(Catalogue no. 13050)
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| Title: |
Pulse |
| Artist: |
Jazzkammer |
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Label: |
Bottrop-Boy |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 12.90 |
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Title Description:
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 ÕsoundÕ Ð 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 yearÕs 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.
Vital Review:
JAZZKAMMER - PULSE (CD by Bottrop-Boy)
It took me some time to get into Jazzkammer, as I wasn't blown away
by their debut 'Hot Action Sexy Karaoke', but by the time they
released 'Pancakes', they really grabbed me. Jazzkammer is Lasse
Marhaug, one of the main players of Norwegian underground music and
John Hegre, maybe less known but who has an interesting solo CD
himself on Dekorder (see Vital Weekly 374). With the release of this
new work, it has become harder and harder to pin Jazzkammer down to
some specific musical style. The album was recorded in Singapore in
April 2003, when Jazzkammer was there with a theatre group. The music
here is only loosely inspired by that theatre piece. 'Pulse' is just
one piece, thirty two minutes long. The core is an almost ambient
drone like piece, to which a couple of pulses are added. When after
some six minutes the sound starts again after a brief halt, and the
sounds are the same, one could feel a bit deceived. Don't be. The
first six minutes act like an ouverture, then the piece unfolds. It's
stays on the minimal side of things, but over the course of the next
twenty six minutes, colours change, small events are added. These
small events might vague field recordings of summer buzzing insects
(Singapore, remember), the skipping on a record or surface noise.
These are elegantly mixed in and the piece has an ambient,
melancholic touch. It's profoundly different from their previous
works, but it somehow makes a coherent whole. Great CD! (FdW)
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