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1.
Smoke 01:34
2.
flames 02:00
3.
and 02:33
4.
strange 00:39
5.
music 03:05
6.
Hummed 01:48
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and 01:12
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made 02:49
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of 03:45
10.
honey 03:39
11.
Sweet nothings 22:15

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BEAM SPLITTER‘s debut album „Rough Tongue“ on Corvo Records is one part, a timbral collage of carefully extracted sound material and in another, a longer moment taken from an intimate room below the din.
All tracks are taken from three live concerts in 2016. Utilizing the pure sounds of acoustic and closely amplified trombone and voice, the record exemplifies the joining together of these two individual voices into a distinct dialog that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of extended technique and sound.

There is an intimacy and conflict that becomes evident as the two personas intertwine, in moments joining together seamlessly and in the next, being left with the feeling of irrevocable fracture. The two manage between these extremes with a kind of improvised grace that reveals an effort towards a common goal. It is an honest metaphor for human relationship in process that even in the most serene moments can leave one raw and entirely exposed.

Since beginning their collaboration in 2015, Nørstebø and Chen have been extensively touring the globe, in Europe, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Taiwan and the USA. They have presented their music in a wide variety of spaces, taken part in larger commissioned works at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires and largely conceptualized a theatrical adaptation of MEDEA in front of the Olympic Stadium in Kiev, Ukraine (for butoh dancers and musicians) produced by the Ukho Agency.

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released December 19, 2017

Audrey Chen — voice
Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø — trombone

Track 1 – 5 recorded 19.10.16 at Rhiz (Vienna) by Der Blöde Dritte Mittwoch.
Track 6 – 10 recorded 18.10.16 at Confine aperto/Zavod Sploh (Ljubljana) by Tomaž Grom.
Track 11 recorded 19.07.16 at Weincafé (Berlin) by Hilary Jeffery.
Mixed and mastered by Lasse Marhaug.
Design by Wendelin Büchler, Collage by Audrey Chen.
Inside photo by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard.

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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø Berlin, Germany

HMN is a musician and sound artist based in Berlin and Trondheim, focusing on trombone performance and a wide range of compositional and cross disciplinary projects. He chose the brass tubes already at the age of eight, and has done extensive research into both the boisterous side of the instrument, as well as its counterpoint in microscopic sound, utilizing deselection as a central process. ... more

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