Very Friendly #1 - Textura

The first release in Komplott Maginot Series is certainly inspired: the project pairs a comic book by self-proclaimed 'non-musician" Ronnie Sundin (and mini-poster showing Edgard Varése and Pierre Schaeffer in 1954) and a seven-inch single by Lasse Marhaug whose connect up with the first of the comic's three stories. Sundin's drawing style may be crude by Marvel Comics standards but what it lacks in refined technique it makes up for in charm. The autobiographical stories document three real-life events: Sundin's first meeting with Norwegian noise producer Lasse Marhaug in Trondheim in 1998; the semi-scandalous presentation of Edgard Varése's Desérts in Paris in 1954; and a concert performed by Throbbing Gristle at London 's Cryptic One Club in 1978. The comic panels of Marhaug and Sundin generating room-clearing noise using pedals and contact microphones dovetail perfectly with the two-part single “Trondheim Tapes Revisited.” Six collage-styled minutes of mangled speaking voices, ear-piercing screeches, unearthly convulsions, coughs, splatter, feedback, and fireworks is more fun than adults should be allowed to have so act fast before the 300 copies vanish.