Cassette only - limited edition of 250 copies Track listing: A: The Life of the Plants - 13m46s B: Swedenborg's Organ - 17m43s The Life of the Plants recorded at "The Night of the Long Worms", Café Oto, London on 19 November 2009. First performed at Kontiki, Botanic Sounds, Gothenburg, Sweden on 6 June 2009. Thanks to Joachim Nordwall and Henrik Rylander. Swedenborg's Organ recorded at The Showroom, London on 20 November 2009, in celebration of the DVD release of "Death Travels Backwards" by Leif Elggren on Errant Bodies Records. Thanks to Brandon LaBelle, Daniela Cascella, Lucia Farinati, Sound Threshold and Charlotte Engelkes. Reviews Boomkat (UK): *LIMITED EDITION CASSETTE - 250 COPIES ONLY* Swedish artist Leif Elggren has roots in various disciplines: he's a composer, visual artist and stage performer, having previously released on Ash International, Touch and Radium, with perhaps his most famous work being alongside Carl Michael Von Hausswolff for the Kingdoms Of Elgaland-Vargaland project. The first piece on this cassette is 'The Life Of Plants', recorded at London's Cafe Oto late last year. Elggren starts the performance as a spoken-word piece about electromagnetic fields associated with plants and then plays back a supposed sound recording of this botanical energy. It's conspicuously similar to a computer-generated glitch piece in the vein of Pita or one of his Mego contemporaries, but the act is worth going along with, making for a clever and very creative way of presenting music to an audience. The second piece, 'Swedenborg's Organ' was recorded the day after 'The Life Of Plants', also in London, this time at The Showroom. This performance coincided with the launch of Elggren's DVD release, Death Travels Backwards, and begins with talk of the 18th century Swedish inventor, philosopher and mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg, who claimed to be in contact with the spirit world. Elggren plays back supposed recordings of his tinkerings with Swedenborg's organ (if you'll forgive the unfortunate turn of phrase), which allegedly resides in Swedenborg's summerhouse. Sure enough, the piece unfolds with wheezing organ sounds and what sounds like creaky floorboards. It's all very spooky and hypnotically rather lovely. The cassette is limited to 250 copies and comes highly recommended.
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