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Kim \u00c5ge Furuhaug makes music by banging bits of metal. As Super Heavy Metal, he takes the humble cymbal and reproduces the sounds it makes until he creates a virtual orchestra. On \u2018Gong Splash Midi Midi\u2019 – Super Heavy Metal\u2019s second album, following the startling debut ‘Music for Cymbals\u2019 from 2016 – this treatment has been taken several stages further. Working with producer\/engineer Emil Nikolaisen and sound-processor \u00c5dne Meisfjord. The album is mixed by Anders Bjelland-who has collaborated with Furuhaug from the beginning of the Super Heavy Metal project. The cymbals have been linked to various synths and effects units to form a kind of electronic variant to John Cage\u2019s invention of the prepared piano.<\/p>\n

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The results can echo the digital machine-rhythms of early techno or electro, ominously dark and filmic industrial soundscapes, or the cyclical chatter of hard minimalism. Whatever the associations, the music retains a sharp visceral kick that reminds the listener that Kim \u00c5ge Furuhaug-who also appears on Hubro\u2019s recent release ‘Voice & Strings & Timpani\u2019 – is a real-life drummer, not a dilettante composer flirting with percussion. He\u2019s played with various rock and pop groups for most of his career. Previous bands include Bloody Beach and The Alexandria Quartet, and he\u2019s part of the current instrumental group Orions Belte.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe previous ten years have been spent recording music for other people\u2019s albums, as well as my own bands and projects. And I\u2019ve been a freelance and session drummer with some of the biggest acts in Norway\u201d, Furuhaug says.”<\/div>\n
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Super Heavy Metal is my chance to approach music in a totally different way. At the time of recording my first album I didn\u2019t really play improvised or strictly instrumental music, but the experience opened doors for me musically. Back then, we didn\u2019t use any effects other than treating it like you would in a normal mix. The goal was to make it sound like cymbals actually sound, just not harsh, pingy, or uncomfortable.\u201c<\/div>\n
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\u201cFor ‘Gong Splash Midi Midi’ I approached things totally differently, with less planning and lots of effects. Emil Nikolaisen introduced the possible idea of electronically processing the cymbals, and he suggested I should work with \u00c5dne Meisfjord, so I asked them both to join me. Emil as a producer and \u00c5dne as a musician. I didn\u2019t want to have any rules for the songs and I wanted to keep it free. There were a few sketches of rhythmical patterns but I think we ended up only using one of them, which became the first track on the album, \u2018Super Duper.\u2019 It\u2019s melodic but still very rhythmic. The recording process for this album was a very quick one, but mixing it was exhausting.\u201c<\/div>\n
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The result is an intense-and intensely distilled: it\u2019s just less than half an hour in duration-musical experience where the range of sounds and the uses they are put to are dizzyingly creative. Sometimes there\u2019s a steady pulse throughout, sometimes not. The music can be obviously percussive and industrial-sounding-like some twisted art installation in a sheet metal factory, all clanking machines and reverbed anvils-or it can transform the sonic qualities of base metal into new synthesized shapes. Yet whatever the sound, it\u2019s all-metal, says Kim \u00c5ge Furuhaug. \u201cEverything you hear from the synths is generated from my playing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Kim \u00c5ge Furuhaug makes music by banging bits of metal. As Super Heavy Metal, he takes the humble cymbal and reproduces the sounds it makes until he creates a virtual orchestra. On \u2018Gong Splash Midi Midi\u2019 – Super Heavy Metal\u2019s second album, following the startling debut ‘Music for Cymbals\u2019 from 2016 – this treatment has been taken several stages further. Working with producer\/engineer Emil Nikolaisen and sound-processor \u00c5dne Meisfjord. The album is mixed by Anders Bjelland-who has collaborated with Furuhaug from the beginning of the Super Heavy Metal project. The cymbals have been linked to various synths and effects units to form a kind of electronic variant to John Cage\u2019s invention of the prepared piano.<\/p>\n

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