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Mikko Savela

Etter å ha sprengt ulike genrer med ulike band, lekt med Zappa-bandmedlemmer og fått navnet inskribert i Librarius Metallicus, begynte han å improvisere og eksperimentere med alternative teknikker, gjerne på flere gitarer samtidig! Sist i Oslo med Will Guthrie på Dans for voksne, ellers har han spilt med slike som Mike Keneally og Keith Rowe. Mikko Savela og gitaren(e?) hans kommer ens ærend fra Umeå for denne konserten!

Mikko Savela is disposing, sweeping over strings, clicking the machine and striking the gong. Everything whispers and resonates. Repeating ritual rhythms, the sound of jungle drums rises, a stomping beat, this boots are made for walking, pahpahpah. Sliding over his equipment, he pushes every functional unit into another loop of meaning, leading into crescendo and resistance, there’s no point of rest, but only struggle for supremacy, like fighting windmills, like running in circles, again and again and again. Demons need to be reigned, chaos is luring, waiting to overwhelm, when weakness strikes the apprentice gets bold, hoping to be set free, who mistake this steak for chicken, every misstep leads to outbreak, causes conflict, forces strive to unify…self-fullfilling prophecy, the warrior faces the ghosts he called, and chokes and squeezes and beats, every hit brutal and decisive, carefully leaning forward, just to bounce back the next second, anticipating every reaction of the electronic organism filled with humming and buzzing. And suddenly someone is singing, a radio, a tape, the voice of gods? Background noises interfere, the big calm, tired zapping through channels, click, click, click, game over. … skrev Franziska Mucha.

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Del to av programmet presenteres av Kristin Andersen. Sammen med Håvard Skaset blir det god, gammaldags renessanseimpro på blokkfløyte og nylonstrenger.