Some News From Small Things On Sunday & On The Wrong Planet

Nous avons déjà parlé des deux projets de Henrik Bagner, en solo sous le nom de On The Wrong Planet ou bien en duo, avec Claus Poulsen, sous celui de Small Things on Sunday, chacun sort un CDr sur Striate Cortex, jeune label mais au catalogue déjà prestigieux.... / We have already discussed from the two projects of Henrik Bagner, solo under the name On The Wrong Planet, or in duo with Claus Poulsen under the name Small Things on Sunday, each released a CDr on Striate Cortex a young label but with an already prestigious catalog .. ..

On The Wrong Planet - First Visit (Striate Cortex, 2010)
The only new name here is On The Wrong Planet, but its the solo project of Henrik Bagner of Small Things On Sunday. Eight pieces in just under one hour. Since there is no information we have to do some guessing here. I think there is fair amount of field recordings going on here, sound processing (laptops are assumed) and as for instruments… guitars maybe, some sound effects. The outcome is along the lines of experimental side of ambient and drone music. I think some of these tracks are a bit long for what they are. No doubt they are set out to create ‘hypnosis’ or ‘trance’, but there is not always the right amount of variation in these pieces. The shorter are the best ones in this lot, with the haunting ‘You Can’t Break Me’ as the outstanding piece and the longest, ‘Revisit’, being the weakest link. Overall I thought this wasn’t bad, but it needed some more shaping. Edit down the best bits a bit more and the cosmic nightmare will fully take shape.
Vital Weekly

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After dunking my head in the lavatory of a recent CD-r batch, it looks very much like dark ambient styled music is too hit-and-miss a genre to ever provide a good run of really strong full album releases. The palette is so narrow that it’s instantly, and always, straining at the seams of cliché the very minute it begins to spin. Too often it lapses into shadowy safe territory, and then just refuses to budge. Thankfully the Copenhagen based duo of Small Things On Sundays aren’t shackled by the postures inherent in the genre tag, though they share the same cloakroom.

Things begin absolutely outstandingly with the opening “Powerstation”, a drag of five minute moody stasis that confronts the clock – intimidating time to stand still. The next two tracks summon up remembrances of moody, early Warp, The Caretaker, apple-cored-out brass instruments and the shudder of reality just beyond the listener’s fingertips. The mid album blip of “Cavernous” shows how easy it is to slip over the line into ho-hum, being as it is a piece of overlong, incoming mild fog tipped over into boring horrorshow drones. The final two tracks, a couple of very interesting moment dappled slabs, definitely show that Small Things On Sundays are up on the plinth, while the rest of the crowd are cackling around the burning dumpsters of dark ambient drone.
Foxy Digitalis

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On The Wrong Planet - (De-) Construction Time (demo, 2009)

1 dreams in slow motion (w.p. theme song)
2 (if voices came out of) static air
3 quiet mountain
4 landslide
5 heartbeat
6 dark and nearly empty (ma)

La dernière démo d'Henrik qui joue sous le nom On The Wrong Planet / Last demo from Henrik who plays under the moniker On The Wrong Planet:

In the ninetees "On the Wrong Planet" where a noise-band with ever changing members, that never really left the rehersal-room.
About three years ago the name was revived as my solo-project, which works in the field of soundscapes, noise and drones,and still deeply rooted in a (post-) punk attitude; "there are no rules".
Most of the sounds on the release are derived from heavily (mis-) treated Pop/Rock/Classic 12" vinyls but a few guitar-sounds was used too.
One of the major goals for "Wrong Planet" is to make sounds that are mesmerising, and to remove focus from " i have this message" to"here is a space free of,- or for -, thoughts". Of cause you can find bits of stories or emotions here and there, but only like fragments of a collage.
Tracks can be based on an idea from "the out-side" world, like "landslide", or "the inside-world" like "heartbeat"
.....but often the lines gets blurred.
Inspiration comes from people like F. Lopez, NWW, Suicide or Main, among others. But stuff like terrible news on the tv orthe sounds from the refrigerator late at night are also sucked into the scheme of things "On the Wrong Planet".
Henrik Bagner, Denmark. Okt 2009.

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