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bottrop-boy (germany) #b-boy 021 cd

maja solveig kjelstrup ratkje / lasse marhaugmusic for loving” compact disc

  • a hymn, may be classified as influenced by baroque (6:25)
  • sliced minimalist meets sheep & easy, ool & dancing diva (8:40)
  • interference; swapped, stripped & fucked (6:02)
  • stuck in the sheep field with dancing diva (2:59)
  • -23, a tribute to arnold schönberg in heavy syrup (6:46)
  • let it be (6:42)
  • music for loving (9:00)
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maja s.k. ratkje & lasse marhaug
music for loving
cd / b-boy 021

second collaboration between norwegian masters of noise maja ratkje (spunk, fe-mail) and lasse marhaug (jazzkammer, del) after their 2002 vinyl-only album music for shopping on synesthetic records. music for loving is wild, frantic, nervous, loud, delirious and scattered all over the place. the perfect music to listen to with your loved one.

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threads:
digital-musics
harsh-noise
guitar-themed
live-electronic

dekorder (germany) #dekorder 15 cd

john hegre / maja solveig kjelstrup ratkjeballads” compact disc

  • autumn leaves (4:25)
  • binoculars and traces (6:00)
  • private matter (3:18)
  • blues for silent bakers (3:08)
  • hesitating interruptions of spring (3:55)
  • a quiet day at the office (2:21)
  • art compass (2:42)
  • hammock moods (15:39)
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surprisingly light & breezy duo-session from these two nordic mongers... john hegre known for his work w/lasse marhaug in jaz(z)kam(m)er and solo as “golden serenades”, maja ratke for her duo fe-mail and her solo disc on rune grammophone...

the two get busy over a few real-book chestnuts, leaving plenty of space in the proceedings. more company week than rainbow electronics. pretty fantastic, actually...
dekorder press release...
[015] john hegre / maja ratkje "ballads" cd

"ballads" ist the first collaborative album by two key figures of the norwegian noise, improv, experimental, whatever-you-call-it music scene. anyone expecting a rackety wall of distorted feedback guitars and voices will be gently surprised though by the sparse and intimate sketches to be found on this wonderful record. songs are stripped down to their raw bones using only the most essential elements to reveal the soul behind every single sound. superfluous effects seem to be completely absent, creating an open space for miniscule details, always ready to implode into noisier tracks such as "private matter". the album culminates in "hammock moods", a quietly mesmerizing epic finale with maja ratkje humming a beautiful melody over hegre's gorgeous near-psychedelic guitar playing. let's all hope for a sequel to this album!

maja ratkje is a member of spunk (rune grammofon) and noise duo fe-mail. her solo album "voice" (produced in collaboration with jazzkammer) got an award of distinction at prix ars electronica in 2003. in 2001 she was the first composer ever to receive the arne nordheim distinction award. she has collaborated with jaap blonk, ikue mori, otomo yoshihide, wolf eyes, matmos, lasse marhaug, jason forrest, kim hiortoy, ulver and many others.

john hegre is a member of jazzkammer / jazkamer (smalltown supersound), kaptein kaliber, golden serenades, new boiling near the fjords (with members of alog) and others. his first solo 3"cd came out on dekorder in 2003. jazkamer will release their aptly titled new album "metal music machine" in spring 2006 and hegre is working on an as yet untitled solo album for dekorder.

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harsh-noise

important (usa) #imprec 092 lp

maja solveig kjelstrup ratkjestalker” picture disc long playing record

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this vinyl only picture disc release is limited to only 500 copies worldwide.

renowned international composer maja ratkje is a founding member in two of norway's most respected improvisational units - spunk & fe-mail. while her solo work on the rune grammofon release voice is without the electronic and instrumental elements of spunk and fe-mail, stalker finds maja merging elements of her other projects into her solo endeavors.

ranging from furious to tender, stalker was recorded in paris and at various live dates around europe. this live material was then brought back to a studio in norway and laboriously editited for release.

like much of ratkje's work stalker flawlessly contrasts these two disctinct emotional and audio extremes. while stalker is influenced the the hardest japanese noise it is also a quiet emotional drift based around bertold brecht's story of a girl who has drowned and is floating down a river while her body slowly dissolves leaving only her hair to remain. with this dichotomy hanging in limbo ratkje fills in the blanks with her signature compositional attention to detail and balance.

i play with the material and it talks back to me. it's a game between the boundaries of total control and total anarchy. i try to include some of both.maja ratkje

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playback-music
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plunder-phonic
digital-musics

pica disk (norway) #pica 009 cd

maja solveig kjelstrup ratkje / lasse marhaugmusic for gardening” compact disc

  • music for gardening (4:37)
  • complaints won't help (5:36)
  • call in the dogs (2:54)
  • sound check (2:17)
  • merry go round circus in town (3:05)
  • stuck in the roundabout (2:34)
  • like a prayer (3:47)
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september 2009 release ; fourth release in this near-decade-long collaboration between maja solveig kjelstrup ratkje and lasse marhaug ...

nestled somewhere in the nether-regions between harsh noise, electro-acoustic improvisation, and plunderphonic collage-work, the two are obviously having a blast running the proverbial gamut (esp. on the respective cat and dog-themed pieces ; listen to the sound-sample for the former - yeah, like i wasn’t going to put that one up) ... great stuff !!!
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maja s.k. ratkje / lasse marhaug: music for gardening

pica009. cd. released autumn 2009.

the forth entry in ratkje and marhaug's "music for" -collaborative series. after shopping (2002), loving (2004) and faking (2005) comes ... gardening. the title is inspired by ratkje's new life in the countryside. the seven tracks on this cd are meant to inspire the listener to spend more time in their garden taking care of their plants.

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rune grammofon (norway) #r 2038 cd

phonophanioak or rock” compact disc

  • earth diver (5:31)
  • a lion lies listening (2:59)
  • the boiling fjords orchestra (4:04)
  • blind birds of the antarctic (5:12)
  • take off your wooden coat (3:52)
  • cloudberry (4:17)
  • the melancholic giant (4:44)
  • animals (4:21)
  • you must welcome the stranger (3:40)
  • oak or rock (4:37)
rune grammofon press release...
rcd 2038 - phonophani: rock or oak

this is the third phonophani album, the second for rune grammofon. the title refers to mysterious connections between material things, and the album is all about rediscovering the great mystery of music. through dissecting the sound of ordinary or "real" instruments such as cello, vibraphone, guitars and the human voice and dissolving melodies into their elementary particles, espen sommer eide seeks to excavate the "ur" music itself. instruments are often sampled and manipulated using software designed and made by himself, being a keen programmer who prefers this to the so-called industry standards, giving the album a personal and unique sound. maja ratkje is appearing on one of the tracks.

release: 30.08.04

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rune grammofon (norway) #r 2026 cd

spunkden øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang” compact disc

  • kamelmusikk (6:37)
  • flagre (5:37)
  • møff (1:30)
  • togturen til andes (11:37)
  • epleslang (3:16)
  • wilderbeast (6:23)
  • retur (3:58)
  • norge i rødt (1:06)
  • sing a-long (2:38)
  • home party (5:27)
  • strøm (6:03)
  • i have a dream (5:43)
rune grammofon press release...
rcd 2026 - spunk: den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstangthe new studio album from this increasingly exciting and colourful quartet boasts yet another pippi longstocking related title. this free spirited and anti authoritarian character is one of the most loved and wellknown from the late, great swedish author of childrens books, astrid lindgren. it translates "the very top of a bluepainted flagpole" and on reflection it gets clearer and clearer why the four young women (all still in their twenties) in spunk so easily will identify with this character, going their own pathways and relentlessly breaking most rules in the book. in many ways both more accesible, varied and distinct than their debut from 1999.

released 29.04.02

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electro-acoustic-composition
electro-acoustic-improvisation

rune grammofon (norway) #r 2022 cd

spunkfiltered through friends” compact disc

  • martin horntveth - det eneste jeg vet er at det var et horn engang (3:57)
  • kim hiorthøy - akershus pubertet (6:04)
  • upper rooms - thing that hurt (3:34)
  • phonophani - fjernfjernkontrollkontroll (4:39)
  • svalastog - feil remix (5:38)
  • kristin andresen - truly falling slowly (7:26)
  • (x,y,z) - tapeunderlaget på ball (1:33)
  • andreas meland - buljong (4:40)
  • jørgen træen - trav'lin'light (3:23)
  • sun demon - akershus (demon dub) (3:28)
  • risto holopainen - aker brygge (3:13)
  • lasse marhaug - septemberunderlaget 2 (3:56)
  • andreas mjøs - sticky tapedeck (8:39)
rune grammofon press release...
rcd 2022 - spunk: filtered by friends

central artists from norway's flowering electronica and noise scene join forces to remix female chamber anarchist quartet spunk, the source being the group's debut album from 1999, "det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger" (rcd 2010).

contributions from martin horntveth (jaga jazzist), kim hiorthøy, upper rooms, phonophani, svalastog, kristin andersen (spunk), (x, y, z), andreas meland (düplo), jørgen træen, sun demon, risto holopainen, lasse marhaug (jazzkammer) and andreas mjøs (jaga jazzist, rotoscope).released 26.11.01

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rune grammofon (norway) #r 2010 cd

spunkdet eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger” compact disc

  • tapeunderlaget (12:54)
  • hornkonserten (7:27)
  • septemberunderlaget (6:25)
  • thing that (7:25)
  • akershus (19:12)
rune grammofon press release...
rcd 2010 - spunk: det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger

improvisation from four young female musicians with backgrounds from jazz, classical, contemporary, rock and country. weird, wonderful and completely beyond categorisation, the quartet was formed in 1995. this is their debut recording.

released 22.02.99

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