2009
22.12.2009
The swedish webzine Sound of Music asked me to sum up my 2009 in sound. I came up with this self-indulgant rant.
MUSIC FOR GARDNING REVIEW
8.12.2009
In swedish Sound Of Music.
JAZKAMER 2010
6.12.2009
In 2010 Pica Disk will release one new Jazkamer CD every month. It's crazy but true. More information at the Jazkamer site.
RECENT INPUT
5.12.2009
Listening:
Jim O'Rourke: The Visitor
Jacques Thollot: Quard le son
Hair Stylistics: I Was Gay
Heldon: Interface
Aodl: Hard Cobble Abdomen
Incapacitants: Tight
Incapacitants: Lon Guy
David Crosby: If Only I Could Remember My Name
Marco Fusinato: Ripping Skies
Watching:
Jäg er nyfiken blå
Last House On The Left (2009)
I racconti di Canterbury
A Matter of Life and Death
Moon
JCVD
Monty Python: Almost The Truth
BMX Bandits
Death Race
2012
American Swing
Performance:
Pymathon
Mark Durgan
Thomas Ankersmit
PRISMA RECORDS
23.11.2009
Together with Lars Mørch Finborud I have resurrected the Prisma Records label. In the 70's and 80's this was the in-house label of the Henie Onstad Art Centre, and now it has come back to life. With Prisma Records we will unearth gems from the art centre's vast archives, but also release documentations of current musical ongoings. The first two CDs are out now: Ingar Zach/Andreas Meland "Music For Tinguely" and Kåre Kolberg "Nova". Fans of old electronic music will want to check out the latter, as its a previously unreleased work from 1972, and incredible stuff. More information can be found on the Prisma Records website. The CDs are distributed by Musikkoperatørene. Mimiarolgu Music Sales will also stock them. And I've got a handful of copies for sale myself (drop me an email if interested).
LOS BASTARDOS
22.11.2009
The film Los Bastardos, which Jazkamer has contributed the music to, opens in Norwegian cinemas this weekend. Go see it.
TWO REVIEWS
2.11.2009
My single with Oren reviewed (in Norwegian).
LATE OCTOBER INPUT
30.10.2009
Listening:
Astro: Fracture Composition
Nik Pascal: Magnetic Web
Ben Patterson: A Fluxus Elegy
Luc Ferrari: Labyrinthe De Violence / DANCE
Procol Harum: A Salty Dog
Miles Davis: On The Corner
Watching:
Last House On The Left (1972)
[REC]
The Decameron
The Innocents
The Prisoner
Ninja 3 The Domination
Abstract Cinema
Fuck The Documentary
Zombieland
Performance:
Merzbow
Skullflower
John Wiese
Maranata
Skull Defekts
Void Ov Voices
Oren Ambarchi
Reading:
Special Interests #1
AUDIO INTERVIEW
30.10.2009
Audio interview from radio in Tilburg. It's two hours long, and if my ramblings don't make much sense there's plenty of music (including the special piece I did with me, Jon Wesseltoft and Kjetil Manheim for the Incubate festival).
MUSIC FOR GARDNING
21.10.2009
Brainwashed and Monochrom reviews of Music For Gardening.
OSLO POSTERS
13.10.2009
Some of my poster designs for HOK and Plastic Strip is featured at this website dedicated to posters in Oslo.
BERGEN STØYFEST
8.10.2009
This weekend there will be a two-day noise festival in Bergen at the Landmark venue. The line-up is picked by me in collaboration with Utmark: Merzbow, Consumer Electronics, The Skull Defekts, Skullflower, John Wiese and Maranata. I will be performing as part of Consumer Electronics.
RECENT INPUT
3.10.2009
Nihilist: Drowned
Family Battle Snake/Birds Of Delay: split
Exodus: Bonded By Blood
Miles Davis: Get Up With It
Tangerine Dream: Alpha Centauri/Atem
Merzbow: Peace For Animals
Merzbow: Dolphin Sonar
Merzbow: Live Destruction at No Fun
Watching:
Nettlek
Letters From Iwo Jima
Wild Side
Rambo: First Blood Part 2
Das Leben der Anderen
Hawkwind - Do Not Panic
Der Bader Meinhof Komplex
Mad Foxe
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Män Som Hatar Kvinnor
District 9
Playtime
Performance:
Hermann Nitsch 125th Action, Tilburg
TESTICLE HAZARD @ NO FUN
29.9.2009
Video of Testicle Hazard from No Fun in Stockholm. And review (in Swedish) up at Sound of Music.
ME AT NITSCH PERFORMANCE
23.9.2009
Last weekend I did a performance at the Incubate festival. It was a commissioned piece celebrating the festival's main guest this year: Hermann Nitsch. Listed simply as Marhaug, the line-up was me, Jon Wesseltoft (Thorns, Maranata and Tongues of Mount Meru) on guitar and Kjetil Manheim (ex-Mayhem) on drums. The next day Mr. Nitsch did his 125th action, and here's a photo from the frontpage of Holland's biggest newspaper the following day. Look above the head of old man Nitsch in the centre to see yours truly transfixed by the carnage.
CONCERT UPDATES
23.9.2009
A bit behind on listing the autumn concerts; finally got to it. Just played No Fun (Testicle Hazard) and Incubate (Marhaug). Upcoming gigs includes Jazkamer, solos, duo with John Wiese, duo with Antoine Chessex, and I will be backing Consumer Electronics for the gig at the Bergen Støyfest festival.
NEW RELEASES: 7" WITH OREN AMBARCHI AND CD WITH MAJA RATKJE
3.9.2009
The autumn batch of Pica Disk releases is now ready! Really pleased with these four gems:
Government Alpha 4CD box, Oren Ambarchi/Lasse Marhaug 7", Will Guthrie 7" and Maja Ratkje/Lasse Marhaug CD (our forth in the "Music For..." series, which we began in 2002). More info at Pica Disk website.
NEW RELEASE: RRR1000
21.8.2009
RRRecords has released a 1000 lock-groove compilation called "RRR1000". 20 artists gets 50 grooves each. AMK, Aaron Dilloway, Thomas Dimuzio, Kevin Drumm, C.Giffoni, Incapacitants, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Jason Lescalleet, Fransisco Lopez, L.Marhaug, New Blockaders, J.Noetinger, D.Romero, Prurient, RLW, Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock, Sudden Infant, Keith Whitman, C.Spencer Yeh and Otomo Yoshihide. RRR has made 2000 copies which each features individual artwork. Here's a video Keith Whitman made. And here's an audio mix of C. Spencer Yeh's tracks. So of course I had to make my version.
SOLO AT BLÅ NEXT WEEK
19.8.2009
Playing solo at Blå next tuesday opening for Æthenor. It's been a while since I've played solo in Oslo. Also Stephen O'Malley is performing a commissioned piece at the Henie Onstad Art Centre on sunday the 30th of august. I'm one of the music curators at the centre this year. Besides O'Malley this autumn there'll be performances by Merzbow, Void Ov Voices, Maja Ratkje, Jaap Blonk, Sten Hanson, Famlende Forsøk, Noxagt and many more. I'm also working on digitizing audio and video from the centre's huge archive. The plan is to resurrect the label Prisma Records and start releasing archival material. (Yes, I know, I'm a busy guy).
NEW PICA DISK RELEASES IN SEPTEMBER
19.8.2009
Four new releases will be out on Pica Disk in early september: a Government Alpha 4CD box, a CD with me and Maja Ratkje, a 7" of Will Guthrie and another 7" of me and Oren Ambarchi. More info soon.
NEW RELEASE: OFFONOFF / JAZKAMER SPLIT 10"
19.8.2009
French label Gaffer Records has released a split 10" with Jazkamer and Offonoff. I got a few copies available for those interested.
LOS BASTARDOS
17.8.2009
The Mexican film Los Bastardos is now out on DVD in the US. Available from the usual outputs like Amazon and such. The DVD has a making-of doucmentary, as well as the trailer, which features even more Jazkamer-music. Some more info on the Jazkamer site.
AUGUST INPUT
16.8.2009
Listening:
Magma: Kohntarkosz
Courtis: Las Sales Fundentes
Masayuki Takayanagi: Archive 1
Government Alpha: Resolution of Remembrance
Watching:
X-Mas Tale
Pulp
Elevator To The Gallows
The Genius of Photography
Prog Rock Britannia
The Prowler
My Bloody Valentine
Prom Night
Vanishing Point
Pieces
The International
Darkplace
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Watchmen
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU INTERVIEW
1.8.2009
Here's an interview Jon Wesseltoft did with a french website about our Tongues of Mount Meru project.
MORE MARANATA
19.7.2009
Joining an extended Maranata line-up for a gig at Blå tonight. Yours truuly, Sten Ove Toft and Kjetil Manheim will take part in core duo Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Striberg's quest for enlightenment through noise.
SUMMER INPUT
19.7.2009
Listening:
Neil Young: Archives Volume 1
Hijokaidan: The Noise
Ashtray Navigations: Monocycle Amficain
Ashtray Navigations: Running On Autokinetic
Ashtray Navigations: Exploding Blue Floor Martin Denny
Francoise Hardy: The Vogue Years
John Wiese: Circle Snare
Sissy Spacek: Glass
Thinguma*jigsaw: Awake In Whitechapel
Watching:
Torso
Performance
Manufactured Landscapes
Performance:
Robin Fox
Reading:
Nick Kent: The Dark Stuff
Misha Glenny: McMafia
NEW RELEASE: TONGUES OF MOUNT MERU
15.7.2009
My ecstatic/esoteric drone/long-form project with Jon Wesseltoft (of black metallers Thorns and free-noise band Maranata) called Tongues of Mount Meru have an LP called "The Ocean of Milk" out now on Important Records. Copies available from me as well.
NEW RELEASE: DEL RISES AGAIN
23.6.2009
DEL is back with the first release since the "Five Dolls For An August Moon" LP. A double cassette called "Excellent Choice" documents our haunting live extravagances in New Zealand and Norway in 2005 and 2006. Released by Kassettkultur in an edition of 100 copies. Eighty heavenly minutes of full-on instrumental psychedelic noise-rocking recorded on opposite sides of the world. Those who dug the lush acid-trips of "Five Dolls" might want to reach for their earplugs as this material is closer to the Les Rallizes-side of the psych-pendulum.
JUNE INPUT
19.6.2009
Listening:
13th Floor Elevators: Sign Of The 3 Eyed Men
Neil Young: Fork In The Road
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Prurient: Arrowhead
Stain Westerhus: Galore
Beatles: Abbey Road
Ennio Morricone: Autostop rosso sangue
Nisennenmondai: Destination Tokyo
Watching:
Cocaine Cowboys 2
Greaser's Palace
The Spaghetti West
MC5 A True Testimonial
Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner
Terminator Salvation
Gasherbrum Der leuchtende Berg
Julianes Sturz in den Dschungel
Performance:
Vildanden
Neil Young
Maja Ratkje
Reading:
The Writings of the Vienna Actionists
The Art of Destruction
Yoshihiro Tatsumi: Good-Bye
JAZKAMER COVERS BRAINBOMBS
12.6.2009
Japanese label Xerxes have started a compilation CD/mini-zine called Frequency of Decomposition. Volume one has a Jazkamer interview and on the CD a coversong we did of Brainbombs' "Ass Fucking Murder", recorded back in 2002. I've got a few copies available for those interested.
HONG KONG VIDEO
9.6.2009
Here's a video of my performance in Hong Kong two months back. Thanks to Edwin Lo for filming and uploading.
ART BREAKER AND METAL MUSIC MACHINE CDS
18.5.2009
Finally got copies of "Metal Music Machine" and "Art Breaker" back in stock.
INPUT
18.5.2009
Listening:
Candlemass: Death Magic Doom
The Dead C: Secret Earth
Beherit: Engram
Slayer: Reign In Blood
Iron Maiden: Brave New World
v/a: Popular Electronics
Luc Ferrari: Archives Génétiquement Modifiées/Société 2
Ronnie Sundin: Seven Year Silence
Yoshi Wada: Earth Horns With Electronic Drone
Heaven And Hell: The Devil You Know
Watching:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
52 Pick-Up
It's Fine! Everything is Fine!
Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Flaming Creatures
Zoo
Cutter's Way
2019 After The Fall of New York
Gran Torino
Wolverine
La passion de Jeanne d'Arc
Bug
Performance:
Arnold Dreyblatt
Stephen O'Malley
Reading:
D.X. Ferris: Reign In Blood
GRAND MUTATION
12.5.2009
Copies of "Grand Mutation" back in stock.
INTERVIEW
7.5.2009
Here's an interview for the Singaporean blog Psychmetalfrak.
STUPID BOX IS SOLD-OUT
22.4.2009
The Incapacitants "Box Is Stupid" on my Pica label is now sold out. Still available from shops/mailorders though. New batch of Pica releases in august.
I'M A COMIC BOOK CHARACTER!
21.4.2009
Ronnie Sundin has launched a comic book series called Very Friedly. Issue 1 is out now and features the story of Ronnie visiting me in Trondheim in the mid-90's. It's pretty damn hilarious and impressive work by Ronnie. There's also comics on Throbbing Gristle and Edgard Varése. It could well be the first comic book dedicated to experimental music. This issue also comes with a 7" single of me called "Trondheim Tapes Revisited". I went back to DAT-tapes of raw material from the period and made a collage-piece that would (hopefully) go well with the comic book format. 300 copies made and available from publishers Komplott. I also got a few copies available. Here's a video-teaser.
STALK FINALLY BACK IN STOCK
15.4.2009
After much delay; my collaboration CD with Paal Nilssen-Love; "Stalk", is now back in stock.
LATE MARCH INPUT
5.4.2009
Listening:
The Who: Who's Next
Skullflower: Pure Imperial Reform
Minnie Riperton: Perfect Angel
Nate Young: Regression
Aaron Dilloway: Chain Shot
The Skull Defekts: The Temple
Treriksröset: Venal
Pierre Henry: Apocalypse de Jean
Willie Hutch: Foxy Brown Soundtrack
various: Dead Tech No Wave From Japan
Bad Kharma: Surplus
Watching:
Belle De Jour
Roadgames
The Last Wave
Next of Kin
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
Martyrs
From Beyond
Performance:
Keiji Haino
Aaron Dilloway
HONG KONG ACTION
31.3.2009
Playing two shows in China next week; one in Shenzhen (with Dickson Dee) and one in Hong Kong.
IT'S MYSPACE OR THE HIGHWAY
29.3.2009
Sorry folks; still no plans to sign up to Rubert Murdoch's spiderweb. I'm already dependent on enough evils. But thanks for asking.
MEXICO DOCUMENTS
26.3.2009
Had a really good time in Mexico. Here's some documentation:
Jazkamer live in Guanajuato video (watch in HQ)
Jazkamer live in Merida video
Jazkamer Merida newspaper article
Jazkamer live at Radar images
Jazkamer live at Radar video
Sunn0))) live at Radar video (I'm the hunchback to the left)
LOS BASTARDOS
26.3.2009
The excellent film LOS BASTARDOS that features Jazkamer's "The Worms Will Get In" track won the main award the Trondheim film-festival Kosmorama and will therefor get regular distribution at Norwegian cinemas. In the US it will be available on DVD from Kino this summer. Here's the trailer.
MEXICO AWAITS
11.3.2009
Getting ready to go to Mexico for some shows. Playing Radar Festival with Jazkamer + once again joining the ranks of Sunn0))). Afterwards Jazkamer wil play gigs in Guanajuato and Merida. For these gigs we're a trio with Nils Are Drønen behind the drums.
NO INPUT NO OUTPUT
11.3.2009
Watching:
Splinter
Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired
Hatchet
Life On Mars Season Two
Musican: Ken Vandermark
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson
Friday The 13th Part 12
Taken
Listening:
Luc Ferrari: various
Pumice: Providence
Ragnar Grippe: Sand
Pumice: Quo
Hermann Nitsch: Die Geburt Des Dionysos Christos
Popol Vuh: Letzte Tage Letzte Nächte
Popol Vuh: Seligpreisung
Maranata: Licking The Inside Of Your Skull
Performance:
AC/DC
NEW RELEASE: WIESE SINGLE
7.3.2009
Italian label A Dear Girl Called Wendy has released a 7" single with me and my old comrade John Wiese. "LMJW" is pressed in 200 copies. This is a precursor to a full album coming later in the year. The single is old school overload thrashing, the album is going to sound completely different.
BOX GONE
5.3.2009
The copies I had of the Ear Era box are now gone. Try Second Layer and Tiger, they might have copies.
NEW RELEASE: EAR ERA DELUXE EDITION
17.2.2009
The deluxe box-set version of Ear Era is now finally finished. It has been delayed for a good six months because we couldn't find a satisfactory sollution for the box itself. It was worth the wait/search - we had a carpenter design and make by hand 50 wood boxes. Inspired by 60's fluxus art boxsets, and I must admit it looks really nice. Inside there's the "Ear Era" CD, a postcard, two photos, a signed plastic ear and a triple cassette, with material exclusive for this edition and individual cover artwork different for every box-set. Credit is due to designer Mats Lande and curator Lars Finborud for making this possible. We made 50 boxes of which I have a handful for sale. Email me if you're interested.
RECENT INPUT
15.2.2009
Watching:
Tokyo Gore Police
Mad Max
Einstein's Brain
The Apartment
L' Ultimo squalo
Listening:
Yoko Ono: Fly
King Crimson: Red
Magma: Live
Merzbow: Mercurated
Pink Floyd: Live In London 1970
Pierrot Lunaire: s/t
Controlled Bleeding: Knees and Bones
Takehisa Kosugi: Catch-Wave '97
Area: Anto/Logicamente
Togashi Masahiko Quartet: We Now Create
Richard Pinhas: Rhizosphere
Reading:
Bill Landis: Sleazoid Express
WINTER THOUGHTS
10.2.2009
Thanks to all those who made the All Ears festival and my tour of Japan such a fantastic time. Now back in Norway to the cold grip of winter. I've started the long overdue updating of the visual section of this site. It hasn't been updated in years, but now thanks to the wonders of Flickr and my pal Håvard (who recently became a father, congratulations!) I've found a sollution that will make it easier to maintain and update that neglected section of my website. There'll be tons of design work and photos from the last few years up sometime soon. I'll let you know when it's ready.
JAPAN DATES READY
14.1.2009
The dates to the Japan tour is ready. After a year's break I will again join forces with the Norwegian power trio Puma. We will do seven gigs together, plus a gig on Super-Deluxe where Puma will do a trio gig and I will do a trio with Jim O'Rourke and Merzbow. Also before this, at Club Soap in Tokyo on january 24th, there will be a release-party for the Incapacitants box-set. Strangely Incapacitants won't be playing their own release-party, as Fumio just became a father again (congratulations!) and cannot attend. Instead I will perform in a duo with Mikawa. Here's the poster for the tour. A Puma Marhaug LP will be available soon.
ALL EARS 2009
14.1.2009
All Ears 2009 edition is starting tomorrow! We've got artists like Borbetomagus, Jean-Philippe Gross, John Hegre, Pain Jerk, Lemur, Maranata, The Ex Guitars, Skull Defekts and other playing. More info at the website.
EARLY 2009 INPUT
13.1.2009
Listening:
Too Much Too Soon Orchestra: Saw - Music For Instruments And Machines
Merzbow: Hannover Interruption
France Gall: various
Nocturnus: The Key
t.A.T.u.: Happy Smiles
Peter Rehberg: Works for GV 2004-2008
Ash Ra Tempel: s/t
Bastion: Bastion
Greg Malcom: Leather And Lacy
Stooges: Funhouse
Watching:
Die Fälscher
The Bank Job
The Ruins
The Long Goodbye
Rece do góry (Hands Up!)
Reading:
Moomin comics
Cormac McCarthy: The Road
Moore/Coley: No Wave
NEW RELEASE: TWO LIMITED 7"
10.1.2009
My obscure minimalist/scrape/violin duo with Tom Løberg surfaces with its first 'proper' release since our formation in 2002. "B12" is a 7" single released by Indeterminant Music in a mere 102 copy edition. I've got copies for sale, and Looop will be stocking it soon.
NEW RELEASE: BOX IS STUPID
9.1.2009
After about a years break/pause the new Pica Disk release is ready; a 10 CD Box-Set by Incapacitants titled "Box Is Stupid". More info on the Pica Disk website.
NEW RELEASE: YEH COLLAB 7"
03.1.2009
A collaboration 7" with me and C. Spencer Yeh is out now on Arbor Records. Titled "The Elementary Particles". I'm at a loss for words to describe it, but the label says that it's "hours of recording, cut up and spliced together, giving the listener a glimpse into various short snippets of the sessions. Harsh quick sonic blasts, violin scrapes and drones, field recordings, vocal exercises, room clatter and more are used in the process, but the way that they are assembled and woven together provides a nonstop experience that goes best with highly concentrated listening. Still the result is so varied that something new can be heard on every listen; a recording so intense you can never truly grasp what is actually happening".
EXIT 2008, ENTER 2009
2.1.2009
Some things I remember from 2008: Nice trips to Vietnam, Japan, Russia, New York, Austria and Switzerland. Driving around the Lofoten area with my girlfriend. Performing with Dror Feiler's Noise Orchestra. Performing with Frode Gjerstad's CTO. Working on a commissioned piece for the Henie Onstad Art Centre. Releasing more vinyl than compact discs (a trend that will continue). Recording with John Wiese. Recording with C. Spencer Yeh. No Fun festival. Working with my label Pica Disk. Seeing incredible concerts by Tony Conrad, Neil Young, Hijokaidan, Whitehouse, Consumer Electronics, Otomo Yoshihide and Iron Maiden. Spending months recording my new 'main' solo album. Touring the UK with Testicle Hazard. Francis Bacon exhibit at Tate. Another fun All Ears festival. Biggest yet Jazkamer line-up in Bergen. Performing with Sunn0))) outdoor in Oslo. Touring less and spending more time at home. Working on music/sound for theatre with Vegard Vinge & co. (premiere due in may 2009). Working on the Incapacitants 10 CD box-set. Getting a new sound-system at home and spending time enjoying it. Christmas in the north. All in all 2008 was really an amazing year for me. If 2009 offers half the fun it'll still be a great time.
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