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En aldeles forferdelig sykdom reviews (in English and Norwegian)

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Named after Pippi Longstocking´s favourite word, nothing to do with bodily fluids, Spunk are a Norwegian improv quartet who share their fictional heroin´s feistiness and insistence on doing things a bit differently. The quartet are about to celebrate their tenth anniversary and have marked the occasion with this quite wonderful new album. I laughed out […]

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Lyden av for mye energi (NO)

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Morgenbladet oppsummerer det omfangsrike Maja Ratkje-året. Støymusikk: Maja Ratkje opererer i et musikkmiljø som i spesielt stor grad er dominert av nerdete menn, og nyter stor anerkjennelse, skriver Svein Egil Hatlevik. Foto: Ellen Lorenzen Det er blitt lett å lage plater, og nesten like lett er det blitt å få gitt dem ut. Innenfor blant

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Syklubb fra Hælvete reviews (in English, French, German, Slovenian, Swedish, Norwegian)

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“Out of Norway comes the most exciting noise LP I’ve heard to date. These two women romp thru stimulating noise compositions fresh and clean w/ a distinct Scandinavian frost. But there’s always an undercurrent of warm embrace, sweet and masterful.” (Thurston Moore) “Jeg vil anbefale denne plata til alle 50-åringene som går rundt og tror at gitar-feedback er det tøffeste som finnes.” (Arild R. Andersen)

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Music for Faking reviews (in English and French)

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“They thrown in sounds of popular culture in their blenders, and put the temperature all the way up, but the two are capable to produce some noise that really matters. One in which something is happening, a dynamic field of sound, small stuff is enlarged and amplified, like a high pressure cooker. Noise as it should be. A lesson to study for many.”

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MAJAAP reviews (in English, French, Italian, Portugese, Swedish, Norwegian)

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“Jaap Blonk has finally met his improvising match in Maja Ratkje. Whereas most improvisors have trouble keeping up with Blonk’s speed and theatrics, Ratkje goads him on and often instigates the pace.” “Ratkje and Blonk shape and pace their improvisations with clarity and agility as well as a palpable sense of fun.”

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All Men Are Pigs reviews (in English, Russian, Norwegian)

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[intlink id=”3230″ type=”post”]Record link[/intlink] Pitchfork: “Fe-Mail are Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, both formerly of the Norwegian experimental electro-acoustic quartet Spunk. You might also know Ratkje from her exceptional 2002 solo album Voice, on which she demonstrated how the bizarre fury of a woman scorned could produce as intimidating, recklessly creative storm as any

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Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang reviews

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“sounds that honestly have to be heard to be fully believed. A joyful celebration.” “It results in some of the freshest thought-provoking music this reviewer has heard in a while. Highly recommended.” “An album that simply oozes attitude; an attitude toward sound and space, to the possibilities of an improvising quartet as determined by their fine appetite for absurdity.”

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