SIM CARD HØLDER is not a band. It is the hybrid child of Ian Bruner, Drone Operatør and Gajek. Its procreation date is hard to pin down, but it started 2020 with an Insta chat and one of Ian's piano improvisations recorded in his Colorado living room. From there the album grew in separated covid lockdown wombs at three different locations in Germany. Ian's shadowy instrumentation of light piano and heavily layered and long believed to be dead soundscapes were digested, replanted and grown-over by Drone Operatør's and Gajek's uncompromising and individual sense for song structures and sounds. When finally all body parts were assembled in early 2021 the baby was already fluent in different languages.
Sim Card Hølder grows slowly while meandering through dense and open fields. It switches from calm and dreamy moods to wild fractured outbursts without fragmenting into the arbitrary. A raw spiritual power keeps every part connected and in perfect motion. Each song is a portal into multiple universes that suck you in on thick piano carpets, sharp saxophone spikes and buzzing quadcopter wings, warming insect intestines, blasting raw drums and slow healing winds, screeching synth rhymes, dissonant orchestral tales and floating blue melodies. It’s a demanding ride but thoroughly deeply relaxing. The perfect soundtrack to rewind your mind.
1. dronepilot (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 05:46
2. Contrailsnake (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 05:24
3. Dronegød (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 03:02
4. Icaruscomplex_ (composed by Gajek & Ian Bruner) 03:35
5. TVdream (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 10:09
6. fallingasleepwiththedrones (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 04:20
7. ASEGMENTØFSKY (composed by Gajek & Ian Bruner) 05:31
8. Sleepparalysis (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 05:05
9. Boneless (composed by Gajek, Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 02:39
10. virtualcopulation (composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner) 05:48
11. Alone_ (rendered altitude) [composed by Drone Operatør & Ian Bruner] 05:31
Music by SIM CARD HØLDER
Artwork by Mario Miron
Mastered by Kevin McPhee (East End Mastering)
Releasing on Blueberry Records, 2021.
