Fe-mail is a electronics/noise duo consisting of Maja Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord, both known from the anarchistic improv quartet SPUNK.
Fe-mail's music is electronic music based on improvisation with live sampling as well as recordings of their own generated sounds and field recordings. Their music is characterised by the use of old fashioned, analogue electronic and acoustic sound sources such as pan pipes, harmonica, and other underestimated instruments, side by side with computers and samplers. Fe-mail's debut album, the mighty vinyl "syklubb fra hælvete" is re-released on important records in 2004. Fe-mail has been heard and seen at stages and festivals in St. Petersburg, Brussels, Venice, Berlin, Nickelsdorf, Ljubljana, Helsinki and Wels and have toured in USA, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Fe-mail's main collaboration is with the Swedish dancer Lotta Melin. In addition to that, Fe-mail has collaborated with Jaap Blonk, Ingebrigt Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love as well as the Norwegian artist Per Inge Bjørlo, choreographer Odd-Johan Fritzøe, the opera singers in 'Opera i Tiden, choreographer and dancer Maja Delak, x-drummer Manheim from Mayhem, Øyvind Berg from Baktruppen and Lasse Marhaug. Admission $ 10.
US Concert Dates:
September 4 at 8 pm: New York City - Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street, NYC (with Ikue Mori & Zeena Parkins), (212) 358-7504
September 6: Amherst, MA - Hampshire College
September 7: Boston, MA - P.A.'s Lounge
September 9: Oakland, CA - Mills College (with Matmos, Lehn/Schmickler duo)
September 10: Seattle, WA - Wooden Octopus Skull Pfest
September 12: Portland, OR - Berbati's
September 14: Detroit, MI - Behind the Green Door
September 15: East Lansing, MI - Scene Metrospace
September 16: Columbus, OH - Wexner Center for the Arts (with Wolf Eyes)
September 18: Milwaukee, WI - Hotcakes Gallery
September 19: Chicago, IL - Renaissance Society (and daytime lecture at Art Institute)