Hallo B-girls and B-boys!

Dear friends and supporters!

We are featured heavily in The Silent Ballet's yearly round-up! Our album Sombunall is listed as 2 in "Essential Electronica 2008" and 24 in "Top 50 Albums 2008", while the track '88 Kilos of Excrement' is placed 10 in "Top 30 Tracks 2008"!

Here..s what they wrote about Sombunall:

After the ambient minimalism of Flotsam/Jetsam, did anyone expect Beneva Vs. Clark Nova to produce an electronica album of such variation and depth? Sombunall is one of those albums that leaves a lasting impression on the listener; it bores deep within the emotional core and doesn't let go, so deep are the melodies that exude from each track. From the first second to last, there is a unique sound around every corner, but also a cohesion to Sombunall that ties everything together perfectly. (James Ould)

Beneva Vs. Clark Nova have a penchant for taking something as normal as a piano line, acoustic guitar note, or even the human voice and morphing it into something barely recognizable. These restructured organic sounds are the building blocks for the duo's debut full length, Sombunall. They accompany catchy yet subdued melodies all glued together by meticulously crafted 500bpm Autechre-inspired beats. There are many different facets waiting to be explored on this album; the excellent "88 Kilos of Excrement" or the dreamy pop tune "His Freefloating Affection" demonstrate the group 's wide versatility. With the talent and range these two have, it is a sure bet that we'll be hearing another incredible release from them sometime soon. (Brenton Dwyer)

And some nice words about the track 88 Kilos of Excrement:

After its melancholic opening, the whole tone of Sombunall changes the moment 88 Kilos of Excrement begins. The fractious twinkling opening gives way to deep synth throbs, IDM beats, and glitched up vocals (recalling 65daysofstatic's Fix The Sky A Little no less) layered over one another in perfect harmony, before strings and distorted drones complete the frenetic finale as it melts away with the twinkles that began the whole affair. 88 Kilos of Excrement captures Sombunall's essence in a nutshell: emotional, accomplished, and unique. (James Ould)

Thank you, thank you and thank you to everyone (you know who you are) for all your support.
It..s been one heck of a year!!!

Love,
Benjamin and Rudi

Ho, ho , ho!

We're very proud to announce that our debut album Sombunall has been included in Textura's Top 20 Albums list for 2008!

For further info, check out this site:

http://www.textura.org/reviews/2008top10s.htm

Thank you Textura!!!

Ben and Nova

Hallo B-girls and B-boys!

We have a track called: "Beggars down on mouthbeat avenue shopping santa..s for dinner" on Alternative christmas calendar (December) compilation 2008.

The calendar is simply a mailing list, to which you sign up by sending a brief e-mail to alternativjulekalender@gmail.com. And as with everything else that has the prefix "alternative", it is of course completelty free for all. So start spreading the word - Christmas is just around the corner!

Or go to this myspace site if you want to listen to the track:
http://www.myspace.com/alternativjulekalender

BenvsNova

Hallo folks!
We are proud to present the third music video from our debut album; Sombunall,
the track is called Thora..s Inferno.
Directed by Frank Benjamin Finger.

Hallo folks!
We are proud to present the second music video from our debut album; Sombunall,
the track is called Institute Benjamenta.
Directed by Frank Benjamin Finger and Nils Peder Sand.

Hallo everyone!
We are so proud to announce that we have contributed with a track called; Handfull Fists of Voices" on the new compilation for Ratskin Records called 13,000.00 MilliSeconds. Some of the other artists on the compilation includes; Matmos, Venetian Snares, Eats Tapes, Blevin Blectum and Migrations in Rust, to name a few.
13,000.00 MilliSeconds is a compilation featuring over 215 artists + musicians who composed thirteen second compositions especially for this release. This collection documents artists working all over the world, with these pieces having a reference to the "contemporary time famine" brought on by the technological complex of which none of us can escape from. These aural documents of justified schizophrenia fight fire with fire, and pry away at our rotting attention span.

You can order the CD from this site: http://www.ratskin.org/index2.html.

Or from their myspace site: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=145051417

Check it out, see ya!
B vs. CN.
Here..s what Aquarius Records wrote about the compilation:
V/A (Triskaidekapohobia) 13,000.00 Milliseconds(Ratskin Records) cd 6.98
You know those Sublime Frequencies "Radio" compilations we love so much, the ones that just sound like someone sitting in a hotel room in another country flipping stations on the radio and recording the results. Well imagine a similar compilation, but in this case, the listener/recorder has an extreme case of ADD, and is flipping between some insane non existent all avant freaked out noise satellite radio station and all the strange little non-stations you discover when you're driving across the country, flipping through the dials at 4am. Little chunks of beautiful pastoral sound, bursts of ear gouging static, voices, snippets of speeches, some crazy guy testifying, some country or classical music that is just out of range so the sound is all skittery and blurred, delicate swaths of soft plinked piano, blasts of grinding deathmetal, talk radio, skittery rhythms, lots of textures and timbres, noises and melodies, most often swallowed up before they can develop into anything more than a fragment, than a partially formed musical thought, but that's sort of the point. This comp will definitely enrapturously engorge the ears of aural adventurers and noise devotees, but just might rattle the nerves of those less prepared. Despite the incredibly lengthy list of incredibly eclectic artists who participated in this brand new compilation titled (Triskaidekaphobia) 13,000.00 Milliseconds:
Beneva vs. Clark Nova, Venetian Snares, Matmos, Thrones, MGR, I Am Spoonbender, Wildildlife, David Scott Stone (Melvins), Blevin Blectum, Winters In Osaka, Leslie Keffer, Microwaves, Sword Heaven, To Live And Shave In L.A., Wobbly, The White Mice, Skozey Fetish, Brad Laner, Rubber O Cement, Bobb Bruno, Cock ESP, Panicsville, Otto Von Schirach, Crank Sturgeon, Deletist, Drums Like Machineguns, Valerio Cosi, Eats Tapes, Evil Moisture, No Doctors, Two Dead Sluts, One Good Fuck, Leslie Keffer and about a million more....
The nature of 215+ 13-second compositions strung together non-stop without room to take a breath pretty much ensures that this cd will be catalogued in most libraries and music shops in the experimental/noise section. Unfortunate really, since while it definitely has its share of earwax-dislodging aggressive assaults, it also has quite a few shining moments of artful sound design and subtle songcraft that defy genre-fication. And somehow, the bits of noise, and the bits of prettier sound, do balance out, almost seeming to play off one another, or at the very least, slowly seep into each other, helping form what is ultimately a constantly shifting somewhat schizophrenic sonic whole. It's an overwhelming and intense listening experience, another one for the iron eared, or at least the adventure eared, and while we just listened to the whole thing all the way through, for the third or fourth time, for some folks it might work better in smaller chunks, because admittedly for some tracks the 13 seconds seems like an eternity, while others fly by all too swiftly. That said, we just started it over again from the top...
MPEG Stream: "5 (Cheap Machines / Animal Hospital / Beneya Vs. Clark Nova)"

Hallo B-boys and B-girls!

Just wanted to let all of you know that a complete collection of reviews from our debut album "Sombunall" can be found at Fenêtre Records homepage (fenetrerecords.com) (We are to lazy to do the old cut and paste thing for the time being).

Please visit this link if you want to read them; http://fenetrerecords.com/releases/sombunall.html

A big and warm THANK YOU to those of you that has supported and believed in us.
We are deeply touched by your response. (You know who you are). See you soon!

Peace.
Benjamin and Rudi.