Moha! – “One-way Ticket to Candyland ” – [Rune Grammofon]

MoHa! Is a Norwegian noisemusic project by two vital young audio extremists. Anders Hana is all about making his guitar sound most un-guitarlike, using it instead to unleash a wide variety of industrial-strength noises. He is also doing something with keyboards and drum machine, but I couldn???t really tell you what it is. His partner is Morten J. Olsen, a drummer with fantastic technique who works in a savage demolition-derby style and adds glitchy computer sounds. The music is start/stop/start with each track having many changes in direction, nearly all of them noisy and violent. We get brief respites from the onslaught during the second half of A3 and the first half of B2. The final track is a quiet, ambient piece that brings us back down to earth after our wild ride.