Supersilent (the
name, by the way, derives from a logo on the side of a truck spotted in Oslo) was quick to build a reputation as one of Scandinavia’s most viscerally exciting concert acts.
There is a dangerous unpredictability about their music, a sense that anything
can happen. All parameters are open. From moment to moment, they can touch on
elements of hardcore noise, imply industrial soundscapes, recall Miles at the
Fillmore or Stockhausen
in Donaueschingen, or play the most delicate and filigree
‘ambient’ sound-washes. There is a savage beauty in this music, with
lyricism and disruptive fierceness counterbalancing each other. In brief,
Supersilent stretches definitions of jazz to near breaking point, yet at the
same time its members’ improvisational skills are finely honed, all four
players and Sten/Deathprod must be considered a player, too, not just the wild
card - know how to listen, how to react and interact. And if jazz can still be
considered the ‘sound of surprise’ then Supersilent fulfils the description.
TOURDATES: 5-11 OCTOBER 2009/ November 23-28 & Winter-Summer
2010
