CnRd334
Keiji Haino & Guro Moe
Drums & Octobass
Artist: Keiji Haino & Guro Moe
Album title: Drums & Octobass
Label: Conrad Sound
Catalog number: CNRD334LP / CNRD334CD
Release: 15th December 2023
Formats and pricing:
- single vinyl from €12
- 2xCD digipak from €10
- Digital download from Bandcamp
Shipping:
- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
We Come for an Experience of Presence is the result of a successful studio day in April 2022. The album represents ükya’s musical beginning and simultaneously the foundation for what is yet to come. The music is freely improvised, but the trio has found their own little patch in the ever expanding forest of improvised music. To use Peter Margasak’s words: The music certainly takes great inspiration from classic non-idiomatic free improv, but the execution is so bold and assured that it avoids ever sounding tentative or cliched, qualities that frequently bog down so much like-minded improvised music today
This is also the first band ever on Nakama Records which does not feature any member from Nakama. It only took us 25 releases to there, but ah – how we delight in the smell, taste and – not least – sounds of fresh blood! Jokes aside – we still consider them family, as two of them have attended The Nacademy (a summer course in improvised music) in the past.
Artist bio
ükya (always written like that) consists of trombonist Emil Bø, guitarist Kristian Enkerud Lien and drummer Michael Lee Sørenmo. The trio works with conceptions around just intonation, European art music, minimalism, jazz and British improvisational music. This results in a contemporary reflection of free form and a rigorous organization of sound in a lyrical and energetic wrapping.
Quotes
Særegent. Lytteren forblir innesperret i et særegent øyeblikk i tiden.
- Arvid Schanke Knutsen, Klassekampen
Deres samarbeid åpner dørene for de mest uforutsigbare lyder.
- Matty Terrones, Post Trash
Credits
Musicians
Keiji Haino - drums
Guro Moe - octobass
Recorded by - Børge Fjordheim
Mix - Kyrre Laastad
Mastering - Karl Klaseie
Cover design - Christian Meaas Svendsen
Emil / Michael / Kristian
photo: Fan-Qi Wu
photo: Wasyl photography