Ryfylke is a county deep in the fjords on the west coast of Norway. This is where Stian Skagen and Sten Ove Toft brought to life their experimental duo with the same name. Autumn 2003 they hooked up their gadgets and started an intensive effort to bring their soundscapes out to the mass of starving noise enthusiasts. After several apperances in Oslo and hundreds of hours improvising in their studio, the urge to compile a full lenght recording arised. The record was launched 1st of April 2004.

The Boknafjord is the main seaway to the massive and deep fjords of Ryfylke in Rogaland. Herby the name of their debut album, Boknafjord, the presage of new norwegian noise.

To reveal the sound of Ryfylke, the duo approaches sound with two different methods. Using field-recordings as his foundation, Toft builds up a world of drones and harsh noise by thoroughly crunching the sources to unknown matters; through old cassette players and newer electronic technology.

Skagen work with sounds based on digital and analogfeedback and he is always listening for faults and clicks in his programingenvironment. These sounds are propelled into pure, crackeling rythmical pulses then slowly transformed into subatomic glitches and atmospheric layers of ambientsynths.

When these two outer regions melt into Ryfylke. Their wide specter of sparckeling noise and drones opens a passage to their perseption of electronic currents, pounding explotions and the sound of glaciers slowly forming and revealing submerged depths and vertical rockformations stabbing through still sea.

With «Boknafjord» Skagen and Toft intends to focus on a overall composition rather than individual tracks. With this approach, time reveals the depth, detail and variations of Boknafjords soundscapes. Giving the genre Noise the fresh breath from the north that it deserves.