mitek:	news products artists live distribution shop audio press contact	mitek22CD.LP -- mitek21DCD -- mitek20CD.LP -- mitek19CD.LP -- mitek18EP -- mitek17CD -- mitek16EP -- mitek15TS -- mitek14TS -- mitek13CD -- mitek12EP -- mitek11CD -- mitek10EP -- mitek09CD -- mitek08EP -- mitek07EP -- mitek06CD -- mitek05CD -- mitek04CD -- mitek03CD -- mitek02CD -- mitek01CD	Son of Clay Two Abstract Paintings ---------- 2005-03-18 ---------- ---------- Format: CD.LP Style: Minimal, Experimental, Ambience Length: 42min Sleeve design: alorenz, Berlin ---------- 01. Untitled 02. Untitled Listen to this release in our mp3 shop at Klicktrack. ---------- Please vote on "Two Abstract Paintings" at the Qwartz awards "The Qwartz Awards are designed to introduce the public to new music based on digital composition, promote independent labels and artists, and each year encourage the emergence of new performers and new musical currents." ---------- Two Abstract Paintings is the third full-length album by Son of Clay (Andreas Bertilsson). The album consists of a 46 minute piece divided into two parts. The piece is a poetic soundscape, carefully constructed of microscopic pieces, made up almost entirely of the recorded sounds of things like dry leaves, bits of wood, paper and dust -- things that can hardly even be called things, mere particles of matter, most of them on the verge of falling apart. Bertilsson turns matter into material, treating each of his recordings with utmost care and minutely crafting them into a vibrant mesh, a still life that is by no means still, an anthology of very small things that is alive with crackling, sparkling, shimmering beauty. As a visual counterpoint, the booklet holds a collection of twenty black and white photograms, portraits of the very same bits and pieces that the music is made of -- twenty individual bits of dust, singled out against nothingness, their shadows frozen into paper by means of 0.8 seconds of light. ---------- The subject behind Son of Clay is Andreas Bertilsson. Though working and dwelling in Berlin, Bertilsson is a part of the core of the "Southern" Swedish electronica scene, associated with names such as Andreas Tilliander, Hans Appelqvist and the Komplott label. Educated at Malmö Art Academy, Bertilsson has a Master of Fine Arts and his artistic works as well as his musical production reveals a profound interest in the morphology of sound. For Andreas Bertilsson, music and art are just two different channels to mediate processes and critical thoughts. Bertilsson is using influences of traditional musique concrete as well as contemporary genres as clicks and cuts, minimalism and isolationism, and has been compared to electronica giants such as Fennez and Oval, as well as Talk Talk. During the last year he has performed live at Sonar 2004 (Barcelona), Transmediale (Berlin), Rooseum (Sweden), among other well know venues and art-spaces.