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another fascinating Rune Gramophon Release, 2008-04-26
Trumpet player Arve Henricksen, drummer Jarle Vespestad, and mix master Helge Sten (aka Deathprod) created a whole new genre with their band super silent. This music is a mix of jazz, electronica, ambient music, and experimental noise rock. There are elements of Miles Davis, Cluster, John Cage, and M. J. Jarre in this music. It's hard to rate this music because there isn't really anything to compare it to. The liner notes which are sparse and bare leave you with nothing other than the sounds on the CD to make your impression of this music. It's music for the 22nd century, it's reflective, deep, and full of subtle surprises. To fully enjoy this CD you can't be looking for anything else. You must be ready to listen to something new and explore what it has to offer. Norway's jazz scene and label Rune Gramofon are just exploding. For anyone not initiated to this scene this is a great staring point.

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Comatosed, 2006-04-12
Supersilent are lazy! They numerate their albums, and then further numerate the "songs" (6.1, 6.2, 6.3, etc.), use bland, monochromatic album covers, and then refuse to list the musicians on it, incidentally quite an able quartet: trumpet-keys-drums-electronics. br / br /Once again, those crazy and HIGHLY creative Norwegians are at it. In fact, its on the same label Rune Grammofon, which has given us some of the most out-there electronic derived jazz in recent years (Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland label treads similiar gorunds). Extra-terrestrial, spacey electronics foreground as live acoustic piano plays some incredibly haunting vamps, while muted trumpet lines flow in and out on off-time drum patterns. Almost like the ambient works of Eno or Cage, but way more ethereal and dark. I mean, you can hear their jazz roots (3 of them ARE from bop backgrounds), but still too somber and experimental for this set of ears! 6.2 is the closest that comes to 'jazz' and relects some of Miles and Teo's excursions ca. 'In A Silent Way'. br / br /Mind twisting headphone music that begs attentive listening. Maybe someday when I'm more adventurous, I'll slip this on and go to sleep....or not! br / br /These, IMO are much more of a balance between acoustic bop and cutting edge electronics and sampling. Incidentally, some of the BEST music, esp. in the (leftfield?) jazz vein comes out of Norway. Excellent! br / br /1. Wibutee - "Eight Domestic Challenges" - dub, funk, bop, beats, beeps, all meshed in a cohesive fashion by a trio of horns-bass-drums engaged in heavy electronic textures. Mwandishi for modern times? Sure! br / br /2. Jaga Jazzist - "Livingroom Hush", "Magazine", "Stix"...hell, anything by this 10-piece sound twisters is sonic manna. br / br /3. Eivind Aarset - "Light Extracts" - Live drum-n-bass, and textured guitars create some massive grooves that perfectly reside alongside those typical Scandinavian cold, rattling rhythms.

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Breathtaking and absolutely Amazing, 2005-05-28
This is the type of music to sit down, relax, put on a pair of headphones and let it absorb your concious. From spacey sounding electronics to soft vocals over piano to heart pounding rhythms to skittering percussion...this is just a taste of what is Supersilent, and from what I hear it is all improvised which blows my head clean off. All this coming from someone who has never heard them before...talk about a great buy! Highly, highly recommended, I close my eyes, to awaken among the cosmos traveling without a tangible body, drunk with the infinite beauty, I sigh without a mouth and think...

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Live, Via Satellite, From The Rings Of Saturn!, 2004-06-22
I can't exactly tell if this was recorded in a crater on the Moon or in some icy cavern somewhere north of the Arctic Circle. Either way, fans of Aphex Twin, GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, Sigur Ros, the soundtrack to "2001:A Space Odyssey", or any early Pink Floyd will certainly fall in love with this. Supersilent is a Group From Another Place, very spooky and mysterious, and they don't lend themselves to simple descriptions and explanations. It sounds very live and improvised, with heavy emphasis on keyboards, synths, and subtle-but-effective percussion. Yes, there actually are guitars, strings, and voices in the mix, but, more often than not, they are shy and stay hidden back in the shadows, only fully revealing themselves when all the other instruments start to get wound up into a wall of sound. This album is six tracks long, and upon first listen, it isn't until the middle of the third track do you realize how far under your skin it has gotten. Very subtle and phantasmagoric, indeed. All in all, this is nothing less than something haunting and beautiful coming from a very dark corner of our Solar System.