Son of Gunnar Ton of Shel

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son of gunnar ton of shel.

The duo of Aram Shelton and Steini Gunnarson.

Using prepared guitar, wind instruments and live sample-based processing via PD and MSP, they create thick multilayered textural music that is guided by their expressive melodicism. Their music is improvised and balances between the acoustic and electronic realms, the electronics having the tendency to blur the line of what is acoustic and what is not. It is held together by a shared sense of commitment to long forms and instinctive timing. In a way comparable to the surprising similarities of physical stress that can occur in both warm and cold climates.

They have been playing since 2005, and have played at the Empty Bottle in Chicago and the Stone in New York. In the summer of 2007 their self-titled album was released by Edgetone Records.

"The album starts with something resembling a subdued feel of repressed terror rapidly escalating to total fury, the instruments wildly screaming in a mayhem of treatments and shrieks, the strings hit with everything but the kitchen sink, signals deformed and heavily processed even if the core timbres remain more or less recognizable. After a while the rage releases its grip quite a bit, leaving room to placid clarinet and sax expositions amidst metallic showers and ripples of incisive tones. Towards the record’s end, one can surprisingly locate a few delay-drenched semi-romantic arpeggios, almost to remind that Gunnarsson is just playing a guitar after all. In spite of the fact that the main sonic factors of these seven improvisations are always visible, somehow the record defies a correct categorization, enjoyable as it is in (repeated) spots and rushes rather than as a whole. Clearly, these guys are knowledgeable manipulators, able to both wreak havoc and caress your hair - with sandpaper." -Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes.

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available releases:

Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel: self-titled. Edgetone 2007 $12.00

aram shelton. about. music. calendar. video. blog. contact.
son of gunnar ton of shel. The duo of Aram Shelton and Steini Gunnarson. Using prepared guitar, wind instruments and live sample-based processing via PD and MSP, they create thick multilayered textural music that is guided by their expressive melodicism. Their music is improvised and balances between the acoustic and electronic realms, the electronics having the tendency to blur the line of what is acoustic and what is not. It is held together by a shared sense of commitment to long forms and instinctive timing. In a way comparable to the surprising similarities of physical stress that can occur in both warm and cold climates. They have been playing since 2005, and have played at the Empty Bottle in Chicago and the Stone in New York. In the summer of 2007 their self-titled album was released by Edgetone Records. "The album starts with something resembling a subdued feel of repressed terror rapidly escalating to total fury, the instruments wildly screaming in a mayhem of treatments and shrieks, the strings hit with everything but the kitchen sink, signals deformed and heavily processed even if the core timbres remain more or less recognizable. After a while the rage releases its grip quite a bit, leaving room to placid clarinet and sax expositions amidst metallic showers and ripples of incisive tones. Towards the record’s end, one can surprisingly locate a few delay-drenched semi-romantic arpeggios, almost to remind that Gunnarsson is just playing a guitar after all. In spite of the fact that the main sonic factors of these seven improvisations are always visible, somehow the record defies a correct categorization, enjoyable as it is in (repeated) spots and rushes rather than as a whole. Clearly, these guys are knowledgeable manipulators, able to both wreak havoc and caress your hair - with sandpaper." -Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes.
	listen:
	available releases:
		Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel: self-titled. Edgetone 2007 $12.00