Silje Nes from Attic Addict on Vimeo.

Silje Nes, following from a series of great sessions, continues the trend with this peformance on Attic Addict. The session includes a number of songs, starting with gradually developing rhythmic loops, then progresses with vocals with her drummer ultimately joining in. The whole peformance is filmed with a washed out slightly distorted perspective.

For some of her other recent sessions you find them
here and here

On December 14th Silje Nes will be playing at NO-Festival in Berlin

Silje Nes recently performed two tracks for the Faits Divers 'FD' Acoustic Sessions at this year's Novosonic Festival in France. Click here to watch 'Hello Luminance'.

You can catch Silje live at the following shows:

01 October - Eastern Promise, GLASGOW (UK)
20 October - Yellowstage FRANKFURT (DE)
21 October - Kraftfeld, WINTERTHUR (CH)
22 October - Festival Novosonic, DIJON (FR)
23 October - Le Petit Bain, PARIS (FR)
25 October - Cultuurcentrum, MECHELEN (BE) (w/ Susanna )
26 October - Cultuurcentrum, HASSELT (BE) (w/ Susanna )
27 October - Cultuurcentrum De Spil, ROESELARE (BE) (w/ Susanna )
28 October - Patronaat, HAARLEM (NL)
29 October - Merleyn, NIJMEGEN (NL)
30 October - Mezz Cafe, BREDA (NL)
31 October - Astra Stube, HAMBURG (DE)

** photo by Adam Jason photography 

FLØ from Blank Blank on Vimeo.

03 September – Sound Of Bronkow Festival, DRESDEN (DE)
01 October – Eastern Promise, GLASGOW (UK)
20 October – Yellowstage FRANKFURT (DE)
21 October – Kraftfeld, WINTERTHUR (CH)
22 October – Festival Novosonic, DIJON (FR)
23 October – Le Petit Bain, PARIS (FR)
25 October – Cultuurcentrum, MECHELEN (BE)
26 October – Cultuurcentrum, HASSELT (BE)
27 October – Cultuurcentrum De Spil, ROESELARE (BE)
28 October – Patronaat, HAARLEM (NL)
29 October – Merleyn, NIJMEGEN (NL)
30 October – Mezz Cafe, BREDA (NL)
31 October – Astra Stube, HAMBURG (DE)

Visit her profle for more information.

**photograph by Adam Jason

Silje Nes -The Grass Harp from one two three on Vimeo.

One Two Three have filmed the enchanting Berlin-based singer Silje Nes playing live on the beach in Tarnos, France. Check this out!

Visit Silje Nes’ profile here.

BRETON
13 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
12 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON

FRIGHTENED RABBIT
11 June @ Rockness Festival, INVERNESS

HAUSCHKA
12 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON 17 June Sonar, BARCELONA

MAX RICHTER
12 May @ The Great Escape, BRIGHTON

MAZES
14 May The Great Escape, BRIGHTON 19 May / 21 May Stag & Dagger, LONDON / GLASGOW
20 May Sound City, LIVERPOOL 17 July Latitude, SUFFOLK
23 July Tramline, SHEFFIELD 13 August Beacons, YORKSHIRE DALES

MILK MAID
14 May The Great Escape, BRIGHTON 22 May Friends of Mine Festival, CHESHIRE

SILJE NES
3 September @ Sound Of Bronkow Festival, DRESDEN

THE TWILIGHT SAD
12 June Rockness Festival, INVERNESS 16 July The 2000trees, CHELTENHAM
31 July Northern Lights, ABERDEEN 14 August Beacons, YORKSHIRE DALES

WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS
31 July @ Northern Lights, ABERDEEN

And five FatCat artists will be very, very busy this time around, including experienced SXSWesterners The Twilight Sad who have three shows lined up that you wont want to miss. In other South x news: a battle between our very own Maps & Atlases and electro indie-poppers Baths should prove to be a major festival highlight.

The SXSW rookies this year are the always brilliant Silje Nes, and the hustling and bustling Mazes who are invading Austin and keeping their schedules packed just for you. Mazes will be playing twice Wednesday night as well as another double set on Saturday. We recommend heading to check out Silje Nes‘s set at the Panache Booking pre-party on the 15th to warm you up and ease you into the big week.

New dad and Texas transplant David Karsten Daniels is also throwing two shows at y’all that are definitely not to be overlooked!

HAVE FUN! and remember to double check showtimes and dates as they may change!

FatCat @ SXSW

Mazes
16 Mar, 8:00 p.m. – Music Gym
16 Mar, 11:00 p.m. – 512 Brewery
17 Mar, 5:15 p.m. – Fader Fort
19 Mar, 1:30 p.m. – Homeslice Pizza
19 Mar, 8:00 p.m. – Sexbeat Party @ 21st. St. Co-op

Silje Nes
15 Mar, 8:00 p.m. – Panache Pre-Party Scoot Inn 16 Mar, 2:30 p.m. - Anso Party Spiderhouse Cafe
18 Mar, 7:00 p.m. – Sheraton Hotel
19 Mar, 9:00 p.m. – Bethel Hall

Maps & Atlases
17 Mar, 11:30 p.m. – Barsuk Showcase Red Eyed Fly 18 Mar, 12:00 p.m. - Filter Day Party Cedar Street Courtyard
19 Mar, 2:00 p.m. – Escapes XI Maps & Atlases vs Baths E. 6th and Waller 19 Mar, 6:00 p.m. - The Vagabond Collective 1800 South Congress

The Twilight Sad
16 Mar, 1:00 a.m. – Maggie Mae’s
18 Mar, 5:00 p.m. – Sea Now! Party @ Annie’s West
19 Mar, 1:00 p.m. – Homeslice Pizza

David Karsten Daniels
18 Mar, 1:20 p.m. – Craftacular Carnivale
19 Mar, 3:15 p.m. – Beast Side Bash

Watch the Blank Blank-directed video for “Branches” at Pitchfork TV HERE

Silje + co. are currently traversing the American West on a tour that will lead them all over the country – including Austin’s SXSW festival – and have just been announced as the support for tonight’s Hawk And A Hacksaw show at Los Angeles’s Satellite club. More information about the show can be found HERE – this is a truly special lineup that is not to be missed!

Silje Nes USA 2011 Tour – remaining dates
02 Mar – Club Satellite, Los Angeles CA (w/ A Hawk And A Hacksaw)
03 Mar – Trunk Space, Phoenix AZ
04 Mar – Solar Culture, Tucson AZ
06 Mar – Hi Dive, Denver CO
08 Mar – Replay Lounge, Lawrence, KS
09 Mar – The Conservatory, Oklahoma City OK
10 Mar – Club Dada, Dallas TX
12 Mar – Festival Nrmal, San Pedro Garza, MX (w/Thee Oh Sees, Surf City,Bare Wires)
13 Mar – Padre’s, Marfa TX
15 Mar – SXSW, Austin TX (w/Thee Oh Sees, Surf City, Bare Wires)
16 Mar – SXSW, Austin TX (w/Mark Eitzel, Sea of Bees, Carletta Sue Kay)
18 Mar – SXSW, Austin TX
23 Mar – Cake Shop, New York NY
24 Mar – Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn NY

Photo from iamdonte on Flickr

24 Feb – Luigi’s, Sacramento CA (w/Odawas)
25 Feb – Noise Pop Festival @ Swedish American Hall, San Francisco CA (w/Alexi Murdoch)
26 Feb – The Abbey Lounge, Santa Cruz CA
27 Feb – Lot 1 Cafe, Los Angeles CA
28 Feb – Saint Rocke, Hermosa Beach CA
01 Mar – Soda Bar, San Diego CA
03 Mar – Trunk Space, Phoenix AZ
04 Mar – Solar Culture, Tucson AZ
06 Mar – Hi Dive, Denver CO
08 Mar – Replay Lounge, Lawrence, KS
09 Mar – The Conservatory, Oklahoma City OK
10 Mar – Club Dada, Dallas TX
12 Mar – Festival Nrmal, San Pedro Garza, MX (w/Thee Oh Sees, Surf City,Bare Wires)
13 Mar – Padre's, Marfa TX
15 Mar – SXSW, Austin TX (w/Thee Oh Sees, Surf City, Bare Wires)
16 Mar – SXSW, Austin TX (w/Mark Eitzel, Sea of Bees, Carletta Sue Kay)
18 Mar – SXSW, Austin TX
23 Mar – Cake Shop, New York NY
24 Mar – Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn NY

Check out Silje’s profile for more info.

16 Feb – Garage, Bergen, NO
17 Feb – Sogndal Kulturhus, Veka; Sogndal, NO
18 Feb – by:Larm, Oslo, NO
19 Feb – Blæst, Trondheim, NO

Visit Silje’s profile for more information.

Silje Nes from MCR Scenewipe on Vimeo.

FatCat’s Silje Nes performed her song Crystals, located somewhere between a craft centre and a building site before her recent gig with Mice Parade at The Ruby Lounge, and the Manchester Scenewipe cameras were there to capture it..

‘Crystals’ is taken from Opticks, Silje’s acclaimed latest album, which can be purchased directly from FatCat from our web store

Silje can also be found on her profile page

If you (understandably!) want to purchase Opticks after hearing “The Grass Harp”, you can do so at our web store and check out Silje’s profile page here.

Silje Nes, Mice Parade and Maps & Atlases recently performed live acoustic sessions for Dublin’s Trinity FM. Click play on the video above to see Silje Nes‘s gorgeous ‘Symmetry of Empty Space’ for acoustic guitar, voice and viola.

Check back over the coming days for Mice Parade and Maps & Atlases videos, and be sure to check out the Trinity FM page here

The new digital single from Silje Nes, Branches, was released a few weeks ago, and to celebrate she launched a remix competition. As promised the top 5 entrants now feature on an exclusive, free-to-download digital EP, which you can get via the player on the web page.

You can buy Branches through the FatCat store web store.
And visit Silje Nes’ profile here.

30 Oct – Festival Rockomotives, Vendome, FR
31 Oct – Cafe De La Danse, Paris, FR
01 Nov – Cafe Video, Gent, BE

Silje Nes has recorded two songs at Corsica Studios in London, filmed by BeatCast, the talented people behind the “OffBeat Sessions”. The first song, “Crystals” (taken from her latest album Opticks, available to buy at our webstore) is up on the BeatCast website, and the second will go up very soon! Silje is currently on tour in Europe with fellow FatCat artists Mice Parade – the remaining dates are listed below:

22 Oct – Init, Roma, IT
23 Oct – Lokomotiv, Bologna, IT
25 Oct – Sidecar, Barcelona, ES
26 Oct – Gazteszena, Zarautz, ES
27 Oct – La Maison Bocau, Bocau, FR
30 Oct – Festival Rockomotives, Vendome, FR
31 Oct – Cafe De La Danse, Paris, FR
01 Nov – Cafe Video, Gent, BE

“Opticks is beautifully orchestrated with brilliant highs and lows.” – Verbicide
“It’s an album with it’s own strongly beating heart.” – Consequence Of Sound

Nearly a year and a half in the making, Opticks is a gently enchanting new record that – while once again home-recorded – dramatically upgrades Silje Nes’s sound and sees her making considerable advances on her acclaimed 2008 debut, Ames Room. Intricately constructed, warm and brimming with melodic hooks, Opticks is a record full of wonder, unfurling a series of increasingly accessible and catchy little songs.

Created between autumn 2008 and winter 2009, the album was mixed with Tarwater’s Bernd Jestram. More melodic and a little less experimental than her debut, its beautiful combination of sweet hooks and lush, intricate textural detail ensure that it’s a place to which listeners will want to return. Nes’s beautiful, breathy vocals are projected further forward in the mix than previously, becoming less another texture than a central focus for the whole, and bringing along a compelling new intimacy.

Orbiting around Nes’s unique vocals, are tracks constructed from a wide range of instruments and effects – guitars, drums, viola, bass, xylophone, electronics, keyboards, concertina, flute, trumpet, percussion and, as Nes puts it, “basically anything I have lying around, adding random recordings of things, video clips, effects…”

Despite – or, more likely, due to – this kitchen sink approach, Opticks is a coherent expression of Silje Nes’s lovely, forward-looking vision: engaging, delicate, and transformative.

Silje Nes is currently on tour with Mice Parade in Europe.