LOOKING BACK AT 2007
16.12.2007
Looking back 2007 has been a rather intense, hectic and very enjoyable year. I've been constantly travelling and touring; including two trips to Japan, full UK and Scandenavian tours and seemingly endless shows around Europe and Norway. In total 64 concerts. It has been great, so many incredible experiences, memorable situations and new acquaintances. But at this point I'm maybe a bit tired with spending time at airports. In 2008 there will be more Oslo-time and less time on the road.

On the product side of things 2007 has been my most prolific year ever. A quick count totals to four vinyls, two tapes, a handful of compilations and an insane 17 full CDs! (And I count the box-set as one, not four). As they say: when it rains it pours. But I didn't plan it like this. Many of these albums had been in the pipeline for a long time and for some reason they all came out at once this year. I trust those of you following my work don't find it overwhelming. My motto is "I make the records while I can, and people listen to them whenever they can".

2007 was also the year of launching my new label Pica Disk. Starting a new label in 2007 is a hell of a lot easier than it was 12 years ago. Thank god for paypal and online forums. I look forward to further Pica adventures in 2008. I can promise one very special gem in the latter half of the year.

In-between all the music I also found time to work with graphic design; designing two books and multiple posters and record covers. It feels fortunate to be able to balance my 'creative outlet' between design and sound. If I got bored/stuck with one I just turn my focus to the other.

This year I also witnessed some fantastic live performances; seeing Roky Eriksson and Brian Wilson, two old favorites with rough times behind them, delivering rock-solid performances and having the times of their lives doing it, was something I will remember forever. On the noisy end of the spectrum Fumio Kosakai and T.Mikawa, aka Incapacitants, graced Oslo the best noise gig I've ever seen at our All Ears festival early in the year. A good second was the four Pain Jerk shows I saw when travelling with Kohei Gomi around Scandenavia on his first ever tour.

2007 was probably a good year for movies, books and records too, but at this point I haven't had time to watch, read or listen to enough of them to have any kind of opinion of what was best. (But I'll say the Broken Flag box-set was a highlight for sure).

Alright, thanks to all who made 2007 such a good time for me. If 2008 turns out even half as fun I'll be content. I hope you also had a good year. Take care/merry christmas/happy new year etc.

VIDEO OF PIKSEL LIVE ACTION
26.11.2007
Here is a video of the collaboration of me, Gisle Frøysland (video) and Vu Nhat Than that we did at the Piksel festival in Bergen last weekend. The video is in Ogg format and is about 45 MB.

NEW RELEASE: MOTORCYCLE FUCK IN JAPAN
23.11.2007
OK, so the 14th CD release of the year is here (I swear I never planned of 2007 to this insane, honestly); a live collaboration between Jazkamer, Astro and Hair Stylistics (ex-Violent Onsen Geisha), recorded in Tokyo early march this year, and titled "Motorcycle Fuck With The Ghost Rider". Here is a video clip from the performance (yep, that's Astro standing on the table with his expensive-as-a-car EMS Synthi). But don't judge the ghost rider by the audio on this, the CD is a crisp and heavy mix of room and line recording. Available now from Archive Recordings in a cover with center opening heavy stock sleeve with circular diecut, sporting the coolness of the Ghost Rider and the moral values of Mr.T.

INPUT NOVEMBER
21.11.2007

Listening:
Damion Romero: Twins 2LP
Hild Sofie Tafjord: Kama CD
Pain Jerk: Official Bootleg Tour-CDR
Pain Jerk/Incapacitants: Live at No Fun CD
Family Underground: various LPs
Anthony Patera: Chasms CD
Pink Floyd: Masters of Rock LP
Pink Floyd: Tonight Lets Make Love In London LP
Death Breath: Let It Stink 10" LP
Repugnant: Epitome of Darkness LP
Kazuki Tomokawa: various CDs
David Tudor: various albums
Henri Chopin: various albums
Yura Tura Teikoku: Sweet Spot CD
Blonde Redhead: 23 CD
Rosy Parlane: Iris CD
Oren Ambarchi: In The Pendulums Embrace CD
Les Rallizes Denudes: various vinyl, CD and mp3
Lobomyr Melnyk: LMH CD

Reading:
Cinema Sewer book
Moondust, by Andrew Smith
Japrocksampler, by Julian Cope

Watching:
Llik Your Idols
Crass: There Is No Authority But Yourself
Bomb It
Sweet Movie (Criterion)
Mario Bava DVD box vol. 2
William Wegman Video Works 1970-1999

NEW RELEASE: TESTICLE HAZARD/GOLDEN SERENADES SPLIT LP
21.11.2007
When it rains it pours; swedish hardworking label Segerhuva has released a split LP of Testicle Hazard and Golden Serenades. GS is the duo of Jörgen Traaen and John Hegre, both Jazkamer members, who under the GS moniker produces walls of rumbling feedback. Concidering the Testicle Hazard sound doing a split LP together seemed like a natural crime to commit. Out now on Segerhuva, 300 copies, and a pretty neat cover on this one too.

NEW RELEASE: TESTICLE HAZARD LP
21.11.2007
US label Trash Ritual have released the debut LP of Testicle Hazard. Titled "Hangover Interruption"; containing one studio track from Oslo and one live show from Helsinki, both recorded in 2006. The cover is silver silkscreening on thick black paper-stock, very handsome I must say. Limited to a mere 160 copies, so get it while you can (I'm already out of copies).

NEW PICA DISK RELEASES
21.11.2007
The second and third Pica Disk releases are now available; Pica002 is a 7" collaboration of myself and Oren Ambarchi, doing scraping piano anti-music. Pica003 is the long awaited debut album of Hild Sofie Tafjord. This is a mesmerizing 41-minute drone-noise epic, an absolute must for all who've been listening to Hild's work with either SPUNK or Fe-Mail. More info on the Pica Disk site on how to obtain these discs.

PAIN JERK NORDIC TOUR
20.11.2007
Just home from a rather historical trip; the first ever tour of japanese noise maestro Pain Jerk. I've stated several times before that Pain Jerk's 1998 album "Gallon Gravy" is my favorite noise album of all times, and hearing that sound unfold in live spaces for the course of a week was an absolute pleasure. Following Pain Jerk (aka Kohei Gomi) around on the tour we did two Testicle Hazard shows and I performed solo two times. Plus I joined Gomi on stage for the last ten minutes of his Trondheim performance. Special thanks to Tommi/Avanto for making this tour possible.

MORE mp3
04.11.2007
Added a collab recording of me and the infamous Terrie Ex to the mp3 archive.

NEW RELEASE: JAZKAMER/ SANDBLEISTIFT 10"
26.10.2007
A split 10" of Jazkamer and Sandbleistift is out now on the Licht Ung label. Limited to 290 copies.

PICA DISK WEBSITE
11.10.2007
A proper website for Pica Disk is now uploaded.

NEW RELEASE: TAPE WITH COURTIS
1.10.2007
Quasipop in the Ukraine have released a collaborative tape of me and Anla Courtis titled Jordslev Hojaldre. These are the original tracks from 1998 that in 2003 mutated into the North and South Neutrino CD. There's also a couple of new tracks from both of us. Lovely packaging too. Limited 100 copies.

GRAND INTERVIEW
30.9.2007
Susanna Bolle has interviewed me and Nils Henrik Asheim in Dusted Magazine regarding our Grand Mutation album.

BACK
30.9.2007
September was incredible. First the Jazkamer metal line-up in Amsterdam at the Paradiso, then a 8 show tour of the UK, principally as a duo, but with friends like John Wiese and Mark Durgan making it a trio on several dates. After three days rest I went to Tokyo. This was more as a vacation, but I did a live collaboration with Masaya Nakahara (Hair Stylistics/Violent Onsen Geisha), which was an absolute pleasure. Greetings to all the people I met, and special thanks to Steve Underwood/Harbinger Sound for making the UK tour such a good time.

UK TOUR
3.9.2007
Getting ready to do my first tour of the UK since 1997; that time I was collaborating with Wertham, now it's Jazkamer. The tour is put together by Harbinger Sound, and we will be touring with Mark Durgan (Putrefier and The New Blockaders). Dates are listed in the left column. Hope to see all our UK friends. But before that we're doing the Jazkamer metal line-up in Amsterdam at the Paradiso on September 5th.

MORE PICA THIS AUTUMN
3.9.2007
Upcoming Pica Disk releases in October-November includes Hild Sofie Tafjord CD, Birchville Cat Motel CD, Hijokaidan CD and a Oren Ambarchi/Lasse Marhaug collaborative 7" vinyl.

TOUCH RADIO AND EXTREME METAL
26.8.2007
Spent last week in Bergen at the Hole In The Sky festival. Had a magnificent times seeing bands like Kreator, Entombed, Napalm Death, Mayhem, Nifelheim (my favorite performance) and many others. I did a comissioned installation for the festival called "Into The Pandemonium", described in the festival program as "a de-composition/ celebration of 25 years of extreme metal music. Fragments of classic moments in death/thrash/black metal music have been mangled, disfigured and reworked into a festering pulp of distortion, doom and noise". This was a six-channel installation which ran at the entrance to the main venue. I made a stereo mix/edit which is available as part of the Touch radio series. Also; for the opening night of Hole In The Sky Ivar Bjørnsson (Enslaved) and yours truly performed as a duo. Heavier than hell. Expect more of this combo in 2008.

NEW RELEASE: QUALITY CONTROL
18.8.2007
Lasse Marhaug: Quality Control CD (nocd040)

A giant of Scandinavian experimental music, Lasse Marhaug has been active in sound creation since his teenage years. His interest has spanned a wide range of styles: from improv jams to film sound, from humorous collages to crushing harsh noise works. This non-stop activity has resulted in a massive body of recorded work and numerous live performances everywhere around Tellus. Besides his solo work he has collaborated with a multitude of fellow sound artists as well on recordings as on stage.

In the everflowing stream of music from Marhaug, Quality Control takes its position within the noisiest end of his output. Manifesting strong manual qualities it rushes forward to present us with a panorama view of a mock world inhabited by trash electronics battling it out on a barren desert field at the end of the known universe. From short outbursts to extended epics, Marhaug works out an explosive brew of storming feedback and out-rock guitar overload. Quality Control shapes a portrait of a mature artist at the top of his game.

Out now on Anoema Recordings.

GRAND MUTATION REVIEW
17.8.2007
A collection of Grand Mutation reviews at the Touch website.

NEW RELEASES: FREAK ANIMAL DVDS
10.8.2007
Finnish label Freak Animal has released two DVD-Rs; first is Støyfest - a document of a wonderful evening here in Oslo last january - and the second is "The Early Years" - the epid tale of Testicle Hazard coming to life; three shows and a candid interview.

RIP ANTONIONI AND BERGMAN
31.7.2007
Two masters of cinema pass away on the same day.

ALIVE AGAIN
26.7.2007
It appears that my Alive album is finally "officially" out on Smalltown Superjazzz, meaning that copies are available to stores. Here's an amusing review.

INTERVIEW
22.7.2007
Here's a recent interview I did for the Musique Machine webzine. They also did a review of the TAPES box-set.

LIVE DATES UPDATED
17.7.2007
I've updated the live-dates section. Possibly there will be a handful more concerts, but this is pretty much how the rest of 2007 is going to look for me. The dates for the UK Jazkamer/Mark Durgan tour were confirmed today, and this will be my first UK tour in ten years! (Ten years? Makes me feel like an old fart just thinking about it). Thanks are due to Harbinger Sound for making it possible.

TAPES RELEASE PARTY
16.7.2007
On August 5th there will be a release-party for the TAPES box-set at Sound of Mu (yes yes, I know it's been out a while, but better late than never, eh?). I will be doing an exclusive tape set. Tore Bøe will do a 8 minute cassette location recordings piece. The TJ (Tape Jockey) of the evening will be the infamous Juryen, the unsung hero of Norwegian experimental music who were almost done releasing tapes when I started in the early 90-ies. If you're in Oslo area try to make it, it will be a magnetic evening of dolby hiss and emotional rewinding.

NEW RELEASE: JAZKAMER MEETS SMEGMA
7.7.2007
It is my absolute pleasure to announce that No Fun Productions this week releases a collaboration CD of Jazkamer and US experimental music legends Smegma. "Endless Coast" was recorded when we visited Portland on our US tour last fall. It's a great pleasure to work with the legendary Smegma - who were making noise before I was born. The Jazkamer line-up for the record was yours truly, John and Carlos Giffoni.

TAPES BOX OUT THERE
5.7.2007
The first review of the TAPES box-set is up at Sound of Music. A very well written piece, but in swedish, so this is for the Scandenavians only. Later in the summer I will have a more proper Pica Disk website up, and be adding reviews as they come in + info on upcoming releases. For now I can say that the box-set is available from mailorders like Metamkine, Mimarogulu, Segerhuva, RRR, White Noise, Sound 323, Second Layer, Molehill, Freak Animal, Some Place Else, Archive, Musically Incorrect, Misanthropic Agenda, Apartment and other quality music waterholes. In Oslo you can pick it up at the Tiger record store. And of course available from me.

THE SHAPE OF ROCK NUMBER 19
12.6.2007
Norwegian newspaper Dagsavisen has put my album "The Shape of Rock to Come" as number 19 on their list of the best albums in Norwegian history. This is a list of mostly pop/rock music, so I'm higher up on the list than bands like A-Ha and Turbonegro. If only I could trade my place on the list with their sales, hum-hum. Dagsavisen also finally reviews the album, three years after its release.

THE BIRTH OF PICA DISK
10.6.2007
After a looong time in the planning, I can finally announce that I'm starting a new label: Pica Disk! The first release is a 4 CD box-set; a selection of material culled from my beloved cassette tape releases in the 90-ies. Needless to say this is a rather special release for me and I'm very pleased with the final results (it has been some 2 years in the making) and I hope you will enjoy it too. Check the Pica Disk website for more information.

SUMMER WINE
4.6.2007
Returned home from Bergen yesterday. Had a really good time. First did a show with the amazing performance artist Kjartan Slettemark (who is 43 years my senior, but makes me feel old) and Kjetil Manheim (ex-Mayhem) at Landmark. An audience of 150 wearing masks being whipped by Kjartan who's dressed as a Marilyn Monroe monster. Very enjoyable, hopefully to be repeated again. Then a few days later me, Mike Harding and Jana Winderen did our first outdoor performance as Field. It was at a farm outside of Bergen and the weather, sheep and people couldn't have been nicer. Expect no documentation or releases from Field, but we'd love to come play at a farm near you.

NEW RELEASE: NORSE COMP MADNESS
22.5.2007
New Norwegian label Ambolt Hue has released a compilation CD called "Don't Get Annoyed, Get Inspired" which is probably the best showcase you can get of what is currently crawling and swirling in the Norwegian noise/experimental underground. Tracks by people like Kobi, Sun State, Maskinanlegg, Origami Tacet, Torstein Wjiik, Andreas Meland, Ryfylke, Anders Hana and others, including a 10 minute turntable trashing by yours truly.

NEW RELEASE: TESTICLE HAZARD CD
20.5.2007
The most prolific label of unpleasant sound in the western hemisphere PacRec have released the second Testicle Hazard CD. "Everything Has Its Price" - a steaming hot noise-sauna recorded in Oslo and Helsinki last year.

MAGAZINE ON NORWEGIAN NOISE
19.5.2007
The Norwegian magazine 3T have dedicated the whole latest issue to noise music. There's texts by Mattin, Francisco López, Harald Fetveit and Ryfylke, interviews with John Hegre and yours truly + I've written a diary from our tour of Japan earlier this year. Most of the stuff is written in norwegian, so I guess this will only appeal to you Scandenavian folks. Go to the 3T website to get a copy. It also has a really cool cover-boy in the shape of Mr. Hegre and his collection of broken guitars.

NEW RELEASE: STALK
9.5.2007
"Stalk" is a collaboration album of me and Paal Nilssen-Love. Recorded, mixed and processed by Hild Sofie Tafjord (of SPUNK/Fe-Mail). This is the first release on Paal's own PNL label. Packaged in a handsome gatefold sleeve. Copies available from me.

R.I.P. MARCO CORBELLI
8.5.2007
Sad news arrived today that Marco Corbelli killed himself this weekend. Corbelli ran Slaughter Productions which put out one of the first 'proper' Herb Mullin cassettes of mine in the early 90ies. My condolances to his family and close friends.

ZAGREB AUDIO
25.4.2007
Thanks to the people who made my time at the Zagreb Music Bienale such a good experience. I've uploaded a recording of the concert at the mp3 archive, although it's a rather poor representation of how it sounded.

NEW RELEASE: GRAND MUTATION
19.4.2007
Touch is putting out a rather special release this month; "Grand Mutation" is a collaboration between myself and Norwegian organ player Nils Henrik Asheim. The album was recorded in the Oslo Dome Church last summer. From the press release:

"Lasse Marhaug and Nils Henrik Asheim got the idea of recording together early in 2004, after a concert they did at the All Ears festival in Oslo, Norway. Two years before, Asheim had started to perform as solo organ improviser, taking a step from the classically trained composer’s world into the field of free music. Asheim got a kick from the experience of conceiving the music in the moment, assisted by sonic images from the masters of the 20th century avant-garde. Marhaug he knew also from a couple of years before, when he was invited to the arts center Tou Scene, which Asheim had recently co-founded. Marhaug introduced the Stavanger audience to the noble art of noise... Under the impact of his wall of sound many of the public fled, but then they returned. To fuse two musicians of such a different breed had to be an interesting experience; Marhaug's feedback to Asheim's organ sounds in the Oslo concert started to reflect how the work was to develop. The aim was to set a sonic frame into which they could both gradually tune. They were both thrilled by the moments where the electronic and the organ sounds seemed to cross each other's paths and you could not really tell the one from the other. They met again in June 2006 just before Oslo Cathedral (which contains Asheim's favourite instrument) closed down for a few years of renovation work. One day of soundcheck, discussion and track structuring, and one night of recording and playback produced 5 tracks which they felt constituted a complete album. The organ loft in Oslo is spacious; Lasse Marhaug sat behind Nils Henrik Asheim with his laptop and a large speaker system which made the electronics and the acoustic organ sound blend as close to each other as possible. For the recording, Thomas Hukkelberg used two custom-built condenser mics for the organ, two Shure KSM 44 for the electronics and two Neumann U87 by the altar for the ambience. He used a Millennia Media HV-3 preamp and an Apogee AD-16X converter. The final mix was made by Lasse Marhaug in January 2007."

I've got a limited number of copies available, otherwise get it from the usual Touch channels.

UPLOADED MORE MUSIC
16.4.2007
Uploaded two recent solo live shows to the mp3 archive. Hear me play.

DOCUMENT AGAIN
15.4.2007
The "Document" solo cassette is back in stock.

TOKYO VIDEOS
9.4.2007
Here is a video of the Astro/Hair Stylistics/Jazkamer gig in Tokyo. And here is a clip from the Testicle Hazard gig the weekend before.

APRIL MOON
9.4.2007
Home from enjoyable Jazkamer mini-tour of Holland and Germany. Also did a solo show in France this weekend. Thanks to those who made it possible.

BERGEN DOME DOOM
22.3.2007
Thanks to all at Borealis festival for making the Sunn0))) concert in the Bergen Dome Church happen. Also had a blast with Testicle Hazard at Landmark.

NO SPACE FOR MYSPACE
21.3.2007
To answer a question I often get; no, I do not have a MySpace page, nor do I have any intentions of opening one. I'm sure it's a great thing, but I have yet to see the light.

ABSOLUTE ZERO INTERVIEW
14.3.2007
Here's a recent interview in the Absolute Zero webzine.

MARCH WORDS
12.3.2007
Played a very enjoyable show with The Skull Defekts at the New Perspectives festival in Västerås this weekend. This week I'll be going to Bergen for the Borealis festival to do two shows, one with Testicle Hazard and one as part of Sunn0))) - the last one is quite special as it will be held in the Bergen Dome Church. Before that I do a solo set + a collab with Hild Sofie Tafjord and Sten Ove Toft at Blå here in Oslo. Here's a live review of the Testicle Hazard gig in London a month ago.

PANIC BACK IN STOCK
4.3.2007
For those of you who have been asking; I now have copies of Panic back in stock.

JETLAGGED AND SMILING
4.3.2007
Back from an amazing trip to Japan. Testicle Hazard, Jazkamer and collab sets, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. Finished the tour with a monstrous Astro/Hair Stylistics/Jazkamer collaboration on saturday. Thanks to all who helped us out, had dinner with us etc etc. Images and audio to be uploaded later this month. Somebody posted two clips of Testicle Hazard's Tokyo show on Youtube.

NEW RELEASE: MIIKE TRIBUTE
17.2.2007
Danish label Vital have issued a double CD compilation called Audiotion - Sonic Tribute to Takashi Miike. The title speaks for itself, artists like KK Null, Contagious Orgasm, Shinjuku Thief, Hentai and many more pay tribute to the madman of Japanese contemporary cinema. It also features an introduction by the man himself, giving it the stamp of approval. Jazkamer has a slow horrific cinematic track, different from just about everything else we've done, with creepy 'vocals' by Maja Ratkje. Packaged in a neat digipack cover with revolting visuals that fits the subject matter perfect.

NEW RELEASE: END OF THE WORLD . . . AGAIN
15.2.2007
The floodgates appears to be open, another CD this week: Ukraine label Quasi Pop have reissued my "It's Not The End Of The World", formely a CD-R on chinese label Doufu, as a proper CD, with radical reworkings of the original tracks, plus a bonus piece. Lovely digipack cover.

LONDON HAZARD
14.2.2007
Thanks to Eric and Enrico Nosignal for making the Testicle Hazard gig in London last week such a good time. Listen to some Testicle sounds. Upcoming releases includes an LP on Trash Ritual and a DVD on Freak Animal.

NEW RELEASE: JAZKAMER'S BALLS
8.2.2007
They just keep rolling in: Czech Republic label Purplesoil have released a Jazkamer CD called Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil. It follows in the landscape of Panic; slow-moving passages of weeping guitar, overlapped with textures of turntable surfacenoise and distant location recordings. This is one for the rainy days, or when you're longing for the prairie.

NEW RELEASE: DOCUMENT
8.2.2007
Woops, another one: my old friends at Scrotum Records has been so kind to issue a lovely cassette of new material by yours truly. Document is 60 minutes of ragged guitar pedal abuse and inspired feedback celebration.

NEW RELEASE: GIFFONI FOR BRUNCH
1.2.2007
Archive Recordings have put out a Carlos Giffoni/Lasse Marhaug collaboration called Lesbian Brunch. Not to be confused with the limited 3"CD of the same name we did three years, this is new sounds (and rather intense ones). Digital overload, screeching feedback and sludge bass - this is one brunch it'll be hard to digest.

INSTAL VIDEO
31.1.2007
The video from the Instal gig can be found here. Sadly it's only from the first half of the show, and fades out just before things start to get intense (we spent some 20 minutes shredding two guitars into little pieces). Bummer.

FREE ALBUM
30.1.2007
Go here to download a online-exclusive Origami Republika compilation album. The best things in life are free.

BERLIN BABYLON
30.1.2007
Thanks to all who made the Jazkamer performance at the Berlin Bienale such a good time. It was the second time we did the Metal Music Machine six-man line-up and it was a very enjoyable meltdown of feedback, blastbeats and guitar-smashing. Not sure if any documentation exists, but if so I'll be sure to post it here. Meanwhile, listen to the first time we did this here.

NEW RELEASES: SILENCE AND TOMORROW
23.1.2007
Hollywood-based extreme noise specialist label PacRec has is putting out two CDs of mine at the same time. First "The Great Silence" - a mammoth block of sound recording done back in 2003. Recorded and produced by The Golden Serenades, this is as primitive as it gets. The second release is a split/collab disc with the Boston tape strangler Howard Stelzer. "Tomorrow One Will Be Safe" was recorded on the road in the US in 2004 and features one JK track, one Stelzer jam and a collaboration. Concider it the soundtrack to sleeping on floors and eating greasy food.

EXIT 2006, ENTER 2007
18.1.2007

Apologies for not updating the website till now. 2006 was an incredible year - if 2007 has half the fun in store it'll be a good one. Looking back some highlights were:

• Touring south-east asia. Bangkok was a blast, and it now feels like I have as many friends in Singapore as in Oslo.
• The unexpected success of "Metal Music Machine". We thought we'd made a weird record nobody would like, but soon were proved wrong.
• Playing various festivals and venues around the world. Erstquake, Instal, Nødutgang, Avanto to name a few.
• Doing live collaborations with people like Kevin Drumm, Aaron Dilloway and Oren Ambarchi.
• Playing Millenium Park with The Territory Band in Chicago. 5000 people, amazing.
• Touring the US west coast with Carlos Giffoni.
• Seing amazing performaces of artists like Whitehouse, Charlemagne Palestine, Hijokaidan, John Tibury, The Stooges, The Dead C, Randy Yau, Negative Approach, Prurient, Keiji Haino, Golden Serenades and many more. 2006 was a good year for live music.
• All the incredible record releases. In the swedish webzine Sound of Music I've listed some of my favorite reisusses. Despite it being a hectic year I actually took time to listen to a lot of music, a big source of inspiration.

Then 2007 started with a bang:

First the Støyfest (translates to Noise-Party) with Grunt, Testicle Hazard, Røyskatt and Treriksröset/Sewer Election. A perfect evening of pure noise. Then the next day the All Ears festival. Four days of improvised music, with a line-up of artists like Ikue Mori, Birchville Cat Motel, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Thomas Lehn, MoHa, Kjetil Brandsdal and many others. The personal highlight was bringing Incapacitants to Oslo. They played two shows; one as a duo, and one with Tommi Keränen. Without a doubt the best noise live act in the world. Fantastic.

I don't like to announce releases before they're actually in my hands, but I can say that I have a lot of records coming out in 2007, including new Jazkamer and DEL albums, various vinyl LPs and a host of other releases. Also this year I will start my own label, and the first release will be a 4 CD box set of cassette works culled from my 90ies cassette output.

On the online front I'll update the visual section of this website during the first half of the year. There's a lot of photos and visual waiting to be uploaded.

View 2006 news archive.
View 2005 news archive.
View 2004 news archive.