***The September edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series, a carefully constructed mixture of transparent sound-surfaces mixture, location recordings and percussion can be seen as a continuation Timex (Rune Grammofon 2000) and Pancakes (Smalltown Supersound 2002). Peanuts is not a noise record, nor is it ambient, but it might work well as very detailed background music. Cover photographs by VALERIA PICERNO.
CD $18.60
02/01/2011
***The May edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series mixes harsh noise, drone, and rock, with assistance from associates NILS ARE DRONEN and JEAN-PHILLIPE GROSS. The album begins and ends with two massive tracks, with a slew of short little sketches in between.
CD $17.00
07/20/2010
***On the July edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series, IVER SANDOY joins HEGRE and MARHAUG for some improvised noisecore. Fans of short bursts of blastbeat drumming backed by screaming vocals and heavily distorted guitar might recall Jazkamer's Art Breaker album (Smalltown Superjazzz 2008), with fifty-nine songs in mere seventeen minutes; Cover by Hair Stylistics ups the ante with 129 songs in twenty minutes. The artwork of is by Japanese actor, author and composer MASAYA NAKAHARA (Hair Stylistics, Suicidal 10CC and Violent Onsen Geisha). That's him on the front cover drawing the artwork used on the inside of the cover.
CD $17.00
07/20/2010
***The June edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series. Jazkamer performed as a big band from 2006 to 2008, with two drummers (IVER SANDOY and NILS ARE DRONEN), multiple guitarists (LASSE MARHAUG, JOHN HEGRE and JORGEN TRAEN), and electronics (JEAN-PHILLIPE GROSS). They were often billed as the metal version of Jazkamer, but precious little metal is audible here (especially compared to their Metal Music Machine album (Smalltown Supernoise 2006). We Want Epic Drama bears more resemblance to the Mass Projection work of Masayuki Takayanagi than any death metal bands. Two long tracks, recorded live to 24-track tape, no overdubs.
CD $17.00
07/20/2010
***The February edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series, Musica Non Grata is a feedback-fest. Locked inside Duper Studios in Bergen with guitars and analogue synths and an arsenal of amps, JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS, JOHN HEGRE and LASSE MARHAUG explore how feedback-timbre sounds recorded on an analogue 24 track 2-inch tape-machine. The three long, slow-moving tracks are long-form meditations on feedback that will be bliss for a select few and hell for most. February is not an easy month.
CD $15.50
02/23/2010
***The January edition of JAZKAMER’s 2010 monthly CD-series. A trio recording of JEAN-PHILIPPE GROSS, JOHN HEGRE and LASSE MARHAUG. Studio live-electronics recorded to analog tape at Duper Studios in Bergen. Edited and post-produced by Gross. A dense tapestry of perfect electronic happiness. CD in digipak cover.
CD $15.50
02/23/2010