Jazkamer
Norway’s jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, best known for their ‘metal machine music’ death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work.
Norway’s jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre, best known for their ‘metal machine music’ death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work.
Cover By Hair Stylistics
*2023 stock* 129 songs, no index, no life. Iver: drums. John: guitar. Lasse: vokills. Jørgen: guest drums on last tracks. Not produced by Jazkamer. Cover by Hair Stylistics. Special thank to Maranata and Lloyd Honeybrook. Jazkamer’s 2010 series is over. This is July.
Peanuts
*2023 stock* "Peanuts" is a mixture of location recordings and percussion, and can be seen as a continuation of the music Jazkamer explored on the albums "Timex" (2000) and "Pancakes" (2002); carefully construced transparent sound-surfaces. One track also features turntable surface crackle, which could bring the listener's thoughts back to the "Turntable Surface Fireball" LP (2001). Although "Peanuts" is not a noise record, it could hardly be called ambient music. It might work well as backgroun…
We Want Epic Drama
*2023 stock* The June edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. A big-band noise extravagansa. The first studio recording of the Metal Music Machine line-up; two drummers, electronics and three guitars. Artwork by Justin Bartlett.
Matthew 28:17
Tip! *2023 stock* On "Matthew 28:17" Jazkamer for the first time in the 2010 Monthly Series operates as its core duo of Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre. This reduction does little to lighten the density of their sound, rather the opposite, because "Matthew 28:17" is a thick haze of dopey fuzz-guitars and droning organ. For the longtime Jazkamer fan this album bears similarities to the 2002 mini-album "The Sound of Music" – which often has been thought of as a highlight in the Jazkamer oeuvre.
The t…
Metal Music Machine 2
*2023 stock* "Metal Music Machine 2" is the sequel to Jazkamer's 2006 metal album "Metal Music Machine". It is recorded with the same line-up, in the same studio, and continues the paths laid out by the first album; Jazkamer exploring the deep dark fjords of metal. From 80's German thrash to überslow doom and 70's classic heavy metal; "Metal Music Machine 2" is a varied platter of Metal Mania.
The original album was something of a surprise hit for the band, which lead to creating a live MMM-big …
Balls The Size Of Texas, Liver The Size Of Brazil
Opener "God Damn This Ugly Sound" is less an exercise in composition and more in locating, as it is a six-minute excerpt from a medical record documenting the sounds of various diseases. The rest isn't as obtuse, as it segues nicely into the looping guitar feedback and shrill squeal of "Blues for Sterling Hayden," which could easily be an exercise in sheer noise blast, but is instead a carefully controlled track that demonstrates just how subtle the duo can be, even under such 'extreme' conditi…
Chestnut Thornback Tar
As Norway’s premier noise troupe, Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre’s Jazkamer project has a certain status to uphold. Rather than resting on their well-earned laurels, Marhaug and Hegre keep a gruelling schedule of shows and an even more gruelling schedule of releases, which has culminated recently in an ambitious album-a-month series spanning throughout 2010. While the concept itself is now fairly well worn, what has astonished this time around is the sheer quality the duo has managed to ke…
Self-portrait
The April edition of jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. The first all-acoustic jazkamer record.
The Monroe Doctrine
The Monroe Doctrine is the March edition of Jazkamers 2010 monthly abum series. This CD is a 30 minute track with full on noise rock free jazz improv beat hysteria. Performers are the regular four piece of Gross, Hegre, Marhaug and Drønen. Beautiful artwork by José De Diego.
Musica Non Grata
The February edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. "Musica Non Grata" is a feedback-fest. Armed with guitars and analogue synths and an arsenal of amps, Hegre, Gross and Marhaug locked themselves into Duper Studios in Bergen, exploring how feedback-timbre sounds like when recorded on an analogue 24 track 2" tape-machine. The three long tracks that makes "Musica Non Grata" are slow-moving long-form meditations on feedback that will be bliss for a select few and hell for most listeners. Fe…
Solitary Nail
The January edition of Jazkamer's 2010 monthly CD-series. A trio recording of Jean-Philippe Gross, John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug. Studio live-electronics recorded to analog tape at Duper Studios in Bergen. Edited and post-produced by Gross. A dense tapestry of perfect electronic happiness. CD in digipak cover.
Endless Coast
Nordic microsound operatives-turned-noise metallers Jazkamer (or Jazzkammer as they are also known) team up with legendary American underground pioneers Smegma and No Fun head boy Carlos Giffoni (who for this disc is listed as a member of Jazkamer) and make one unholy racket. Far from the overblown formless din this could have been, all parties do a magnificent job of keeping their more explicitly destructive tendencies to a minimum for much of the record, instead resting much of their attention…
s/t
Limited to 500 copies. another vital instalment in no-fi's growing and collectable vinyl catalogue, this 7' sees the head-on collision of two major acts in the european noise circuit. norway's jazkamer is the electronics and guitar duo of lasse marhaug and john hegre, best known for their Ômetal machine music' death metal concept album but also for the searing blasts of electricity that typify their more noise-oriented work. marhaug is a major figure in international noise, well-known for having…
Pulse
Jazzkammer are Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre from Norway. Together they have been making music as Jazzkammer since 1998. Past releases include Timex, Rolex (a remix album), Pancakes and a live album with Merzbow. Jazzkammer are relentless sound explorers with no set style or specific 'sound' - they move swiftly from hardcore overload electronics and sonic freakouts to lowercase soundscapes and location recordings. Once described as 'sonic architects', Marhaug and Hegre insist they are merely tryi…