The Cat Box Corp.
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26/12/09
Well, 2009 became a slow year for the Cat Box Corp, with no new releases at all, and the label will probably continue to lay somwat low doing at least the first half of 2010 also. We ARE still here, though, and orders can still be placed. It's all a question of getting to the negative end of the both of the time/money-axes, and my growing frustration with the cdr as medium and the cdr-label as concept. Lots of wonderful cdr-labels out there releasing amazing stuff, but personaly I'm begining to grow a little tired of the whole handmade spend-ages-making-50-copies-deal - wanting to put that little time I have away from regular work into making music instead of making packaging. So: If by any means I can pull the money together 2010 might see the first real-cd-with-printed-covers-release from the Car Box, but it's going to be summer at the earliest, before anthing happens...
Stuff might happen and news be posted before, as lots of interesting things happening in the music end of the Corp. Lots of work has gone into the music of Flowers Of Yes! as the project is starting to move into several new directions at once, the most dramatic being the addition of Tanja and Marie (from Pink Luminous Invocation / Tender Buttons / etc. etc.) to the project, which as a consequence has undergone a change from doing mostly intrumental drones/impro to mostly song based material - as in with actual melodies and all...though still pretty drone/impro-based. We have recorded a lot of new (and great!) material and is actually considering paying to get a proper mastering for once, so some sort of teaser on cdr might appear before a actual pressed cd (or more vinyl!). A series of more house-based remixes is also in the works, as is new stuff from Exquisite Russian Brides, the ressurection of The Cat Box Quartet, stuff from Boy On Boy and more...so buttom line: Lot a time spend making new music, not so much time spend making new releases. As usual: Watch this space - or sign up for the very irregular newletter.

16/10/08
Ok, a little off in the guessing. CBC19 out now - and before CBC18 - since the artwork for the debut from Flowers Of Yes! was finished first. Expect the same high style packaging as for Heavenly Flowers... The Exquisite Russian Blues Duo will follow very soon in a nice mini-DVD-box like PLIs Pink Fuck. Apart from this the label has been laying a bit low, since I've been busy with a performance project based on Samuel Becketts great - though overlooked - novel Ill Seen Ill Said, playing right now here in Copenhagen. Gonna keep things a little more up the following time, with the rather delayed release of ERBDs Darlin' Nikki, a studio recording - A Galaxy Of War Songs - by Flowers Of Yes!, and various new projects, on which more news to follow later...

29/06/08
CBC17 - Exquisite Russian Brides: Heavenly Flowers Of Spring is out now! Guessing mid-July for CBC18 (Exquisite Russian Blues Duo) and mid-August for CBC19 (Flowers Of Yes!).

09/06/08
After lugging big pieces of very heavy cardboard though the city this afternoon, I though I might as well give a short update of the comming wonders of The Cat Box Corp. Said cardboard is for the upcomming release by Exquisite Russian Brides titled "Heavenly Flowers Of Spring" featuring 30 min of semi-live synth/loop/accordion-workout in our most extravagant package since the original vesion of Tender Buttons, just wait and se... It's gotta be real time consuming, so we're probably not gonna make too many of these. We'd love to get 1000s of copies printed in this style (and none of this cdr-crap!) if ever we'd got the finacial recurces, but for now we're stuck with the handmade. Fuck all DIY-romanticism!
Apart from that: Two other releases finished and just awaiting design and assembly: First - Flowers Of Yes! gives us their debut full length "The Hystrical Process Of Infinite Repeat - vol. 1", probably sewed into something soft and colorfull to match their heavy drones and flowery impro. Second - The Exquisite Russian Blues Duo (= Exquisite Russian Brides featuring guitar genius Tanja Jessen) drop a lovely 19 min. folk/free version of "Darlin' Nikki" (yes, the one from "Purple Rain") on a 3"-cdr housed in the same cool kind of mini-DVD-box that housed PLIs "Pink Fuck". All in all we're set for a lovely summer.

07/05/08
And as promised, lots of stuff out now: Czarny Dym by Exquisite Russian Brides (check MySpace for sounds untill I get around to putting somthing up here) and The Pink Sea by Pink Luminous Invocation on Sloow Tapes. And Sings The Blues, also by PLI, which came and quicky sold out also on Not Not Fun. More to follow soon...

05/02/08
Not dead, only sleeping...close to being finished: two new albums by Exquisite Russian Brides - Ptasie Mleczko and Czarny Dym - as well as the debut from The Exquisite Russian Blues Duo in the form of a 20 min take on "Darling Nikki" and the debut from Flowers Of Yes! which might perhaps come in the form of more than one cdr...we'll see... And in the meantime watch out for two fortcomming tapes by Pink Luminous Invocation - Sings The Blues on Not Not Fun and The Pink Sea on Sloow Tapes - both to be out sometime in the spring.

10/10/07
Out now:  Pink Fuck by Pink Luminous Invocation as well as The End Of The World by The President´s Heart (on A Beard Of Snails). Comming soon: New stuff from Exquisite Russian Brides, a re-working of the soundtrack to Forvandlinger (the performance mentioned below), and last but not least the debut album from Flowers Of Yes! (who can be previewed here)

03/06/07
Various updates: A limited 3"-cdr from Exquisite Russian Brides is comming in the near future, along the with the solo debut of Marie A Jensen (Tender Buttons / Pink Luminous Invocation). The President's Hearts new (and final) album - The End Of The World - is also almost finished and will be released on the BSBTA-sublabel A Beard Of Snails soon. Pink Luminous Invocation is working hard on a mix of "Pink Grind" (hopefully out soon somewhere) and preparing for concerts at Umeå and Nordberg Festival this summer. September will also see the debut of a performance based on Kafka's short story The Metamorphosis by the Danish performance group Materiens Mysterier, for which I have made the music (very much in the vein of recent work by Exquisite Russian Brides). It will play from 07/09/07 to 14/09/07 and there is info and ticket ticket sale here. More updates will follow, but be sure to make a note of the dates! 

18/03/07
A lot of the comming-soon-on-other-labels items is out now: The Pink Luminous Invocation: Pink Fog on Not Not Fun in a beautiful silk-screened (and very limited) box on Not Not Fun and the Exquisite Russian Brides/Elektronavn split 7" in special handmade covers with lino cut prints on BSBTAVINYL. Also Magnus Majmon of Elektronavn and Pink Luminous Invocation has a new webside/label up and running , and is promising/threatning to put out a Exquisite Russian Blues Duo-cdr in the near future. Bites from the very nice reviews from The Sound Projector is up on the relevant pages, and I've added some nice new pictures of PLI also.

04/03/07
A new cdr by Pink Luminous Invocation - "Pink Fog" - will be out on Not Not Fun in limited/special packaging somewhere in March. Meanwhile the band is working hard on new material going in other directions than the drones they're known(?) for, updates of which can be heard at their MySpace... Also a bunch of nice reviews of our recent and not so recent releases in the new issue of the always great Sound Projector Magazine. Thanks!

28/01/07
The Exquisite Russian Brides/Elektronavn split 7" vill be out mid-March on BSBTA VINYL, and to celebrate, we?re playing a concert 14/03/07 at the lobby at PLEX, Konprinsensgade 7, Copenhagen at 8 PM. Two solo sets, the, homemade cake and more... And it?s free too! Also: New recordings from ERB coming soon, as well as some sort of Pink Luminous Inocation-remix-album and the long in-progress Cat Box Quartet-with-vocals-album If Nothing Is Sacred But Laughter. More news and mp3s to follow soon? Watch also for a new album from The President's Heart on A Beard Of Snails (BSBTA-sub-label) sometime in spring.

13/11/06
Two concerts with Exquisite Russian Brides in the near future: Sunday 19/11 kl. 16:00 at Nansensgade 47, Copenhagen, as part of Subotnicks very recommended two-day Sideshows #2 (info here) and Sunday 10/12 at Maanefiskeren, Christiania.

12/11/06
Old news really, but a unreleased track by The Cat Box Quartet was used as the soundtrack for a shot film in the Copenhagen Video Marathon 2006, that was among the nominees in the final, and can be viewed here. (It's a flash-site, so I can't always get the direct link to work, but look for Nominees 2006 and then D315)

07/11/06
Tender Buttons has a new track out on the very-soon-to-be-released Anybody's Anthems: a tribute to David Neuer's "Mr. Anybody's Anthems" on BSBTA - a double set consisting of David Neuers original album Mr. Anybody's Anthems together with a disc of cover versions. Tender Buttons contribute "7 Quarter Choir Song" complete with acoustic guitars, acordion, primitive percussion and glorious 3-part harmony. More info at BSBTA.

03/11/06
Last news about the concert at Literaturhaus the comming sunday: The line up is now Pink Luminous Invocation, showcasing some heavy new material, along with Exquisite Russian Blues and a special solo set by Elektronavn off-shot Majmon Sings. It all starts at 8PM, hope to see you there...

10/10/06
Pink Luminous Invocation, who's debut recording is out on foxglove now, are soon recording at Literaturhaus, a former church turned music venue with great acoustics, and since we have to drag all our gear to the place anyway, a concert is going to take place the day before the recording featuring a solo set by Exquisite Russian Brides as well as a set by Exquisite Russian Blues (= Marc & Tanja in duo mode, probably doing one of their infamous 25 min Prince covers) alongside a set by Elektronavn (=Magnus from PLI). The date is Sunday, November 5th, the adress is Literaturhaus, M?ade 8, Copenhagen, and it's gonna be great!

07/10/06
"To Increse In Size (tape version)" - a radicaly revised version of the titel track from the current LP by Exquisite Russian Brides - is now available on Debauches Bequeathal Asteroid Tarot, the newest edition in the series of subscription-only cdrs on BSBTA. More info at the BSBTA-site.

03/10/06
The website is finaly up and running, including complete catalog and mp3s for all releases. Working onthe project-pages and more mp3s...