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My favorite moments:
1) A monumental The Wheel blew my mind .. sad about the ending being cut short, but still..jeezz!
2) The Golden Core is always a thrill – the segment with Snah being the lone sound and then the entire band kicking back in – truly unbelievable!!
3) Giftland was an amazing redevelopment of an amazing song – Grateful Dead meets the greatest band on the planet in 2010!
Even though this wasn’t the greatest gig i’ve seen by the band – that honor goes to the gig at Rockefeller in 95 with a 35+ minute version of The Wheel – it easily places itself in the top three ever.
I paid 700,- for a festival pass this saturday. Invasion and Converge were disappointing and i just saw 10-15 minutes of Altaar (coz i had to take care of my 9 month old daughter). But the gig by MP made it all worth it – AMAZING!!!
You can also pre-order the record from Platekompaniet (www.platekompaniet.no). Looking forward to this new release – got cold, wonderful chills down my spine when i saw the coverart on their website…
Ok, i need to clarify something:
I listened to the vinyl on monday and heard the “fy faen”. I even jumped back an tried to hear what else they said in the background.
[digress: such verbal outbursts are great. I remember “Oh Comely” by Neutral Milk Hotel getting more epic hearing a band members outburst in the background as the song ends]
But, when i listened to my iPod this morning (where i have uploaded the CD version) the song is different – no outburst and with a different ending.
Anyone?
#colinahuevo: The Shining album is f**king amazing! Have yet to hear Jagas new disc.
@Neil Tesor: at the enda of X3, the band stops, Snah(?) says “Fy faen” and then Kenneth start up the beat…
Get ready for a raving review:
This is their best album since “Trust Us”! I like the various styles they try out on the record and even if i rate “Little Lucid Moments” as one of their top 5 records, i still feel that “Heavy Metal Fruit” will be rated as one of their career highlights. The cover outshines all Hiorthøys work for the band since the nineties. It’s a beautiful, dark and cosmic cover – well suited for the space travel the listener is about to embark upon [a modern look captured in timeless essence]
The print of side A is beautiful and takes me back to the first time i opened the Timothy’s Monster LP box. It’s fun, dark and a bit mysterious and will surely keep us fans guessing for symbolism for a long time to come. Well, what about the songs…
Starhammer: A wandering guitar are brutally cut off by one of the band’smore metallic riffs. It’s all rock, but with the groovy undertone we’ve come to expect of the band since Bent and Kenneth seem to have grown together at the hip. The song reminds me of the opening of “Un Chien D’Espace”. But this riff is soon abandoned and is replaced by a beat propelled forward by Kenneth and dressed by slow, jazzy guitar lines from Snah; almost sleepy. Vestrheim complements the sound with careful keys – something he’ll do frequently on this record. The song seems suddenly to kick into gear with the band leaning into the it, but they soon lay back again. But, in the end Bent opens up the bassbeast and leads the band forward with Snah waving beautiful sounds with his guitar.
X-3: this song is a great revisiting of Motorpsychos rock’n’roll past – it kicks off like great rock songs from this band always does. A groovy rhythm from Bent/Kenneth are the rocksteady foundation for Snahs guitar and Vestrheims piano. But, without warning, the song turns on the dime. Suddenly the entire band is backing out a loose jam with Mathias Eicks amazing trumpet on top. It escalates to a free soundscape and then stops, what sounds like Snah exclaiming “Fy faen!” and then Kenneth kickstarts the song again, the rest off the band catches on and they let the song fade out after a few seconds.
The Bomb-Proof Roll And Beyond: It’s once again back to the slow flow of the cosmos – the song starts a groove not too far from the spaced out blues of Starhammer. But that’s only the beginning – it kicks of into space with the band sounding as close to a free-form jam as they’ve been on record before. But they meet up and continue the beat, “round and round and round we go”. It ends with a beautiful acapella harmony outro.
Close Your Eyes: They’ve always been called a great rock band with epic masterpieces like “Golden Core”, “Vortex Surfer” et al. But i feel that their quiet songs have been forgotten. Close Your Eyes is one of their most beautiful – a wonderful piano propels the song forward and with a few taps on the keys it mixes the careful with the heavy – a perfect epic in 3 minutes.
W.B.A.T.: This album never cease to surprise me. This must be one of the most imaginative albums in their career?! Who else than Motorpsycho can follow a straight 3-minute pop song with free form jazz not unlike something Miles Davis did on “On The Corner”? It’s Snah running the show with a great guitar with the rest of the group making up a solid, yet playful, foundation for his fluid runs – Kenneths drumming is always a treat. As this free sound ends, they kick it up with a laidback beat not unlike something Clutch would play in a heavy jam session. The song turns into a beautiful epic rock song that is more of everything we like from the band…
Gullible’s Travails: this year’s suite starts up where “W.B.A.T” lets go: a slow rock song which makes head nod and dreams start. But a few minutes into the song, it shifts with a playful bass beat from Bent and soft vocals. The segments drumlessness sets it loose and makes it light as air. But Kenneth is soon enough back on track and motors the song forward – almost motorik/not unlike “Hallogallo” by Neu! It keeps getting harder and louder as one moves further into the track – a sense of “The Wheel” creeps upon me. Is this part III – “Circle”? As the goosebumps starts me to shiver the band opens up with a beautiful riff and continues the song. The songs main riff ends the song after a few minutes of beautiful dreaming…
All in all: one of the best albums by the band in a long time. I must admit that one can hear the influence of Vestrheims touch and Eicks Trumpet. But i feel that Hukkelberg should be mentioned in particular – her voice is used perfectly complementing the band on several songs.
Well, so long. I have to get up and start it all over again and again and again…
[this review is based on the first listening to the LP, alone in my apartment with a sleepy cat on my lap]
Snah seemed a bit out of place, but he delivered one of the best “one-liners” in the interview – regretfully omitted from the final edit – about the “fleinsoppspillet” Flowers. This was probably omitted due to the fact that the segment about the video gamle Flowers were omitted from the program.
Snah have never been the one to speak up in interviews – when i interviewed them for Panorama it was Bent and Gebhardt who spoke most. But who really want to talk with reporters anyhow – must be much more fun to play music?
Bent was in a good mood and Kenneth seemed amused by the host Lindmo – he kept smiling for himself the entire time. When they prepared for the song, Bent wanted to do a “rock” opening with him and Snah standing on each side of Kenneths drum rise in classic metal pose. But Snah denied with a smile, even though he went into a “artsy” version of the stand later..
I love ‘copia so i was happy to hear it live in studio. It’s not the best sound cos it’s made for TV, but they played with force and lots of volume, so it still felt nice from where i was sitting. When i watched the show on TV, it felt a little out of tune like Elvin wrote, but at the time it felt right…
All in all i was happy – the best band in the land on TV.
@ ivan/rolf: Noe, you’re right of course. It’s a collage on a canvas and then a handpainted logo and Phanerobent on top of it all…
I knew my wife was the love of my life when she gave me this painting as the first gift to me…
[img]http://www.rockensriddere.no/DSC01215.JPG[/img]
Rockefeller is on – 14th october!!!
14.10. rockefeller, oslo
16.10. stavanger, folken
17.10. bergen, verftet
01.11. berlin – lido
03.11. hamburg – uebel & gefaehrlich
04.11. bielefeld – forum
05.11. haarlem -het patronaat
06.11. köln – gebäude 9
09.10. fribourg – frison ??? ( more likely they will play at this day here )
10.11. zürich – salzhaus
11.11. bologna – estragon
12.11. milano – trezzo sull’adda, live club
13.11. treviso – roncade, new age club (TBC)
First impressions are also impressions..
..i myself felt a bit disappointed by some of the tracks, but those bad vibes have disappeared and now i feel the album are one of the most consistent offerings from MP in a long while. I dunno why, but for each spin i get associations to Trust Us. The sound and the tunes makes me think of this album as a “lost disc” from those sessions..
GBD: Ã…h jada – kona er fra østbyen..
..jeg har dessuten god erfaring med veikryss – født og oppvokst i Drammen og gÃ¥tt høgskolen i Hønefoss.. To those without knowledge of the city of Bodø, Keiservarden is an magnificent place just outside the city centre with a spectacular view of the ocean, mountains and the midnight sun. Look at the picture and dream of hearing Golden Core, Vortex Surfer, Little Lucid Moments and your other favorites..
btw – the tour dates are now:
16.10. stavanger, folken
17.10. bergen, verftet
01.11. berlin – lido
03.11. hamburg – uebel & gefaehrlich
04.11. bielefeld – forum
05.11. haarlem -het patronaat
06.11. köln – gebäude 9
09.10. fribourg – frison ??? ( more likely they will play at this day here )
10.11. zürich – salzhaus
11.11. bologna – estragon
12.11. milano – trezzo sull’adda, live club
13.11. treviso – roncade, new age club (TBC)
I’ve yet to see a gig at Sinus – when we’re visiting my wife’s family we usually end up at Kafka..but i’d love to see an extended version of Golden Core during a beautiful night at Keiservarden..in the summer, though..
I live in Oslo and are confident that i can reclaim my spot at the left side of Rockefeller – overlooking the stage – a couple of nights(?) in october.
Is this what Motorpsycho mean? The period between the album release and the tour – The Waiting Game? :MPD:
The first norwegian concert this autumn: Verftet in Bergen at 17.october.
17.10. bergen, verftet
01.11. berlin – lido
03.11. hamburg – uebel & gefaehrlich
04.11. bielefeld – forum
05.11. haarlem -het patronaat
06.11. köln – gebäude 9
09.10. fribourg – frison ??? ( more likely they will play at this day here )
10.11. zürich – salzhaus
11.11. bologna – estragon
12.11. milano – trezzo sull’adda, live club
13.11. treviso – roncade, new age club (TBC)
Can we hope for a full two week tour of Norway before the european dates in november? Crossing my fingers..
Those of you who doesn’t seem to like COTF – what is it about it that bugs you? I agree to a certain extent about the cover – not the best one by Hiortøy. And then the sound – it seems a bit muddy, but i don’t feel that comes in the way of the music..
It would be fun to get some dialogue going on the pros and cons of COTF..
