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- ...into that good night
- 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...
- audiotion - sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
- Auf dem Dach der Welt - Frei nach Alexander Kluge
- Avantometric Attachments 2002
- Ballads
- Blixter Toad
- Blood Inside
- Blood, Muscle & Air: The Intimate Voice
- Call me
- Celadon
- Come Away Death
- Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
- 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
- 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
- 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
- MAJAAP
- Malleus Maleficarum Maximum
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
Twitter feed
- Tempelhof, Berlin, with @FrodeHaltli. Concert tonight at @UltraschallB with POING at @HeimathafenNK. https://t.co/VSfLREXgWM
- Welcome to concert tonight with POING and me at @UltraschallB in Heimathafen Neukölln! https://t.co/Ih75J6Lt7h
- RT @marrtinrach: great piece by maja ratkje and kathy hinde https://t.co/zSX3iA0XSN
- Really looking forward to performing my Concerto for Voice for the first time in Germany with Rundfunk-Sinfonieorch… https://t.co/6JrK1RqgLP
- RT @majaratkje: Ikke la deg lure av Equinor! https://t.co/iYWK1Sutkq
Upcoming shows
- 10/11/19 - 10/02/20 Maja S. K. Ratkje in Oslo at SALT
- 17/01/20 POING and Maja S. K. Ratkje in Berlin at Heimathafen
- 19/01/20 Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Maja S. K. Ratkje in Berlin at Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg
- 30/01/20 Trondheimsolistene in Trondheim at OlavsHallen
- 04/02/20 Trondheim Voices in Oslo at The Norwegian Opera & Ballet
Category Archives: Guest appearances
Poke It With A Stick / Joining The Bots
Album by Trondheim EMP. Øyvind Brandtsegg’s project explores cross-adaptive processing as a radical intervention in the communication between performing musicians. Digital audio analysis and processing techniques are used to enable features of one sound to inform the processing of another. … Continue reading
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Snydelig
Album for kids (and grown-ups!) by the Norwegian duo Meg og kammeraten min. Featuring The Norwegian Radio Orcheastra, The Norwegian Girls’ Choir, Maja S. K. Ratkje (on theremin) and others. Continue reading
Gonimoblast Live – with Maja S.K Ratkje and Arve Henriksen
Gonimoblast, the ever-inventive sonic, electronic and jazz-inspired improvisers, led by dynamic bassist and composer Chris Mapp, are to release a double live album featuring striking guest performances from leading Norwegian vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje and renowned trumpeter Arve Henriksen. … Continue reading
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Drono
Derek Piotr’s Drono is, as its name suggests, a drone album. It emphasizes the form and durational composition of drone through unquantized, glitching samples and near-absence of rhythm. Yet this is a drone album preoccupied with mutability: the tracks are … Continue reading
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Through The Looking-Glass
Tzadik: “Expanding their duo into a sextet with the addition of strings, piano and voice, Ikue and Zeena have created a compelling and varied soundscape inspired by fairy stories the world over. Combining plucked and bowed strings, sinuous vocals, driving … Continue reading
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Pig Magic
The Norwegian noise duo Maranata (Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Stiberg) has released this 7″ with a CD included. 7″: Lucky Forever b/w Pig Magic. CD: 1. Pieces, 2. Gravity Connector, 3. Black Tongue Darshan Track 3 features Maja S. K. … Continue reading
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All Music At Once
Smalltown: “For 20 years Norwegian sound wizard Lasse Marhaug has been one of the leading names of the noise scene. Marhaug has released more records than any other Norwegian artist, and through relentless touring across the world he is well … Continue reading
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Orra
Tzadik: “Friends and colleagues since 1988, Ikue Mori and Zeena Parkins are two of the strongest musical voices out of the downtown scene. Lynchpins of bands as diverse as DNA, Skeleton Crew, Electric Masada, Hemophiliac and Björk, their duo project … Continue reading
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…into that good night
“24 years after the debut Amen, WLJ release their second album, Tognazzi and Tristan is surrounded by guests on this album: Rebekka Karijord, Haddy N´jie, Arve Henriksen, Martin Horntveth, Bård Torstensen (Clawfinger), Maja Ratkje, Hild Sofie Tafjord and Prague Philharmonic … Continue reading
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My Deal
Solo debut from Norwegian guitar/vocals jazz master. Jørn Øyen (keyboards), Mats Eilertsen (bass), Andreas Bye (drums). Guest artist: Maja Ratkje on theremin (on “Stella by Starlight”.)
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audiotion – sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
2 X CD compilation with Takashi Miike (Introduction), KK Null, Shinjuku Thief, Converter, Hentai, Shinkiro, Sunao Inami, Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (Pouppée Fabrikk), Contagious Orgasm, Hecate, P.A.L., S:Cage, Asmorod, Iszoloscope and Tokitoshi Shiota (Outroduction). Jazkamer track: Virgin Flower (with vocals by … Continue reading
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Call me
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 … Continue reading
The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
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 … Continue reading
The Dalston Shroud
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). … Continue reading
Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
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 … Continue reading
Shamelessly Exciting
Sonig: “In 2004 Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) made heads turn with his third album and first release on Sonig, The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash, a musical rollercoaster ripping through genres like an amphetamine crazed hobo. … Continue reading
Blood Inside
Record by Norwegian group Ulver. Maja Ratkje – choir on ‘Your Call.’
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Passing Images
ECM: “Frode Haltli is acknowledged as one of the most outstanding accordion soloists in contemporary music and is also an exceptional improviser and an authority on folk music. ‘Passing Images’ looks at traditional music, but in a very fresh and … Continue reading
Oak or Rock
Rune Grammofon: “This is the third Phonophani album, the second for Rune Grammofon. The title refers to mysterious connections between material things, and the album is all about rediscovering the great mystery of music. Through dissecting the sound of ordinary … Continue reading
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Gødt Nørsk, kunstmuzik aus Norgwegen
Norwegian Bjørn Hatterud (Maskinanlegg) is behind this project. Guest artist: Solveig Kjelstrup, on ‘Soveigs Lied’. Continue reading
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