Den overste toppen pa en blamalt flaggstang

Współczesna Elektronika
premiera polska: 2005-06-14
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Norwegia
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's Info:
The new studio album from this increasingly exciting and colourful quartet boasts yet another Pippi Longstocking related title. This free spirited and anti authoritarian character is one of the most loved and wellknown from the late, great Swedish author of childrens books, Astrid Lindgren. It translates "The very top of a bluepainted flagpole" and on reflection it gets clearer and clearer why the four young women (all still in their twenties) in SPUNK so easily will identify with this character, going their own pathways and relentlessly breaking most rules in the book. In many ways both more accesible, varied and distinct than their debut from 1999
Combining improv, abstract electronics, chamber music, a dash of jazz and enough punk aesthetics to go around, the twelve tracks on this disc spend nearly an hour confusing, confounding, and in the end, uplifting you in ways that are almost unimaginable. It is the sound of four people pushing the boundaries of recorded music, having a grand old time in the process of making sounds that honestly have to be heard to be fully believed. A joyful celebration. Dusted Magazine (US)There is so much to love in this album. The Norwegian all-female quartet Spunk has delivered a solid second opus, showing a commanding growth in the group´s evolution. Spunk has created itself a signature sound that remains non-confining.
It results in some of the freshest thought-provoking music this reviewer has heard in a while. Highly recommended. All Music Guide (US) .
They are educated composers, but their unceremonius creativity kicks down all borders between pop, "art music" and noise. Here´s poplike fragments of humour and madness, parodies and weird singing, rhythms and things that can resemble "beauty". Music for people who don´t know they have become adults. Fabulous!
Fredrikstad Blad (NO)

muzycy:
Raoul Björkenheim: guitar, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten: bass, Paal Nilssen-Love: drums
nagrano: 2002
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