hairentertainment.com: Knapp zwei Jahre ist es her, dass mein Blick in den so üppig ausgestatteten CD-Regalen eines Plattenladens zwischen all den Reihen schrill-bunter CD-Cover auf ein aus dem Rahmen fallendes Motiv fiel. Es zeigte ein grobkörniges Frauenportrait in schwarz-weiß: Das Haar seitlich zum Zopf geflochtenem, die Augen geschlossen. Eine Fotografie wie aus den 1920er Jahren. […]
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Morgenbladet:
To salige mystikere og én “ufølsomhetens profet”. Der har du Maja Ratkjes tre favorittkomponister.
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CDr with radio show including RRR, Fe-mail and radio host Dennis Tyfus. Crazy live improvisations. Review in Russian: Machine radionoise: “Коллектив матёрого и независимого от всех и вся американского лейбла RRRecords – это спятивший Шляпник и Мартовский Заяц, повздорившие со стариком Временем. В их офисе всегда первая половина восьмидесятых – эпоха мэйл-арта, оголтелого шума и
A compilation, showcases a collection of 47 women artists worldwide who experiment with sound in various ways, ranging from ambient-organic to quirky-glitch-beat to harsh or extreme noise, as well as categories yet to be defined. The finished release of three discs is a limited edition of 1,000 in custom-made circuit bent packaging. Fe-mail is contributing
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Box set containing five 10″ vinyl records celebrating 50 Rune Grammofon releases. Includes 19 tracks by rune artists. “Some are cornestones in the catalog, but this is not a best of collection, we want to show the different aspects of Rune Grammofon and have tried to give each of the records a common theme or
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The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast is a record by San Francisco duo Matmos. It is a series of “sound portraits” of a pantheon of people that they admire. A musical attempt at biography, it’s loose in some places and very literal in others; taken as a suite of stylistically disparate
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Soul Jazz Records: “Influenced by the New York Art/Punk scene of Sonic Youth, The Swans, Liquid Liquid, this is the group’s follow up to “Still Born Alive” (Soul Jazz Records, 2003) and ‘Beautiful People are Evil’ (Soul Jazz Records, 2001). This new album brings in a number of guest vocalists – Norwegian experimantalist artist/singer Maja
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POING started playing together in 1999, and has since then been one of the most interesting ensembles for contemporary music in Scandinavia, with more then 40 first performances by European and Asian composers. This CD contains new music by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Sachiyo Tsurumi, Lars Petter Hagen, Áki Ásgeirsson and Jezper Holmen. Tracks: 1.
The New York Times: “Fe-Mail and Carlos Giffoni is probably the most pedestrian sound on “Northern Stains” (Important), the product of a recent encounter between Carlos Giffoni, an electronic improviser, and Fe-Mail, a noise-proficient Norwegian electro-duo. Mr. Giffoni met his collaborators — Maja Ratkje, a respected avant-garde vocalist, and Hild Sofie Tafjord, who plays French
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Important Records: “Northern Stains is the result of a collaboration between experimental phenomenon Carlos Giffoni and Spunk/Fe-Mail members Maja Ratkje & Hild Tafjord. This trio finally met when Giffoni booked Fe-Mail to headline the sunday night of his genere defining Brooklyn based 3 day No Fun Festival in 2005. Early in 2006 Giffoni boarded a
Om Trond Reinholdtsens siste verk. Av Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje 2006. Verk for CD-mediet. Når et ensembleverk skal spilles inn på CD, så ligger resultatet vanligvis nært opptil slik det er tenkt i en konsertsammenheng, en tradisjonell praksis hvor verkets optimale eksistens er slik det oppleves “live” under de beste forhold. En CDs funksjon, basert
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Aurora: “Superb young artist exploring the outer space of his saxophones. Jazz, Contemporary music, Rock, Chinese traditional music. NO limits for Rolf-Erik.” Music by Lars Petter Hagen, Maja Ratkje, Øyvind Torvund, Rolf-Wallin, Rolf-Erik Nystrøm, Luca Fransesconi, Iannis Xenakis and Trond Reinholdtsen. Performed by Rolf-Erik Nystrøm and various. On this album: [intlink id=”2510″ type=”post”]ØX[/intlink] Maja also
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2xCD. Contributions by Gyorgy Ligeti, Alvin Lucier, Jean-Claude Risset, Beatriz Ferreyra, Maja Ratkje, Olivier Messiaen, Steve Reich, Vibracathedral Orchestra, François Bayle + Robert Wyatt + Kevin Ayers, James Whitehead, The Loop orchestra, Halim el-Dabh, Laurie Spiegel, Stephen Vitiello, erik M, Wang Changcun, Chlorgeschlecht, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Milan Knizak, Les Rallizes Denudes, Andy Hawkins, John Watermann,
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“Leute, das Ding hier geht mächtig ab und bereitet extrem viel verdorbene Freude!”
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“Yeah, right, a album of ballads by these two renowned noise artists? Hegre, member of Jazzkammer and The Golden Serenades among others and Ratkje of Fe-Mail as-well as a bunch of improvised music projects, doing an album of ballads? Yes, it’s true and it’s great.” “This is the future of noise music. Excellent!”
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A quiet album by John Hegre and Maja Ratkje. Concréte. Close up. Blues… Dekorder: “Ballads ist the first collaborative album by two key figures of the Norwegian noise, improv, experimental, whatever-you-call-it music scene. Anyone expecting a rackety wall of distorted feedback guitars and voices will be gently surprised though by the sparse and intimate sketches
Tidningen Kulturen:
– Rösten är enormt fascinerande för mig, inte bara som uttrycksmedel och kommunikation utan även som ljudkälla, berättar Ratkje vidare. Den är så oerhört rik på associationer och djupare meningar, oavsett om man konkret säger något eller inte. Generellt sett är jag intresserad av mänsklig kommunikation. Men språket i sig kan vara begränsande.
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Et renskrevet foredrag om Maja Ratkjes plate “Voice” for Norsk Komponistforenings Åsgårdstrandseminar 2006 hvor temaet var “musikk og mening”. Av Trond Reinholdtsen Temaet for dette seminaret er “musikk og mening”, og jeg er altså bedt om å mer spesifikt snakke om “Maja Ratkjes plate ‘voice’ og mening”. Hvordan vi skal forstå “mening” er slett ikke
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