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Sehnsucht
12+ albums
noiseexperimentalambientindustrialAvant-Garde
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Two bands exist under this name 1.) experimental ambient/noise project from UK 2.) noise-rock/krautrock band from Russia 1.) ANDREW LILES (NURSE WITH WOUND, THE VORTEX VAULT, CURRENT 93) one of the world’s most respected experimental musicians has joined forces with MANIAC (SKITLIV, BOMBEROS, ex-MAYHEM), one of the icons of Black Metal, to work together on SEHNSUCHT, the ambient/noise project set up by the vocalist following his departure from MAYHEM. Originally a three-piece, comprising MANIAC’s fiancée, GALLHAMMER’s VIVIAN SLAUGHTER, on bass and saxophone, and SKITLIV guitarist Ingvar Magnusson, LILES will be handling FX and electronics, and working together with MANIAC on the sound design. The decision to work together came last week when MANIAC, on a month-long working holiday in the UK, went to LILES’ West Yorkshire home to master the forthcoming SKITLIV album “Skandinavisk Misantropi”, and to discuss the eventual mastering of the SEHNSUCHT album. “We were listening to the very rough SEHNSUCHT tracks and ANDREW started making suggestions, and rapidly became very involved in the whole thing. By the end of a couple of hours, I was completely blown away by what he was doing, and by the end of my stay we had laid down additional vocals and a lot more electronics, and we were both convinced that we wanted to expand this project together, and eventually take it live,” explained MANIAC. “I have long-admired ANDREW’S work and even though on the face of it, we appear to com
