posted by Allan Haverholm on Oct 2

A quick note to let you know that the Astoria Sessions is still active, although hibernated during summer. There has been moving of workspaces, financial crises (oh, you noticed?), and general summertime laziness blocking productivity, but we’re getting back in the groove…

posted by Allan Haverholm on Jul 18

There is understandable confusion about the nature of the Astoria project after the first two singles have come out:

Although both Resistansen and Black Sabbath (intro) are based on existing songs, the remaining eleven projected songs will be all original material. I hope this clears things up.

Next single out may be These Fjell Veins or Cerebration, depending on which is completed first. You’ll see it here first!

posted by Allan Haverholm on Jul 14

The Astoria demos (and Mix Tape, too) have been reviewed by Derik Badman over on his Madinkbeard blog. He seems to like them a lot!

EDIT: To wet your apetites a bit more, here’s a few pull quotes from Derik’s piece:

“All in all [Astoria is] a hugely ambitious project, one that will either end in genius or brilliant failure.”

“Haverholm’s success with the watercolors in “Black Sabbath (intro)” and the pencils in “Resistansen” give me confidence that the other Astoria multimedia works will also prove visually evocative.”

Now scoot on over and peruse the analytical beauty that is Madinkbeard!

posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 26

Ohh… Idiot!

Not you, me. In the fracas after MoCCA I completely forgot to announce the release party for the latest collection of 676-books from Aben Maler publishing.
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posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 12

Safely home from New York, now. Still jetlagged to the point of falling asleep on the couch earlier than usual
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posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 12

It’s been a fun few weeks, MoCCA coming and going, the whole NY experience and all.

I managed to have the Black Sabbath single done for the festival, plus a similar-format outline of the entire project. The latter may be up on the site as a PDF in a few days.
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posted by Allan Haverholm on Jun 1

I’ll be doing some last-minute corrections to a couple of Black Sabbath spreads that were sticking out.
Then scanning, assembling final pdf and crossing all crossable digits that the printer is *real fast*
ELSE “Sabbath@MoCCA”=FALSE

posted by Allan Haverholm on May 31

Rumors of single not coming out for MoCCA were grossly exaggerated. Still crossing fingers for printers to come through though!

posted by Allan Haverholm on May 28

Here’s a few samples of today’s inking session on Engine City.

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posted by Allan Haverholm on May 28

Working ass off on Engine City in way overdue prep for MoCCA. Alas, inks are a far cry from Mike Royer’s. Previews up later!