Bjerga/Iversen - The Smallest Roads Are Paved With Bricks of Gold CDR

My time is very limited these days due to work and family, so posts will probably be scarce. So, the return to writing here will be marked by a return to Bjerga/Iversen after quite some time, with one of their most hypnotic drone-centered recordings, and more specifically with a sci-fi/spaceship sound that has a soundtrack feel to it. 2006 cdr on Celestial Jars.

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Bjerga/Iversen - Untitled 2 X cdr (1000+1 TiLT)

This is probably the first release ever made by the highly prolific duo of Bjerga and Iversen, so many releases of whom have been posted here. Not as much focused on drone, this one has wildly exploratory tendencies, ranging from deep bass tones to Coil-esque psychedelic synths and from elemental old-school techno melodies to harsh noise wall. Weirdness abounds. 2004 2Xcdr on the legendary Greek label 1000+1 TiLt.

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VA ‎– New Horizons From The Distant Void cdr

 

9-track compilation featuring drone, ambient and musique concrète by The Good Time Guys, Culver, Very Rich Lexion, Bjerga/Iversen, Nils Rostad, Dead Wood, Dictaphonic Youth (aka Posset), No Context & Sindre Bjerga, and Gish. 2010 cdr on Striate Cortex.

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VA - With Friends Like These: 10 Years Of Pissing In The Wind cdr

 

One way or another I'm gonna drone ya, I'm gonna dict'ya, I'm gonna Bjerga. Bjerga, Bjerga, Bjerga! No, we aren't going to stop posting Sindre-related stuff here, so here's a comp by his label Gold Soundz celebrating 10 years of operation, with multiple short (max 1 minute and a half) tracks by Dylan Nyoukis, Posset, Jan M. Iversen, Cock E.S.P., Terje Paulsen, Hal McGee & Danny McGuire, Nils Rostad, Bjerga/Iversen, Torstein Wjiik, Kema, Anders Gjerde, Joey Chainsaw, Tobacconists, Crazy River/Monolab, Pål Asle Pettersen, Staplerfahrer, Andreas Brandal, NXP, Adults With Chicks feat. Mah-Ruk Ali & Mira Craig, Ronny Wærnes, Origami Boe, Mesmer Korsbols, Cape Of Seaweed, Rogaland Hot Club, Jazkamer, Frans de Waard, Hans Einar Gulliksen, Flesh Coffin, Full Narkose Band, Koff Koff, Kunstlusk, Ezdanitoff, and Rust & Rot. Expect various styles, from harsh noise and drone to dictaphone and glitch. 2010 cdr on Gold Soundz.

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Jan M. Iversen - 1.05 Drone

Trancey and fizzing drones by Sindre's comrade. 2007 cdr on Triple Bath.

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Sindre Bjerga - Infinity Machine tape

Sindre must really like Janis Ian because he sings again "The Other Side of the Sun" like on Black Paper Wings. I'm also almost sure that after the 4-minute mark of the third track, there's a sample of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog," please confirm if this is so. If you dig sleazy dictaphone decay and gurgling in microphones, then you know that this is tha shiznit. 2016 tape on Coherent States.

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Various - Bjerga/Iversen - Dissect And Connect - Bjerga/Iversen remixed

 

It's obvious Bjerga and Iversen are adored around these shores, so we'll buy other artists remixing them too, right? So here we got remixes by HOH, Robert Horton, Dead Wood, Andy Jarvis, Joe + N, Swamps Up Nostrils, Hrönir, Green Kingdom, Prester, Tzesne and Culver accentuating the most drone aspects of the Norwegian duo. 2007 cdr on TIBProd. and Gold Soundz.

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Bjerga/Iversen - Same River Twice cdr

A great compilation of tracks that first appeared on other releases. Here the Norwegian drone duo showcase an ability to craft short tracks - it's like a drone single hits collection! 2011 cdr on Striate Cortex.

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Bjerga / Iversen ‎– In Broken Dreams The World Still Keeps Turning cdr

Great live performance of the two Norwegiann dudes, this falls more on the droney side, but has a great guitar noise ending. 2006 cdr on Dead Sea Liner.

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Bjerga/Iversen ‎– Invisible Empire cdr

This wee cdr contains two different-sounding tracks. The first is a great drone hymn accentuated by feedback whistlings, while the other track is a collage of fuzz electronics, noise attacks and a sense of rhythm and melody. 2006 cdr on Nervous Nurse.

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Bjerga/Iversen - Burning The Light At Both Ends cdr

This 36-minute track is less droney and much more active (by drone/noise standards, that is), with glacial electronics and nice manipulations of choir voices. 2005 cdr on Carbon Records.

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Bjerga/Iversen - Intersecting Parallel Lines (2 X Cdr)

 

Excellent drone by the Norwegian masters, reminiscent of the sounds of spaceships in sci-fi films, sometimes exploratory and detached, sometimes dramatic and soundtrackish. Two 38-minute tracks, double CDR on Striate Cortex.

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Bjerga/Iversen ‎– Small Change floppy disk

Another one in the Bjerga/Iversen floppy disk series. In this one, it sounds like they were scuba-diving and they caught sounds of signals and other sounds from boats. I like it, it makes me sleepy. 2010 floppy on Gold Soundz.

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Bjerga/Iversen ‎– Short Circuit floppy disk

Another floppy by the Norwegian duo, this time we have a submerged drony piece with someone talking over. Guess Bjerga and Iversen went into a manhole and recorded the sounds from above. Nice. 2009 floppy on Gold Soundz.

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Bjerga/Iversen - Time Lapsed floppy disk

Aaaahhhh ze floppy disque! Strong contender for most obsolete and redundant storage format of all times. How many times have all of us cursed a dysfunctional floppy where we had stored a file in the 90s and we couldn't retrieve it. Bjerga/Iversen have released a number of floppy discs containing small excerpts of noise, but unfortunately I don't think they have been successful in rekindling interest in floppies as a beloved format for the underground (whereas vinyl and the cassette are far from being extinct). So, this one includes one minute of screeching resembling the noise made by elevator ropes if they had been recorded inside the shaft. 2008 floppy on Sindre Bjerga's Gold Soundz.

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