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About Me

Is Testbild! really pop music?The answer is Yes, if you want it to be. But Testbild! is also an abstract idea that is everywhere around you. A strange conspiracy of thoughts and musical beliefs, always dedicated to hummable tunes, otherworldly sounds and song writing. You are always welcome to join us, if you think you can see trough the web of lies and hypocrisy of commercial music. Because, and this is important, ANYONE can be a member of Testbild!. And anyone IS. You know that guy with the glasses sitting in the corner of your local cafÃ©, staring at you all the time? Most certainly a Testbild! member. The old lady selling apples at the market square, always humming on a strange tune? Testbild! member. The little girl in a school uniform standing on a balcony, looking up in the sky? OK, now you get it.Once again: weâ€™re all around you. You can see us if you choose to believe it.Keep watching the horizon./ Sir Joshua Whitepaper the3d, Testbild! Management

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Member Since: 10/18/2006
Band Website: testbild.org/
Band Members: Stepbrother Ernest, Jana T. Mekka, Nathaniel Mist, Goliath Quadslums, Furian SibÃ©r, Dustin Spunkvolt
Influences: Hatfield & The North, Chrome, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Louis Philippe, Brian Wilson, Ny Akustik, Greens Restaurant, Gil Evans, Jan Johansson, Faust, Residents, Jim O'Rourke, Ludus, Hepburns, Soft Machine, Throbbing Gristle, Krzystof Komeda, Eric Satie, Nurse With Wound, J.L. Borges, Sophie Calle, Bas Jan Ader, Andrei Tarkovskij, Yurij Gagarin, Jacques Cousteau, Edward Gorey, Mike Alway, Ernst Haeckel, Isabelle Eberhardt, Simon Turner, Beppe Wolgers, National Geographic Magazine
Sounds Like: raindrops in the night, protuberances of a dying star, light beams under poisonus green sea water, fireflies and fountain cascades, reflections of the sun at 4.00 am, the creaking of an old lighthouse, apocalyptic and cinemantic nightmares of little children, comets tails, radio waves and tea kettles.
Record Label: Friendly Noise, Radio Khartoum
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Home On The Fringe

Michael Vitrano is a nice fellow who wrote a splendid review of our last record "Imagine a House". Now he's started a brand new music blog by the name of Home On The Fringe. Excellent rea...
Posted by Testbild! on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:20:00 PST

NSD interview

There's yet another interview here (Swedish). Enjoy!
Posted by Testbild! on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:29:00 PST

Interview

There's a brand new interview here (Swedish only, alas): http://www.digfi.com/default.aspx?id=11160
Posted by Testbild! on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:11:00 PST

Releaseparty!

Welcome to the releaseparty for our new full length CD "Une Teinte Intense", a thematic album about Isabelle Eberhardt.22/9 2007, 9.00 PMPå Besök, Nobelvägen 73Malmö, Sweden40 scrLive: Band In Box...
Posted by Testbild! on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:14:00 PST

Two new songs!

Friendly Noise just released two new Testbild! songs on their mp3 label. These songs are exclusive, and will not be released in any other form. Listen here: http://www.friendlynoise.se/mp3-releases...
Posted by Testbild! on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:39:00 PST

New Album!

The new Testbild! album will be called Une Teinte Intense, and will be released by Friendly Noise i the beginning of September this year. It's yet another thematical album, this time about Isabelle E...
Posted by Testbild! on Mon, 14 May 2007 10:44:00 PST

Brand new Testbild! interview! (in Swedish only, alas)

"den som spelar listanpassad populärmusik hjälper Hitler"
Posted by Testbild! on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:07:00 PST

A live video!

This is our friend Viktor Sjöberg, and he's performing a live remix of a previously unreleased Testbild! tune in Göteborg, November 2006....
Posted by Testbild! on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 02:57:00 PST

and we're on the 2006 top list of http://music-versity.blogspot.com/!

Testbild! - Imagine a House / Friendly NoiseTestbild! is a band with music as mysterious as their bio is, but this is Sweden we're talking about, the land of sugary, snowflake-laced indie-pop, so thei...
Posted by Testbild! on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:37:00 PST

Ned Raggett's review (allmusic.com)

Testbild!'s latest effort finds the quartet aiming at the kind of spare, fragmented song/story portraits that groups like Bark Psychosis and notably Hood helped create and perfect songs that effortl...
Posted by Testbild! on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:54:00 PST