Debut release by this new computer music artist from Hamburg, Germany. An exciting mixture of dark, slowly evolving drones, beautifully distorted melodies which have been compared to early Fennesz, Pimmon and the like, obscure hard rock sampling meets raw data manipulation sounding like Earth jamming with Merzbow, digital noise and computer improvisations. A beautiful and disturbing record! Clear Vinyl. Ltd x 250. Dekorder label is also known for releasing The Hafler Trio, John Hegre etc.
Jazzkammer's Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, captured live in Singapore in 2003, during the height of the SARS epidemic. "This CD sees them playing with noise and feedback, despite the use of some water sounds and short outbursts of rhythmical elements. For the bigger part it's still Merzbow influenced noise music" (Vital). 20 minutes of beautiful broken sounds and horrendous feedback! Comes in a beautiful little gatefold digifile.
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JAZZKAMMER - 'Sound Of Music' 3" CD (OHM Records)
"The title of this Jazzkammer (Lasse Marhaug / John Hegre) release is a very nice reference to their tactics: they create sound out of music. With the help of electronic equipment and a guitar, they blast their way through definitions of the term that shocks so many. This little disc leaves no questions about Jazzkammer's intentions: they want noise and they'll make it happen. In twenty minutes time they offer the whole spectrum of the genre as we know it: fierce rumbles, glitches, hisses and piercing tones. And not to forget: some looped melodic elements, heavily distorted and, more often than not, buried under an avalanche of other noise... Way to go!" (Vital). Comes in a little gatefold digifile.
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JOHN HEGRE / LASSE MARHAUG / HELGE STEN - 'The Comfort Of Objects' CD (OHM Records)
A one-shot collaboration CD recorded over two years, where the three artists (John Hegre of Origami Replika and Jazzkammer, John Hegre of Der Brief and Jazzkammer and Helge Sten of Deathprod) reworked the same source material, not knowing what the others would do with it - resulting in three very different solutions. From the intense and loud to the subtle and beautiful, "The comfort of objects" is Norwegian electronic music at its best.
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LASSE MARHAUG - 'The Great Silence' CD (Troniks / PACrec)
"The Great Silence" is probably the best recording from Lasse Marhaug. As primitive as it gets, it is a devastatingly display of the finest kind of harsh noise, and yet another in the long line of records showing Marhaug's incredible feeling for vital and living noise. It was recorded in Jørgen Træen's studio, and was produced by Golden Serenades (Træen + John Hegre). "Fearsomely relentless" (Wire). Ltd x 1000 copies in a card sleeve.
