On Red Edge, Norwegian underground jazz legend Frode Gjerstad teamed up with aggro noise/laptop conjurer Lasse Marhaug (Jazzkammer, Origami

Republika, DEL) for a crushing bout of live electronic noise quake and powerful free jazz. Frode Gjerstad's free sax work streaks neon/chrome tracers across

Marhaug's rumbling, dynamo distortion crunch and static squeak. Gjerstad has a heavy resume, playing with the likes of Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, and

Sabeer Mateen, amongst others, and his emotive/violent squelch n' melody interplays well with the sometimes subtle, often blistering deep-earth drones, space

glitch, and crackling thunder of Marhaug's electronic onslaught. At times Red Edge has the noir feel of a William Gibson novel, perfectly

fusing the melodic saxophone runs with circuit-driven filth. A smokin' fusion of heavy jazz improv and brutal electronic noise.