Jo Berger Myhre - Aviary (Official Video)

Jo Berger Myhre : Aviary (from the forthcoming 'Unheimlich Manoeuvre') Music by Jo Berger Myhre Performed by Jo Berger Myhre Recorded by Espen Høydalskvik Filmed by Jenny Berger Myhre at the Old Jøtul Factory in Oslo (Thanks to Atelier Oblivion) Unheimlich Manoeuvre will be released September 24th 2021 on RareNoiseRecords More information here https://smarturl.it/4seyko About the Album: Norwegian bassist, composer and producer Jo Berger Myhre has long thrived on collaboration, bringing his distinctive voice to a wide variety of adventurous projects. He is best known as one-third of the exploratory electro-acoustic trio Splashgirl and a member for the last seven years of the Nils Petter Molvær Quartet, with whom he’s recorded and co-produced two albums: 2016’s Buoyancy and this summer’s Stitches. He’s also a frequent duo partner of multi-instrumentalist Ólafur Björn Ólafsson and has performed and/or recorded with the likes of Mariam the Believer, Jenny Hval & Susanna, Geir Sundstøl and Finland, the improvising alt-rock quartet of Pål Hausken, Morten Qvenild, Ivar Grydeland and Myhre. Now, Myhre makes his solo debut with the release of the captivating and mysterious Unheimlich Manoeuvre, due out September 24th 2021 via RareNoise Records. The title is an obvious play on the life-saving technique, though whether the added negation makes the threatening or simply subverted remains ambiguous. More to the point, the English translation of unheimlich is “uncanny” or “eerie” – an apt descriptor for the sounds that Myhre creates. To borrow a phrase from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks, Myhre conjures aural landscapes that suggest “a place both wonderful and strange,” stunning in their beauty with something alluringly unsettling lurking just underneath. While the pandemic may not have instigated the project, it certainly provided Myhre with the significant free time he needed to record it. It also allowed him to invite remote contributions from a number of collaborators, leading to guest appearances by Iranian tombak player Kaveh Mahmudiyan; Iceland’s Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, here playing organ; vocalist Vivian Wang of the Singaporean art-rock band The Observatory; and Norwegian compatriots Jo David Meyer Lysne (guitar), Jana Anisimova (piano), and Morten Qvenild (synth). Unheimilich Manoeuvre: 1. Everything effacing 2. Smallest things, part 1 3. Aviary 4. Cynosure 5. Smallest things, part 2 6. Gate opens 7. Perils 8. Sustainer 9. Inner relations Composed, performed, recorded, mixed and produced at Kennel Collective by Jo Berger Myhre Co-produced by Morten Qvenild Mastered by Espen Høydalsvik at Oslo Fuzz Lyrics excerpted from “I Could See the Smallest Things” from WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE by Raymond Carver. Copyright © 1981, Raymond Carver; Copyright renewed © 1989, Tess Gallagher, used by permission of Tess Gallagher.