Supersilent - 1-3

Motorpsycho’s keyboardist Helge “Deathprod“ Sten recorded also with improvisers Supersilent (keyboardist Stale Storlokken, trumpet player Arve Henriksen and percussionist Jarle Vespestad). They debuted with the triple-CD 1-3 (september 1997 - Rune Grammofon, 1998), the massive manifesto of their violent and cacophonous jazz-rock. Their aesthetic was more reminiscent of Borbetomagus and the Mnemonists than of free jazz. 1.1 is a ten-minute collage of vocal samples, dissonant instruments, electronic noise and tribal drums, followed by a 12-minute wall of noise (with varying degree of impetus), followed by seven minutes of drums-driven jazz-rock jamming. The cacophony turns dramatic in the 14-minute 1.3, a stunning example of dynamic soundsculpting. 1.4 is the exact opposite: a relatively calm and rational jam grounded in a thick tapestry of percussive sounds. The second album opens with an unusually slow and subdued piece, 2.1, with sparse drumming, a confused synthesizer and a distorted horn atte