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hans fjellestad

snails are sexy

About Me


hello. hans here... i make live music and recordings and films. i live in los angeles and play+record+shoot+screen a lot of different places in the u.s., canada, europe, australia, japan, mexico, brazil... solo and sometimes also with cool players like muhal richard abrams, george lewis, peter kowald, lé quan ninh, lisle ellis, haco, yoshimi, money mark, david scott stone, audrey chen, baiyon, thomas dimuzio, uchihashi kazuhisa, marcos fernandes, mike keneally, donkey, trummerflora, nortec collective. these days i mostly make music with analog synths and vacuum tubes... or maybe homemade stuff or piano or theremin or church organ or sounds with my voice. been doing it for a long long time. and i made the docu film MOOG and also FRONTIER LIFE and i'm supposed to direct a norwegian black metal movie (not a docu) called LORDS OF CHAOS. hopefully start shooting that soon. don't ask me when exactly because i don't know exactly. i do like it when people come to my shows and buy my cd's and dvd's and when magazines say nice things about me...
"A master of analogue synthesis." - The Wire
"Adding fractured melody and obscure structure to dissonant, dislocated fragments of sound, Fjellestad seems to have uncovered a new way of hearing the world." - Mojo
"The soundtrack for the occasionally rain-soaked streets of L.A. after dark, when the city hums and grinds behind glittery scenes." - XLR8R
"Fjellestad encapsulates the ethos of 'man and machine' perfectly." - DJ Magazine

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/31/2005
Band Website: hansfjellestad.com
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Record Label: Accretions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

donkey drops stone

OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE: JUNE 19Living on opposite coasts the past few years, LA synth player Hans Fjellestad and NYC sound manipulator Damon Holzborn were mostly working on their various solo projects....
Posted by hans fjellestad on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:58:00 PST

donkey live in june... nyc, bmore, dc, philly

DONKEY are LA synth player Hans Fjellestad and NYC sound manipulator Damon Holzborn, building intensive noise structures for over 15 years. "El Burro" is playing New York, Baltimore, DC & Philadelphia...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:52:00 PST

some SRS reviews... (a few new ones)

HANS FJELLESTAD - SNAILS R SEXY (alp041)"Based on Hans Fjellestad's eye-goggling tongue-lashing cover shots, Eastern medicine practitioners might worry for his health, but the L.A.-based musician film...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:59:00 PST

moog on sho

U.S. Television premiere:MOOG is playing on Showtime this month...check out the schedule...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:25:00 PST

snails released...

HANS FJELLESTAD - SNAILS R SEXY (alp041)SNAILS R SEXY is a dark, lush world of sound coming out of the contemporary Los Angeles noise scene, with nods to early 1970s krautrock experiments, Sun Ra-insp...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:32:00 PST

THE HANSU & MARCO SHOW! in Japan

THE HANSU & MARCO SHOW!JAPAN TOUR 2006THE HANSU & MARCO SHOW is the magic music session from California! HANS FJELLESTAD and MARCOS FERNANDES in Japan again with Moog synthesizer, live percussion and ...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:24:00 PST

new release w/ hans, haco, jakob riis & marcos fernandes

"haco hans jakob marcos"Marcos Fernandes - drums/percussionHans Fjellestad - synthesizerHaco - voice/toys/electronicsJakob Riis - powerbookIt may seem unlikely for these four intrepid musicians from d...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:14:00 PST

some KLH reviews...

Here are some early reviews of KOBE LIVE HOUSE, my new solo cd...available on accretions and on iTunes"Los Angeles based musician and film maker Hans Fjellestad may have earned more column inches rece...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 01:10:00 PST

Japan Tour 2005 Report

JAPAN TOUR 2005 Took off from LAX on Thursday, December 1... and three bad movies and half of Godfather III later... arrived at Kansai International. Took a shuttle to Kobe and immediately went to ...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Mon, 19 Dec 2005 07:29:00 PST

THE WIRE - Wiretapper 14

The current issue of THE WIRE (December 2005) features one of my tracks on the WIRETAPPER compilation cd, track 12: HANS FJELLESTAD / WRIGGLING CALL FROM 33 (ACCRETIONS) Musician, artist and filmmak...
Posted by hans fjellestad on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 06:26:00 PST