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Albums
- ...into that good night
- 21 Marches for the 21st Century
- Adventura Anatomica
- All Men Are Pigs
- All Music At Once
- An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol.4 - a Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005
- audiotion - sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
- Avantometric Attachments 2002
- Ballads
- Blixter Toad
- Blood Inside
- Blood, Muscle & Air: The Intimate Voice
- Call me
- Come Away Death
- Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
- CyberArts 2003: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
- Cyborgic
- Danse Macabre
- Defragmental
- Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang
- Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger
- Dissolution Tapes
- En aldeles forferdelig sykdom
- EN/OF 001-030 Catalog
- Faces
- Filtered Through Friends
- Finders
- Fjord Focus
- From mouth cavity to laptop
- FULL
- Gi meg en grunn til å være kvinne
- Giants of Jazz
- Gødt Nørsk, kunstmuzik aus Norgwegen
- Help
- Hengekøye
- HØRT
- Illegal Parking
- International Rostrum of Composers 1955-1999
- Kantarell
- Kassett
- krikri 2003
- LIGHT
- listen...and tell me what it was
- Looking on Darkness
- MAJAAP
- Money Will Ruin Everything
- Money Will Ruin Everything 2
- More Music for Shopping
- Music for Faking
- Music for Gardening
- Music for Loving
- Music for Shopping
- My Deal
- Navigations
- Nor Noise
- Northern Stains
- Oak or Rock
- Orra
- Passing Images
- Pig Magic
- Planet POING
- Post-Human Identities
- River Mouth Echoes
- Rolex
- Runeology 4
- Safe as Milk Festival 05 sampler CD
- Shamelessly Exciting
- Shockadelica
- Sinus Seduction
- Slime Zone
- Snowblind
- Solveigs Lied Remixed
- some cassettes with Arve Hjalmars
- SOUN
- Sporlaust
- Stalker
- Super Street 7 "How To Make Brains"
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (CD)
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (LP)
- teip
- Tempo! 10
- Tender Love Is A Bitch
- The CD Electric Leak - the North
- The Dalston Shroud
- The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
- Travel Now Journey Infinitely
- Treasure Hunt
- Turntable Surface Fireball 2
- Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep
- Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown
- Utflukt: LYD
- Ventemesteren
- Voice
- Voice, live in zagreb
- Voluptuous Vultures
- Vox ex machina
- VSG / Erwartung
- Wach auf!
- Women Take Back The Noise
- XXIII Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo di Musica Elettroacustica
Twitter feed
- RT @Hafsahl: BRAVO Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje!
- Takk, venner! @lassemarhaug @LouisWibe @TrulsGulowsen @erikste @thoreirik
- He, he, takk! RT @omartinsen Maja Ratkje lager sin fantastiske støy nå også for Statoils pr maskin. http://t.co/9Zi3RDmS
- Mitt innlegg i Aftenposten idag, Myter om kultur og oljepenger, kan leses her: http://t.co/2OrO4Zfl
- @Hafsahl takk! Har ikke åpna den avisen ennå, tror jeg vet hva du sikter til.
Upcoming shows
- 25/05/12 Maja S. K. Ratkje in Bergen at Johanneskirken
- 26/05/12 Fretwork in Bergen at Domkirken
- 27/05/12 Hanna Gjermundrød and Silje Aker Johnsen in Rotterdam at Rotterdamse Schouwburg
- 29/05/12 The Norwegian Girls’ Choir in Bærum at Bærum kulturhus
- 01/06/12 The Norwegian Girls’ Choir in Bergen at Logen Teater
Category Archives: Full length album features
Syklubb fra Hælvete (CD)
Debut album by Fe-mail (Hild Sofie Tafjord and Maja S. K. Ratkje). Originally released on . “Last year, a pink piece of vinyl sent a message to the noise community. In a limited edition of 500, it made a ripple, … Continue reading
Music for Faking
C3R: “From the team that brought you ‘Music for Shopping’ and ‘Music for Loving’ comes an aural experience so shocking that you’ll need to hear it again and again and again. Marvel at the amount of noise that they can … Continue reading
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MAJAAP
Acoustic vocal improvisation by Maja S. K. Ratkje and Jaap Blonk, recorded in Amsterdam, Oslo and Arnhem 2001-2002. Continue reading
All Men Are Pigs
Gameboy Records: “sounds surface from all over the map. i hear voice, some synths, effects galore. this is a noisy affair not unlike (and maybe even more so than) fe-mail’s debut – recently issued on cd by important records. the … Continue reading
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Music for Loving
Bottrop-Boy: “Second collaboration between Norwegian masters of noise Maja Ratkje (Spunk, Fe-Mail) and Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer, Del) after their 2002 vinyl-only album Music For Shopping on Synesthetic Records. Music For Loving is wild, frantic, nervous, loud, delirious and scattered all … Continue reading
Music for Shopping
Maja S. K. Ratkje and Lasse Marhaug play music for shopping. Limited edition of 300 copies on black 220g vinyl. Released on Synesthetic Recordings. Vinyl only. Side One: 1. The Street Parade Massacre 2. Femail Popcorn Demon With Mobile Slash … Continue reading
Syklubb fra Hælvete (LP)
Debut album, released on pink vinyl, limited edition of 500 copies, now sold out. Made through pure improvisation with no pre-recorded sound at the starting point. Old school noise. Thurston Moore loves it: “Out of Norway comes the most exciting … Continue reading
Posted in Full length album features, Maja's top 10, Mixed media/Odd shapes, Rare stuff
Tagged Fe-mail, vinyl
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Tender Love Is A Bitch
Norwegian Noise Orchestra’s debut concert at Betong, Oslo. Live recording 12.12.02. Line up: Andrè Borgen, Andreas Meland, Sten Ove Toft, Bjørn Hatterud, Per Gisle Galåen, Kai Mikalsen, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Sindre Andersen, Ole H. Melby, Maja S. K. Ratkje, Svein … Continue reading
Voice
Rune Grammofon: “The debut solo album from SPUNK member Maja Ratkje will secure her a place among the finest experimental singers. From the weird and furious to the enchanting and beautiful, this is an album rich in atmosphere, colour and … Continue reading
Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang
Rune Grammofon: “The new studio album from this increasingly exciting and colourful quartet boasts yet another Pippi Longstocking related title. This free spirited and anti authoritarian character is one of the most loved and wellknown from the late, great Swedish … Continue reading
listen…and tell me what it was
No Spaghetti Edition is an improvisation ensemble with different line-ups for each project. This presentation includes ten of the most active Norwegian improvisers, the German trumpet player Axel Dörner and the English keyboard player Pat Thomas. The music is a … Continue reading
Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger
Rune Grammofon: “Improvisation from four young female musicians with backgrounds from jazz, classical, contemporary, rock and country. Weird, wonderful and completely beyond categorisation, the quartet was formed in 1995. This is their debut recording.” Tracks: 1. tapeunderlaget 2. …