Biography
Svalastog is the solo project from Per Henrik Svalastog.
Per Henrik Svalastog comes from Tromsø in the far north of Norway(hometown of Biosphere, Alog, Bel Canto and Röyksopp etc.) and is one of the veterans on the Norwegian electronica scene. He has released three albums as part of the duo Information and a lot of 12"ers and remixes under various aliases since 1990. Apart from Information's “Biomekano” release, he is probably best know in the Rune Grammofon catalogue for his stunning Spunk remix on “Filtered By Friends”. He has worked around the world as an architect, musician, DJ, stoneworker and performance artist.
This project was started with his first album “Silencer” released by Beatservice in 2005 and called “a work of hushed splendour” in The Wire. Here it has been developed further into near perfection.
Woodwork in 2006, released by Rune Grammofon.
True story, as told by Per Henrik Svalastog himself: “I found an old Norwegian zither laying around my grandfather´s barn in the mountains. It appeared that he had been a fiddler before he lost all his fingers at the sawmill and converted to become a hardcore pietist setting down a prohibition against music, dancing, card-playing and television. That made me want to convert as well, from digital medias to real playing. From electronica to folk music. Back to the sources. Heritage and environment.”
So it goes that Per Henrik is playing and improvising on archaic folk instruments like the ram's horn and harpeleik, which is a Norwegian zither. He is then processing it all in the computer, resulting in a detailed and accomplished but soothing and quite hypnotic music. Taking the music out of the city and into the Norwegian woods, and not the arctic regions, as is the popular image if you come from Tromsø and is associated with electronic music.
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