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SERENA MANEESH
Glam / Thrash / Gothic

		"URGH URP URK WHAT A WONDERFÜL WORLD" FOGGY NOTION/ OSLO, Norway Profile Views: 209269 Last Login: 10/6/2008
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Member Since	9/9/2005
Band Website	serena-maneesh.com/
Band Members	ØYSTEIN EINAR HILMULINA AMY ANNA ALVALINA VICTORIA SUND RA MØLLEREN KÅRE J EDWIN SCHU EMYLE HUSBY
Influences	((((((((((JOBIM/OGERMAN---------AMON DÜÜL--GAINSBOURG/VANNIER--- VEGA/REV---LARRY NORMAN----FLORIAN FRICKE/POPOL VUH--- M.B.V----ENOCH LIGHT---ADAM&EVE----------nico/vU)))))
Sounds Like	SØRVESTLANDVESTLAND WILDERNESS
Record Label	Playlouderecordings/ Beggars
Type of Label	Indie

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TOUCH MY LIPS TO SPEAK AGAIN

Angels Sing, Guitars Shriek and Shatter on Serena Maneesh Full-Length Debut
August 29, 2005, Honey Milk Records Norwegian Serena Maneesh present their self-titled, full-length debut Serena Maneesh with eleven songs that slide down a razors edge of distortion and pop whimsy, raucous guitar work and underwater static, angelic voices and primal screams. The strange melodies are strikingly original, yet they strike to the heart of something familiar: a classic rock guitar lick, a wound, a kiss.

Inspired by everything from Southern blues via Neu! to Gershwin, Serena Maneesh is as much about exploring sound as crafting song. Working in both horizontal and vertical layers, head musician Emil Nikolaisen creates tuneful paradoxes, infinite yet time-bound. His meticulous compositions balance whispery female vocals and underlying violin with driving guitar rock, distorted samples, and chant-like repetition. Tracks such as Sapphire Eyes begin and end in liquid noise; in between guitars shriek and shatter, angels sing, and a snare beats along in cinque-pace time.

Serena Maneesh was completed in half a year in various cities such as Chicago, (at Steve Albinis Electrical Audio studio), Oslo, New York City and Stockholm. For the album, mixed by, among others, Martin Bisi (SWANS), Nikolaisen employed several of his sisters (Elvira and Hilma), friends (Sufjan Stevens and Daniel Smith of the Danielson Famile), and solid Serena musicians Lina Holmström on female vocals, Eivind Schou on violin, Sondre Tristan Midttun on guitar, and Tommy Akerholdt on drums, among others.

On Serena Maneesh songs are written not in Norwegian but in English. The lyrics take liberties with structure and image, and fully tilt the listener upside down. Opening rocker, Drain Cosmetics expresses a longing for freedom from superficiality, and Nikolaisen interchanges verbs and nouns like glass beads on a choker. Touch my lips to speak again/ Broken six-string ring again, he sings. On Chorale Lick he sings of being, stripped naked like that lonely fall. But its not all elevated soul searching Serena Maneesh takes herself to the social ills of the street with scathing commentaries on the post-modern malaise.

Yet Serenas strange interiority is increasingly exposed on the albums journey through the beautiful and the grotesque, the broken and the restored. Intonating a mystery and a grace, a feminine reflection emerges through eleven tracks of lush pop and lonely distortion. In the refraction of this image, the shrieks of the last track of Serena Maneesh. Your Blood in Mine yield to the hushed, hymn-like tones of a piano. The pianist has forgotten himself, playing alone in a cathedral to a half-remembered song; alone but for the saints shifting in their tombs and the angels swinging by their fingertips from the ceiling chandelier.

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Rockforum	Oct 6 2008 11:50 AM
Shun	Oct 6 2008 4:11 PM thank you for the add!
the mind robbers	Oct 2 2008 3:15 PM Thanks for the add! Super Woozy! All the best!
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Phy	Oct 4 2008 6:48 PM Hi! We..ve just uploaded some new songs, you..re welcome to come and listen! More details on the release of our new album will follow, maybe some new songs as well. Stay tuned! - Phy
Spirits of the Dead	Sep 30 2008 9:28 PM
Hugman	Oct 1 2008 7:49 PM all I wish for is to be with someone who's my friend :)
Valis	Sep 29 2008 11:48 PM
Adams Apple	Sep 30 2008 11:48 AM Tackar. Ha det fint!
Satellite Dub	Sep 29 2008 12:31 PM Hi there, Hope you're well. I'm pleased to announce that my debut EP for Antimatter has been released. Magnolia Lane EP is available on CD and as a digital download. "A gritty club monster that Tom and Ed would swap Lily Allen for ... it'd take a brave man to bet against this being a cult club smash." - News Of The World 07.09.08 Copy & paste the following links in your browser. Buy and download the EP from iTunes : http://phobos. apple. com/WebObjects/MZStore. woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=286536974&s=143444 Buy a CD directly from the Antimatter Music shop : http://www. antimattermusic. co. uk/satdubshop. html Cheers, Craig xxx
вℓą¢ĸąиςєℓ	Sep 29 2008 1:18 PM SEXY & HOT COMMENTS CLICK HERE! Very good music!Have a nice day! Greetz Manu(-:
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Charles	Sep 27 2008 8:56 PM Greetings from Augusta, Georiga (Hometown of James Brown) I recieved "S-M backwards" in the mail this past thursday. Its fucking great.
lesvo§urf	Sep 28 2008 9:18 AM Thanks for the add. I love your sound!!
Botanica	Sep 23 2008 4:59 AM Emil! When're you coming our way for a visit?

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