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Jazzkammer: Pulse
CD - Bottrop-Boy, Germany - 2003
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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