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Album Review

Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne: Spektralmaskin

Read "Spektralmaskin" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 29, 2024

Strap yourselves in, spectral travelers, for a journey into the sonic labyrinth that is Peder Simonsen and Jo David Meyer Lysne's Spektralmaskin. This album is not background music for folding laundry. Simonsen and Lysne weave a tapestry of sound that is both unsettling and strangely beautiful. Imagine a haunted music box possessed by a playful but melancholic ghost. Per the press release: “(The word spektralmaskin, Norwegian for 'spectral machine,' is Lysne and Simonsen's attempt to encapsulate the e-bow ...

Album Review

Vilde&Inga: Makrofauna

Read "Makrofauna" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
May 22, 2014

It is almost unimaginable that an established label, as the acclaimed German label ECM, will embrace the debut recording of young musicians just out of the music academy and release it as it is. But that is what happened with the Norwegian classically trained duo Vilde&Inga-- violinist Vilde Sandve Alnæs, and double bass player Inga Margrete Aas. Their teacher of improvisation, vocal artist Sidsel Endresen, liked the duo's recording, sent it to ECM visionary manager and producer Manfred Eicher, who ...