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Ergo

About Me

Full-lenght debut album, "Mountaineering" available from Metronomicon Audio now!
Ergo - Dilettantes and jew's harp players from Sissyfus on Vimeo .

You can buy ”Reclaim the Mall!” directly from the Metronomicon Audio Cd-store or from Cdbaby by clicking on the album thumbnail.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/07/2006
Band Website: http://www.metronomiconaudio.net
Band Members: Marius Ergo
Influences: pine trees, little snippets of conversation that you pick up as you pass someone on the street, single malts, panter'n, folk musics I haven't heard yet, the view from my kitchen window, ouzo, death, heartbreak, love
Sounds Like: everything else
Record Label: Metronomicon Audio
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Mountaineering is out! + video

Mountaineering was released in Norway today. Let's see if anyone takes the bother of listening to the depressing thing.Also, there is a new video. It is for the tune Dilettantes and Jew's Harp Players...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:55:00 GMT

Mountaineering / gigs

My debut album, "Mountaineering" will be out in Norway on feb. 23rd. The tracklist is as follows:1   Dilettantes and Jew's Harp players2   Mt.3   Birds on Every Bough4   Developers! Developers! Develo...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:32:00 GMT

Last night with The Megaphonic Thrift...

...was a pleasure. They are such a flawless congregation of humans.Do pay them a visit: .. http://www.myspace.com/megaphonicthrift 
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:56:00 GMT

Shows in Berlin

I will be playing two shows in the capital of hippnes and cheapness this autumn. They are going down at Cake and Coffee Rec. (30.10.) and Valentin Stüberl (31.10.). The first is with a band called The...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Oct 2008 11:38:00 GMT

"Regions of Delight" soon to be released

I have just finished the second in my trilogy of 3" CD-Rs. It is called "Regions of Delight" and is something alltogether different than "Reclaim the Mall!". It consists of four quite dark and minimal...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:19:00 GMT

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Quest of The Quakers

´tis once again being the season, I have recorded a new christmas carol for the annual Mikronomicon holiday compilation. I think it is going to be called "Lick Off The Kitchmas" but as of now the titl...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 08:53:00 GMT

Plans

They change all the time, don't they? Initially I was planning to keep recording stuff myself. I had it all mapped out. I'd set up some mics in my father's living room, so I could document the sound o...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:26:00 GMT

G3 with Rhys Chatham

I'm very honored to be playing with Rhys Chatham this friday (the 10th og august) at Blå in Oslo. The piece we are going to play is Guitar Trio originally written in 1977. Despite its name the piece w...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:13:00 GMT

Hotness

Summer has embraced Oslo like a sweaty latex glove. Somehow it inspires activity.Upcoming stuff:Another one of those 3"cdrs - the second installment in what could become a trilogy of minis. (Trilogys ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:34:00 GMT

Wire credentials

Reclaim the Mall is reviewed in the latest issue of English music magazine The Wire. Wire scribe Byron Coley says: "This Norwegian has a firm if wobbly grasp on homemade pop majesty" Whatever that mea...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 04:15:00 GMT