Discography of Nature Always Wins

Discography

Nature Always Wins

Crosscut Saw

GŮRRR

Crosscut Saw brings you three brand new tracks by GŮRRR. 
Formed by Aleksander Haugen and Girilal Baars in 2024 during an accidental meeting, the hurdy-gurdy duo strives to blend the acoustic instruments with non-standard electronics. GŮRRR also actively explores extended playing techniques on the already wide-ranging acoustic sound-generators that are hurdy-gurdys.

Two of the tracks are live recordings from GŮRRR's tours in Norway and Sweden and one is a studio recording. Acoustic noise drone linking the medieval with the modern, plainsong with the inharmonic, and the hidden with the oblique.

Crosscut Saw brings you three brand new tracks by GŮRRR. 
Formed by Aleksander Haugen and Girilal Baars in 2024 during an accidental meeting, the hurdy-gurdy duo strives to blend the acoustic instruments with non-standard electronics. GŮRRR also actively explores extended playing techniques on the already wide-ranging acoustic sound-generators that are hurdy-gurdys.
Two of the tracks are live recordings from GŮRRR's tours in Norway and Sweden and one is a studio recording. Acoustic noise drone linking the medieval with the modern, plainsong with the inharmonic, and the hidden with the oblique.

Mean Old World (Original Mix)

Mean Old World

Crosscut Saw (Original Mix)

Killing Floor (Original Mix)

Killing Floor

Männen som slutade öka

Chaos Pals

Männen som slutade öka is Chaos Pal’s debut album. The duo was formed by Olle Oljud and Girilal Baars in the early ’10s. In all these years, they have only made a handful public appearances. All of them iconic. 

In the early 00’s Olle and Girilal both went through a period of heavy Kaoss Pad addiction (KPI and KP3, for the technically bothered). A decade later the sound was a bit outdated and we had both moved on to other sonic dependencies… 

One day, however, we had the idea of cross connecting our four KPs to each other. This enabled entirely new levels of instability and aleatoricism and proved irresistible to two sound-hooligans. And so there you have it — Männen som slutade öka [Fellows Rebuking the Capitalist Doctrine of Continuous Expansion and Growth], a 9-track album devoid of nostalgia, meaning and purpose.

Männen som slutade öka is Chaos Pal’s debut album. The duo was formed by Olle Oljud and Girilal Baars in the early ’10s. In all these years, they have only made a handful public appearances. All of them iconic. 
In the early 00’s Olle and Girilal both went through a period of heavy Kaoss Pad addiction (KPI and KP3, for the technically bothered). A decade later the sound was a bit outdated and we had both moved on to other sonic dependencies… 
One day, however, we had the idea of cross connecting our four KPs to each other. This enabled entirely new levels of instability and aleatoricism and proved irresistible to two sound-hooligans. And so there you have it — Männen som slutade öka [Fellows Rebuking the Capitalist Doctrine of Continuous Expansion and Growth], a 9-track album devoid of nostalgia, meaning and purpose.

The Gospel of Truth

Stanna hemma

Svälj

Att angöra en bryggare

E Dreams of Hollywood

Cute in Grey

The Unfolding

Männen som slutade öka

 Försök igen

Mother's War

GIrilal Baars

Mother’s War is a collection of electroacoustic compositions by Girilal Baars. They were composed for various multichannel setups. For this album they have all been mixed as binaural tracks, so using any normal headphones will give the listener a good approximation of the immersive qualities of the original songs.

Mother’s War is a collection of electroacoustic compositions by Girilal Baars. They were composed for various multichannel setups. For this album they have all been mixed as binaural tracks, so using any normal headphones will give the listener a good approximation of the immersive qualities of the original songs.

Lykanthropos (Original Mix)

Lykanthropos

Ghosting the Machine (Original Mix)

Ghosting the Machine

R******d (Original Mix)

R******d

Mother’s War (Original Mix)

Mother’s War

Sut-Khol Dream

Sut-Khol Dream is an instrumental song about reaching.
Reaching into the distance, into the future… For the past.
Recorded live with a hurdy-gurdy and four delay lines, 
it is semi-improvised and demi-ambient and fully realised.

Sut-Khol is a lake in the Republic of Tuva in Russia. You can see it in the photograph I took from the summit of a mountain in Kyzyl Taiga in the summer of 2001

Special thanks to Michael Grunditz and Martin Gumucio.

Recorded live on the shore of Lake Ekoln, Uppsala in 2023.

Sut-Khol Dream is an instrumental song about reaching.
Reaching into the distance, into the future… For the past.
Recorded live with a hurdy-gurdy and four delay lines, 
it is semi-improvised and demi-ambient and fully realised.
Sut-Khol is a lake in the Republic of Tuva in Russia. You can see it in the photograph I took from the summit of a mountain in Kyzyl Taiga in the summer of 2001
Special thanks to Michael Grunditz and Martin Gumucio.
Recorded live on the shore of Lake Ekoln, Uppsala in 2023.

Finnegan is Awake and Well

David Bremer

David Bremer and Girilal Baars started scheming their duo a long time ago. But they were finally confronted with reality when commissioned to perform at Twisted Shout, the text-sound festival at Fylkingen in 2022. Joyce’s amazing linguistic whooplas were always part of the plan and judicious text-editing, experimenting and rehearsing later, you can now enjoy Finnegan is Awake and Well over and over in a sound system of your choice. Brought to you sans corporate sponsors, but with deep-felt gratitude to Piak and Daniel Westerlund.

Recorded live at Hökarängens Antikvariat. 

David Bremer and Girilal Baars started scheming their duo a long time ago. But they were finally confronted with reality when commissioned to perform at Twisted Shout, the text-sound festival at Fylkingen in 2022. Joyce’s amazing linguistic whooplas were always part of the plan and judicious text-editing, experimenting and rehearsing later, you can now enjoy Finnegan is Awake and Well over and over in a sound system of your choice. Brought to you sans corporate sponsors, but with deep-felt gratitude to Piak and Daniel Westerlund.
Recorded live at Hökarängens Antikvariat.

Finnegan is Awake and Well by GIrilal Baars, David Bremer

Body Unsung

Body Unsung is a triptych of tracks with the same strict approach: using only Girilal Baars's voice and granulation-free processing of the live voice. No pre-recorded samples, backing tracks or presets were used, nor were any electrons harmed in the process.

White, Belyj, Hvit mixes excerpts from a poem by Nadezhda Lvova and lyrics by Girilal Baars. The Russian poet Nadezda Lvova (1891-1913) shot herself in her heart with a pistol when her older and married lover distanced himself from her. The song is a rumination on power and privilege, on innocence and guilt.


Бог 20-го века - 20th Century God - is a poem by the Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) in which he is exploring the rise and coming rule of the young century’s new deity – electricity. The doomsday aesthetics and the incantation-like rendering of the text are inspired by the poem and it's imageries of the accelerating urbanization and industrialization of turn-of-the-last-century Russia.

The Bonnie Banks o Fordie is based on the eponymous Scottish ballad (Child 14). It tells of a robber who assaults three sisters, threatening to kill them unless they marry him. Dispatching the first two sisters after their refusals, the third sister confronts him and they discover that he is actually the long-lost brother. Guilt overwhelms the robber and he kills himself.

Body Unsung is a triptych of tracks with the same strict approach: using only Girilal Baars's voice and granulation-free processing of the live voice. No pre-recorded samples, backing tracks or presets were used, nor were any electrons harmed in the process.
White, Belyj, Hvit mixes excerpts from a poem by Nadezhda Lvova and lyrics by Girilal Baars. The Russian poet Nadezda Lvova (1891-1913) shot herself in her heart with a pistol when her older and married lover distanced himself from her. The song is a rumination on power and privilege, on innocence and guilt.
Бог 20-го века - 20th Century God - is a poem by the Futurist poet Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) in which he is exploring the rise and coming rule of the young century’s new deity – electricity. The doomsday aesthetics and the incantation-like rendering of the text are inspired by the poem and it's imageries of the accelerating urbanization and industrialization of turn-of-the-last-century Russia.
The Bonnie Banks o Fordie is based on the eponymous Scottish ballad (Child 14). It tells of a robber who assaults three sisters, threatening to kill them unless they marry him. Dispatching the first two sisters after their refusals, the third sister confronts him and they discover that he is actually the long-lost brother. Guilt overwhelms the robber and he kills himself.

Nature Always WinsUppsala, Sweden

Nature Always Wins
Uppsala, Sweden