KOEFF

is Johanna Rosenqvist (b 1971), currently living and working at home in KLAUSTROSTUDIO, Malmö, Sweden.

There she is making a great deal of noise by vacuum cleaning, food mixing or sometimes standing screaming by her old KORG synthesisers – always seriously amplified and heavily leaden with delay and distortion provided by her handy little colourful guitar effect boxes.

KOEFF came to light as a solo project while Johanna was also involved with the hard core disco industrial, power electronics duo INSTITUT (now a solo project by Lirim Cajani). Musicwise she is proud to be an autodidact, educated only on the city streets of Malmö or in the crowded smalltown communal music studios of Mjölby and Norrköping.

The first recorded tracks were as a member of INSTITUT: “Yashin” and “Monza”, on the CD-compilation “Estheticks of Cruelty” released by Cold Meat Industry in 1999. Several records, both cds and vinyls were to emerge by INSTITUT on CMI and other labels. “Offter” by KOEFF appeared on Segerhuva compilation “Sweetness will overcome” in 2004. By KOEFF has since been released a self-titled cassette on Vemod Records (2005), a cd with live-recordings called “Performance Archaeology” on Firework Edition Records (2006). Rosenqvist has also worked with Peter Andersson (of Raison d’Etre, Bocksholm …) in a project called Cataclyst, a long time ago. For complete discography, latest news and other useful information, please go to www.klaustrostudio.com (or send an e-mail to koeff-at-klaustrostudio.com )

When performing live KOEFF is usually playing about with some sort of household equipment and is known to take the opportunity of using vocal cords or other body parts from friends like the High Heel Sisters, Martin Bladh, Hans T Sternudd, Myling, Guds Söner or whoever happens to be in the audience.

Links

http://www.klaustrostudio.com

http://www.algonet.se/~tankred/fer.html (Firework Edition Records)

http://www.vemodrecords.se

http://www.segerhuva.se

http://www.coldmeat.se