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IN THE FISHTANK

Sparklehorse & Fennesz

In The Fishtank 15 - 2026 Reissue

'In The Fishtank' is an ever ongoing project of Konkurrent, an independent music distributor in the Netherlands. For this series of releases Konkurrent invites musicians that they feel strongly related to into the studio to record. They are given two days studio time and freedom to do whatever they like musically, so The Fishtank offers a space for expression and experimentation Laptop artist Christian Fennesz manages to create a world of unheard and rich new sounds. Christian had the idea to collaborate with Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse as, after performing together, both felt that there was further mileage in their collaboration. Just two days in December 2007 were enough to record over 40 minutes of this sublime Fennesz and Sparklehorse combination. Songs and soundscapes of rare beauty with stunning atmospherics, where abstract sounds and well-crafted traditional song structure meet and where acoustic instruments and electronics create outstanding ambience.

TRACK LISTING

1. Music Box Of Snakes
2. Goodnight Sweetheart
3. Shai-Hulud
4. If My Heart
5. Mark's Guitar Piece
6. NC Bongo Buddy
7. Christian's Guitar Piece

Black Heart Procession / Solbakken

In The Fishtank

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RSD title - Silver vinyl - 1600 copies worldwide
Pall, leadsinger of The Black Heart Procession, immediately suggested Dutch prog rockers Solbakken to become sparring partners for their Fishtank session. In July 2003, when the BHP's had just finished their 'Tropico'-tour, both bands started recording. Solbakken, knowing their limitations in the improvisational field, prepared a couple of loose ideas to throw at the Black Hearts, who took it all pretty well. Then, years of rock experience and some high speed songwriting were combined with the ever fascinating voice of Pall, the reliable pianohands of Toby added to the unexpected input of Swiss-mystery guest Rachael, where the whole thing was sustained by the nobleness of the musicians, resulting in these here pretty tracks.

An attempt was made to hide the lack of lyrics, vocals were recorded through a guitar amp with lots of reverb, but stern-yet-fair master of ceremony Zlaya digitally dug them up and made them sound quite fresh indeed! Ending up somewhere in the land of Bad Seeds, uncovering a bag of Morricone leftovers.


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