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A short review in Aftenposten yesterday:
Gitaristenes helaften
Mer fra progrockernes overskuddslager
I over 20 år har trønderske Motorpsycho kompromissløst dervet med sitt, på et tosifret antall utgivelser av ymse slag og kvalitet. Fjorårets konseptalbum TDDU var et høydepunkt med sin ekstremmiks av rock, prog, støyjazz og strykere. Dette er, som bandet sier, "annen musikk" og ikke like spennende. Fem låter fra hard rock via reale prog-partier til renere pop, dominert av gitarer i fritt spill. Snah får musikalsk besøk av svenske Reine Fiske fra Dungen. Selv om ting til tider kan føles noe stillestående, er det en fryd å høre gnistrende samspill midtveis i 17 minutter lange "Ratcatcher". Best er likevel den avsluttende popflørten "The afterglow". Peker den mot neste?
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I still haven't heard the album myself, but I'm heading for Bergen in a couple of hours, and will probably hear some it live tonight.
Dagbladet is rather satisfied with the album. 5/6
http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/04/12/kultur/musikkanmeldelser/musikk/anmeldelser/motorpsycho/26622150/
Stickfrau om Twitter: New Motorpsycho album, "Still Life With Eggplant", has been announced!
From http://www.stickman-records.de/:
Motorpsycho is back once again with a new album, this time with the great title of "Still Life With Eggplant". Compact and presenting the band from their rockin' side, it also features some amazing guest guitar work from Swedish musician Reine Fiske (Dungen, etc.). A European tour will be following directly after the release on April 12th, and the first confirmed dates can already be found on our tour dates page. Reine will be joining them for these dates, so we can look forward to seeing some more magical chemistry happening onstage!
The album will be available on CD, LP and digitally as usual.
This looks promising: February 27th, the author Johan Harstad will discuss his Blissard book with Snah and Bent at Litteraturhuset, Oslo.
I don't know if this has been mentioned somewhere, and I certainly don't know if this belongs in this thread, but anyway:
At Oslo Jazzfestival there will be a double-header, in Oslo domkirke, Friday August 17th: Ståle Storløkken solo + Snah solo. (More info will appear on this page within a week or so, it seems: http://www.oslojazz.no/programNO.php?artistid=16&eng=)
"an I guess one is enough"
sterosofa, sorry for nit-picking, but the word is called "and", not "an". :oops:
That four-star Mojo review in full:
Modern day Norwegian psychsters Motorpsycho reached a career peak with their last album, the fantastically named Heavy Metal Fruit. Taking its name from a lyric in Blue Oyster Cult's apocalyptic tune, Me 262, the album rippled with post-Deep Purple dynamism and jazz inflections. The latter are given full and further rein on this 2-CD set, the music for which was commissioned in 2010 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Molde International Jazz Festival. Teamed with keyboard player Ståle Storløkken and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, the power trio sculpt a phenomenal album which cuts across rock, jazz and neo-classical music with gleeful abandon. From volcanic guitarmageddon (Hollow Lands) to moments of grand ambition (the 10-minute plus swoop of Into The Gyre), this is as bold and as progressive as rock gets.
(Review by Phil Alexander)
Supernaut: like I said earlier, I probably should have moved around a bit. Mainly for my own enjoyment, but probably also, as you point out, to make sure that I (for once) knew what i was writing/talking about. But my legs are old and weary, so I decided to stay put.
And it turns out that my ears must be old and weary, too. OtherFool: We must have been standing very close to each other – I was standing on the floor, right in front of the gallery.
It's Sgt. Pepper Time:
It was twenty years ago today that I saw (and heard) Motorpsycho for the first time. Together with two flatmates I went to their show at Hulen, Bergen. There were around fifty in the audience at the start of the concert, around half of us stayed to the end. My two flatmates didn't enjoy it too much, but I was hooked. Over the years I've been to around forty MP-shows, and even if their pop trilogy bored me, and even if I lived for nine years in Volda, where they never played during those years, and from where it was always a bit of distance to the places they actually did play, and even if becoming a dad seven years ago made it even harder to go see them, they are still my favourite band.
I don't go to shows too often these days, but I now live in Voss, which makes it slightly easier to see Motorpsycho and other bands. I will continue to do so, even if the show in Bergen was a rather mixed experience, as I've mentioned in the Bergen thread.
Kulturguffen – that's me. The sound really annoyed me, and quite a few of those I talked to after the show. From what BT and OtherFool say, I probably should have moved around a bit, to see if it was better elsewhere.
And OtherFool – I agree that they sang quite well.
Yes, Rockefeller March 97 was a good one. The report I wrote for G-35 (published here: http://motorpsycho.fix.no/havetravel/reports/reports/rocke97.htm ) certainly suggests I was pleased. (Chas O. -> Kjesso)
Radka Toneff at number one. http://www.dagbladet.no/2011/11/10/kultur/musikk/radka_toneff/18976042/
Just in case anybody's still interested: I mentioned earlier that Falck Forlag is publishing short books about the top ten albums, and that there will also be a booka with the short essays on the other ninety albums. It looks as if I got it slightly wrong, according to the link below there will be ten books published, presumably one on each of the top nine albums, and one with the others.
So it's official: Lobotomizer didn't make it.
Now it's just getting silly.
I haven't read today's Morgenbladet yet, I'm in a hotel in Stavanger, but according to Robert Hoftun Gjerstad, a rather frustrated journalist in Aftenposten, Timothy's is not even in the top ten. He's written a short article about how unbelievable it is that a glorious album that contains the two best songs ever written (his words – Leave it like that [!] and The Golden Core) isn't rated higher by other musicians.
I'm not even sure if I want to know what album is top of the list now. By looking at the musician's top ten, that Morgenbladet keeps publishing, it wouldn't surprise me if a-has debut album, Hunting High and Low, will top the list. Hopefully Juba Juba, another album on very many top ten lists, will be rated higher.
