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dekorder (germany) #dekorder 53 lp

alexander rishaug “shadow of events” long playing record

  • h_kon
  • drawing a day

  • garden memories
  • solm
  • things that disappear
  • magic fingers
june 2011 release ; ... after what feels like aeons (his last came out 7 years ago !!!) here’s a new outing from norwegian composer alexander rishaug, whose deft electro-acoustic compositions & digital-music grid-work(s) of the past decade, imho, are heavily under-rated ...

here he bounces back with a set of pieces borne of contemporary sensibilities while remaining rooted in those free-wheeling halcyon days of early “laptop” music ; the frozen, granular sound-cloudings & buzzing, punctual rhythmic flair(s) remain his trademark, hedged here with all manner of processed “traditional” instrumentation & field-recorded events ...

... a lovely record ; as subtle & well-crafted as they come these days ...
dekorder press release...
[053]
alexander rishaug
shadow of events
lp

shadow of events is the third album by oslo, norway sound artist, producer and musician alexander rishaug, following his asphodel cd possible landscape (2004) and 2001’s panorama on the smalltown supersound label.

the album was recorded over a five year period and mixed in berlin last year. not unlike his previous albums but apparently more refined shadow of events combines a warm and organic haunting quality blended with both abstract and concrete tones and subtle digital noises.

most of the tracks are developed from field recordings, instrument improvisation or live sampling. then processed and edited with the computer as the main tool. i’ve used sounds hailing from a dusty rhodes, a lovely guitar, a nervous radio and a lonely piano.

rishaug’s music is informed by classic minimal composers such as steve reich and terry riley as well as 90’s electronica acts such as the oval / microstoria axis and like-minded but more obscure artists associated with the mille plateaux label (remember neina?) but surely wouldn’t be out of place on a contemporary label like kranky or type.

repetitive and seemingly simple melodic patterns are combined with (and sometimes obscured by) decaying monlithic drone layers creating a hazy melancholic landscape slowly unfolding its beauty. granular shoegazy tones are building up in slow-motion recalling the patient yet precise and complex drone works of stephan mathieu, william basinski and machinefabriek’s dauw album.

alexander rishaug was part of the improv collective arm (1996-2006) with arne borgan and are mokkelbost (killl) as well as collaborating with lasse marhaug on a lucky kitchen release. he has remixed metal bands ulver and she said destroy as well as noise duo jazkamer and bjorn hatterud and conrad schnitzler’s recent collaboration.

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electro-acoustic-composition
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field-recordings
modern-composition

dekorder (germany) #dekorder 53 cd

alexander rishaug “shadow of events” compact disc

  • h-con (11:28)
  • drawing a day (8:57)
  • garden memories (6:55)
  • solm (3:05)
  • things that disappear (5:00)
  • magic fingers (8:04)
june 2011 release ; ... after what feels like aeons (his last came out 7 years ago !!!) here’s a new outing from norwegian composer alexander rishaug, whose deft electro-acoustic compositions & digital-music grid-work(s) of the past decade, imho, are heavily under-rated ...

here he bounces back with a set of pieces borne of contemporary sensibilities while remaining rooted in those free-wheeling halcyon days of early “laptop” music ; the frozen, granular sound-cloudings & buzzing, punctual rhythmic flair(s) remain his trademark, hedged here with all manner of processed “traditional” instrumentation & field-recorded events ...

... a lovely record ; as subtle & well-crafted as they come these days ...
dekorder press release...

[053]
alexander rishaug
shadow of events
cd

shadow of events is the third album by oslo, norway sound artist, producer and musician alexander rishaug, following his asphodel cd possible landscape (2004) and 2001’s panorama on the smalltown supersound label.

the album was recorded over a five year period and mixed in berlin last year. not unlike his previous albums but apparently more refined shadow of events combines a warm and organic haunting quality blended with both abstract and concrete tones and subtle digital noises.

most of the tracks are developed from field recordings, instrument improvisation or live sampling. then processed and edited with the computer as the main tool. i’ve used sounds hailing from a dusty rhodes, a lovely guitar, a nervous radio and a lonely piano.

rishaug’s music is informed by classic minimal composers such as steve reich and terry riley as well as 90’s electronica acts such as the oval / microstoria axis and like-minded but more obscure artists associated with the mille plateaux label (remember neina?) but surely wouldn’t be out of place on a contemporary label like kranky or type.

repetitive and seemingly simple melodic patterns are combined with (and sometimes obscured by) decaying monlithic drone layers creating a hazy melancholic landscape slowly unfolding its beauty. granular shoegazy tones are building up in slow-motion recalling the patient yet precise and complex drone works of stephan mathieu, william basinski and machinefabriek’s dauw album.

alexander rishaug was part of the improv collective arm (1996-2006) with arne borgan and are mokkelbost (killl) as well as collaborating with lasse marhaug on a lucky kitchen release. he has remixed metal bands ulver and she said destroy as well as noise duo jazkamer and bjorn hatterud and conrad schnitzler’s recent collaboration.

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lucky kitchen (spain) #lk 024 cd

alexander rishaug / lasse marhaug “feel free at home” compact disc

  • sunrise
  • power at play
  • miop
  • little becomes big
  • hide and seek
  • season motel
  • the chair
definitely the most mellow-sounding record with lasse’s name on it out there - although i’ll attribute said characteristic to alexander...
lucky kitchen press release...
rishaug-marhaug feel free at home

release, feb 2004

norwegian blasts. alexander rishaug and lasse marhaug played and recorded together for several years. finally, after time consuming editing, this work emerged full of subtle hymns and clear cold air.

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contemporary-electronic
sound-research
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melektronikk (norway) #melk 008 cd

arm “open reminder” compact disc

  • it will make sense
  • humming bug
  • dessert - not desert - cookie - not rock
  • snipers delight
  • storm detective
  • vitamin
  • driving by accident
  • walk away (the whistler)
  • the intruder
  • scanning owl
  • dam buster
  • open reminder
here is the arm cd, completely different than the arm lp (”driving by accident”), now back in stock...

disc of live recordings from the arm trio, with guests including jon hegre (of jazzkammer) on a few tracks. really quite beautiful with touches of a gratifying kind of surrealist humor...
melektronikk press release...
arm
"open reminder"
melk 008 - cd

starting with improvisation, arm serves as a musical meeting point where anything can happen. part lab and part playground. all plans are put aside and results become clear over time. so, when other musicians are invited to join, this becomes music of constant change. what remains constant is the desire for experimentation and an inclusive approach to sound and noise. with this in mind, arm can be described as musical relatives to acts such as farmers manual, supersilent, boredoms and black dice.

sleeve by are mokkelbost

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melektronikk (norway) #melk 007 lp

arm “driving by accident” long playing record

  • not necessarily in order:
  • extended ticket
  • the whistler
  • crossing sickness
  • friendly rock
  • restless mussles
  • help is on holiday
  • city on the move
  • this is leading nowhere
  • dust wave
  • eel and man
  • secret passage
  • dark blossom
here is the arm lp, completely different than the arm cd released at the same time (”open reminder”) now back in stock...

debut from the trio of alexander rishaug, are mokkelbost (aka the excellent laptop/metal wunderkind single unit, whose records i hope to bring to you soon), and arne borgan, with guests. impressive improvised electronica, very wide in scope.

the lp back is an honest-to-goodness board game (see! you could never pull that off with a cd!).
melektronikk press release...
arm
"driving by accident"
melk 007 - lp

norwegian electronica-improvisors arm describes themselves as three heads and one body, a partly domesticated creature; something that is friendly and violent at the same time, eager to share crunching hugs and pleasant kicks. this creature melts music with one hand and makes casts new music with the other – and throws it at you with the third! this creature actually consist of three guys, alexander rishaug, are mokkelbost and arne borgan, all of which have different solo-projects, but have been playing together for six years.

sleeve by are mokkelbost

“ok, this is not the first driving by accident. two years ago we completed a record with the same name. it disappeared and it didn’t come back until recently. by then it had changed.

it’s no secret’ we like it even better now.

arm contributors on this recording is: arne borgan, are mokkelbost, and alexander rishaug. also, marius von der fehr is playing on track 1, 4, 7, 8, and 11. those tracks were recorded in a tower by the royal castle in oslo, norway. the rest are relics from arm cncerts around the world.”

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smalltown supersound (norway) #sts 049 cd

alexander rishaug “panorama” compact disc

  • swop
  • svolvær
  • time and place
  • add
  • small 05
  • 06
  • 01
  • 02
  • alø.æ
  • klk.b
  • rga.bit
  • satelites
  • food delivery
  • eee
  • osin
debut album from alexander rishaug... sublime, friendly computer music; in many ways the precursor to the contemporary norwegian wave of post-fennesz digital soundcraft...

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first in stock on
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tonschacht (germany) #tons 013 ep

jazzkammer “knitter” seven inch single record

  • a-sia
  • b-sia
soundbites from john hegre and lasse marhaug (and a little help from alexander rishaug), fresh from their collaboration with merzbow...
tonschacht press release...
artist: jazzkammer
title: knitter
format: 7"
cat #: tons013

sämtliche musik von jazzkammer 2001.
zusätliche sounds auf seite eins von alexander rishaug.

knitter is the first 7" from this norwegian duo - guitarist, improviser and composer john hegre (also in der brief) and lasse marhaug, one of the most productive musicians in the international noise/experimental underground of the last 10 years (also in del and owner of the jazzassin records label) – this time with alexander rishaug who already participated on the last jazzkammer– longplayer "pancakes" (smalltown supersound).

this swedish label also released rolex, a remix-album of their first two cds with contributions by merzbow, thurston moore, pimmon and mayn others. jazzkammer combines timbre sound textures, drones, chrashing noise, digitalia, field recordings, turntables, static electric atmospheres, samplers sine waves and location recordings, all used in free improvisation to create fragmented, eclectic and relentless yet focused and massive collages. a-sia might remind you of mixture between the hi-speed electronics of belgian irregularities scratch pet land and the microsound-turntablism like otomo yoshihide or martin ttreault, b-sia begins like pop defined by the tochnit aleph crew, but slowly between layers of distortions there rise sweet, fenneszian melody as if they were re-arranged by rudolf e.ber.

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