Here's another cassette tape from AUT, the label which brought us Att Förstå Ensamhet and Beppria Bepria, amongst other goodies from Sweden. Nicht Gut released a couple of cassettes through what I assume must have been their own Some Fun label back in 1984, neither of which I've heard, and this is in any case all new material representing a resumption of activity. I haven't been able to find out much about the author or authors, beyond the possibility of it being the work of someone with the surname Jansson, presumably not the creator of Moomintroll, so I'm left with only the terrifying prospect of writing about the music. Grönland feels a little like a film soundtrack, comprising abstract but not quite ambient music of electronic derivation, but I'm probably thinking Chris Carter more than Tangerine Dream. It's also fairly expensive sounding, which makes for a pleasant change in the context of my usual listening, although is not overtly digital. Also, it's a mixture of longer pieces with shorter, some as short as five or six seconds, reinforcing the suspicion that some of this was probably composed as soundtrack material, even if we're only talking imaginary films.
In any case, it's lush and enveloping, wrapping the listener in an intoxicating world of sound with apparently little effort, which is enough to get me excited at the possibility of Nicht Gut's eighties material having a reissue, which apparently might happen.
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