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These miasmic and brittle soundworlds are chiselled with post-digital precision, imaginatively reconstructing a lost, steamy New York a long way from cool Oslo. — Jazzwise, October 2018, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 23rd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: HUBROCD2605
Label: Hubro
Length: 37 minutes

Daniel Meyer Grønvold , Håvard Volden , Ola Høyer , Christian Ness: #`´`´`´ /

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Daniel Meyer Grønvold , Håvard Volden , Ola Høyer , Christian Ness: “””””

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Drawing on the fractured funk and machine-aesthetic of late Seventies/early Eighties post-punk and No Wave bands, plus the motorik-meets-electro rhythms of 'Planet Rock'-style hip-hop, the third full album by Oslo-based experimental rock quartet Moon Relay combines pin-sharp, real-time musicianship with a powerful conceptual punch. It's a world where buzz-saw guitars mesh with disco handclaps on a series of hypnotically immersive instrumental grooves intersected by avant-garde collages of found sound and studio doodles.

On one level, each of the six original compositions on 'IMI' functions as a compulsively rhythmic address to the body of the listener, enforcing a physical response through an irresistible, sometimes heartbeat-timed pulse paired with intense repetitive riffing. On another, more nuanced level, the music functions at a kind of ironic distance, simultaneously echoing the various historical sources of the sounds being paid homage to yet placing them critically within a contemporary context where the past is simply another resource to be plundered at will. Whatever the theory, Moon Relay sound tight as a drum, playing fast-paced, intricately tessellated rhythmic patterns that build and build in an extreme sonic dialectic of tension and release.

Moon Relay: Daniel Meyer Gronvold, guitar, bass, percussion, piano, synth, cassettes, drums Havard Volden, guitar, bass, synths, tapes, drums Ola Hoyer, bass Christian Næss, drums Kyrre Laastad, additional sounds

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October 2018

These miasmic and brittle soundworlds are chiselled with post-digital precision, imaginatively reconstructing a lost, steamy New York a long way from cool Oslo.

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