Lasse Marhaug — The Great Silence

Not unsurprisingly with this been the work of One half of Norwegian noise terrorist's Jazkammer and released on the Pacrec label, this has very little to do with silence great or otherwise. It's a deep and textured collection of noise craft, that along the way melds in-between the sound roar and rush some quite musical traces.

In all there 3 tracks dating from 2003- utilizing guitar, amps, peddles, microphones and electronics. Back to nature opens the album up with the looped and grinding tones, with some neat feedback burns and distorted and overloaded toypaino like tones that keep taping out repeated fiery harmonic tones, giving the track quite a playful if violent feel. The new sound is next up and the longest on offer here at nearly 30 minutes, again it rips out of one speaker. Mixing grinding static, cut up and melted voice elements, bent jarring organ or melodic snippets of sound and what sounds like melted pop singing. Along with other sound flotsam and jetsam that sudden appears darting out of the rolling and burn noise storm. Really very effective and disorientating track especially with headphones on, as you have keeping having slip them off thinking someone is talking to you. As the track develops it goes into more rhythmic and looped guitar elements that move in quite a memorable manner. Lastly we have the title track which is made up of sawing and whistling tones with quite and messed up harmonic feel. On this track I guess you can make out the guitar origins better, as you can clearly hear guitars tones throbbing and let off distorted squeals. It all end's with a wonderfully rich high pitch sand storm type vibe.

Yet another very rewarding and attention keeping slab of noise art, with layers of sound detail to discover with each new play and interesting harmonic traces.