Hebbex D’expectatio Expectata is a Norwegian, Stavanger-basel experimental trio, featuring cult heroes of the local left-of-center scene in the last thirty years – vocalist Helge Thornes, notorious key figure in the 1980s psychobilly outfit The Flintstones, dancehall scenes of 1990s, a producer, translator, and writer of the prose book I Buddhas Avtrede (In the Buddha’s Cloakroom); turntablist and sound artist Kjetil Brandsdal (Noxagt, Ultralyd, No Balls), runs the screen-printing and design company Drid Machine and the record label Drid Machine Records; and his long-time collbborator, Thore Warland on electronic drums (of Staer, Golden Oriole, Tørrfall, and Plan Affine).
Kva er Vald is Hebbex D’expectatio Expectata’s debut album. It offers eight merciless and eclectic pieces that blend Thornes’ urgent vocal delivery, with dadaist pathos, Brandsdal’s noisy, manipulated found music, and Warland’s heavy, polyrhythmic-industrial pulses into klaidescopian, deeply subversive, brilliant textures. The absurdist, eccentric, multi-lingual lyrics use themes from the unfinished novels of British 19th-century illustrator Aubrey Beardsley, Roman tragedies, and Norwegian newspaper journalism.
It sounds like nothing else, strange, disorienting, but delivered with an intoxicating, irresistible rhythmic drive. This trio will make you move and dance long before you understand what it is all about.
Eyal Hareuveni
Helge Thornes (vocals), Kjetil Brandsdal (record players, sound effects), Thore Warland (electronic drums)
