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Maja Ratkje – Looking Forward

Rui Eduardo Paes:
-All forms of underground music or alternative art must stop to quarrel and make a strong front against the main enemy: brainwashing mainstream culture, owned by the richest with one underlying goal: to make more money, and secondary goals, to keep people from thinking differently so that the regime can keep the materialistic acceleration. Continue reading

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Fe-mail: An Interview with the Pink Inferno

Rare Frequency: Fe-mail is Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, and they make noise… lots of it, using theremins, dictaphones, samplers, laptops, harmonicas, and, most importantly, voice (Maja’s) and French Horn (Hild’s). Inspired by the extreme noise music … Continue reading

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Edited from an interview with the Greek zine Strange In Stereo

-I don’t think about emotions when I perform. The associations you get when listening to it afterwards obviously connect to certain emotions, but that is happening in the listener. I try to leave open as much ambiguity as possible. Continue reading

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This interview was made in The Wire’s issue for March 2003 – edited from the original conversation

-Why not be more surrealistic or irrational? The world becomes boring if you don’t see as much potential in new things as possible. The child’s curious view on the world is easy to lose, it’s however not a contradiction to gain experience. ‘Open-minded’ is not the same as being naive. Continue reading

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Continuous forward motion – Maja Ratkje maintains momentum

MIC: “Voice” is the title given to Maja Ratkje’s new solo-record – a release that’s set to establish her as one of Norway’s foremost crossover artists. Contemporary, avantgarde, electronica, noise and free improvisational vocal antics are just some of the … Continue reading

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