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01. SVARTE GREINER - The Boat Was My Friend
02. SVARTE GREINER - Ocean Out Of Wood
03. SVARTE GREINER - My Feet, Over There
04. SVARTE GREINER - Easy On The Bones
05. SVARTE GREINER - An Ordinary Hike
06. SVARTE GREINER - The Black Dress
07. SVARTE GREINER - Ullsokk
08. SVARTE GREINER - The Dining Table
09. SVARTE GREINER - Final Sleep
ARTIST
TITLE
Knive
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
MIA 039LP MIA 039LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/6/2017

Miasmah present a reissue of Svarte Greiner's debut album Knive, originally released on Type in 2006. 11 years since its inception, the surreal and darkly romantic Knive still sounds like a mystery and something that's hard to pin down. Svarte Greiner's debut album feels like a trip into the forest at midnight, with all the sounds and impressions that comes with it. Spiritual, horrific, and fragile in essence, its melancholic core is hard to shake off, and feels as present today as it did back then. While starting off the sub-genre of "acoustic doom" back in 2006, it's difficult to say what else to name it now, with its inspiration and elements from countless genres. The record flows through the dissonant cellos and washed-out vocals of "Ocean Out Of Wood" past the introverted church organs of "The Black Dress", distorted guitars and wooden beats of "The Dining Table" to the operatic finale of "Final Sleep". Everything is scattered, with field recordings from crows, branches, walking, sleeping, rain, wind, and who-knows-what. Knive stands on many feet, wherever they may be. Erik K Skodvin's path as Svarte Greiner have since been dwelling more and more into this world, picking each element apart to focus on them, stretching them out or cutting them down, looping, experimenting, and flooding with reverb -- trying to make time stop and night fall. But for now a re-visit to where it all started seems appropriate. Includes download code; Full-tone color artwork; Edition of 500.