Bremen brings together two luminaries of the Swedish punk underground, Lanchy Orre and Jonas Tiljander, both members of the seminal noise rock band Brainbombs. As Bremen, the pair crafts a minimal take on post-rock using an improvisational approach informed by their extensive musical history together, and it finds Orre on guitar and Tiljander on organ. The duo will release their Second Launch 2xLP via Blackest Ever Black early in June, and the record will be the follow-up to their 2013 self-titled debut. The accompanying text for Second Launch points to the album’s organic underpinnings while also being a lightning sharp articulation of Eastern thought, and it reads thusly:
“There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.”
While “Hollow Wave” is indeed imbued with cosmic tones, it resides with it’s feet on the earth, and it’s lasting impression is one of the human power of relating, as Orre and Tiljander converse across the night, at times in concert, at others excitedly at odds, but always, ultimately, weathering the storm of relating!
