Icebreaker International
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Icebreaker International are a electronic musical duo featuring Alexander Perls from New York and Londoner Simon Break. They first released material in 1999 under the name Icebreaker, including an album on the Aesthetics Record label that was based around the concept of NATO's Distant Early Warning system, before signing to Andrew Lloyd Webber's it Records label in 2000 under the extended band name of Icebreaker International. For this record label they recorded the follow up to "Distant Early Warning" on route between Japan and Canada on the container ship Trein Maersk. This album, "Trein Maersk: A Report to the NATOarts Board of Directors" was commissioned as a piece to promote international free trade. In 2003 they released the album "Into Forever" a collaboration with Danish producer Manual (also known as Jonas Munk Jensen)
[edit] Discography
- Distant Early Warning (Aesthetics album - 1999)
- Port Of Yokohama (it Records Single- 2000)
- Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors (it Records album- 2000)
- Into Forever with Manual (Sound Of A Handshake Records album - 2003)
[edit] Icebreaker - Distant Early Warning
The tracklisting for this concept album is as follows:
- Melody For NATO
- Co-Prosperity Sphere
- The Arctic Night
- Reconnaissance Flight
- Distant Early Warning System
- Supply Lines / The Track North
- Listening Station
- Untitled
