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MORT JAZZ
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"Lasse Marhaug's duo with John Hegre as the ongoing Jazzkammer was in The Netherlands to play the Earational festival and took up the occasion to record a session at the VPRO radio studio, now being released in what should be known by now as the John Peel sessions for underground music: Staalplaat's 'Mort Aux Vaches' series. Jazzkammer has one piece to play of sonic overload, building from scratch. A highpitched tone, scraping the surface with a contact microphone and from there building things up by adding layers of nasty frequencies. As the piece evolves, the high end techniques of laptop noise start to mingle with low-end electronics. This work, a straightforward, unedited recording is of course more uniform in approach than the edited work of Ratkje/Marhaug, and therefore a bit on the regular side of noise. But even at that, Jazzkammer on an ordinary day is way more interesting than many other noise heads on a good day."
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BBOY 017CD
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"Jazzkammer are Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre from Norway. Together they have been making music as Jazzkammer since 1998. Past releases include Timex, Rolex (a remix album), Pancakes and a live album with Merzbow. Jazzkammer are relentless sound explorers with no set style or specific 'sound' -- they move swiftly from hardcore overload electronics and sonic freakouts to lowercase soundscapes and location recordings. Once described as 'sonic architects', Marhaug and Hegre insist they are merely trying to make 'good music'. Pulse was recorded in Singapore during the SARS-crisis in April of 2003. It was inspired by a theatre piece of the same title that they were working on at the same time, though the music on the CD does not resemble that of the play. The album Pulse is a single beautiful 32-minute piece; its basic structure is a drifting electronic drone that slowly unfolds and mutates, with subtle layers of location recordings and vinyl-static adding color and depth. Like last year's Pancakes, Pulse has a cinematic feel to it, a feeling that is further enhanced by the photos of acclaimed photographer Yuen Chee Wai that grace the cover and 12-page booklet."
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RCD 2014CD
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"Jazzkammer is the joining of two Norwegian composer/musicians. John Herge is a guitarist, improviser, and composer who's been making music for over 15 years. He plays in Der Brief, a band often compared to Supersilent. Lasse Marhaug has been networking within the noise/experimental underground for ten years, having been involved in over 100 cassette, vinyl, and CD releases, playing concerts and taking part in countless collaborations. Timex features turntables, field recordings, guitars, static electric atmospheres, samplers, casios, and sine waves. All are used in free improvisation and to create collages. At exactly what time does the final track from an innocent New Year's Eve transform into the soundtrack from one of CNN's war reports? Lasse and John have previously collaborated on the Comfort of Objects CD with Helge Sten (Deathprod/Supersilent)."
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