MOE WITH METTE RASMUSSEN AND IKURO TAKAHASHI - Painted

"The Norwegian experimental band MoE, comprised of bass player and vocalist Guro Skumsnes Moe and guitarist Håvard Skaset, teamed up with sax hero Mette Rasmussen and legendary Japanese drummer Ikuru Takahashi to record Painted. Takahashi’s freestyle drumming propels the in-your-face, intense attacks of this quartet, with Skaset, completely blurring the distinction between raw punk energy, pure noise, and free jazz meets free-improvisation. Skumsnes Moe’s fierce wordless shouts, chants, and thunderous bass slaps into ecstatic eruptions. Rasmussen injects a loose sense of coherence into the free-associative, kind of freak-out pieces."