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I've seen that there has been some posting about this artist lately. Maybe it has been said before but this guy is sort of a multi-talent. Check out the coverart he has made for a norwegian rock group on this link: http://www.motorpsycho.fix.no/thisis/pictures/ Check out the coverart section. He has made the covers for Demon Box, Mountain EP, Another Ugly EP, Tomothy's Monster, Promotor, Into the sun, Wearing Yr smell, Nerve tattoo, Blissard, Manmower, Sinful Windborne, Angels and Daemons at play, AADAP ep-box, Baby Scooter, Have spacesuit -will travel, Lovelight, Starmelt, Ozone, Trust Us, Hey Jane, Slow Phase Out, Go to California, Phanerotyme, and maybe some more. Everyone who likes great coverart, should have a look. |
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Yes!!!! It's about time this topic got it's own thread :-) Kim is probably my favourite designer/illustrator/artist out there. His motorpsycho-coverart is indeed excellent. Also check out , a norwegian record-label where kim designs ALL the recordsleeves :-) (in a much more minimalistic style than the mp-covers, but still beautiful. You (mortsto-x) probably already know he also illustrated many children's books? I'd recommend "maria & jose", "han kjendo" + "den store rode hund" (or something)... very very beautiful. |
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The runegrammofon-covers are my favourites. Excellent covers for excellent music. He has done a lot of covers on differnt books, and also written one himself. It is, like, the smallest book ever, with these naive poems and short-text's, with naive pencil illustrations. Nothing much, really, but you can always check it out. Unfortunately, I don't think it has been translated. http://www.oktober.no/forfattere/forfattere/039f.html Apparently there has been released a book with a collection of his illustrations, but only in Germany. Can't remember the name, though :( |
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Tree Weekend!! I have that one :-) (Kim sent it to me - *trying to make you jealous* ;-) ). Yeah, the book is called tree weekend, and it is like an overview of everything has done. But the interesting thing is that he didn't (almost) put any finished artworks in it. It's mostly just sketches and designs that were still "under construction", so you get somewhat of an idea how Kim works... it's a very beautiful book! it also contains many random photographs and (very) short stories... like... random memories, quite bizarre but very interesting :-) I also have the book he made as a graduation-project when he was still in artschool. It was called "book without function", and it's just that... it's not trying to tell a story or something... just beautiful images. Very nice! It also came with a CD called "fake" which has people talking, sound-collages and some songs... it was also limited to 300 copies (signed and numbered!) so i'm very proud of that one :-p Probably the highlight of my Kim-collection. Also interesting is the catalogue he made for his "tegninger fur en hundrings" (sp?)-exhibition. That catalogue (also a book) is about 5 cm's thick (!) and contains nothing but drawings... on each page a drawing. I've read about that small book you talk about... i've thought about ordering it, but since it seems to be mostly text... and i can't read norwegian, i didn't think it'd be worh it :-/ Are there alot of those illustrations in it? |
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Yo. I see Amazon sell Tree Weekend. Thinking about ordering it. How the hell have you come so close with Kim, Surrounded? |
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If you're a kim-enthusiast, ordering tree weekend would definitly be a good idea :-) It's an excellent book, i still look at it alot. And i just sent him an E-mail a few years ago, asking him some questions about the motorpsycho-artwork. We mailed back and forth for a while, he sent me some of his books, i also sent him some of my work... And then after a while it just stopped. I guess he's just too busy these days. With his musical career, and also still his graphic design and illustrations. He probably doesn't have time anymore to write with his fans. (on a different note, i think his cd "melke" was recently officially released in holland :-D I'll probably buy that one soon! A cd-r copy is nice, but it just doesn't feel right ;-) (artwork should be pretty cool too). |
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You might also be interested in It's some scans from his "book without function" that i put online 3 years ago. |
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all i know about kim is that he's making cool music and that he makes almost all coveratrs for rune grammofon :) |
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well from reading this thread you should be able to learn more about him ;-) |
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wow, i see you really know all about kim haha coverart for melke are just random pictures-looks quite cool-probably he took those but i think he did the coverart for his previous release "hei" im really not concerned with the artwork, im after its content :) |
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"wow, i see you really know all about kim haha" lol, well i wouldn't say i know everything about him... but quite alot :-p His art really fascinates me because it's so naive. When he wants to make a picture of a cat, he doesn't stop to wonder if he actually knows how to do that... but he just draws a cat. And it often looks a bit childish and inperfect... but that is what i like about it. And he also seems like a pretty cool guy. One day when he was in a bar he saw the singer from that band Motorpsycho sitting there. And he put a huge pile of his drawings infront of him on the bar and said: "if i can design your next album-cover you can have all those.", haha! (after that he continued to design all the covers for everything motorpsycho has released since then). I wish i was so courageous :-) His photography is much like his drawings i think... usually pretty random and not with perfect compositions etc. Just snapshots of things that fascinate him. He has done recordsleeves with only photos before, and i always like those :-) |
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cool guy indeed well, if you're interested i can scan those sleeve pictures and send them to you and yeah, to be spontaneous is always cool... :) |
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"well, if you're interested i can scan those sleeve pictures and send them to you" that would be nice yes! :-) You've got my address no? |
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yeah, i think i do but, i should really go to work now, i'll send you those as soon as i get home i'll send you "hei" coverart along, perhaps you'll find something to like about that-i dont hehe |
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"i'll send you those as soon as i get home" Thanks buddy! I appreciate it :-) "i'll send you "hei" coverart along" :-D great! "perhaps you'll find something to like about that-i dont hehe" lol, so far i've liked almost everything he's done, i highly doubt i won't like that cover (but i haven't seen it yet, so who knows). Thansk anyway :-) |
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Surrounded: do you have any of the 7" he has released on smalltownsupersound? Kim has actually used a friend of mine on one of the Motorpsycho-covers http://motorpsycho.fix.no/images/AADAP1.jpg |
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"any of the 7" he has released on smalltownsupersound?" I have the 7" single for "torture happiness"... has he released anymore? I didn't know about that :-) The music on that one is also on Hei and Melke, but the artwork is very nice :-D And no shit, is that guy from Angels and Daemons at Play a friend of yours? Hehe... that's pretty cool :-) I always liked that photograph... it's very mysterious and melancholic. It must be weird for him to know that people all over the world have a picture of him in their recordcollections :-p |
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"It must be weird for him to know that people all over the world have a picture of him in their recordcollections" It's really cool, yes. You should check out a book called "L" by Erlend Loe. I guess it's been translated to serveral languages. It's the story about the author, his brother (my friend on the cover), Kim, and some other friends travelling to a desert Island. Very funny, and you get to know all the people quite good. I have a limited 7" with "Nu kommer Cathrine inn..." and "Det blev fel", but they are on Melke to, I think. |
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i have heard about that book before! I believe Kim also designed the cover for that. But since there are no illustrations in it, i thought it wasn't really worth ordering. But if there would be a dutch or english translation, then i'd be interested again :-D I'll have to search for that! |
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You should! No illustrations, but a very naive and funny story. |
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Hmm... so far i've found that a book by erlend loe called "naïef, super" has been translated into dutch :-) That's something atleast, now i only need to find L... |
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surrounded-did you get any of the mails? (im not sure if i sent it right) |
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hm no, (just checked) i didn't receive any of your mails :-( Weird... did you send it to ikbenerik@hotmail.com? |
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i did :) i send you three mails, because of the hotmail limitation do you have a yahoo messengger? |
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What happened then? And when did you send them? Last night i did clean out my hotmail-account somewhat (threw away over 300kb of mails)... the only reason i can think of why it might not have worked is that my inbox was too full when you sent them... But yeah, i have yahoo-messenger installed too... we talked on it before (when you were trying to send me those susumu yokota files)... i still have you in my buddies list ;-) (erik_roggeveen@yahoo.com) |
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i sent them on friday but they're pretty large files :) |
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"but they're pretty large files :)" ah, so big scans :-D I like that! :-p But ehr... yeah... if you've got time, either you could try again to send them or get online with yahoo messenger? |
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the only thing with kim hiorthoy that I have is this smalltown supersampler which is really good, the track by kim hiorthoy is probably one of the best on the sampler. |
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Well tolstoyed, all that coverartwork was fantastic! :-D Thanks alot! I'll definitly be hunting down the original versions of the Hiorthøy-albums :-) Aileron by Rotor+ is really interesting too... (the artwork as well!! That made a good read :-D) i listened to it twice, and my only complaint is that maybe it's a little bit too varried and the tracks don't last long enough. Every time i'm really getting into it... and then they're over ;-) But essentially that's a good thing i suppose... if i think something is too short, means it's beautiful :-) I'm not too sure about jelinek though... i'll listen to it a couple more times like you suggested, but i don't really think this is my kind of music :-) |
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i love his music... he essentially makes electronica, but also with many acoustic sounds in there (i'm not sure if they're all actually "instruments"... sometimes i could swear a sound in the background is a squeaky door or something)... very naieve little melodies, both his albums have a very melancholic feeling to them. |
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cool, nice you liked it, surely you can get those albums there, if not visit oslo-its close enough :) hmm, rotor + sounds just like the perfect music album to me, for some time i was totally into it, but latelly im focusing on jelinek :) , i listened to this album of his-personal rock like 10 times on repeat yesterday-im listening it now again :) that track i send you is probably the most unique one, all his other stuff doesn't have that much beats, but that track was really the first one that really impressed me, and helped me get into jelinek there's plenty of other cool music, so you wont be missing anything if you dont get into jelinek, really :) |
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