The prolific Norwegian ampdrone-improv duo of Sindre Bjerga and Jan Iversen have been cranking out super limited CD-Rs hand over fist lately; amazingly
enough considering their output, everything I've listened to so far from them has been pretty great. Working from the raw materials of rumbling, amplified
guitar noise and manipulated electronics, their releases have mostly consisted of live, in-the-moment recordings that capture them summoning up huge room-
filling clouds of heavy free-drone that frequently form into Earth 2-esque slabs of crushing subsonic amp drone. Cosmic Surgery is part of
the latest batch of CD-Rs from Housepig, and comes in a creepy, skull-covered envelope printed by Seattle lino-block artist Nic Schmidt that also includes a
silkscreened foldout insert. For close to half an hour, the disc unfolds three tracks that reveal stygian, paranoid crypt-drones, sheets of sizzling
electronic tracers, and those deep, rumbling waves of distorted guitar feedback that we love so much. Bjerga /Iversen create a psychedelic, abstract
soundworld that shares properties with everything from charred electronic ambience, chorales of damned eyeless monastics and the clang of a deformed
grandfather clock ("Transmitting Into The Void") to glitchy circuit crackles sparking over dense slabs of organic freeform dronedoom ("A Condensed History Of
Failure") to damaged tendrils of grinding loops of pneumatic Industrial death skuzz heard through the veil of a heavily medicated state of consciousness
("Beauty Spot"). Limited edition of 100 copies.