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Sleepyard

Angels Make Perfect

About Me


Sleepyard was formed by the beach of Hafrsfjord, Norway in 1998.
It is known for the Battle of Hafrsfjord, year 872, when King Harald unified Norway into one kingdom.
Here they found the psychedelic sounds they had been searching for, while meditating. Might have been some spirits swooning over them.
Now working on their third album "FUTURE LINES", which will be out next year. This will feature baroque pop songs, psychedelic trippers and pastoral wild beauty. Mike Garson is featured on piano.
"CANNONS FOR LAZARUS" will also be released. This EP will feature remixes from KRAMER and SONIC BOOM
Sleepyard has also contributed music for movies and exhibitions around the world.SLEEPYARD WILL ALSO BE FEATURED ON MIND EXPANSION COMPILATION 3
EASY TENSIONS IS AVAILABLE THROUGH PARASOL
PARASOL: Melancholy pop-spiritualism and dreamy harmonies coalesce on the new album, Easy Tensions, by Norwegian orch-drone-pop outfit Sleepyard. Euphoric ethereal art-pop, dreamsicle choruses that don’t need verses, chanted mantras that sooth any troubled soul.
Exceptionally melodious and mysterious orchestral drone-popping psychedelic meanderings from Norway s Sleepyard, plush sounds akin to French retro-dream-poppers Mellow (but mellower), Sean O Hagan s High Llamas (but much higher), and The Beach Boys most far-out recordings. With the prerequisite heavenly harmonies and mantric chanting leading the way, Sleepyard get their cosmic groove on, and you the listener will float away in the iridescent bubble of your choosing. An album where Summer is always just around the corner...
HIGH BIAS: Sleepyard is well-named. Easy tensions floats on amber waves of ambient baroque pop, gently wafting over your earlobes the way a breeze flutters over the top of a field of grass. The Kersbergen brothers add layer upon layer of harmonies (when there are vocals at all) and warm analog keyboards to their soporific psychedelia. "Sea of Love" is an honest-to-goodness pop tune, but "Memory of a "Moondog", "Wild Honey Skyline" and the appropriately-titled "My Lush Friend" sound like unused backing tracks from Smile. Whether that..s manna from heaven or muzak from hell is up to you.
More aural candy coming soon to this site. So keep on turning on.
ALBUMS:
THE RUNNER 2003 (Trust me records)
AVAILABLE ON trustmerecords.com and itunes
EASY TENSIONS 2006 (Orange music)
AVAILABLE ON: Parasol.com and ccap.musiconline.no
NEW ALBUM FUTURE LINES WILL BE RELEASED SOON

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/10/2006
Band Website: sleepyard.com
Band Members:

Oliver Kersbergen, Svein Kersbergen and Tom-Erik Løe
Also: Mike Garson on piano, Øyvind Berekvam, Gaute Storsve, Lydia, L. Ashton, Lukas Devita, Stian Olderkjær and Rolf Tore

Influences: Walt Whitman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Beach boys, Spacemen 3, Charles Ives, Penguin cafe orchestra, The Shangri-las, Kraftwerk, The Small faces, Augustus Pablo, John Cage, Spectrum, Can, Edward Munch, Alphonse Mucha, Joe Meek, Tomita, The Kinks, Cluster, Dollie Deluxe, Olivier Messiaen, The Association, Van Dyke Parks, AMM, Raymond Scott, Miles Davis, 13th Floor Elevators, Curtis Mayfield, Silver Apples, Erik Satie

Sounds Like: Falling in Love
Record Label: Orange recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New album finished

Future lines is now finished and at finishing mastering stages. We did have enough material for a double album, but it came down to a 34 minute trip. Hard to cut out some of the tracks, thoughFuture l...
Posted by Sleepyard on Tue, 20 May 2008 06:34:00 PST

SOLAR ANGELS INTERVIEW WITH SLEEPYARD OUT NOW

After a lot of work, we have final ly compl eted Solar Angel s volum e one.You can downl oad it from: www. solar angel s. netCONTE NTS: Gunil la Sussm ann -In betwe en trave lling the world and...
Posted by Sleepyard on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

Rainy day vibration (Hot radio mix)

Hiya,I spent yesterday making this mix for radio. It will soon be across the airwaves in the US.Hope you like it!Love,Oliver
Posted by Sleepyard on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:59:00 PST

Inner flights and outter flights

Hiya,I made an album called "Blue angels and black space" at the end of December last year. This is consisting of pure ambience, strange modulations and electronic signals from space. I used different...
Posted by Sleepyard on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:36:00 PST

Nearing completion of Future lines and new song

Hi all good people.We are nearing completion of our new album Future lines. Just need to make the thing flow correctly and add some newly written songs. The songs will be woven together by the rainy d...
Posted by Sleepyard on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:56:00 PST

Thank you Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was coming to town to perform at the Nu music festival in Stavanger. I was a bit late, so i wandered into a a very dark hallway leading to an equally big, dark room. Here i could...
Posted by Sleepyard on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 09:01:00 PST

Working with Mike Garson

This last year Sleepyard has been collaborating with Mike on several tracks and it..s been very creative.It..s been incredible to expand our material and include classical, jazz and exotic piano on ou...
Posted by Sleepyard on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:04:00 PST

Preview for our next album

Hey people, We are working on our next album "Future lines". The album will be a great bag of different moods and colors. The sound will be very exotic and there will be some nice rythms for all ...
Posted by Sleepyard on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:54:00 PST

Easy tensions review in INK19

SleepyardEasy TensionsOrangeSettling in for what promises to be one of the harder snow storms this winter in Michigan is an odd choice of time and place to get introduced to Sleepyard’s Easy Ten...
Posted by Sleepyard on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:48:00 PST

Third avenue

Last year i wrote a blog about our upcoming record "Hot radio", which was to take our sound into the pop vein. Imagine Velvets being played by Cheap trick or something. Yes it seemed to be quite a goo...
Posted by Sleepyard on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:34:00 PST