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Article: Extended Analysis

Christian Winther & Christian Meaas Svendsen: W / M

Read "Christian Winther & Christian Meaas Svendsen: W / M" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


W/ M is a double album that feature two debuts as solo artists of two young and promising Norwegian improvisers, both spinning out of the creative environment around the Music Academy in Oslo. Guitarist Christian Winther, a member of the punk-jazz trio Ich Bin N!ntendo, genre-bending trio Monkey Plot and the free improvisers collective Mummu, and ...

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Article: Album Review

SKRAP: K.O.

Read "K.O." reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


SKRAP ("scratch") was formed six years ago when tubaist Heida Karine Johannesdóttir Mobeck and analog synthesizer player Anja Lauvdal (also the pianist for Moskus, heard on the trio's 2012 Hubro debut, Salmesykkel), got locked together in a small room equipped with two bass amplifiers put up against each other. The Norwegian duo began experimenting with low ...

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Article: We Travel the Spaceways

Art Strike!

Read "Art Strike!" reviewed by Mark Corroto


"Would you support an art strike?" That's the question I've been asking musicians for the past few months. “Will you agree to stop writing and performing music for one year?" In 1990 the London artists Stewart Home and Mark Pawson proposed that all artists cease to “make, exhibit, distribute, sell, or discuss their work" for three ...

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Article: Album Review

Mummu: Mitt Ferieparadis

Read "Mitt Ferieparadis" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Mummu is a new Norwegian musical collective comprised from the female duo of low-frequency noise-musicians SKRAP and the male trio of punk improvisers Ich Bin N!ntendo. This outfit began to explore heavy amplified drone music and soon settled on chaotic and noisy improvisations, referencing diverse influences, beginning with Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath, the pioneer ...

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Wolfram

Label: Va Fongool
Released: 2012

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Ich Bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson

Label: Va Fongool
Released: 2012
Track listing: Start First; End; Second.

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Corrections

Label: Va Fongool
Released: 2012
Track listing: Out of Tune; Pretty Good Alternative; Suggestion; Interference/Picking God Apart; Catalogue; Suggestion II; Ending?; Poor Guy Alone; Poor Guy Alone (Again).

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Wolfram

Label: Va Fongool
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10.

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Article: Album Review

PGA: Corrections

Read "Corrections" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


PGA--Norwegian bassist Fredrik Luhr Dietrichson and drummer Jan Martin Gismervik--has played together for many years as the rhythm section of Wolfram Trio, which released its self-titled debut earlier this year on the Va Fongool imprint, as well as the yet-to-record Shotgun trio (also called Gismervik Gruvedrift). On their debut as a duo, they decided to delve ...

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Article: Album Review

Ich bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson: Ich bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson

Read "Ich bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


Young Norwegian power trio Ich bin N!ntendo is a sonic heir to European power outfits such as the Swedish-Norwegian trio The Thing, Italian punk-jazz trio Zu, and Dutch quartet The Ex. Its affinity with Swedish sax titan Mats Gustafsson of The Thing, who guests on this live recording, is obvious. Both enjoy exploring and pushing the ...


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