From Vital Weekly no. 795 NILS ROSTAD – UJAMT (LP by Tallerk Plater) Although released as a LP, I only got a CDR (which not how things work here, I must admit, so don’t follow his example), but the improvised music of Nils Rostad is nice enough to be ignored. Sixteen relatively short pieces of improvised…
From Soundohm CD edition covering the impossible to find private releases by the cult Norwegian loner “pretty much everyone who heard Rostad’s stunning Ujamt LP was blown away and Harmony Hammond builds on the weirdo cultic avant/folk edge of that release with a series of guitar/percussion/organ/folk constructions that come over like a one man Faust Tapes,…
From Vital Weekly no. 855 NILS ROSTAD – HARMONY HAMMOND (LP by Tallerk Plater) One of the more curious musicians from Norway these days is Nils Rostad. I reviewed a LP from him before (see Vital Weekly 795), as well as other releases, but he’s one hell of a hard guy to pin down anywhere. It’s…
From Vital Weekly no. 727 KEIJO (CDR by Anti-Guru) NILS ROSTAD – SELF-PORTRAIT AS A BUDELE (CDR by Anti-Guru) People like Keijo like covers with handwritten titles, probably because it looks so ‘personal’. In a typed up font it says ‘recorded in Jyväskyla and Kuusankoski 2007-2008’ and that one Aarni Virtanen plays percussion and plastic…
From Vital Weekly no 711 NILS ROSTAD – RECORDED WITH A MIC STANDING ON A TABLE (CDR by Striate Cortex) Nils Rostad has produced already a couple of highly obscure releases, with hand written covers, and such like. He found home too on Striate Cortex and on his release, two pieces recorded in the UK,…
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