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Holy cow! I just found the poster up in the attic, along with some other old gems I’d completely forgotten about. The poster and the concert ticket read «Felix tirs 5. mars», which indeed dates the poster to 1996.
Thanks for the enlightenment, Rolf! I’m a bit confused now. The poster does indeed look AADAP era, but for the reason mentioned above I’m 99 per cent sure I got mine one year earlier. Sorry if I’m wrong – and hope you find yourself another one, Hercules!
Oh, wow! I used to have one, too, remember sneaking out a late winter night in Lillehammer to grab it from a wall. I actually think this one is from the Blissard era, because when AADAP came out I had moved out of town (and missed out on that year’s gig at Felix).
It’s kind of interesting to see Bent’s statements on the matter over the years. From «we could have made Demon Box 2, but that would be the easiest thing in the world» (from 1994ish) and «every album is a counter-reaction to the previous one» (from late 90s and onwards) to «we tend to dig deeply into things for 2-3 albums, and then we’re done with that» (recent years). The last really radical change of direction and way of composing from one album to the next, I think, was with Little Lucid Moments. But within the «frames» of what they’ve been doing since 2008, they’re still able to surprise me at least (the single didn’t at all, as I’ve said before). Not by going trance or reggae or any such, but simply by making awesome new stuff within those frames. I dont’t love it all to death, but then again neither did I 20+ years ago.
Ehm, where was I? I think I was trying to say that us old psychonauts are kinda used to drastic changes from one year to the next. I don’t really think we’ll have much more of that, but of course: they’re more than welcome to surprise me in that department as well. And yeah, changing the drummer from time to time honestly seems kind of necessary in retrospect.
Rain Song, Ten Years Gone and Kashmir. They’re all in there! No ripoffs, but definitely and tastefully present. From MP’s own catalog I hear echoes of Triggerman (groove), Ratcatcher (melody), Gullible’s Travail (groove) and probably more, but again, no self-plagiarisms. Except for a couple of tracks that feel like what an AI would have produced if you fed it with the latest 5-6 MP albums and had it make songs. Love the album, and N.O.X. just leaves me speechless. I mean, what the bloody hell? Must be something in the water at Ocean Sound Recordings. Or maybe not, I actually drink the same water (I can almost see the studio from my house).
This is actually from a documentary about Svartlamon that was aired on NRK back in ‘95 or early ‘96. Quite possibly an «U» production, yes. Two songs from that performance were used, the other one was Sonnyboy Gaybar – I sure wish they had included that one as well on the DVD. Apart from the tusslin’, I don’t recall any other MP content in the documentary except a b/w still photo of Geb in his apartment, posing with two or three banjos.
Edit: The documentary was called «Rivende utvikling – eller ruskende galt?» and was aired on December 19th, 1995. Apparently it was made available in the NRK archives in 2015, but now it’s gone again. Damn, I’ve wanted to watch the whole thing again for nearly 25 years, and I missed out! :evil:
Edit 2: typos
Thanks, otherdemon!
I just remembered that Bob originally posted it on motorpsycho.no, so it’s probably somewhere in that news archive, too.
Quote:NOK 2577,-I see what you did there! :STG:
Fantastic stuff, Flu! I sure wish I wasn’t broke. Btw, I seem to rember it being possible to rewatch the animated short somewhere. Is it still out there?
I will, as always. Come to think of it: to me, just about every single and the majority of the albums MP ever released have been slightly disappointing at first listen since … hmm, Another Ugly EP? :lol:
The bassline is kind of similar, apart from that I don’t hear much of it.
And now for my two cents: I know it’s just a single and I have no idea of what the album will be like. And yeah, the single is nice. BUT: I’m already waiting impatiently for whatever will follow the «GullvÃ¥g trilogy». This song is, to me, no surprise in any way, and sonically – if not thematically, lyricwise – could have easily been from any album of the trilogy. Which of course is part of what makes it a trilogy in the first place, along with the themes and the cover art (being no big fan of HÃ¥kon GullvÃ¥g doesn’t help me). The song is fine and I like the shifts and blabla, but … I don’t know, is it the production that bores me a bit? Or that Snah over the last years seems to be happy with playing guitar almost exclusively? I miss his occasional pling-plong on Rhodes, mandolin, fiddle and whatnot. Also, I definitely miss the unpredictability Geb brought to the table. Throwing in a banjo towards the end of Heartattack Mac? Sure, why not? You just made a bunch of oddballs on some instruments we can’t even spell? Cool, let’s work on this this one and this one a bit and use the rest for another 5-track EP.
Oh well, I’m sure The All is One will be good and might even take me by surprise in some way or another, but the single sure didn’t. But that’s ok, now I’ll give Begynnelser a spin and (im)patiently wait for their next musical detour or shift of focus.
Oh man, that’s sad news.
Beside his co-work with Vegard & co on these pages he should also be remembered for maintaining the fabulous (now long defunct) mpfamily.net, keeping track of ongoings in the extended Motorpsycho family – side projects, associates and whatnot for a few years. Sorely missed, but those years of archival work are still available via the Wayback Machine. RIP, Torsten. :MPD:(Edit: I do of course remember that certain people from the good, ol’ community have carried on that «family torch» for quite a while in various forms, but they’re fortunately still with us. :wink: )
A strange loop, indeed.
Ah, DDU in the Opera. Johnny Heartfield’s notes on the cheap stage props and «costumes» reminds me what a shame it was they didn’t take the Spinal Tap potential to the max by having a miniature model ship lowered onto the stage. That alone would have made the show worthy of a DVD release in my book.
