Excerpts from Sult's 3rd album Svimmelhed.

Uvel

Jern

Jacob Felix Heule: percussion
Guro Skumsnes Moe: double bass
Tony Dryer: double bass
Håvard Skaset: guitar

recorded by HS
mixed by JFH

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Sult/Lasse Marhaug - Harpoon - Side A

A collaborative LP of acoustic improvisors Sult (Håvard Skaset: guitar / Jacob Felix Heule: percussion / Guro Skumsnes Moe: double bass) and Norwegian sound artist Lasse Marhaug. The source material is performed by SULT, while the album was constructed and produced by Lasse Marhaug. In the hands of Marhaug the already dense and visceral expression of SULT is transformed into a maelstrom of layered sheets of scraping noise, rising and collapsing simultaneously. Some listeneres will place "Harpoon" in the proximity of artists like Organum, David Tudor and Ferial Confine, but the music carves its own place in the landscape. A joint release between Pica Disk and Conrad Sound, limited to 200 copies.

Harpoon

Sult/Lasse Marhaug - Harpoon (First)

Live 2014 November 30, Temescal Arts Center, Oakland CA. Hard rain.
Guro Moe: contrabass
Håvard Skaset: acoustic guitar
Jacob Felix Heule: percussion

live in Oakland

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Wince

Fange

Skade

Mince

Lunge

Sult explores the hidden sounds of acoustic instruments (guitar, contrabass, percussion), magnifying them with microphones so the audience can join them inside their silent cacophony. Subtle harmonics become saws cutting through metal, and creaking wooden bodies become sinking ships. Their expression is primitive and raw, but while their playing embraces chaos, it is matched with discipline and the history of a decade-long mind-meld. The group sounds as one, with the gestalt of simultaneous layers taking primacy over any solo expression. The equality of the voices, however, invites the listener to focus on threads of their own choosing and make their own discoveries.


Sult is a trio with members from Oslo and Oakland. They have been working together since 2007, and have regularly toured Europe and America. In addition to collaborating with musicians such as Bill Orcutt, Okkyung Lee, and Fred Frith, they have been regularly performing Skeleton with live cinema artist Greg Pope. They are also active as organizers within their respective local music communities.


"They combine to create a scrap-heap collage of dry, brittle, abstract sounds, which they control with exquisite patience in slowly developing cycles of tension and release." -- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

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