Stine Janvin & Morten Joh unveil "Or Gare," a stark and deeply atmospheric excavation of funeral-processional music from Ryfylke, Norway. The release marks the debut collaboration of both artists, recasting a near-forgotten tradition into ghost-lit contemporary form.
Rooted in the bygone custom of "Liksong" (literally “corpse song”) that was once sung by small groups of singers who guided rural funeral processions, Janvin and Joh tap into its uncanny, unbearably slow intervallic structures, reanimating the practice as a kind of ancient electronic microtonal devotional music. Voices and vocal effects, synths and melodic percussion seep into the cracks between major and minor, and the whole thing carries the creaking weight of ceremony, yet glows with an otherworldly modernity, as if a forgotten liturgy had been retuned for a dimly humming chapel of circuits.
The duo, with Janvin on vocals and electronics and Joh on synths, tape machines, and percussion, also enlisted Lucy Railton (cello on track A1) and Jules Reidy (electric guitar on track A3).
Recorded and mixed by Morten Joh at Stille Studio / Consulatet, Stavanger, Norway, 2024–2025.
Mastered by Helge Sten at Audio Virus Lab, 2025. Produced by Stine Janvin & Morten Joh.
Housed in a 4-page unipak gatefold, screen-printed by Drid Machine.
Futura Resistenza, 2026