MoHa!
Norwegianism

Norway, Rogaland County.

The city of Stavanger, home to numerous oil industries, surrounded by majestic mountains, ice, and fjords, could only give birth to the multifaceted personality of the young Anders Hana, guitarist of Moha! (but also of Noxagt and Ultralyd, to give an idea of the character..!). Our friend is accompanied on drums (both electronic and not) by his friend Morten J. Olsen.

An extravagant duo, these Moha! are devoted to a crazy mix of the most diverse musical genres: they indeed swing from avant-grind to noise, through jazz-core, and finally touch deconstructed and deconstructing shores like industrial and the more acid and spartan no-wave.

The sixteen tracks in this "Norwegianism," their second record release under Rune Grammofon, are mostly very fast and vibrant bursts of noise that seem aimless but are not. Because the album as a whole, in its scant 35 minutes of duration, sounds (as far as possible in 2011) innovative, brilliant and crazy at the same time!

Scorching sounds and incandescent sheets gush out of the amplifiers, a sound that could excite those who lend more than an ear to deconstructed, disconnected, and disjointed sounds, legitimate offspring of the most deafening noise.

Do you want some patron deities? Lightning Bolt, Naked City, Melt Banana are the first ones that come to mind, but there are certainly others. But I think many (or few?) of you might have already jumped out of your seats just hearing the names of these bands.

Final closing: Is it nonsense music, someone might object? Certainly yes, for those less trained to this type of sound and mostly accustomed to the classic song form (verse-chorus-verse), to whom Moha! might seem only a mere sterile and cacophonic exercise in style.

For everyone else, followers of noise and the most extreme experimentalism, I warmly recommend an eavesdrop on "Norwegianism"..