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Album: Grand Mutation [ALBUM]
Track: 4 of 5
Title: Philomela
Artist: Marhaug/Asheim
Label: Touch
Cat#: TONE30
Formats: CD
Digital Release: 7th May 2007
Physical Release: 7th May 2007

About This Release:

Lasse Marhaug and Nils Henrik Asheim started their collaboration in 2004 at
the All Ears festival in Oslo, Norway. This turned out as a fruitful meeting
between two musicians of very different backgrounds. Marhaug's feedback to
Asheim's organ sounds in the Oslo concert started to reflect how the work
was to develop. Asheim is working with half-stops and subtle playing
techniques that create multiple layers of sound with a vibrating or
fluctuating character, as well as with the power of the full organ.
Marhaug's tools belong to the world of sine wave oscillators and noise
generators. The aim was to set a sonic frame into which they could both
gradually tune.

The two musicians met again in June 2006 just before Oslo Cathedral (which
contains Asheim's favourite instrument) closed down for a few years of
renovation work. One day of soundcheck and musical work and one night of
recording produced an improvised flow of one hour, afterwards structured
into five tracks.

The recording was made in a live setup on the organ loft. Nils Henrik
Asheim was sitting at the organ console and Lasse Marhaug right behind,
playing his electronics through a loudspeaker system in order to make the
electronics and the acoustic organ sound blend as close to each other as
possible. Sound engineer Thomas Hukkelberg used two custom-built condenser
mics for the organ, two Shure KSM 44 for the electronics and two Neumann U87
by the altar for the ambience. He used a Millennia Media HV-3 preamp and an
Apogee AD-16X converter. The recordings were made at night to avoid unwanted
ambient city sounds. The final mix was made by Marhaug in January 2007.


Lasse Marhaug: electronics
Nils Henrik Asheim: organ

Reviews for This Release:

"This is an extremely coherent and inspired album, which brings Touch back to the levels of excellence it achieved in the past." - Aurelio Cianciotta (Neural)