Alog
Amateur
Rune Grammofon 2007

01. Son of King
02. A Throne for the Common Man
03. Write Your Thoughts in Water
04. Sleeping Instruments
05. The Beginner
06. The Learning Curve
07. Turn Back. Undo
08. A Book of Lightning
09. The Future of Norwegian Wood
10. Exit Virtuoso
11. Bedlam Emblem
12. The Northeast Passage

The word "amateur" originally denotes a person who is motivated by a passion or love for their activity. It has been the goal of Alog on this album to preserve and enhance this special energy in their songs. Most computer music software today is made to hide the individual, unique qualities of the musician, to make rhythm and pitch perfect and to make everyone sound the same. In order to achieve their goal Alog had to turn this process around with their "augmented acoustics" technology and bring out the hidden "amateur" energy of each song.

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Even the very word "alog" has a shifting quality, never settling into one meaning but playing with the stems of a large collection of interconnected words like analog, dialog, logic, a logbook, catalogue, analogy and so on. Alog promises always to strive for the unexpected and surprising - the unsettling and unnerving quality of sound that escapes any final categorisation. If one where to choose a word to describe the music of Alog, it would have to be - details. A plethora of miniscule details is carefully arranged so as to inflict the strongest emotional and intellectual impact upon the listener. Like the painting of Ottoman miniatures the construction of new alogic tracks is painstakingly slow, and often involves both extensive travelling in search of the right sounds, and listening through hours upon hours of recorded material for that one second of pure audio bliss. In the alogic studios these tapes are then stitched together - sometimes hiding the joints, sometimes exposing them as open cracks. The use of alogic computer-software developed by the band is an integral part of this process. With this extreme attention to detail and control, each track takes several months to finish, and a whole album may ferment for years before it is ready for the public. Like good aquavit it has to travel to Australia and back before touching someone's tongue. -The Wire