It´s Skyphone´s playfullness that wins out: All Is Wood is a woozy Penguin Café Orchestra-style beauty, and World Station consists chiefly of birdsong, a few bells, meandering acoustic guitar and what sounds like a tree yawning. An especially lovely record.
The Word (UK)

It´s their ability to low-key melodies by embracing small sounds, surface crackle and glitch, slow tempos and space that makes the difference. The melodies are the backbone of Avellaneda, though; the group´s borrowings from Scandinavian traditionals moves the set away from the anonymity of Ambient (and furniture) towards a kind of instrumental dub folk.
The Wire (UK)

Avellaneda’s ambient mix of traditional instruments, glitchy electronica, cyclical classical passages and folk will be immediately appealing to anyone who likes their music both angular and chilled, and will definitely appeal to admirers of bands like amiina and Efterklang. Ambient music’s reputation has taken a battering over the last decade, so it’s great to see bands like Skyphone reclaiming this much maligned genre and giving it a much needed shot in the arm. Lush, slightly skewed and altogether beautiful.
Total Music (UK)

Skyphone make electronica even more bucolic than one would expect from Rune Grammofon; soft, almost organic glitch mixes with acoustic guitar, analogue keyboards, tuned percussion, field recordings of birds and crickets; electronic processes mimic the natural. It may sound cloying to some, but it´s the warmest, fuzziest album I´ve heard this year.
Plan B (UK)

Suddenly, it´s love. Leaving the minimalistic abstraction of many Rune releases behind, “Avellaneda” not only feels like proper pop but being French-kissed by the sun after a night of heavy drinking. Definitely more latte macchiato than instant coffee. A solid 8/10.
Lodown (DE)

Moods and ambience form the core of this understated and very dreamy collection lying perfectly between Efterklang and Sigur Ros.
Rock-A-Rolla (UK)

iTUNES:
Avellaneda (2008)
Fabula (2004)
Seaweed (track from the RumpComp compilation)
Spetsnaz (a remix for the Italian band Port-Royal)
or get it from ThrillJockey
You can also get a free track called “fstop” from the TU M’P3 collection by browsing around here

First, in Danish, from Gaffa, Berlingske, Geiger, and Information. All nice! In english we particularly found this review from Audiodiversity interesting, and we’re definitely flattered that Erik Morse from San Fransisco Bay Guardian likes it. Also, great reviews from Allaboutjazz, allmusicguide, The Milk Factory, and Experimusic. Thanks all!

Making the album was, for us, a somewhat nostalgic process, a process of remembering sounds - trying to carve out or capture something of the lost worlds of sound that we all have stored somewhere in our unconscious minds. We hope that listeners can get something of the same experiences from listening to our music that we have had making it.

Having played in various rock outfits during the nineties, and having been friends for decades, the three of them began experimenting with the obligatory samplers, tape decks and noisy Roland GM modules of the time.

The process of getting to know new instruments, time-consuming as it is, slowly but steadily made defunct the rock bands, and in 1999 Skyphone was founded in the leftover room at a painters studio in Copenhagen. What might have prompted more industrial noises from the band, namely the room’s concrete walls and floors, was quickly, and to some post-industrial (and rather apocalyptic) aesthetic effect, covered with various carpets.

Skyphone were signed to the Norwegian label Rune Grammofon in 2003 and released their debut album “Fabula” in early 2004. Their second album “Avellaneda” was released in March 2008

Contact: skyphone@skyphone.dk

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