20.02.09: Svarte Greiner - release concert for Kappe album
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Venue: Revolver
Date: 20.02.09
Concert Time: 22:30
Cover Charge: tba
Death, gloom and acoustic doom from Norway
By:larm’s club concept, club:larm, sees Svarte Greiner take to the stage on Friday 20th at 22:30 at the Revolver venue in Oslo. His live performance celebrates the new release “Kappe” on the English label, Type, which is now available on LP/CD/download in many stores.
Type’s press release writes the following about the album and the artist. Through incessant touring Skodvin has built up a distinctive live technique since the release of Knive and it is this which works as a spirit guide on Kappe. Traveling the dark corners of the world, Skodvin has explored every shadowed alleyway in his grasp, built up a collection of broken glove-puppets and potion-filled medicine bottles and trapped many a stifled scream in the process. Some of these disparate adventures were captured to cassette tape (Penpals Forever) and wax disc (Til Seters), but the most evil moments were set aside for this full length record; four fated psalms in honour of the dark Northern lords.
The album’s opener “Tunnel of Love” may be the noisiest piece Skodvin has produced to date with a death-rattle of chains accompanying his patented maritime bass drone. It sounds something like Death’s gondola gliding through purgatory, gradually building into a dense, chattering cloud of torment before dropping into bleak stillness. Skodvin is joined by Ultralyd saxophonist Kjetil Møster who adds a disarmingly terrifying squeal to the horrifying detuned strings on Candle Light Dinner Actress. The most startling change here is his incorporation of the electric guitar – Mystery Man sees Skodvin harness the feedback into loops of distressing, pained melancholy bringing to mind Skullflower or a slow-motion Sonic Youth at times.
Kappe however is very much its own beast, and followers will already know that nothing sounds quite like Svarte Greiner. You won’t find a more unsettling record this winter…
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