Bendik Giske

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Bendik Giske is a Norwegian saxophonist and performance artist, living in Berlin. He has released three albums, Surrender (2019), Cracks (2021), and Bendik Gaske (2023) all on Smalltown Supersound. [1] [2]

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Life and work

Giske was born in Oslo. [3] He spent time as a child in Bali. He attended a music conservatoire in Copenhagen. [1]

Dave Segal at Pitchfork wrote that "Giske's approach has more in common with the otherworldly fever-dreamscapes of the late trumpeter Jon Hassell and his young sax acolyte Sam Gendel than with any jazz traditionalists." [2]

John Lewis, writing in The Guardian, describe's Giske's music thus: "Instead of hiding the imperfections, glitches and inner workings of the instrument, he foregrounds them, like a sonic Pompidou Centre. He places numerous contact microphones around his saxophone to amplify the sound of his fingers clicking against the keys and keypads, till it sounds like a typewriter playing techno. He amplifies his own sighs and breaths and puts the sounds through FX units. His playing uses hypnotic repetition and some Albert Ayler-style overblowing freakouts, but Giske also draws from the techniques of the didgeridoo", from his time as a child in Indonesia, from the techno music scene in Berlin, and from queer theory, particularly José Esteban Muñoz's "queer time". [1]

Giske was inspired to make Surrender after a visit to Berghain, a nightclub in Berlin. "Recorded in Oslo with producer Amund Ulvestad, the music is played by Giske alone on his sax. ... The patter of keys being pressed provides the beat, jangling away alongside reverberating sax riffs. Occasionally Giske's voice can be made out, a faint background chant." [4]

On Cracks, Lewis writes that "his producer André Bratten uses the studio as an instrument, exploiting odd resonances and echoes, ... manipulating sympathetic drones and harmonics, creating a spectral shroud around Giske's ecstatic burbles". [1]

Discography

Solo

Albums

EPs

With others

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Bendik Giske: Cracks revi: John Lewis's contemporary album of the month". The Guardian. 27 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bendik Giske: Cracks". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  3. ↑ "Bendik Giske". metalmagazine.eu. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  4. 1 2 Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (25 January 2019). "Bendik Giske: Surrender — atmospheric and absorbing instrumentals". Financial Times. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  5. ↑ "DownBeat Reviews". DownBeat . Retrieved 2022-02-16.
  6. ↑ Pitchfork (28 September 2023). "24 Great Records You May Have Missed: Spring/Summer 2023". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  7. ↑ "Bendik Giske: "Adjust (Lotic Remix)"". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2022-02-16.
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