RYFYLKE
[Oslo, Norway] consisting of STIAN SKAGEN and STEN OVE TOFT stands out as one of the most interesting and sophisticated sound artists in Norway up to date. After their internationally honored debut album ‘BOKNAFJORD’ (2004) the duo performed heavily around in all corners of Norway and in 2005 they sucessfully finished their first European Tour to excusivly positive feedback from all over the continent. In January 2006 they released their long awaited follow-up album entitled ‘MORILD / NUEMA BRISTER’ on the first day of their second European Tour. An album wich contained only two tracks clocked in at around 40 minutes presenting longer compositions described - by reviewers all over the world - as ultimate dark extreme soundscape music. Ryfylke’s intriuging sonic world is a result of two highly different approaches to music composing. On the onehand side you’ll find TOFT working with field-recordings of environments and objects together with other analog ‘found-sounds’. These sounds he then carefully deconstruct and construct through electronic manipulations. The result of these behaviors ends up in an ocean of drones, building it up to maelstrom’s of brutal swirls and layers of noise walls. On the other side SKAGEN’s way of habit is of electronic nature. He works with digital feedback, raw data files and numeric codes. This basematerial is then shattered into cascades of pulses and a sparkling multiplicity of atonal glitches. From their analog and digital backgrounds, a complex layered soundscape of drones, glitches and detailed crispy noise opens the listeners ears for an extreme dreamlike atmosphereric state of mind. Seducing the audience, taking them on a disturbing tour through subtle textures that explodes into digital crackling and electric outbursts. A Ryfylke performance is a physical interaction where the listener is challanged to experience a room in constant movement.
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"It's always a pleasure to get some Dirty Demos CD's in my review pile. For me they embrace everything I love about DIY culture. The music is always forward thinking, the packaging always looks great and they always have that special handmade touch. You can just tell it's done with passion and a genuine love. You may remember the 'Observation Point' CD compilation from a wee while ago. Well 'Observation Point Volume 2' has landed and it's a smashing selection of drone, ambient, noise glitch, abstract electronics and skewd folk etc. from the likes of Bjerga/Iversen, Patten, Matthew, Littleboat, Claudia Fonti, Moize, (etre) & Luigi Rubino, Mercury Effect, Blackpepper, Textured Bird Transmission, Now, Pelican Island, Dead Wood, Pinkeye, Red Needled Sea and l o ï s l. Phew Cool artwork and hand sprayed CD." - Ant @ Norman Records, Leeds, U.K.
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For those who think themselves in the know about the very trendy Danish noise scene, Wäldchengarten shouldn't need any introduction. For those who aren't or don't, it's a band of brothers doing a lethal cocktail of heroic ambient, moody drones and devastating noise with moderate succes on the international stage, and status as spoiled media darlings in the Danish press. These days that's not a bad thing...
Black Rabbit is the first work to come from Wäldchengarten since the construction of their new studio on a farm somewhere in rural Jutland, and the more open surroundings seem to have influenced the changes in their sound - apparent on this 4th 8K Mob release. While previously working with more traditional noise production, using instruments and other objects as sound sources fed through a long line of effects, here they place the timbre of electric guitars as both occasional backbone and texture in a long onslaught, that haunts a strange territory not too far from doom metal. Luckily this is done without loosing the grasp of neither composition and changing dynamics nor sensitivity to details and subtle moods. This is not the worst release so far on this label.
