LASSE MARHAUG appreciation topic

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, October 11, 2017, 10:00:46 AM

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pureterror

Shameless plug alert: I still have copies of Marhaug's The Great Silence, as well as Testicle Hazard's Everything Has Its Price, currently available at a special discount: https://shop.iheartnoise.com/category/sale

WCN

Another shameless plug - the new TESTICLE HAZARD LP titled "Fifty-Sixty" will be out in a few days on WCN...!!!
Harsh Noise label and EU based distro of American Imports
https://whitecentipedenoise.com/

Bloated Slutbag

Do exercise caution with that low hanging fruit
Someone weaker than you should beat you and brag
And take you for a drag

ddmurph

big big lasse fan here! i'd be hard pushed to pick favourites, there's so much to choose from. i'd probably go for the great silence and the quiet north though. i remember really liking quality control but i haven't listened to it in a long time now. also, the tapes 1990 - 1999 set is super solid start to finish.

again, i haven't listened to the dror feiler collab lp on no fun for a long time but i remember that one being particularly "in the red".

then there's jazkamer (the monthly series cds from a while back were all great - and super varied), testicle hazard, innumerable collabs ...... i don't know how he manages to be so productive ... all this on top of pica disk, marhaug forlag, and more recently film making ... i get tired just thinking of everything he's up to.

Bruitiste

Quote from: ddmurph on October 08, 2020, 02:03:39 AM
big big lasse fan here! i'd be hard pushed to pick favourites, there's so much to choose from. i'd probably go for the great silence and the quiet north though. i remember really liking quality control but i haven't listened to it in a long time now. also, the tapes 1990 - 1999 set is super solid start to finish.

again, i haven't listened to the dror feiler collab lp on no fun for a long time but i remember that one being particularly "in the red".

then there's jazkamer (the monthly series cds from a while back were all great - and super varied), testicle hazard, innumerable collabs ...... i don't know how he manages to be so productive ... all this on top of pica disk, marhaug forlag, and more recently film making ... i get tired just thinking of everything he's up to.
Also his Personal Best zine, I've enjoyed every issue.  Incredibly prolific guy.

tisbor

I didn't see this thread at all. Nice to see praise for Camellia Sinensis, it's also perhaps my favourite of his noise works. Also nice reference to his obsession with tea.

W.K.

Straight murkin' riddim blud, absolute vile gash


Baglady

There's a new collaboration LP together with Joe McPhee, entitled Harmonia Macrocosmica, on Actions For Free Jazz & Smalltown Supersound. It's adventurous. From rather noisy to absolute beatiful droning parts, electronic and organic etc. But still coherent in a 60's / 70's avantgarde way. Surprisingly unjazzy, although there is some of that too. Fucking excellent!

Bruitiste

Quote from: Baglady on October 14, 2020, 12:57:55 PM
There's a new collaboration LP together with Joe McPhee, entitled Harmonia Macrocosmica, on Actions For Free Jazz & Smalltown Supersound. It's adventurous. From rather noisy to absolute beatiful droning parts, electronic and organic etc. But still coherent in a 60's / 70's avantgarde way. Surprisingly unjazzy, although there is some of that too. Fucking excellent!
That sounds great, will have to check it out.
I like when free jazz guys get out of their bubble, McPhee is particularly adventurous, having done a double CD with The Nihilist Spasm Band in the past too, for example.  Evan Parker is another good one, his collaboration with Wiese was pretty good, and his electroacoustic ensemble records (some with Furt as members) while not noisy exactly, would appeal to fans of all sorts of out there electronic sounds.

FreakAnimalFinland

Had zero memories of this one. 2007 CD "Its not the end of the world" from Lasse Marhaug. Some of his stuff ain't pure noise, but I have less of those. Also I do not have that huge amount of his collaboration work.
Based on cover, I was expecting something colorful, playful, perhaps not even harsh at all. What you have here, is great harsh noise CD!! Sharp, clear, loud (except somewhere in the middle it tones down to distorted, but less punchy noise), but also indeed a bit more playful than his widely circulated brutal noise assault CD's.
It has very tasty methods of cut-up or some sort of digital sound processing I would assume. Some of tracks are more complex than just screwing pedal buttons, some editing been made. It is energetic noise nevertheless. Most of things is traditional methods, physical sound sources, feedback, metal junk. Things as simple as just hammening sheet of metal or he might have noise loop going on and start fucking around with it a bit.

My assumption is that this could be cheap at discogs for example? Haven't checked, but would be worth of full price of course. If you don't feel like spending hard earned money, check here:

https://marhaug.bandcamp.com/album/its-not-the-end-of-the-world-2007

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FreakAnimalFinland

1996 Lasse Marhaug debut CD "Science Fiction Room Service", which I have had since it came out. This is brilliant and somewhat unusual noise CD.
I recall Lasse has told somewhere, that he did not have mixer or such devices, so how early days material was done, was source tapes being played through couple boom boxes, in room, and DAT recorder recording it with lots of input gain. Balance of material adjusted, not with mixer slides, but how boom boxes were placed in a room.
I believe this CD is one done with such method, and can't really recall other albums I would have heard of, that are done like this. Sure, room recordings. Everybody does it. But is there more noise CD albums, where material is done with multiple boom boxes playing noise in room and "mixed" by placing these in suitable distance and desired volume, to create the harsh noise? I would also assume, that DAT players of the time, sometimes has so tasty distortion in their A/D process if you put enough gain. At least some of the Japanese artists, like Pain Jerk, sometimes mentioned that secret for his sharp and crystal clear ripping noise was all-on-red recording to DAT.
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Potier

https://erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/top

Marhaug/Noetinger Collab out next week on Erstwhile. Looking forward to it. Released in memoriam: Peter Rehberg.