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Kobi "Urstoff"
2xLP / CD

On the 10. October 2009 we had a recording session in Brugata 3A, Oslo
we recorded the hole day, and in the evening with audience.
The whole album was improvised and recorded live, with no overdubs.

Kai Mikalsen - synths, objects & effects
Fredrik Ness Sevendal - guitar & effects
Martin Powell - synth, guitar, theremin & effects
Petter Flaten Eilertsen - guitar, synths, objects & effects
Mats Monstad - drums & percussion
Per Gisle Galåen - organ & effects (sides c and d)


 It's produced by Kai Mikalsen
and mastered by Helge Sten.
Cover art and design by Kai Mikalsen.

Released by End of huM,
in co work with Kranium.

The dbl-LP or CD can be ordered from:
To looop mailorder

The Norwegian take on Kosmische and space-rock is well manifested by Kobi on their Urstoff (ENDOFHUM 13) album, which also exists as a double LP in a gatefold sleeve. We heard from Kobi before in 2009, but the acousticks release was mainly a compilation of droney music collaborations put together by the main man Kai Mikalsen. The band here are a quintet playing with a replete cosmic-rock plateful of instruments, including many guitars, organs, synths and groovular 1970s effects pedals buckling under the pressure of many Norwegian feet; and I’m pleased to note familiar names Petter Flaten Eilertsen and Fredrik Ness Sevendal in the band. Not a man among them but doesn’t also play in a side project, and if you can trip the names of Dip Apple, Ka, Love Hz, Phonoloid and Slowburn off your tongue at a cocktail party in Hampstead, you’ll be esteemed a hipper dude than most. The overall sound of the album is distinctive and spaced-out fer sure, but if you’re seeking more development and dynamics from your quota of avant-rock, you may be baffled by the oblique and meandering nature of these performances. But we should expect no less from a member of the Origami Arktika collective, of course.

Ed Pinsent - The Sound Projector