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Snah is obviously preparing for the possible accoustic album in appearance also. Without beard, mustache only, and receding, if long hair, putting on a few corona kilos he reminds me strongly of middle-aged David Crosby

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I hate streaming from a philosophical and an ecological standpoint*. Of course I'm grossly exaggerating – but I don't want to live in a world where tools or gadgets are digitally communicating around me or even behind my back – they might even conspire against me . Of course I'm old-fashioned – but the digital madness is going to get us all these days.

So streaming as a last resort only, pleeze!

* Of course producing another plastic disc & package only makes sense ecologically if you don't throw it away next year, but keep it all your life and bury it in your casket under your dead body in the end – which most of us Psychonauts will do, I suppose

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@ Kid A: From a commercial point you might be right, though I hope not. The streaming madness has gotten most of us already – and I at least love holding a well-designed package like "Hair Cuts" in my hands.

Most of us psychonauts aren't the 17 year old fulltime-streaming media-stupid juvenile type anyway, so let's have a media for the gerontonauts!

Following this line there shouldn't be any vinyl records either, let alone CD releases.

Next I'll buy a Tesla that automatically drives me to the next available Motorpsycho gig in China or New Foundland while playing my recent MP favourites (reading out my mind, of course) and deciding whether to smash the kid on the road with the hiphop music on his headphones or the granny with the schlager music shopping bag! (Rant….)

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Looks like a good receipt for generating outstanding Motorpsycho shows: Lock them up in the rehearsal space, allow 5-10 gigs per year maximum, and only in Norway in limited and/or increasingly weird surroundings with an audience between 50-200 lucky people.

Just guessing how to make this work for us non-Norwegian psychonauts. Probably rent a small venue in a central area for a week? Somthing like the Gong Unconvention in Amsterdam Melkweg in 2006?

Btw: this calls for another massive DVD release. Think of all the stuff shelved – starting from Unicorn at Oslo opera and ending just here. Probably call it "Beards"?

[Johnny_Heartfield]

Great stuff – thanks to all involved.

I really like those shorter MP festival gigs – though they're in most cases over after 90-100 minutes. Forces them to concentrate, think about a really powerful, if short setlist that shows the band at its contemporary best, seguing songs into each other even more than usual…

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R.I.P. online-Monster!

"Um die Menschheit vor weiterer, exponentiell zunehmender, Dummheit und damit einhergehender Selbstzerstörung zu bewahren, bleibt nichts anderes mehr übrig, als das Internet komplett herunterzufahren, entweder bis Normalität einkehrt, oder noch besser, endgültig, für immer, damit die Menschen sich daran erinnern, wie es ist, in der Realität zu leben. "

Perhaps you are right. Nevertheless: Keep on writing!

[Johnny_Heartfield]

Prog Magazine 121 (Excerpt):

"With the band unable to tour, they’ve been pouring their energies into working their way through a backlog of songs that have been waiting to be hammered into shape. “We did a little rough count of the demos a year ago and we had 70 songs, I think,” says Sæther. Some are 20 minutes long, others around two minutes, but there’s a wealth of unreleased material, a situation that Sæther blames on their 2019 album. “I think The Crucible fucked us up a bit,” he says, “because that was only three songs, not the usual 10 that you’re used to getting rid of. We got a bit constipated, so now there’s enough music for another four [albums], I guess. The key is to not ever stop writing, never say no to the muse when she comes knocking and just document whatever it is that comes. Then when you have the time and possibility to work it out, you can put it out of your head and down onto a hard drive and free up more space for even more songs.” What all this means is that, even as Kingdom Of Oblivion is still fresh from the oven, Motorpsycho are already busy recording in their rehearsal space.

“Now it’s 18 songs and the longest one is seven-something minutes so it’s kind of normal, almost,” says Sæther. “I still haven’t wrapped my head around quite what it is yet and we don’t know what we’re going to do with it. It’s enough material for two albums. We’ll see. We haven’t started mixing them yet and we don’t really know quite what to do with them but at least we’ve kept busy. It’s a good way to stay focused and it gives us a purpose when you can’t do anything else.”

The direction of the new material sounds like a shift away from the riffage on Kingdom Of Oblivion, with Sæther describing the mood as, “extremely folky, very quiet, very sparse. Most of it is acoustic, there are a few electric guitars in there but not a lot, not a lot of out-and-out rockers, no riffage. All these little things fell out of us and we needed to document them.”

The ever-shifting sound of Motorpsycho is not something that the trio explicitly discuss among themselves. Instead, it’s just a natural part of their creative journey and the expression of a hunger for fresh musical experiences. “Usually, we go through phases where we focus on stuff and when we feel like we’ve achieved whatever it was that made us go in that direction, we naturally go elsewhere,” says Sæther. “We don’t really want to repeat ourselves and we never really had any big hits, so we’ve not had any pressure to repeat ourselves either, which is a big thing. That’s usually what happens, if you have any kind of success, the label wants you to do the same thing again. If you don’t really have any big success, you don’t have that pressure, you’re more free to do your thing. When you release an album a year at least, like we do, it’s more or less documenting the process. It’s just pottering along and then whatever we releasenow is what we were into last year.”

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Lotsa new folky stuff? Hardly any electric guitars? Sounds promising for a change!

Wonder when they did the interview – no mention of Ny Lang or Ny Halflang, talk about songs that last 7 minutes at the most. Obviously developments overtake the "official" MP outings once again

[Johnny_Heartfield]

@ supernaut: Rather some well known Floyd classic: "High time, Cymbaline…."

Not exactly, but almost – as so often with MP.

And Ny Halflang got a little "Greensleeves"-Melody interwoven somewhere near the end.

[Johnny_Heartfield]

Already a few years old, but still "new":

http://homemade-lofi-psychedelic.blogspot.com/2010/09/hlfp-05-space-is-still-place.html

Great free psychedelic sampler(s) for download – homemade, lofi, psychedelic.

(I'm on vol.5 btw.)

[Johnny_Heartfield]

Watching Motorpsycho's Head Cymbalista during LLM is…

incredible? mind-boggling? undescribable?

Very powerful, yet complex drumming. Very physical. Unbelievable…

[Johnny_Heartfield]

Thanks a lot, Terje and Bernie! In a time without regular MP concerts this means even more to us Psychonauts!

[Johnny_Heartfield]

Listening to fearsatan's recording – thank you very very very much! – for the first time I had the impression that the KoO songs don't work live – no comparison to the other older and newer material. Rather boring. Almost another band. Probably a wrong impression because lack of live atmosphere / not being there in person. And probably inferior on a very high level – due to comparison with the stellar material alongside – LLM, Nylang & Halflang, N.O.X. suite. The Lurker might stand out – but sadly the sound is rather distorted in the first place.

Still I feel rather strengthened in my sceptical impression of KoO. I'm very grateful MP are back on a Motorpsychedelic course with both ny songs – really live jewels!

[Johnny_Heartfield]

I promised to end this discussion here. Being personally attacked and insulted by one member here I have long wrestled with myself if it is clever to respond. It probably is not – but I feel challenged to make one last statement.

I do not think it is necessary to stop all political issues and debates in this forum. People have justified concerns over matters that define our lives in general and as psychonauts in special. We many have very different opinions – but not discussing them is not a solution. But when the point has arrived that some members use this forum to spit out their hateful aggression instead of arguing the time has come to stop.

Obviously I have provoked a lot of dissent with my sometimes very pointed posts. This is o.k. for me. I am not the "glass chin" Norman_Gold has called me. I have called a party movement scum because that's exactly what people are who attack others – not just verbally – because of their culture, colour of skin, language, national background and so on. If Norman_Gold feels personally attacked by this – so be it. You speak for yourself. But stop spreading your poison here, Norman! No more hate – there's enough of that in today's world. This is not the place for your bile and your hateful propaganda.

Just stop it! No more…

[Johnny_Heartfield]

@ Boomer: You're absolutely right. I always think I'm so clever and can explain anything – and then I always march into the next troll trap. No more feeding them – I promise…

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