Record store day.

I was on such a good roll with my posts but then I stopped for some time. And during this time we have had the biggest day of the year for independent record stores, such as The Garden.

It was celebrated on the 21st of April and it was a busy and vdry funny day in the store lots of people to talk to and sell some vinyl to.

This day there are also lots of special releases and we had about 100 of these in stock for that day. I got a few of them myself, I'll make a separate post about those.

So all in all, a great day a couple of weeks ago.

The record Kent wish they could make.

Last Friday we at The Garden released a special album.

For you non-Norwegians (which I guess most of you are), bands like Seigmen and Zeromancer doesn't mean much. I hadn't heard of them before I moved here either. Seigmen is one of the bigger Norwegian bands of the last 20 years or so. They split up in 1999 and has since done a few reunion gigs.

Kim Ljung played bass and did backing vocals in Seigmen, he's also responsible for a lot of the writing. When Seigmen split up he and two other members from the band formed Zeromancer. Kim has also had he's own side project Ljungblut. He has just released his fourth album under this moniker.

This album is entitled "Over Skyene Skinner Alltid Solen". It is released by The Garden together with Pleasuredisc. It has been released on both CD and vinyl. The CD version is a digipack limited to 1 000 copies which are all numbered and signed by Kim Ljung himself. The vinyl is limited to 300 copies and are also numbered and signed by Kim.

Like the title says "The record Kent wish they could make." I hear a lot of Kent on this album and I understand Kim is a fan of the band as well so it isn't too far fetched. Especially the last couple of Kent albums where they have taken a more electronic/synth approach to it- only Kim Ljung perfects the sound. This is the first album since Seigmen's "Metropolis" (released in 1995) that Kim sings in Norwegian and he explained it as he wanted to be closer to the fans, which was also why he wanted to put his signature on every record. This album really has a "naked" sound to as well. A beautiful album, to put it short!

Here's a Spotify link to the album.

Vinyl is heavy stuff! Pt. 2

I'm totally worn out!

Carrying vinyl, vinyl shelves, CD shelves and other heavy stuff we've had in the store, for eight hours two days in a row has totally made an impact on my body. Can barely lift my arms at the moment. And there's at least tomorrow left to move stuff.


Luckily we're done with most of the heavier stuff (got some things left) and now comes the boring part of cleaning out the old store. But after next weekend we'll come to the fun stuff, which is organizing the new store before we open on Saturday March 5th.

Really looking forward to this day since I really think it will be great! I will post some pictures both here and at our Facebook page.

Vinyl is heavy stuff!

Phew!

Finally back from work after working an eleven hour shift.

Today we had the final opening day at our current location with The Garden. When we closed at three today we started to move all our records to the new location and moving a couple of thousands of records is hard work. We finally found out the downside with 180 gram vinyl;-)

We're not nearly finished but we have lots of work ahead of us the next couple of days but the result will def. be worth it!

And the result will be Norway's only vinyl-only store! (this is just a guess though:-))