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The Anekdoten Newsletter #22, October 2005
 
Greetings and welcome to newsletter #22! It has been almost one and 
a half years since the last newsletter and this, of course, is far 
too long. But now that I finally updated the mailing-list I intend 
to keep it that way, so you should hear from us more regularly in 
the future. Stay tuned, folks! 
  
Waking The Dead
 
The Big News this time around is that we have a new album out! It's 
a live album entitled "Waking The Dead, Live In Japan 2005" and it 
was recorded during our two shows at Tokyo Kinema Klub in February. 
Japan has been special to us ever since the release of "Vemod", so 
we wanted to give the fans something special when we did our first 
shows in Tokyo in five years. Our repertoire was bigger than ever 
before and we also played longer sets than ever, which meant that we 
had 25 songs, most of them in 2 versions, to choose from for the 
album. We wanted to put as much music as possible onto 1 CD/2 LP's 
and the tracklist that we came up with was:
    1. Monolith
    2. From Within
    3. Kiss Of Life
    4. Hole
    5. SW4
    6. Moons Of Mars
    7. The Sun Absolute
    8. Ricochet
    9. Gravity
    10. This Too Will Pass
    11. Sad Rain
 
Nicklas came up with the basic idea for Moons Of Mars during the 
soundcheck for the second days performance and the "song" is mainly 
performed on three Mellotrons.( See pics  
http://www.geocities.jp/mellotronics/anekdotenliveinjapan2005.html)
his Too Will Pass is a previously unreleased instrumental and Sad 
Rain was originally featured as the bonus track on the Japanese 
Vemod edition. The rest of the songs are from our two latest studio 
releases "From Within" and "Gravity". None of the songs on "Waking 
The Dead" were featured on our previous live album "Official 
Bootleg, Live In Japan". The running time is approximately 79 
minutes.

The album was recorded by Akinobu Mukaedani, mixed by Hans 
Fredriksson and Anekdoten at Rommarö Studio and mastered by 
Christoffer Stannow at Cosmos Mastering. Initial reactions have been 
positive and we are also very happy with the way it turned out. We 
hope you'll enjoy it too!
 
The CD was released by Disk Union on September 22 and is available 
from them in Japan, and from this day also through our webshop at 
www.anekdoten.se.

At the moment we are putting the final touches to the vinyl version 
(2 LP). It will be released on our own Virta-label in October and I 
will send out a separate newsletter with more information about it 
as soon as we have received the LP's from the manufacturer.   
   
New Additions To The Webshop
 
We are happy to inform you that all the Japanese Anekdoten-releases 
on the Arcángelo label are now available from the webshop. This 
means that all Anekdoten and Morte Macabre merchandise that is in 
print is available from us.
 
You are able to buy the following items directly from us:
- "Waking The Dead, Live In Japan 2005" - the Japanese CD-edition of 
the new release
- "Gravity" - the latest studio album, both on CD and LP
- "From Within" - 3rd studio album, both on CD and LP
- "Official Bootleg, Live In Japan" - Japanese 2 CD released in 
1998, CD only 
- "Live EP" - Japanese 4 track live EP recorded in 1996, CD only
- "Nucleus" - 2nd studio album, both on CD (remastered with bonus 
track) and LP
- "Vemod" - first album, both original and Japanese edition 
(including Sad Rain) on CD  
- Morte Macabre "Symphonic Holocaust", Nicklas and Peter from 
Anekdoten, Stefan Dimle (Paatos) and Reine Fiske (Dungen) playing 
horror-music their own way, both on CD and 2-LP 
- Anekdoten Gravity t-shirts. Make an enquiry about availability 
before sending any money, as some sizes are sold out
 
You will find information about prices and how to order if you click 
on "Shop" at www.anekdoten.se . 
   
More From The Live Front
 
Our gig at the Burg Herzberg Festival in 2004 came to a premature 
halt about 55 minutes into our set. A thunderstorm appeared as out 
of nowhere when Nicklas had sung the opening lines of Gravity. The 
storm almost blew us off the stage so we had no choice but to abort 
the show. The arrangers were kind enough to give us another go this 
year. This time the thunderstorm came earlier during the day and 
when we played (in the slot before Love) the sun was shining again. 
A great gig, as always in Herzberg! The German tv-show Rockpalast 
did a 3 hour special of the festival, but unfortunately Anekdoten 
was not featured on the programme as the audio from our performance 
was lost in a computer crash. Too bad. Anyway, thanks once again to 
Elmar and the Herzberg team for being so kind to us. It's great that 
the festival is back - better than ever!
 
So, no Anekdoten filming from Herzberg, but what we *can* offer you 
is a small view into our rehearsal room at www.anekdoten.se. Tord 
Lindman and Daniel, who also did the The War Is Over-video, filmed 
parts of the dress rehersal for the Anekdoten/Ritual-tour in April 
2004. A while ago we published the song From Within from this 
rehearsal on www.anekdoten.se (click on Audio/Video and press play). 
Thanks again, Tord! 
  
Current Activities
 
After a lazy summer we have now started rehearsing more regularly. 
We are in the process of writing new songs for our next studio 
release and the work is progressing nicely. No live dates are 
scheduled at the moment, but check out www.anekdoten.se every once 
in a while for eventual updates.


You'll hear from me again when the "Waking The Dead"-vinyl is out.

'Til the next time, thank you!
 
Jan Erik Liljeström
anekdoten@...
www.anekdoten.se
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