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Snowblind review (in Norwegian)

Smaalenenes Avis: Gøyal samtidsmusikk Gøyalt! Enkelt og greit. Spesielt er platas to første verk er av det minneverdige slaget. Det innleder med lyden av en (for musikere) alltid viktig, med akk så...

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Treasure Hunt reviews (in English and Italian)

Vital Weekly: In October 2010 these five persons meet up at the Signal festival and played together. The two days before their concert they played together in a studio, resulting in these eight pieces...

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Some Slime Zone reviews (in English, German, Dutch, Norwegian)

SquidCo: The trio of drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, electronic and turntable artist Lasse Marhaugm and vocalist/electronic artist Maja Ratkje met at Cafe Mono during the Oslo Jazz Festival to perform these...

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Trouble In Paradise reviewed by All About Jazz

Phantom Orchard began as an experimental duo comprised of two innovative figures from the experimental New York downtown scene: Ikue Mori, who exchanged the drummer position in the No Wave band DNA for...

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Sounds: mit Phantom Orchard Orchestra, SPUNK und Jenny Hval (DE)

Der Blues scheint verflogen, es bleiben die Sounds: unsere monatliche Kolumne von Redakteur Jens Balzer. Im Monat Mai mit: Phantom Orchard Orchestra, Spunk und Jenny Hval. Rolling Stone (DE) 07. Mai...

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JANUS reviews (in English)

Seven1878: This is the best album that most people probably haven’t heard by two artists who deserve to be as highly regarded as the Wiese, Fernow, and Dilloways of the world. JANUS is like listening...

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LIGHT reviews (in English, Norwegian, Swedish and German)

Record Collector: Illuminating: anarchy in the art house. Commissioned by Norway’s Henie Onstad Art Centre on the advent of its 40th anniversary in 2008, Light captures preeminent improvisers Spunk at...

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In Dialogue with Rudnik reviewed by Vital Weekly

Vital Weekly: There are two of his pieces on this CD, some twenty minutes in total, and in the middle a thirty-minute piece by Ratkje. The pairing of these two has to do with the fact they both use a...

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Live in Molde reviews (in English, German and Polish)

  Record link Massimo Ricci. Touching Extremes: Joëlle Léandre: double bass; Kristin Andersen: trumpet and flutes; Lene Grenager: cello; Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje: voice and electronics; Hild...

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Vital dialog med polskt experiment (SE)

Svenska Dagbladet: En elektroakustisk skatt grävs nu fram ur arkiven på den polska radions Experimentalstudio. Här ligger hundratals verk och väntar, producerade sedan starten 1957 av storheter som...

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Scrumtious Sabotage reviews (in English)

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...

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Will Not Split

The Sound Projector: Two more cassettes from Kassettkultur are by Maja Ratkje and Bjørn Hatterud, both made at the same time and only ever sold together as a pair; “will not split” is the familiar...

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Wach auf! reviews in Norwegian, Swedish and Danish

Bergens Tidende: Nostalgi og klarsyn Poing og Maja Ratkje demonterer gammel revolusjonsmusikk I det som en gang var Øst-Berlin, selger turistbutikkene suvenirer fra DDR – plakater, leker, sangbøker...

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Wach auf! reviewed by All About Jazz

Published: August 10, 2011 POING / Maja S.K. Ratkje: Wach auf! Wach auf! (Wake up! in German) is only the third release by POING in its 12 years of activity, but what a remarkable achievement from a...

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Wach auf! reviewed by Nordische Musik (DE)

Was ist eigentlich noch übrig von der Roten Revolution? Nur noch Nostalgie – oder doch noch die eine oder andere Lösung, wie wir aus der postmodernen Kapitalismus-Falle wieder rauskommen? Schwerer...

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Wach auf! reviewed by Dusted Magazine

Set aside the countless versions of “Mack the Knife,” which too often devolve into camp, and Bertolt Brech’s collaborations with Hans Eisler and Kurt Weill can provide a fertile launching point for...

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Wach auf! reviewed by Kwadratuur (NL)

Muziek en politiek, die combinatie heeft zelden artistiek boeiende resultaten opgeleverd, zeker wanneer het eerste gebruikt werd om het tweede te verkopen of op te dringen. Op ‘Wach Auf!’ wagen de...

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Wach Auf and Smell the Coffee!

The Sound Projector: Wach Auf! (ØRA FONOGRAM OF019) was sent to us in October 2011. Here the great Norwegian musician, composer and one half of the noise band Fe-Mail Maja S.K. Ratkje reveals she has...

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Wach auf! reviewed by Signal to Noise

A very different tack is taken on “Wach auf!” by Norway’s Maja Ratkje with POING. Ratkje is most familiar to those outside Norway through her projects using extreme vocal techniques and manipulations...

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Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020 reviewed in TQ Zine

by Rory Carr, TQ38/39/40, a TUSK Virtual special triple issue, published Jan 2021 “There’s a clichéd joke about watching live electronic music shows which says you might as well be watching someone...

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