Winther, Terje

Artist: Terje Winther
P: 2011
WintherStormer has specialized in making improvised woodwork music to high acclaim. Electronics and acoustics blends in their music, and forms and patterns emerges like the warm wind exposing shapes in the glacier. With this new release the band wanted to lift music with analog modular synthesizers to new territory while staying true to their own roots.
WintherStormer is music without borders and identities. A music which oscillates between some very daring psychedelic moments and beautiful electronic passages, which are situated in the era of Schulze and Ashra Tempel. Music for very curious and risky ears!

Artist: Terje Winther
P: 2007
Norwegian quartet Wintherstormer must sure as hell make the pillars of heaven shake whenever the electrical arcs of their synths brave the frigid air. Led by mainman synth artisan Terje Winther, this mesmeric group, with a mere two recordings to their credit (minus an official live CDR), are poised to become one of the prime flag-bearers of the aught’s synth/sequencer paradigm. With Redshift on indefinite hiatus, only colleagues Airsculpture and Radio Massacre International can mark out similar territory; that aside, the quartet manage a calamitous, incomparable noise.
On Woodwork, synths breathe fire as sequencers tumble down their scored mountainsides like molten lava. A keen experimentalist propensity informs the group’s artistic bent, as vital an element in their make-up as the instruments they employ: “Musical Equitation Extracted from Firelogs” employs weird whispered voices, snatches of synthetic musique concrete, chattering percussives, siren-like synth wails, and demonic bursts of spectral electronic Ephemera in a wild concoction recalling David Vorhaus’s White Noise as much as TD’s Zeit.
The over half-hour “Monochrome" is a stunning tour-de-force that encompasses Reichian tinkertoy perambulations, morose blocks of synth, weeping mellotrons and processed flecks of errant guitar strain, a bracing display equaling the finest moments of its Teutonic forebears.
All music recorded composed, performed and produced by WintherStormer in January 2007
Terje Winther - analog synthesizers and sequencers
Erik Stormer - analog synthesizers and sequencers
Atle Pakusch Gundersen - guitar, electronics and voice
Geir Marthin Helland - drums, percussion and burning campfire