Label: Moving Furniture Records

10年振りとなる待望の新録!!60年代後半より存在するノルウェー実験音楽発信地Henie OnstadアートセンターのPrisma Recordsの出版に大きく関与、個人でも自国の埋もれた名作の発掘に勤しむ大ベテランのノイズ・ミュージシャンLasse Marhaug。同国にて長年活動を共にしているマルチインストゥルメンタリストJon Wesseltoftと10年以上に渡り継続している荘厳な長編ドローンプロジェクトTongues Of Mount Meruの新作!!2022年に集大成的4枚組ボックス[Naga Mountain]を発表しましたが、本作は2021年から制作を開始したという完全な新録2CD。ハルモニウム、オルガン、シュルティボックス、オシレーターによるセッションを繰り返し徐々に変容する凄まじい倍音サイクルを発見、それらをミニマリズムやラーガの理論、電子音楽へと落とし込んだ極上の催眠効果を放つ100分超えの大作。





Since the start in 2008 Jon Wesseltoft and Lasse Marhaug, aka Tongues of Mount Meru, have released a set of intense and mind tripping longform pieces. Their music often almost seemingly static and gradually building it’s intensity over long streches of time. This is music that demands concentration, and hypnotically drill into the awareness of the listener. At times abrasive and
intense, but also beautiful and calmly introspective.

Last year they released the culmination of older work with the monumental 4 cd box Naga Mountain (Holidays Records) with material consisting from 2008 to 2011. After a longer hiatus they started recording again in the spring and summer of 2021. First came the over 2 hour long Lalit (2:14 version), being based around the Indian raga Lalit, on the Italian Superpang label.
Now they return with the latest culmination from those sessions with the 100 minute piece Kalpa.
This being probably their most heavy and crude outing to date. With more focus on actively fusing larger sections of almost clustered sound together with tonal activity. This without loosing the consistency of the longer stretches of overarching microtonal interaction.

At times sounding like a churning minimalist nightmare ritual, but on the other end, a beautiful but heavy duty trance inducing drupad veena performance on half speed.