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- ...into that good night
- 20 Norwegian Piano Miniatures
- 21 Marches for the 21st Century
- Adventura Anatomica
- Adventura Botanica
- All Men Are Pigs
- All Music At Once
- An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol.4 - a Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005
- And sing...
- Atlantis, Utopia & Ulvedrømmer
- audiotion - sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
- Auf dem Dach der Welt - Frei nach Alexander Kluge
- Avant Joik: Live in Bergen
- Avantometric Attachments 2002
- Ballads
- Being for the Benefit of Kafé Hærverk!
- Blixter Toad
- Blood Inside
- Blood, Muscle & Air: The Intimate Voice
- Call me
- Celadon
- Come Away Death
- Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
- Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020
- Crepuscular Hour
- CyberArts 2003: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
- Cyborgic
- Danse Macabre
- Das Kepler-452b-Pre-Sequel
- Das Wohltemperierte SPUNK
- Defragmental
- Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang
- Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger
- Deviate From Balance
- Dissolution Tapes
- DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Most Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory
- Drono
- Echo Chamber 3.0/Ekkokammer 3.0
- En aldeles forferdelig sykdom
- EN/OF 001-030 Catalog
- ENID BLYTON - Fünf Freunde Erzählen Kindergeschichten
- Everything is gonna be alright
- Faces
- Festival Electronica En Abril 2003-2012
- Filtered Through Friends
- Finders
- Fjord Focus
- FLUXUS
- Focus Foucault Foccachia
- From mouth cavity to laptop
- FULL
- Gi meg en grunn til å være kvinne
- Giants of Jazz
- Gonimoblast Live - with Maja S.K Ratkje and Arve Henriksen
- Gødt Nørsk, kunstmuzik aus Norgwegen
- Help
- Hengekøye
- HØRT
- HUS
- Illegal Parking
- International Rostrum of Composers 1955-1999
- It still haunts me like a good nightmare, and I try in vain to recover the impression
- JANUS
- Kantarell
- Kapital & Moral
- Kassett
- krikri 2003
- Let's Put It To Music: 20 Years Of Rune Grammofon
- LIGHT
- listen...and tell me what it was
- Live in Molde
- Looking on Darkness
- Maja S. K. Ratkje In Dialogue with Eugeniusz Rudnik
- Maja S. K. Ratkje: Works for String Orchestra
- MAJAAP
- Malleus Maleficarum Maximum
- MARA
- Maximum Metal Vol. 127
- meow nim xluf minus w-moan ulf men equals nixon
- 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
- Oh No Love, You’re Not Alone
- Orra
- Passing Images
- Pig Magic
- Planet POING
- Poke It With A Stick / Joining The Bots
- Polish Radio Experimental Studio Revisited 1998-2018
- Post-Human Identities
- Rasaka
- River Mouth Echoes
- Rolex
- Runeology 4
- Safe as Milk Festival 05 sampler CD
- Sailing To Byzantium
- Scrumptious Sabotage
- Selected Solo Works, Vol. 1
- Shamelessly Exciting
- Shockadelica
- Sinus Seduction
- Slime Zone
- Snowblind
- Snydelig
- Solveigs Lied Remixed
- some cassettes with Arve Hjalmars
- SOUN
- Sporlaust
- Stalker
- Still Eating Ginger Bread for Breakfast – The 20th Anniversary Concert
- String Quartets vol IV: Schubert-Ratkje-Britten-Haydn
- Sult
- Super Street 7 "How To Make Brains"
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (CD)
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (LP)
- teip
- Tempo! 10
- Tender Love Is A Bitch
- The Beauty That Still Remains
- The CD Electric Leak - the North
- The Dalston Shroud
- The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
- The Sound of Science featuring Jeffrey Zeigler
- Through The Looking-Glass
- Travel Now Journey Infinitely
- Treasure Hunt
- Trouble in Paradise
- Turntable Surface Fireball 2
- Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep
- Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown
- Utflukt: LYD
- Vannstand
- Variations over Variations
- Ventemesteren
- Voice
- Voice (LP)
- 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
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Upcoming shows
- 26/06/21 SPUNK in Oslo at Nasjonal Jazzscene – Victoria
- 19/07/21 Signe Emmeluth and Trondheim Jazz Orchestra in Molde at Plassen
- 22/07/21 Maja S. K. Ratkje in Molde at Romsdal Museum
- 10/09/21 Avant Joik in Oslo at Riksscenen
- 06/11/21 Maja S. K. Ratkje and Stian Westerhus in Oslo at Bruket
Category Archives: Full length album features
Avant Joik: Live in Bergen
Bergen Kunsthall: «Live in Bergen» captures Avant Joik’s two amazing concerts during the opening weekend of Joar Nan- go’s Festival Exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall in 2020. The album is based on the recordings from two con- certs held at Landmark, … Continue reading
Vannstand
Motvind records: ’Vannstand’ (Sea Level) is a tribute to the slowly pulsating tidal shifts along the length of the Norwegian coastline. In Vannstand children are given the opportunity to reflect and respond musically to their relationship with the coast, the … Continue reading
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Echo Chamber 3.0/Ekkokammer 3.0
Echo Chamber 3.0 is a concert performance for the ear, by Maja S. K. Ratkje written for Trondheim Voices in 2020. The piece is a continuation of Ekkokammer 2.0 which is a staged performance, premiered in 2015. The album is … Continue reading
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Maja S. K. Ratkje: Works for String Orchestra
Pictures From a Sinking City was commissioned by the Trondheim Soloists, and had its world premiere in Trondheim on 30 January, 2020. Tale of Lead and Frozen Light exists in two versions: one for a string quartet, Tale of Lead … Continue reading
Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020
Still photo from concert film by Marte Ingeborg Haltli and Elias Habbestad Kjelsås. Composed and performed for TUSK Virtual 2020. Part 1 of 2. Maja S. K. Ratkje is using voice and live electronics (with software by Øyvind Brandtsegg). Link … Continue reading
Sult
Based upon Ratkje’s music created for the ballet Sult (Hunger) by profiled director Jo Strømgren for the Norwegian National Ballet, this is a departure from records and live settings normally associated with Maja S. K. Ratkje as a solo performer, … Continue reading
Still Eating Ginger Bread for Breakfast – The 20th Anniversary Concert
Rune Grammofon: “Formed in 1995, SPUNK comprises four of Norway’s most innovative musicians: Maja S. K. Ratkje, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Lene Grenager and Kristin Andersen. The quartet combine talents that range from vocal experiments, instrumental virtuosity, impulsive improvisation and a … Continue reading
And sing…
Booklet text (Norwegian below): Could the act of composing include my sound as a voice performer? The two works on this album are two different answers to this question. From the moment I started to compose new classical music I … Continue reading
Kapital & Moral
The combination of the trio POING and vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje has been referred to as among the best, boldest and most innovative players in the Norwegian music community. On their new album, “Kapital&Moral”, they present a selection of … Continue reading
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Crepuscular Hour
Crepuscular Hour was originally commissioned for a performance at the Ultima festival 2010 in Uranienborg church, Oslo. The work is composed for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians and concert organ. All performers surround the audience, and are amplified … Continue reading
Rasaka
Concert recording from Rødbrygga, Inderøy, April 2013. Maja S. K. Ratkje (voice and live electronics) with the trio SAKA: Kristoffer Berre Alberts (saxophones), Jon Rune Strøm (double bass), Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (drums). CD and Vinyl. Mixed by Lasse Marhaug.
Celadon
A record of slowly evolving beauty that gradually unravels its meditative design. Recorded in Norwegian sculptor and painter Emanuel Vigeland’ s (1875 -1948) mausoleum in Oslo in 2013. A recording space that is famous for its acoustics and its long … Continue reading
Live in Molde
+3dB: “SPUNK and Joëlle Léandre is a match made for history. Based on their first joint appearance at Belleville, Oslo, in 2008, Molde Jazz Festival suggested that these players join forces again, a situation that warranted documentation. Léandre is one … Continue reading
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Adventura Botanica
Rune Grammofon: “On in this botanical adventure – or “Adventura Botanica” – SPUNK join forces with one of Norway’s leading modern dance exponents, Odd Johan Fritzøe, to create a sound and movement work celebrating Darwin’s legendary, game-changing voyage to Madagascar. … Continue reading
JANUS
Beautiful, hand pressed black vinyl from Maja S. K. Ratkje / Joachim Montessuis on the French label Erratum. A collaboration which started in 2008 and finished in 2013. Continue reading
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Voice (LP)
The debut solo album from founder SPUNK member and composer Maja Ratkje has secured 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 … Continue reading
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Scrumptious Sabotage
A recording of live performances which brought together two essential figures of the contemporary scene: an oustanding Norwegian composer and vocal artist Maja S.K. Ratkje and a celebrated improviser and composer , former DNA drummer, Ikue Mori. Continue reading
Das Wohltemperierte SPUNK
Rune Grammofon: “At one minute past eight in the evening of the twentieth of January, 2001, the Norwegian quartet SPUNK began playing a drone in the key of B, inaugurating a project that would weave into their musical lives for … Continue reading
Trouble in Paradise
Tzadik: “Members of bands as diverse as DNA, Skeleton Crew, Electric Masada, Hemophiliac and Björk, Zeena and Ikue have been leading figures of the downtown scene since the early 1980s. Their fabulous duo project Phantom Orchard is expanded here with … Continue reading
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Treasure Hunt
Ikue Mori, Simon Balestrazzi, Sylvie Courvoisier, Alessandro Olla, Maja S. K. Ratkje recorded this album on Sardinia in 2010. Tracks: 1 Searching For 4:26 2 Alive 7:59 3 Tokyo Map 3:23 4 So Sorry 8:39 5 You Play Against My … Continue reading