Lasse Marhaug (born 10 September 1974) is a
Norwegian musician who primarily works in the field of
noise music
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but frequently drifts into other areas such as
improvisation, jazz, rock and
extreme metal
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. Marhaug has also been involved in creating music for theatre, dance, art installations and video art. Active since the early 1990s, he has participated as a performer and composer on over 200 releases in
CD,
vinyl and
cassette tape
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formats. He currently resides in
Oslo
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.
Marhaug tours extensively, and is a frequent collaborator. He currently participates in the projects Nash Kontroll (with
Mats Gustafsson and
Dror Feiler), DEL, and Testicle Hazard. Defunct projects include Jazkamer/Jazzkammer, Origami Replika and Lasse Marhaug Band. Other collaborative partners include
Tore Honoré Bøe, Marc Broude,
Anla Courtis, Carlos Giffoni, John Hegre,
Kommissar Hjuler Kommissar Hjuler (born Detlev Hjuler; 1967) works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist, film maker and police officer at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together wi ...
und Frau,
Merzbow,
Paal Nilssen-Love,
Nordvargr
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,
Maja Ratkje
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** Maja railway station
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, The Skull Defekts, Ronnie Sundin,
Sunn O))),
Ken Vandermark,
Jon Wesseltoft,
Runhild Gammelsæter
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Biography
Runhild Gammelsæter was a 17-y ...
,
John Wiese and
Jenny Hval
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In 2015, Hval released her fifth studio ...
.
History
In 2007, Norwegian newspaper
Dagsavisen rated Marhaug's album ''The Shape of Rock to Come'' as number 19 on their list of the best albums in Norwegian history.
In 2011, he started publishing the
fanzine
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''Personal Best'' on his own publishing company Marhaug Forlag.
In 2013, PAN GU's ''Primeval Man Born of the Cosmic Egg'', Marhaug's collaboration with
The Observatory's Leslie Low, made it to
SPIN's Top 20 Avant albums of 2013.
Marhaug currently runs the labels TWR Tapes and Pica Disk. He also runs Prisma Records with Lars Mørch Finborud which releases music performed at the
Henie-Onstad Art Centre
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History
The artcentre was founded i ...
.
Selected discography
* ''Science Fiction Room Service'' (1996)
* ''Alive! (Live Recordings 1998–2006)'' (2007)
* ''Tapes 1990–1999'' (2007)
* ''Quality Control'' (2007)
* ''Ear Era'' (2008)
* ''Virginia Plane'' (with
Bruce Russell) (2013, The Spring Press)
* ''Context'' (2022)
References
External links
Official websitePica Disk official websitePrisma Records official websiteMarhaug Forlag official website*
All About Jazz: Lasse MarhaugTouch: Lasse Marhaug Reviews
1974 births
Living people
Noise musicians
Norwegian black metal musicians
Norwegian electronic musicians
Norwegian jazz composers
Male jazz composers
Rune Grammofon artists
Smalltown Supersound artists
Utech Records artists
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