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Leif Elggren — Motor For An Unknown Vehicle (Opening Of The Grave) Pamela MÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃéndez ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃâ Time (22 Feb 2019)Birth name: Leif Rune Kenneth Elggren
Location: Linköping, Sweden
Genre: Drone, Experimental, Noise, Sound Art
Album release: May 1, 2019
Record Label: Fragment Factory
Duration:     32:44
Tracks:
1. Untitled (Side A)   16:22 
2. Untitled (Side B)   16:22
Crédits:
∠   LE — Artwork [Insert]
∠   LE — Composed, Edited By, Mixed
∠   Kitaro Beeh — Lacquer Cut
∠   Henrik Rylander — Mastered
∠   Leif Elggren — Text
Notes:
∠   Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl.
∠   Incl. insert: »The Opening of the Grave« drypoint engraving by LE from 1978.
∠  Stamped, signed and numbered by the artist.
∠   A short earlier version of this piece was used as a part of the music (by LE) for Lotta Melin’s choreography »Flying Sickness in the Sky« at Moderna Dansteatern, Stockholm, 2007.
∠    A longer earlier version of this piece was used as the soundtrack for Daniel Löwenbrück and LE’s performance »That Little Idiot«
at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK, 2012.
∠    LE is published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd.
Description:
∠|∠     “Motor” is the second part in a trilogy, preceded by “Das Baank” (Fragment Factory/Rekem Records) in 2016. The Motor started a long time ago with small basic fragments used for different steps (phases) like installations and performances. Those fragments were put together over the years into a longer piece presented on this LP. Motor is now a 32 minutes long continuous piece of sounding matter. Autonomous and free in itself. Like an homunculus it can now leave its birthplace and head for the future, for something else. The initiative (the basic source) was taken already in April 1949, as an inevitable starting point.
∠|∠     Edition of 300 copies on black vinyl, incl. signed and numbered insert.
Biography:
→    Leif Elggren (born 1950, Linköping, Sweden), is a Swedish artist who lives and works in Stockholm.
→    Active since the late 1970s, Leif Elggren has become one of the most constantly surprising conceptual artists to work in the combined worlds of audio and visual. A writer, visual artist, stage performer and composer, he has many albums to his credits, solo and with the Sons of God, on labels such as Ash International, Touch, Radium and his own Firework Edition. His music, often conceived as the soundtrack to a visual installation or experimental stage performance, usually presents carefully selected sound sources over a long stretch of time and can range from mesmerizingly quiet electronics to harsh noise. His wide~ranging and prolific body of art often involves dreams and subtle absurdities, social hierarchies turned upside~down, hidden actions and events taking on the quality of icons.
→    Together with artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff, he is a founder of the Kingdoms of Elgaland~Vargaland (KREV) where he enjoys the title of King.
→    Elggren spent five years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, specializing in drawing, design and bookprinting. In the late ‘70s he began to associate with performance groups, meeting people like Hausswolff and Thomas Liljenberg. With the latter he formed Firework in 1978, a duo that put up exhibitions and performances. Around the same time he purchased a press and started to publish art books.
→    In 1988 he formed the duo Guds Söner (The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred, whom he had met four years earlier. The duo excels in creating long, puzzling stage performances that give equal roles to physical action (or inaction) and soundtrack (live or taped) with themes such as violence, love, the quotidian, food and royalty.
→    Elggren released his first 7” records in 1982 and 1984 on Hausswolff's label Radium. A first solo LP, Flown Over by an Old King, came out in 1988. The inception of Firework Edition in 1996 allowed Elggren to release more of his music and the growing popularity of installation art in avant~garde music circles (thanks to its ties with experimental electronica) has given his work more international exposure since the late ‘90s. Other key solo works include Talking to a Dead Queen (1996) and Pluralis Majestatis (2000).
→    Together with Hausswolff, Elggren represented Sweden in the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 (with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen from Finland and Anders Tomren from Norway).
→     In 2007 he appeared (with John Duncan) at the Netmage festival in Bologna organized by xing and executed “Something Like Seeing in the Dark”.
→     Leif Elggen is also a member of Guds Soner (or The Sons of God) with Kent Tankred.
Label: http://www.fragmentfactory.com/ 
Store: http://store.fragmentfactory.com/ 
Website: https://leifelggren.org/  
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