The new release on Pica Disk is a Kevin Drumm 5CD box-set called "Necro Acoustic". Available now.
January 25th 2010 / New CDs!The January and February edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly series is now available. Also out is the Tony Conrad / C. Spencer Yeh / Michael F. Duch CD. More info in the 'releases' section. Thanks to all those who signed up for the subscription on the Jazkamer series.
December 1st 2009 / Jazkamer 2010 monthly series
In 2010 Pica Disk ventures on its most ambitious project yet: to release one Jazkamer CD-album every month of the year.
The Jazkamer 2010-series will be 12 proper new albums. The idea is to keep things exciting all the way, so in keeping with Jazkamer’s eclectic tradition of making very different sounding records, each monthly album will be different from the previous installments. The 2010-series will cover the wide (non)musical range Jazkamer has become known for since they started in 1998. This includes:
• First studio recordings of the metal line-up since ”Metal Music Machine” album
• New ”Art Breaker”-style grindcore recordings
• New ”Panic”-style broken-blues material
• Collaborations with John Wiese, Putrefier, Government Alpha and others
• Material with regular four-piece line-up of Hegre, Marhaug, Gross and Drønen
• And much, much more. Expect some surprises along the way also.
The CD’s will be packaged in proper digipak covers, and each will feature artwork by a different visual artist, like Savage Pencil, Martín Escalante, Jose de Diego, Justin Bartlett, Yasutoshi Yoshida and others.
Subscription in Europe: 156 US $ (= 13$ per CD, including postage)
Subscription rest of the World: 180 US $ (= 15$ per CD, including postage)
Make payment to Paypal-account: mail@lassemarhaug.no
For this price you will receive one Jazkamer album in the mail every month. The price includes postage. The CD’s will also be available separately, but then at regular prices.
Jazkamer online: http://jazkamer.blogspot.com/
Pica Disk online: http://picadisk.com/
Reviews of the Oren/Lasse and Will Guthrie singles.
October 25th 2009 / Update
The Will Guthrie single is now sold out.
Here's reviews of the Government Alpha box: Brainwashed, Musiquemachine
Here's reviews of "Music For Gardening": Brainwashed,Monochrom
October 20th 2009 / Jazkamer 2010 monthly series
In 2010 Pica Disk will do a monthly Jazkamer release. Subscriptions will be available. More info shortly.
September 3rd 2009 / New releases
The autumn batch of Pica Disk releases is now ready:
Government Alpha: Resolution Of Remembrance 1992-1999 4CD Box-Set
Maja S.K. Ratkje/Lasse Marhaug: Music For Gardening CD
Will Guthrie: Spike-S 7" single
Oren Ambarchi/Lasse Marhaug: Devil Wolf Men 7" single
Go to the releases page for more info. Prices and ordering info at the mailorder section.
August 25th 2009 / YouTube samples
A taste from the upcoming releases of Will Guthrie and Maja Ratkje/Lasse Marhaug.
July 4th 2009 / summer blues
The next batch of Pica releases will be out in early september. Upcoming is a Government Alpha 4CD box-set, a Lasse Marhaug/Maja Ratkje CD, a Will Guthrie 7" and a Oren Ambarchi/Lasse Marhaug 7".
April 19th 2009/ INCAPACITANTS sold-out
"Box Is Stupid" is now sold out.
February 9th 2009/ INCAPACITANTS review
Nice review of "Box Is Stupid" up at Brainwashed.com.
and another one here:
December 29th 2008/ INCAPACITANTS: Box Is Stupid
Available January 1st 2009:
10 x CD Box-set reissue of Incapacitants 90's cassette tapes
CD 1: Stupid Is Stupid (Studio materials)
CD 2: Stupid Is Stupid (Live materials)
CD 3: Extreme Gospel Nights
CD 4: Ad Nauseam (Edition Mikawa)
CD 5: Ad Nauseam (Edition Kosakai)
CD 6: Ad Nauseam (Live)
CD 7: D.D.D.D.
CD 8: The Tongue
CD 9: Cosmic Incapacitants
CD 10: I, Residuum
• Remastered from the original DAT master-tapes by Tommi Keränen
• 40 page colour booklet with extensive liner-notes by Fumio Kosakai, T.Mikawa, Otomo Yoshihide and Jim Sauter
• Each disc packaged in an individual wallet with original artwork
• Booklet and discs housed in a solid clam-box with silver foil print
• Limited editon of 500 copies
"I love Incapacitants more than anything. My love for them is reaffirmed as I listen again to their many cassette releases. They’re simply cool. Too beautiful." - Otomo Yoshihide
"In short, for me it’s the ultimate rock n roll." - Fumio Kosakai
One copy with postage within europe: 108 US Dollars
One copy with postage to rest of the world: 112 US Dollars
Make payment to paypal account: mail [at] lassemarhaug [dot] no
Copies have gone out to the following mailorders/shops:
USA: Hanson, Misanthropic Agenda, RRR, Revolver, Mimaroglu, Self Abuse, Archive
UK: Second Layer, Volcanic Tongue
Finland: Freak Animal, Anoema
Sweden: Segerhuva, Release The Bats
Germany: A-Musik, Tochnit Aleph
Norway: Looop, Tiger
Japan: Improvised Music From Japan (Molehill and PSF soon)
France: Bimbo Tower, Metamkine
I suggest ordering copies from your domestic mailorders rather than me. It's likely to be cheaper postage.
Release-party will be at Soap in Tokyo on January 24th.
May 7th 2008/ New TAPES review
March 19th 2008/ Birchville in The Wire
March 10th 2008/ Birchville back in stock, Incapacitants almost gone, new 7"
The Birchville CD has been out of stock for a few weeks, but is now available again. The Incapacitants CD is almost gone (but still available from a number of distros). It will not be reprinted. There is also a new Lasse Marhaug 7" single limited to 100 copies. This 7" is NOT available from me, ONLY through the new Norwegian webshop Looop. It will not be sold wholesale abroad, it will only be available directly from Looop.
February 17th 2008/ Hijokaidan and Birchville reviews
http://www.groove.no/html/review/47539241.html
http://www.groove.no/html/review/45212379.html
January 29th 2008/ Hijokaidan and Incapacitants reviewed
http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/Rev%20hijokaidan.htm
http://www.monochrom.at/cracked/reviews/Rev%20incapacitants.htm
January 20th 2008/ Hijokaidan tip of the tounge
"Polar Nights Live" is selected as Tip of the Tounge-album at Volcanic Tounge:
Flat-out unbelievable new Hijokaidan album on Lasse Marhaug’s new Pica Disk imprint. One of the most confounding, mind-altering releases in their precociously heavy back catalogue, Polar Nights Live presents three different Hijokaidan line-ups, all of which operate at some kind of psychedelic/noise apex. Recorded live at the All Ears festival in Norway in 2006, the first track is the duo of Jojo Hiroshige on electric guitar and Junko on vocals and it’s one of the greatest Jojo performances of his career; the guitar sounds like it’s simply channelling bolts of pure electricity, with Jojo as the endlessly shocked conduit, with the strings warping under a hailstorm of feedback, protesting harmonics and pure squeal while Junko threads the chaos with exactingly articulated epiglottal ecstasies. Unbelievable. Second track is a twin guitar face-off between Jojo and Per Gisle Galaen of Del/Birds et al. This is much closer to the monolithic psychedelic rock of Fushitsusha than the contemporary Hijokaidan wind-tunnel feel and the sound of fully exploded phantom melodies is extremely beautiful. The final tracks features a single collapsing galaxy populated by Junko on vocals and Norwegian noise artists Sten Ove Toft on electronics. An amazing set, highly recommended.
January 19th 2008/ Oren single back in stock
The Ambarchi/Marhaug 7" single is now back in stock.
January 16sth 2008/ Hijokaidan, Incapacitants, Birchville Cat Motel!
The three new Pica releases are out:
HIJOKAIDAN: Polar Nights Live CD
INCAPACITANTS: Burning Orange CD
BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL: Gunpowder Temple of Heaven CD
Copies have gone out to the mailorders who stock my releases, so look them up, or order directly from me.
December 5th 2007/ Oren single sold out
The Oren/Lasse single is now sold-out. Probably I'll print some more to meet demands, but this will take a month or so.
November 16th 2007/ Early 2008
The next batch of Pica releases will be a rather spectaular one; early next year there will be CDs of Incapacitants, Hijokaidan and Birchville Cat Motel + a limited solo Lasse 7".
November 4th 2007/ Interview with Hild
Nice interview with Hild at the Ballade site.
October 30th 2007/ Kama is here!
Finally the Hild Sofie Tafjord CD is ready! Fans of Hild's work in Fe-Mail will not be dissapointed. A monumental drone-noise epic. Kama is available now. Listen to an audio sample from Kama here.
October 15th 2007/ Kama on its way
The Hild Sofie Tafjord CD should be ready in about two weeks time.
October 13th 2007/ New release: Oren Ambarchi/Lasse Marhaug 7" single
The second Pica release is now out; a 7" single collaboration of Oren Ambarchi and Lasse Marhaug. Weird, eerie and ugly piano music, unlike anything you've heard from these chaps before. Keith of Mimaroglu Music Sales has it in stock already and describes it as:
october 2007 release; a pair of “piano music” pieces, acting as the debut collaborative single from two of contemporary experimental music’s most prolific/consistently rewarding practitioners; oren ambarchi and lasse marhaug...
those of you expecting something on par with maurizio pollini’s reading of satie’s gnossiennes might be a little shocked to find instead a fierce 12+ minute inside-piano scrape-fest, hedged with bursts of live-electronic feedback & a “hot” fidelity familiar from any number of david tudor recordings... yet at the same time not too far removed from the new blockaders’ whole gesamtnichswerk; this is anti-music at its finest...
not something for strict followers of oren’s friendly/subdued sine-guitar throb, nor lasse’s harsh wall of electronic sound; but definitely one for those whose preferences fall in the noisier end of the electro-acoustic composition/improv spectrum...
October 11th 2007/ TAPES reviews
Reviews to the TAPES box-set have been kind. Read some at: Brainwashed and Sound of Music.
October 10th 2007 / Proper website
Finally got this website up and running. Again thanks to my web-pal Håvard at This Way Design for helping me out.
June 1st 2007 / First Pica Disk release!
The Lasse Marhaug 4 CD box-set "Tapes 1990-1999" is now out. Limited edition of 600 copies.