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What we are listening to

Posted at 18. July 2011 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

Although there isn’t much group activity to report on during the summer months, what with band members away on holiday and the rehearsal space closing for a month, we want to keep the blog updated anyway so here’s an idea…

iTunes, strings and words

Posted at 2. July 2011 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

Good news: our debut album is finally available on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/de-zwaarte-van-het-doorstane/id445699104 Last Friday we had another rehearsal session in Tilburg, our last before the summer holiday. Ward brought along his friend Merel, who plays viola. We jammed a bit and…

Line up news

Posted at 26. June 2011 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

Last Friday we had the first rehearsal with our new bass player Harm. Our line up is complete again, at last! Harm’s the youngest member of Akelei – he’s 20 – but he has been playing bass for some years…

Akelei zoekt bassist (m/v)

Posted at 7. February 2011 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

We zoeken een bassist(e). Josha krijgt het te druk met Carceri en een nieuwe Delftse band dus wij zoeken iemand die bij ons wil komen bassen. Repetities vinden doorgaans plaats in Tilburg op vrijdagavonden. We hebben wat voorkeuren: Leeftijd: 20-35…

Update

Posted at 1. February 2011 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

Welcome back music lovers, time for an update. We played our first show since the album release in November, our eleventh in total by the way, two Saturdays ago at dB’s in Utrecht. It was a DIY-deal, which basically means…

Downloading available again

Posted at 8. December 2010 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

http://akelei.bandcamp.com/album/de-zwaarte-van-het-doorstane http://akelei.bandcamp.com/track/dwaaluur http://akelei.bandcamp.com/album/promo-08 Album orders: info [at] akelei [dot] org Misha

Downloading temporarily unavailable

Posted at 7. December 2010 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

Due to an increased number of downloads, we’ve run out of the 200-free-per-month download credits provided by Bandcamp much faster than we had anticipated. That’s 200 in 1 week, quite a lot for a band like us. Additional downloads are…

Review, stats and a broken bone

Posted at 26. November 2010 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

The album got a fantastic review at zwaremetalen.com. It’s in Dutch, and for those of you who don’t speak it, a short summary: 95/100. To show you the immediate impact of the review, here’s an impression: There’s a review in…

Après-doom

Posted at 11. November 2010 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

We had a good time at Dutch Doom Days IX last weekend. The gig went really well, we had some difficulties with the vocals and there wasn’t any reverb on them but these are minor details. We played a 40-minute…

Duett & Doom Days

Posted at 1. November 2010 by mishanuis in Music ⋅ Uncategorized

There’s a blog post from April that tells all about the album’s 5th song, Duett. Scroll down to find it or click here. Now that Duett is uploaded, the online album is complete. You can stream or download (in any…