Personal Best
Issue 10
It probably goes without saying that here at Soundohm, we’re huge fans of all things Lasse Marhaug. Since the early 90s, he has remained one of the most radical and ambitious creative musical voices working in Norway, spanning the fields of noise, free improvisation, jazz, rock and, metal, producing a remarkable catalog of solo work as well as collaborations with Joe McPhee, Paal Nilssen-Love, C. Spencer Yeh, Okkyung Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke, Mats Gustafsson, and a slew of oth…
Issue 9
The 9th issue of Lasse Marhaug's fanzine Personal Best. 100 pages, full colour offset-printed with glued spine. Nearly three years on from the last issue, Marhaug conducts in-depth interviews with: Christian Blandhoel, Martìn Escalante, Russell Haswell, Campbell Kneale, Tine Surel Lange, Greg Pope, Joe Potts (and Los Angeles Free Music Society), Mariam Rezaei and Edward Sol.
Issue 8
The 8th issue of Lasse Marhaug's fanzine Personal Best. Features in-depth interviews with: Rachel Shearer, Peter Rehberg, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Benjamin Nelson, Peter Brötzmann, Jana Winderen, Otomo Yoshihide and Ghédalia Tazartès
Issue 7
Topics covered include: frogs, location recordings, fake synthetic music, stepping off stage, confusion, playing naked, nihilistic anal punk, to be the drunk Klaus Schultze, less is less, being self-contained, grouping of sounds, sound maps, playing 18 gigs in 30 years, marine biology, moving the fingers very fast, the Shinjuku 60s art scene, doing interrail tours in the 1970s, knowing communists, lack of protest, secretly buying Pink Floyd records, karaoke with CC Hennix, incoherent note…
Issue 6
Published January 2016. Format: 210 x 285 mm. 100 pages. Colour. Interviews with Skaset (Norway), Lucas Abela (Australia), Marcia Bassett (USA), Crys Cole (Canada), Joe McPhee (USA), Sodadosa (Indonesia), PBK (USA).Topics covered includes: meeting Sun Ra, starting to play the sax at 28, Forbidden Planet, The Nihilist Spasm Band, PO, poerty, Chicago, UFO sightings, science fiction, politics, stagnation, the scary middle class, hatred of reverb, changing guitar strings in 23 seconds, that Manowar …
Issue 5
Fifth volume of this luxurious fanzine edited by Lasse Marhaug. Excellent overall work as usual, the right dose of anecdotes and information. Published February 2015. Format: 210 x 285 mm. 100 pages. Colour.Fanzine for noise, music and the cosmic soup. After a year of silence Personal Best returns with its fifth issue. The approach is again conversation-based in-depth personal interviews with artists from the wide field of experimental sound and visual arts.Issue 5 features: Anla Courtis (Arge…
Issue 4
Interviews with: JIM O'ROURKE Shinjuku-resident on his long night, sorcery and mic placement. ÅRABROT Norse noise rockers exiled to the deep forest of Sweden talks about that Hamsun feeling. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN How to run a successful mailorder for weird music and make French audiences get up and walk around. KOBI From the deepest Norwegian underground polar soundscapes – the first proper interview with the unique Kai Kobi Mikalsen. MARCO FUSINATO Mass ink implosions, guitar confessions and …
Issue 3
third issue of Lasse Marhaug’s titanic self-published journal of “noise, music and random chaos. Exclusive interviews with : Moe. Norway's Guro Moe on her various projects, ice swimming, playing loud and what's wrong with Norwegian music. Carl Michael Eide. Norwegian guitarist and vocalist from Aura Noir, Virus, Ved Buens Ende and more metal bands that you can think of. Being inside that groove, not wanting out. The Menstruation Sisters. Multi-disciplinary Australian artist Nik K…