. Powerful drone music that won't

lull the listener into a deep sleep, but make the hairs on your

back rise up. Intense music that defies genres, belonging partly

to industrial music and partly drone/ambient, but is just right

on.

FdW - Vital Weekly 548







p l a y l i s t







01 the knives are my eyes 04:38

02 to make exact copies of every mistake ever made 17:35

03 i am not here 11:26

04 the cranium 05:17

05 the declaraaation of indeeependence 14:25

06 my head is on fire 03:53



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