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With her abstract beats, unique voice and hypnotizing lyrics, the female singer, musician and producer Tone is renowned for her at the same time forceful and frail expression through experimental compositions within the electronica-genre. On her debut album she shows her great versatility ranging from uplifting vigorous outlets of energy to obscure, melancholic moods.
An album released in a new audiovisual format – with an invitation to copy and share freely at no charge!

Musically, Tone creates a remarkable audiovisual realm of her light and almost spellbinding voice adds to a bedrock of crunchy break beats, abstract compositional structures and catchy melodies. Not being a typical songwriter in terms of clinging to the usage of the traditional structure of verses and choruses, Tone relies on improvisation and creative exploration in the creation of her unpredictable musical landscapes - while adding daunting, yet compelling lyrics - and thereby drawing listeners into her musical and atmospheric universe of thoughts, sounds and a myriad of emotional expressions.

The last year has been hectic for Tone - who carries the civil name Sofie Nielsen. In the summer ’06, she surprisingly took first prize in the prestigious live performance competition Rock Nord in tight competition with Danish skyrocketing indie-artists The Alpine and The Blue Van.
In addition, her demo-recordings of the tracks ’I Am Long’ and ’Wake Me Up’ placed at top-5 for the allowed 8 weeks on the Danish national radio chart ’Elektriske Barometer’. This led to several interviews on the Danish national radio’s programs P2 and P3, and latest a portrait program on the local television station TV2-Nord. The program showed an interview with this young pretty bohemian from Northern Jutland, who lives in a partially homemade house by the shores of the Limfjorden arm of sea at the outskirts of Aalborg.

New audiovisual record format
Tone’s live-performance is a spectacular experience. Accompanied by video artist and VJ Kristian Ravn Ellestad, the two entertainers blend music and abstract video into an audiovisual symbiosis, emphasizing the moods in Tone’s emotionally charged music. Tone and Kristian have jointly produced the visual track accompanying the music, creating a sort of abstract storytelling at Tone’s concerts. A phenomenon captured on this release, as Small Arm of Sea is released in an innovative “audiovisual” format – consisting of both CD/vinyl and DVD – which presents the music and the video together and jointly form Tone’s intense expression.

The record label: Copy the disc for your friends!
Small Arm of Sea is additionally the world’s first physical record release published under the Creative Commons licensing system. This allows the consumer – legally, freely and at no charge – to reproduce and redistribute the contents to him- or herself and others, as long as it is for personal use – this being the reason why the album may be downloaded at no charge on the web. Music is largely emotion and experiencing, and the idea is that these should be freely shared without people being criminalized. Thus it is music lovers’ choice, if and how they want to support the artist financially – by online donation, attending a concert, or purchasing the album in the stores, where it is sold only in a limited edition.

As printed on the album cover: “Please copy this record for your friends”.