Reviews:

The first reviews of Saltö has been very positive.
We are glad to see the inspiration we felt on Saltö spred and reinterpreted by others.
By you; the listener, the viewer, the receiver. We are all critics.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=44188

http://jazznyt.blogspot.de/2013/02/kolonihaven-unikum-salto-ark.html      

The album SALTÖ is done!

Good things take time and we are happy to announce that the Saltö recordings are finally mixed, mastered and pressed and will be released on january 11, 2013.

The artists Rasmus Klitgaard Hansen, Peter Ole Pedersen and Lasse Krog Møller have contributed to the album with poetry, woodcuts and graphic artwork respectively. Thus SALTÖ is a interdisciplinary work of art - a narrative about an island featuring words, graphics and sound. The album is published by the art journal ARK.

You can read all about it here: www.saltö.com

Best,

Christian Windfeld & Anders Ørbæk aka Kolonihaven Unikum     

   

  

Will-y and the new recording

Available at our YouTube Channel is a new live recording from Moods, Zürich. 

At Moods we met sound engineer Will-y. Besides being a accomplished sound magician Will-y obviously shared our aesthetics and values concerning music. Long story short Will-y is now mixing and mastering the recordings we did at Saltö last summer.

"Everything we do is music" -John Cage

Kolonihaven Unikum was on a train ride

The other day we was playing at a creativity conference which was held in an old veteran train. The train stopped at an long-established roundhouse where we managed to take some pictures of our toy piano in company with the old trains.   

In some fucked-up kliché way these photos could be our music transfigured into visuals: the naive fragillity of the toy piano meeting the brute force of the train.   

Kolonihaven Unikum are going to Switzerland

We are happy to announce that we will be playing in Zürich, Switzerland at Jazzclub Moods in Schiffbau the 21th of december 2011. You can read all about it here.

We are currently trying to stage some more concerts in Switzerland. 

There is a new tune "Wanderlust" available at our YouTube channel.  

Best,

Kolonihaven Unikum

A little about the Saltö recording sessions

This summer we went to Saltö, Sweden to record our new (and first) album.  

Saltö is strangely beautiful.  It is in no way conspicuous and it has no special features, but still it makes a deep impression on you. The music we made there is like that too, we believe.

At Saltö someone has been so visionary as to build a small concert hall and put a grand piano there. Actually that is nearly everything there is on the island.  When you go to Saltö you cross the islands Daftöen, Öddö og Tjärnö and as you go it gets more and more depopulated. Saltö is almost pure nature except the few people that live there. 

We stayed at Saltö for five days during which we made all kinds of sonic experiments like recording Kosterhavet (the sea surrounding the Koster Islands) with hydrophones.

We are planning to release an album with some of the Saltö recordings in the beginning of 2012.

Best,

Kolonihaven Unikum

Kolonihaven Unikum got its own blog!

Through this blog we plan to make announcements about concerts, releases etc. and share our opinions about art in general and sound art in particular. To listen to our music please visit youtube.com/KolonihavenUnikum. For further info visit KolonihavenUnikum.com


Best,
Kolonihaven Unikum