Tangle Edge - Tarka
Delerium Records DELEC CD 065
Release Date: 30th June 1997
Tangle Edge are:
* Ronald Nygard - Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Moog, Marimba, Wood and Bones, Bells, Chinese Gongs in Water, Electronics/ Instrument Treatments
* Hasse Horrigmoe - 6 String Bass, Guitar, Fuzz Bass, Bells, Moog, Triangles, Tibetan Bells,Finger Cymbals, Twin Bell.
* Kjell Oluf Johansen - Drum Kit, Marimba, Chinese Gongs, Bongos, Kalimba, Prepared Cymbal, Metal Plate, Talking Drum, Tube in Water, Cylinder-Shaped Wood Blocks.
Recorded and mixed at Tangle Edge Studios, Narvik.
Mostly engineered by Ronald (A few overdubs by Kjell and Hasse).
Edited by Hasse in NRK Studios, Oslo.
Editing Engineer: Jan - Inge Sommerseth.
Produced by Ronald, Hasse and Kjell.
Cover Art by Hasse Horrigmoe.
Photographs by Grethe Einarsen.
Thanks to:
* Jan - Inge Sommerseth - Equipment, Promotion.
* Morten Qvam - Roadie, Promotion & Enthusiasm.
* Skjalg Kristiansen - Roadie.
* Terje Nesje - Printing Equipment (Promotion).
* Richard Allen - Advice & Interest.
Tangle Edge, Boks 589, 8501 Narvik, Norway Phone/Fax +47 769 44845.
Mail Order: Floating Art, Boks 589, 8501 Narvik, Norway.
Information-Magazine: "The Dream Box", c/o Jan-Inge Sommerseth, Helgesensgate 8, 0553 Oslo, Norway.
TARKA
"All emerged beyond the hills of inhibition and currently operating organically towards perceptible existence."
Reviews
* Expose, Winter 1998.
* Audion, July 1997.
Expose
Always of interest, the Norweigan trio Tangle Edge have been around for quite a while now, putting out great instrumental rock. "Tarka" is a worthy comeback from a band we haven't heard anything studio-wise from since the belated "Eulogy". The band is still a trio and this album seems to be more like "In Search Of A New Dawn" than "Eulogy" with an equal tradeoff between ethnic tinged and acoustic oriented soft pieces, and those ripping jams with tons of guitar soloing. I do lament the fact that Tangle Edge don't find a fourth member, as on "Eulogy" the addition of sax and flute was a good idea. At times, when the band goes into a long jam, the bass lines can get fairly repetitive, it's like you're waiting for that fourth melodic or rhythmic line that gives it something else to listen for. Ronald Nygard fills this in sometimes, especially when there is both an electric and acoustic playing simultaneously - these parts are absolutely beautiful. Nygard is certainly one of the best guitarists of the current progressive scene, his playing is as sublime as some of the masters. Yeah, I like it - a lot in fact, the more I listen to it the more I uncover. It's their best in many years. Mike McLatchey.
Audion
It seemed to take almost forever, but here at long last we have a new Tangle Edge album! Another superb slice of ethnic spiced noodling from those maestro's of bleak northern Norway. Ah, and what a wondrously crafted music, full of complex patterns of entwining guitars, with Arabic and jazzy inflections, notes pulled out of the ether, all fusing organically abreast nimbly crafted rhythms. Yes, it was well worth the wait, for a music that stands out of time, familiar (many themes were first presented on the mammoth Entangled Scorpio Entrance) yet fresh and different. Oh, and don't worry about there being thirteen tracks, though they're in there somewhere, they're not easy to identify as the whole album feels like one grand opus - Solorgy delight!
Tracklist:
1. Vata:Nadi
2. Stygian Walls
3. Yatantah - Part 1
4. Yatantah - Part 2
5. Yatantah - Part 3
6. Canopeus
7. Hesperus
8. Cinta
9. Spirea
10. Durra Durra
11. Verbina
12. Eidolon
13. Vata:Kala
All compositions by Nygard, Horrigmoe and Kjell, except 1 & 13 by Nygard/Johansen and 8 &11 by Horrigmoe.
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