Label: Confront

ホワイトヴァイナル180グラム重量盤、David Toopも参加した豪華クインテットによる激シブ録音!!ノルウェーの著名な詩人であるニルス・クリスチャン・モー・レプスタッドへのオマージュとして制作した、David Toop、Mark Wastell、Erik Honore、Michael Francis Duch、Jan Bangらによる、イギリス&ノルウェーの合同アンサンブルによる録音物。エレクトロ・アコースティック~フリージャズ~ミニマリズムを反映させた思考空間で五人の演奏家がセッションを行なった、暗く緊張感のある長編[Wunderkammer]1テイクのみを収録。紙、段ボール、葉、空気、エアロフォンを使うDavid Toopの物体音を中心とした仄暗い構成が非常に素晴らしい。



180g white vinyl

Jan Bang
live sampling, samples & programming, synthesizer

Michael Francis Duch
double bass

Erik Honoré
live sampling, synthesizer

David Toop
paper, cardboard, leaves, friction, activated objects, air, aerophones, bone conduction, cassettes, vibration, voice

Mark Wastell
tam tam, gongs, sticks, beaters


Recorded live at Punkt, Kristiansand on 31 August 2023
Recording and sound engineering by Sven Persson
Recording engineering by Kjetil Walther

The voice of Nils Christian Moe-Repstad was recorded by Jan Bang in 2014

Mixed by Erik Honoré, The Green Room, Oslo.
Mastered by Rupert Clurvaux

Composed by Bang/Duch/Honoré/Toop/Wastell

Texts by Nils Christian Moe-Repstad, translated by Deborah Dawkin

Cover image by Nina Birkeland
Design by Matthew Brandi

Thanks to Agnes Repstad and Øyvind Berg
In memory of Nils Christian Moe-Repstad (1972-2022)

Produced by Mark Wastell


"Proper, zoned-out and dreadfully quiet free-jazz drone psychonavigations revolving around sound objets played by David Toop amid a bush of spectres including Erik Honoré and Jan Bang ov Punkt, helmed by Confront maven Mark Wastell on gongs and sticks. Recorded in Kristiansand, Norway, 2023, ‘Wunderkammer’ is haunted by the 2014 voice recordings of Nils Christian Moe-Repstad (1972-2022), who previously collaborated with Norwegian jazz supremos Honoré & Bang (2/3rds of Punkt, with Arve Henriksen) on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound. Offered in tribute to Moe-Repstad, the singular 38’ tract is defined by a darkly poetic, sublime tension as the quintet players meet in a furrowed, ruminative headspace of electro-acoustic free jazz minimalism. An introductory passage of theatric mise-en-scene lights the way for quietly spectral gestures to flicker from the recording’s evocation of vast negative space, notably resting the plays of Toop’s gently activated objects, Bang’s slanted synth sphere, and Wastell’s metallic shimmers on a bed of exquisitely slow moving bass supplied by Michael Francis Duch. Impressions of Korean classical court music and ethnographic inference guide an elegantly unfolding logic as they proceed thru thickets of metallic strikes to poised chamber music poetry and ultimately lighten up in the latter third, before receding into drone atavism. (Boomkat)

Wunderkammer is an evocative live recording by an Anglo-Norwegian ensemble that pays homage to the late Nordic poet Nils Christian Moe-Repstad. The quintet-featuring Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Michael Francis Duch, David Toop, and Mark Wastell-unites in a hauntingly poetic and contemplative exploration of electroacoustic free jazz minimalism. Recorded at Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, the piece integrates Moe-Repstad's voice, recorded in 2014, into a soundscape of subtle textures and resonances. Through layers of live sampling, double bass, tam-tam strikes, activated objects, and synthesizers, the ensemble creates a meditative and deeply atmospheric journey. Composed collaboratively, the work traverses vast sonic terrains, blending spectral gestures, metallic shimmers, and profound silence, while maintaining a sense of reverence for Moe-Repstad's memory. (Squidco)