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Capsaicin (2018)

by MoE / Marhaug

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about

The band MoE (Guro Skumsnes Moe, Håvard Skaset and Joakim Heibø Johansen) and electronic noise aviator Lasse Marhaug are both prolific staples of the Norwegian music scene on their own, but have over the years also collaborated on various other projects. Most recent on the Skaset/Moe acoustic side project Sult, that resulted in the notable album «Harpoon»(rated as one of the best experimental albums in Rolling Stones in 2017), and Marhaug and Skumsnes Moe’s work on the soundtrack to the Mexican film “The Untamed”, which this year won 5 categories at the Mexican movie awards(Nominated for 12!).

For “Capsaicin” the four musicians team up for a four-part meltdown that takes their mutual passion for monolithic sound blocks to new extremes. The piece starts with a lone sludge bass, and as guitar, percussion and electronics in order join the piece slowly builds to a swirling mass of frequencies that keep mutating throughout its 78 minute duration. This is not easy listening, “Capsaicin” does not settle into the comfort of drones – plateaus are established, explored and abandoned. The choice of title for the album is a less-than-subtle clue to the music’s intent: capsaicin is the component that gives chili peppers its burning sensation. “Capsaicin” came together through a series of live and studio sessions in the period 2016-18, and was arranged and produced by Marhaug in his studio in Bodø. CD and digital available from ConradSound(Norway) and Substrata (Mexico). Cassette edition available from Utech Records, USA.

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released October 10, 2018

Performed by: Håvard Skaset: guitar. Joakim Heibø Johansen: drums and percussion. Guro Skumsnes Moe: bass and voice. Lasse Marhaug: electronics. Arranged and Produced by Lasse Marhaug. Mixed and mastered at Kontoret 2017—2018. art direction by Lasse Marhaug. Recorded: Dramatikken hus [live], Oslo, June 2016. Caliban Studios [studio], OSLO, August 2016, by Jostein Skaret. Nødutgang festivalen/Sinus [live], Bodø, October 2016, by Nora Fiona Eriksen. Galleri Bodøgaard [studio], Bodø, February 2016, by Hallstein Sandvin.

Released on CD by Conrad Sound / Substrata, and 2xMC by Utech Records.

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Lasse Marhaug Oslo, Norway

Noise/experimental music artist based in Norway. Active since 1990.

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