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ARTIST
WHEN
TITLE
The Black Death
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
IDEOLOGIC ORGAN
CATALOG #
SOMA 022LP
SOMA 022LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
6/9/2015
Originally released in 1992 on CD by Tatra; never previously reissued. "Coming out of the 1980s Norwegian post-punk scene,
When
is the solo project of
Lars Pedersen
. The first albums were in a similar landscape as what he was doing with industrial art-rock band
Holy Toy
, and his later works have veered into a wide range of territories, but in between all this we find his fourth album from 1992 --
The Black Death
(titled
Svartedauen
in Norwegian) -- a decidedly darker creation. Inspired by
Theodor Kittelsen
's 1900 series of grim drawings depicting The Black Death's 1349 ravaging of Norway,
The Black Death
is a highly sophisticated 38-minute musique concrète sound-collage that mixes elements of manipulated traditional Norwegian folk music (such as the eerie Hardanger fiddle) with sounds of horses whining, rats gnawing, wood grinding, and people moaning. Musically, it fits somewhere between
Nurse With Wound
's Dadaist studio experiments and
Luc Ferrari
's dramatic narrative environmental sound poems. Fans of Norwegian black metal will recognize the Kittelsen art from several
Burzum
album covers.
The Black Death
's release just happened to coincide with the church-burnings of the 1992 black metal summer, and
Varg Vikernes
, and a generation of young metal artists who would radically change the musical landscape of extreme metal forever, were big fans of this album.
The Black Death
incomparably evokes that feeling of doom and medieval dread that the black metal bands were attempting with croaked screams and distorted guitars around the same time. So if you're looking for the missing link between
Arne Nordheim
and
Mayhem
-- this is it. Pristine vinyl cut by
Rashad Becker
at Dubplates & Mastering in January 2015 and packaged in a gatefold sleeve featuring texts and interviews with and about Pedersen as well as a 12-page booklet of Kittelsen's drawings for
Svartedauen
. The rats would be pleased" --
Lasse Marhaug
, Oslo, March 2015. Composed by Lars Pedersen: programming, keyboards, harp, cello, percussion, sounds, and voices. Recorded summer 1992 at Sound Sector, Oslo, with engineer
Bernt Kanstad
. Mastered 2011 at Livingroom, Oslo, by
Morten Lund
. Produced by When.
The Black Death
is based on
Svartedauen
(1900) by Theodor Kittelsen (1857-1914). All drawings by Theodor Kittelsen. Liner notes by
Bjarne Riiser Gundersen
and
Bård Torgersen
. Assistance and consultation on this edition:
Kristoffer Rygg
. Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by
Stephen O'Malley
; manufactured and distributed by Editions Mego.
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