Russian For Chairs – “Live at The Rauchhaus” OUT NOW!

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 5

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)

Continental Fruit interview

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.

“Flowers Of the Abyss” digital release

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.

TDS Transmission 4

The Dead Station Transmission 4 is out now! The tracklist is:

Half Makeshift “‎Eye” from “L’anse Amort” (20 Buck Spin, 2007)
Slow Listener “Wall Of Sand” from “Snow Falling From A Blue Clear Sky” (Ruralfaune, 2007)
Calabi-Yau “‎Space Radio” from “Compactified” (Faria Records, 2008)
Necrophonie “27.4.1” from “sm0002” (Sottomondo Edizioni, 2006)
No Neck Blues Band “Move And Stand In Place” from “First Kingdom Of The Ghost” (Seres, 2004)
Raglani “Washed Ashore” from “Of Sirens Born” (Gameboy Records, 2006)
Rudi Arapahoe “Forest Of Arches” from “Echoes From One To Another” (Symbolic Interaction, 2008)
Aufgehoben “Annex Organon” from “Khora” (Holy Mountain, 2008)
Mirror “Nocturne” from “Pedestrian/Nocturne” (Three Poplars, 2000)
Culver “Something Vulture Lost” from “Lora Draws Blood” (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, 2006)