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Frode Gjerstad/Lasse Marhaug: Red Edge
CD - Sunship Records, USA - 2004
Reviews:
"Master Norwegian reedman Frode Gjerstad absolutely busts through any conventional jazz style with this utterly fucked electronic collaboration w/ young Norway experimentalist Lasse Marhaug. Insane spikes of breath/noise action to get yr brain fired to some wholly other wild space." - Thurston Moore
FRODE GJERSTAD & LASSE MARHAUG - RED EDGE (CD by
Breathmint/Carbon/Gameboy/Little Mafia/Sunship)
No less than five labels join hands to release this work from the ever so active Lasse Marhaug, here in a live duet with Frode Gjerstad. It will no doubt be plain ignorance on my side, but I never heard of Frode. Maybe it has to do with my relative unsympathy with the instrument he plays: the saxophone. Lasse is on laptop and electronics here. In the opening piece 'A Dry Well' things open in a violent freaky free-jazz manner. Loud, chaotic, frentic and hectic. But by the end of the next track, 'Red Edge', things have come to a virtual halt. Calm, relaxing, almost ambient in approach. From 'Falling Down' things go the same route back up, with a prominent role for laptop in that piece and live sampling of saxophone in the final 'The First Rule'. Certainly this is not easy listening music at all, and might be considered nerve wrecking by the untrained listener. However if you are up for some relentness free improvised playing along the lines of releases such as Grob and Erstwhile (to mention two dominant labels for new improvised music that involves electronica on an equal level), then this is absolute your thing.
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