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Hvizdalek / Nergaard / Tavil / Garner

Juxtaposition [CASSETTE]

Hvizdalek / Nergaard / Tavil / Garner: Juxtaposition [CASSETTE] (Nakama Records)

Sonic sources of a wide variety of timbre, rhythm and tone, mixed with voice, feedback, even bird sounds, make up the strata of this intriguing album from Oslo Improvisers Agnes Hvizdalek (voice), Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (electric bass, electronics, field recordings), Utku Tavil (snare drum, no input mixer, sampler), and Natali Abrahamsen Garner (voice, electronics).
 

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Agnes Hvizdalek-voice

Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard-electric bass, electronics, field recordings

Utku Tavil-snare drum, no input mixer, sampler

Natali Abrahamsen Garner-voice, electronics

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Label: Nakama Records
Catalog ID: NKM012MC
Squidco Product Code: 26111

Format: CASSETTE
Condition: New
Released: 2018
Country: Norway
Packaging: Cassette
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Artist Biographies

"Agnes Hvizdalek is an improvising musician originating from Vienna's experimental music scene and is based in Oslo and Vienna. From an early age, she has dedicated her life to new music and her fascination with the human voice. She celebrates this in her abstract vocal music, for which she has received international acclaim. Always exploring new horizons, Hvizdalek has engaged in numerous cross-disciplinary collaborations merging voice and visual and performance art, dance, theatre, film, writing."

-Agnes Hvizdalek Website (http://agneshvizdalek.at/)
1/26/2026

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"Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard (born 20 November 1989 in Tranby, Norway) is a Norwegian Jazz musician (upright bass & bass guitar), known from bands like Monkey Plot, Mummu, Ronja and Ich Bin N!ntendo.

Nergaard is a graduate of the Department of improvisation and jazz at Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (2013). His musical genres span over musical landscapes from improvised music, to rock and noise, often influenced by different kinds of world folk-music, and always trying out new approaches to create exciting new combinations.

Nergaard collaborated on the album release Ich Bin N!ntendo & Mats Gustafsson (2012) including Joakim Heibż Johansen (drums) and Christian SkŚr Winther (guitar), featuring Mats Olof Gustafsson (baritone saxophone). Within the trio Monkey Plot including Christian SkŚr Winther (guitar) and Jan Martin Gismervik (drums and percussion), he released the latest album Lżv Og Lette Vimpler (2013).

Mummu is a new Norwegian musical band comprised from the female duo Skrap including Anja Lauvdal (Korg MS10), Heida Karine Johannesdottir Mobeck (tuba), and the male trio Ich Bin N!ntendo, including Christian SkŚr Winther (guitar) and Joakim Heibż Johansen (drums)."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Skavhaug_Nergaard)
1/26/2026

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Utku Tavil, born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1988. Improviser, laptop musician, drummer, video maker, co-founder/co-direktor of Multiversal; an itinerant non-profit DIY organization facilitating encounters of the active musicians, collectives, performers focusing on the independent challenging forms.

-Discogs, plus PC-PDX.com (https://www.discogs.com/artist/1632335-Utku-Tavil)
1/26/2026

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Natali Abrahamsen Garner is a Norwegian vocalist, a member of groups Juxtaposition, and Propan.

-Squidco 1/26/2026

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