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@Punj Lizard If Idles, Black Midi, Astrosaur, Smerz, Ultraflex and Valkyrien Allstars is what Bent listened to I really have no idea what the album is going to sound like….
Same thing with me only with the Pulsator box. A nice little email chat with Cecilie on motorpsycho@online.no and – voila! – there it was in my mailbox a week later. She explained that notifications from Paypal didn't always get through to them. So it seems it's the evil corporate Paypal b***ards to blame and not the mighty Motorpsycho organisation!
Don't know about Håkon Gullvåg's religious allegiances, if any, but he has painted a few altarpieces in new churces in Norway, such as this one
Håkon Gullvåg's altarpiece in Seegard church
so he is obviously working with religious symbols, motifs and themes in many contexts. Fits in well with the musical and lyrical grandiosity in the trilogy, me thinks, even if MP don't make Christian references as such.
Ole Paus & Motorpsycho on NRK2
In case you have nothing better to do this evening – The Nidarosdomen gig is shown again on NRK2 @ 22:40 CET tonight, and available on the NRK website later.
It will be shown on Norwegian television NRK2 Saturday 15 August @ 22:40. It will also be available on their (NRK) website. Highly recommended!
Time to update this thread, isn't it? Seems there will be a Ole Paus & Motorpsycho gig at Nidarosdomen, Trondheim as part of a rejigged Olavsfest on 1 August this year. Streamed to a digital device near you for free. Have a look here.
Fair to say the former members of Pestilence have embarked on different musical journeys. This is gold.
Lol well I guess Paus has sold the grand total of about three records abroad so far in his fifty or so year long recording career so I suppose his record company didn't quite see the need for international distribution…
The crux of it, in English:
– both parties were tricked into it, being told that the other wanted a collaboration…
– a very enthusiastic Ole Paus!
– he found writing music fun again, after thinking he had made his last album six years ago (he's 72)
– lyrically dark but hopeful, with a bit of angry old man thrown in (classic Paus, it seems)
– he feels it has just begun, and that it opens up new possibilities
– strongly hints that he wants to work more with Motorpsycho: "I am willing to go far to experience one more round with you (talking to Bent) and see what this can mean to a life. Because this have been big, very big."
This collaboration is perhaps a bit difficult to understand for non-Norwegians, but I find it pretty awesome, Ole Paus being a bit of an elder statesman in Norwegian music, very much respected throughout. Busloads of integrity and a strong will to do his own thing and to say it as it is. As Bent says in the interview, this is the only person from the old Norwegian acoustic scene they would ever want to work with.
22.02.2020 – NO Hamar, Hamar kulturhus (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
23.02.2020 a 17:00 – NO Oslo, Operaen (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
23.02.2020 b 20:00 – NO Oslo, Operaen (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
02.05.2020 – DE Berlin, Desertfest (along with Amenra, Papir, Minami Deutsch, Black Rainbows,…)11.06.2020 – NO Bergen, Bergenfest (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)13.06.2020 – NO Skien, Skien live (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
19.06.2020 – NO Horten, Vervenfestivalen (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
20.06.2020 – NO Friluftsgalleriet, Bø i VesterÃ¥len (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
31.07.2020 – NO Trondheim, Olavsfest (Manic Street Preachers // Ole Paus & Motorpsycho)
01.08.2020 – NO Trondheim, Olavsfest (Ole Paus & Motorpsycho) – free streaming
Same date, additional show @ 17:00
And a teaser.
