Ratkje/Mori – Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje

Reviews (in Polish) from Mori/Ratkje duo in Gdansk.

21/04/2014 / Blog, Other concerts / Ratkje/Mori

Dziennik Bałtycki: (…)Po totalnie elektronicznym piątku przyszła sobota, której oba punkty programu były międzynarodowymi duetami wybitnych wykonawców łączących sztukę improwizacji z elektroniką. Jako pierwsze wystąpiły Norweżka Maja Ratkje i mieszkająca od wielu lat w USA Japonka Ikue Mori. Mori zdobyła rozgłos na przełomie lat 70. i 80. jako awangardowa perkusistka, teraz skupia się raczej na …

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Scrumptious Sabotage

25/06/2013 / Blog, Full length album features, Mixed media/Vinyl/Other shapes, Recorded improvisation / Ratkje/Mori, vinyl

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.

Scrumtious Sabotage reviews (in English)

25/06/2013 / Scrumptious Sabotage / Ratkje/Mori

Boomkat: Poland’s intrepid Bocian label helms this shocking collaboration between combustible Norwegian vocalist Maja S.K. Ratkje and legendary DNA drummer, Ikue Mori. Despite working together in a number of live constellations over the years, until now the two boundary-pushing artistes haven’t performed as a duo. The eight tracks of ‘Scrumptious Sabotage’ are Maja’s augmented documents …

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Phantom Circuit #98

08/05/2012 / Blog, Interviews in English / Ratkje/Mori

Featuring an interview with Ikue Mori and Maja S. K. Ratkje, with excerpts from their improvised live set of music for laptop computers and voice at the Lanternhouse in Ulverston, Cumbria, on 29th March. (The Mori/Ratkje part starts around 17′). Link to net radio player

Reviews from concert with Ikue Mori (and Parker/Wiese) in London

19/04/2012 / Blog, Other concerts / Ratkje/Mori

(…) Ratkje and Mori toe a brittle line of simultaneity, wriggling away from one another but constantly connected, frantically feeding off of an impulse that gifts the music a jittery, pinball dynamic.