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Saturday, January 16, 2021

Jim O'Rourke, Lasse Marhaug & Paal Nilssen-Love - (2013) The Love Robots

 

PNL ‎– PNL017 


The trio of Jim O'Rourke on guitar, Paal Nilssen-Love on drums and Lasse Marhaug on electronics in an album of beautiful psychedelic noise recorded at Gok Sound Studio in Tokyo.

"The most interesting of their latest collaborations is the one with guitarist Jim O'Rourke, who contributes classic Sonic Youth guitar noise to the duo's [Paal Nilssen-Love & Lass Marhaug] excesses. At the start, Nilssen-Love is a very economical: his usual velocity is reluctant, almost coy. The three musicians blend excellently with each other, Marhaug's electronics and O'Rourke's guitar effects are a perfect match - a combination of early Pink-Floyd-psychedelia and new music in the tradition of Stockhausen and Mario Bertoncini. Side A end with a magical moment that could go on forever. The flipside is rawer and more disruptive, Marhaug's evil static is a constant presence: the disagreeable and disturbing side of noise [...]"-Martin Schray, The Free Jazz Collective.

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