“Cassette player drones and kitchen sink
psychedelia, sound ghosts hidden deep in the molten magnetic tapes… always
aiming for that mind-altering head trip…”
Mission statement. Boom. Modus operandi. Boom.
Sindre Bjerga follows his muse down a rabbit hole of cassette samples and
warped noises, clacking and chipping away at source material and objects until
they resemble something completely other than their intended form. “Hesitation
Marks” collects two Bjerga live recordings – Any Record, Den Haag, Netherlands,
August 12, 2017; XB Liebig, Berlin, Germany, July 8, 2017 – and the sounds echo
about the rooms.
Alien sonics give way to song fragments, which
are chopped and stretched and basically destroyed, as if they were an
unfortunate side effect of an extraterrestrial transmission. The mood is “life
on other planets,” the kinetic motion unstoppable and weird. “Hesitation Marks”
never stops moving, never stops shifting, never stops changing. It’s a slippery
beast, best wrangled through headphones.
--Ryan
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