Triple Music takes one on a trip into textural detailed, but fragilely ebbing & flowing electro-acoustic improv. The three-track album utilizes sound loops and pre-recording elements to which the three members of Muddersten arrange in a largely eventful, lightly glitching, though fairly mellow/pared-back manner.

To date  Muddersten has four albums to their name- these start with 2016’s live vinyl release Muddersten, Wolf And The Gang – Nonfigurativ Musikk #12. Live På Cafe-M 20. Februar 2016. Moving on to the albums Karpatklokke (2017), Playmates ( 2018), and Triple Music. 

For this album, the lineup was- Håvard Reite Volden - guitar, tape loops, drum machine. Henrik Olsson - piezo, turntable and electronics. Martin Taxt - microtonal tuba and electronics. The three tracks featured have runtimes between seven and twenty-two minutes.

We open up with “Triple Music I” this is the longest track here. It moves from blends of light horn bobs, gentle neck picks, slowly popping electro glitch, and reverb pitch dart. Onto more detailed static play, quirky harmonic twang, on-off beat patterns, and jarring slice, slide, and hiss. Before playing out with a haunting mix of pluck, waver, and light agitated crackle.

“Triple Music II” begins with gentle baying horn blows and circling-to-lightly ringing guitar tones- in time this fades into a faint-like tone churn/ reverb- capturing the feeling of something slowly running down. Later on, we find a shifting sound map of insect-like pitch stretch ‘n’ knocks, reverb glide, ringing tone rising, and blends of murky percussive detail, neck twang/ knock, and static grain popping.

Lastly we, of course, have “Triple Music III”- this is the shortest of the three tracks here, at just over the seven-minute mark. It moves from mixes of hazed strums and vinyl-like crackle ‘n’ pop. As we move on we find more urgent pop ‘n’ crackle, slow moody guitar noodlings, and circling clutter glass, knock, and glitch texturing.

Triple Music is most certainly an album that truly rewards repeated plays. It sits nicely in between being mellow/ atmospheric, and lightly glitching/ taut- which is a difficult, yet wonderful place to be.