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JENNY HVAL PHOTOGRAPHED BY LASSE MARHAUG

[the-out-door]

200 Words: SULT + LASSE MARHAUG

(In 200 Words, we highlight a new record we like a lot, via a 200-word review by Marc Masters and 200 words (or so) from the artist about whatever they choose.)

SULT + LASSE MARHAUG - Harpoon LP (Pica Disk/Conrad Sound)

So much happens on Harpoon that calling it “busy” is like describing a three-dimensional object with two-dimensional adjectives. It also doesn’t get at exactly how the acoustic trio Sult (guitarist Håvard Skaset, percussionist Jacob Felix Heule, and contrabassist Guro Skumsnes Moe) can make such a racket while exuding so much patience and clarity. I can hear every nanosecond of activity happening on Harpoon and yet if I let my brain defocus the tiniest bit, suddenly I’m drowning in noise.

The simplest explanation for how this can be is the sculpting prowess of Lasse Marhaug, to whom Sult handed source material and freed to do whatever he felt like with it. Certainly Marhaug has done so well with this type of exchange in the past that huge credit for Harpoon’s unendingly-fascinating sound-storm has to go to him. But even that doesn’t get to the stunning alchemy of this record. It doesn’t feel like a collaboration in the back-and-forth sense, but more like a kind of musical block universe devoid of time’s beginning/middle/end arrow. Its existence seems oddly necessary - as if this sound had to exist, always existed, a part of the universe the group is discovering rather than inventing.

– Marc Masters

<a href="http://sult.bandcamp.com/album/harpoon">Harpoon by Sult + Lasse Marhaug</a>

LASSE MARHAUG on Harpoon

I’ve been a fan of Sult before they’d made a sound. I’ve known Jacob, Guro and Håvard for ten+ years, and everything they’ve done has been interesting – Basshaters, MoE, Art Directors, Bay Oslo Mirror Trio, Street Priest – they’re creative/forward thinking musicians that follow their obsessions – and that’s always worth my time. So when they told me they were starting an acoustic noise band I knew it was going to be special. And it was. I dug their first two albums and was seriously stoked when they asked me to be involved on their third record. They’d recorded hours of amazing material, and I got free rein to mold it into whatever I wanted. I went for big monolithic blocks of sound – because I happen to really (really) like big monolithic blocks of sound. Usually my music has electronic origins, but Harpoon is all acoustic, which gives the music a physical presence you don’t often get on noise records. And of course, this record owes a thing or two to the work of artists like David Jackman, Andrew Chalk, GX Jupitter-Larsen and David Tudor, but I feel Sult is worthy of that lineage. I’m just glad I got to come along.

GURO SKUMSNES MOE on Harpoon

Here are just some notes from me on tour, from playing concerts with Sult.

Crossing the border again of what it is being me. See-through as a bottle. No smile or words to hide behind. Or clothes or make up. It flows out of me. My own mass, what makes me me. I lift myself down so I cannot see. Sounds everywhere. Intuition. Spine. Trust. Surrender. It is singing inside my ear. Presence. Wanting to touch another humans mind. Roots grow. Swallowed by the presence. I am breathing loud breath. Beep sounds. Circles on the contrabass, shift to scream. Stretching, stretching moment. State of noise. Dark ocean seeking inwards. Outwards. Shadow, road, we are breathing. Continuing, falling, look up, eyes closed. Border not present. Seeking border, no border. A fierce march forward without knowing why. Endurance like a cactus.

Harpoon is out now. Buy it here or here.

[maxgaelmartin]

🎶Weeklistening / Experimental week ⠀ 🔔 #MaxEilbacher #bellformations @guess__newmodel sound and resonance studies of various ringing sound sources, especially bells. I love bells. And here they are just a lot. This is the best sound I've heard in a while. _____ 🎷 #LasseMarhaug #harmoniamacrocosmica @lassemarhaug creativity on the verge of madness and improvisation. But whatever it is, this sound well reflects The Chaos, its probabilities, and the random fluctuations in which everything is. Therefore, I do not consider noise to be something structureless, although it is part of it, but the essence of structure is still present in it - and this is a kind of image, an idea that, like the Higgs boson, glues together the materia of sound. _____ 🎹 #Mariawhorn #epistasis @mariawhorn cold, quiet, carefree and measured release. Like a fresh mist descending from the mountains down the valley, just as cool, almost tangible, yet incorporeal. _____ 🎻 #KitDownes #deadeye @kitdownesmusic something in the style of avant-garde-progressive kraut (or kraut rock), while flowing into instrumental experimentation. In general, you can listen for reading time or relax, it's not something completely radically. The previous release was similar to something jazzy. ______ #weeklistening #musicofaweek #music #musicreviews #reviews #playlist #playlistening #drone #instrumental #classic #noise #bells #organ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfyosv3Ln4Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[juandevega]

MoE / Marhaug - Capsaicin [parts one to four] | Conrad Sound / Substrata 2018 #conradsound #substratamx #moenorway #lassemarhaug #capsaicin #cdcollection #digipack (at CDMX Ciudad de México) https://www.instagram.com/p/Brh-vguAjZS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v1ztbxvzrfc1

[budaallmusic]

Greg Saunier, Mary Halvorson, Ron Miles ‎– New American Songbooks Volume 1 #SoundAmerican 2017 US Cornet – #RonMiles Design, Cover – #LasseMarhaug Drums, Voice – #GregSaunier Guitar – #MaryHalvorson Mixed By, Mastered By – Greg Saunier Producer – Greg Saunier, Mary Halvorson, #NateWooley, Ron Miles Recorded By – Greg Dicrosta

[budaallmusic]

Lasse Marhaug & Ken Vandermark ‎– Close Up (For Abbas Kiarostami) #AudiographicRecords 2016 Series: #SystemsVsArtifacts Design – #FedePeñalva Electronics – #LasseMarhaug Mastered By – Lasse Marhaug Music By – Ken Vandermark, Lasse Marhaug Photography By [Photograph By] – Ken Vandermark Reeds – #KenVandermark

[crisdeison]

Deison/Lasse Marhaug-Piano Theme from Nowhere