Cipher is a collection of tracks built around old samples with tapeloops, glitches, beats, manipulated field recordings, synths and various other electoacoustic oddities.
The physical version of the release is a 16 page zine with various ciphers and cryptic writings.
The zine comes with a download code for the audio (and the download includes a PDF-version of the visuals).
Check it out HERE.
Russian For Chairs is a trio consisting of myself, Sindre Bjerga and Artem Bezukladnikov. Our album “Live at The Rauchhaus” was recorded at Blauer Salon in Berlin in 2013, and is now available from the UK label Sound Holes.
Check it out HERE.
The Dead Station Transmission number 5 focuses on Norwegian experimental music.
Some tracks date back to the 90’s and some are more recent, most are by friends and acquaintances through the years. It features:
Alog – “Untitled” from “Alog” (Not on label, 1998)
Vhúlvha – “Holy Cataract” from “Inadvertent Temporal Stimuli” (Chelicerat Tapes, 1996)
Fredrik Ness Sevendal – “Dog Home Alone” from “No Foly Bow” (Humbug/Apartment, 2007)
Der Brief – “Red Desert” from “VOLUM” (Jazzassin Records, 1998)
Continental Fruit – “Unter Uns Gesagt” from “Gently Carved Into Sound” (Humbug, 2002)
Kjetil D. Brandsdal – “Beveren” from “KDB” (KDB, 1996)
Uvesen – “II” from “Uvesen” (Twilight Luggage, 2011)
Alexander Rishaug – “Mlik (The Great View)” from “Rooftop Camping” (Enlightenment, 2004)
Bjerga / Iversen – “Imaginary Feedback Device 5” from “Imaginary Feedback Device” (TIBProd, 2013)
Elektro Nova/Electro Nova – “T02 XOOO4210112H” from “Trans.Inter.Ference EP” (Smalltown Supersound, 1998)
My good friend and collaborator of many years, Jon Øyvind Lærum, gives a rare interview to Count Backwards where he talks about his longstanding (and amazing, I might add) project Continental Fruit and plays some favorite tunes.
The Hidden Persuaders album “Flowers Of the Abyss” was released on the Slovakian label Sky Burial in November 2016. It is now available in digital form for the first time.
Get it HERE.
