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01. Nya Sverige - NothIng But The Truth
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ARTIST
PHAUSS
TITLE
Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth
FORMAT
CD/BK
LABEL
ROOM40
CATALOG #
RM 4177CD
RM 4177CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
12/16/2022
Phauss
is
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
and
Erik Pauser
. Formed in the early 1980s, Phauss operated amidst of generation of uncharacteristic Swedish artists concerned with reshaping the edges of practices in sound, light, performance and vision. It was a monumentally fertile period for Sweden in that a confluence of factors allowed artists to dedicate themselves to the relentless excavation of ideas, drilling down to the absolute core of their interests and ways of making. Von Hausswolff and Pauser, who both operated across sound and installation, used Phauss as a means for deconstructing ideas of composition, situationalism, site-specific works and extended performance methodologies. Across the second half of the 1980s and into the early 1990s, they made connections, through their travels, outward from their homeland into scenes and communities that stretched from the Middle East, through North America and into Asia.
Nya Sverige - Nothing But The Truth
is a recording made in the United States whilst the pair were undertaking an exhaustive tour in 1991 alongside
Hafler Trio
and
Zbigniew Karkowski
. This, now legendary, tour was both arduous and rewarding. Living in a van for many weeks at a time, travelling between cities with the most modest of means meant
Phauss
came to know a very particular vision of the United States, one that existed below plain view. Their's was an experience had at the rawest edges of cities. Equally the performances they gave, from which this edition is assembled, were raw and quite frankly dangerous. Fire on stage, sparks flying from short circuiting electronics and intense physical rituals guided so much of their work during this tour and looking back at bootleg videos from the time it's difficult to imagine the work being able to be presented in the modern world. One of the flyers from their tour reads "Extreme Swedish Industrial", and as familiar as those words might appear now, in 1991 they held a very different resonance. They were unfamiliar terms of reference and the intensity of Phauss's music maintains that unknowability to this day. This is a profoundly individual work and sets the stage for a generation of musicians who followed them. The edition includes a book featuring a long-form in conversation between Carl Michael Von Hausswolff and Erik Pauser with
Lawrence English
. It also includes never before seen photos and documents from their North American tour and collects together an essential and largely underdocumented history of this period of the group's work.
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