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Norwegian articles on Motorpsycho translated to english will be published this week as a build up to the release, on my blog: http://evilcityblog.blogspot.com/
Jeannette is sitting in a mountain of cardboard packages right now, wondering how the Hell she's going to get them all to the post office tomorrow… Go stickpeople, you can do it!
Dutch distributor Konkurrent (http://www.konkurrent.nl/index.html#verwacht) has it listed for the second of may. Strange. I decided to pre-order from Stickman, i want to take the risk of having to wait that long. I have a feeling this is going to be a fantastic record (again).
Motorpsycho
Roadwork vol. 4 – Intrepid Skronk
RCD2110 / RLP3110
EAN: 7033662021109 / 7033660031100
This is the latest installment in Motorpsycho's ongoing series of live documents "Roadwork". It was recorded across Europe over a three-year period spanning 2008-2010, and is the first live record released featuring the Snah/Bent/Kenneth line-up of the band. As finding a complete show fit for release proved difficult, and modern technology makes it real easy to fake a chronology that would work well from a listeners point of view, "Roadwork vol 4: Intrepid Skronk" is a collection of moments from the last several tours Motorpsycho's undertaken since Kenneth Kapstad joined on drums in 2007, and features material from all phases of their career.
The previous installment in this series, "vol 3: the four norsemen of the apocalypse" – released as part of the “Haircuts†DVD in 2007, was a recording of the Snah/Bent/Geb/Baard line-up of the band recorded at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in 2003. It documented a band disintegrating from ceaseless touring and ever increasing differences of ambition: flaming out, but still bravly trying to – and in parts actually managing to – connect with the muse. Let's just say the tension is tangible.
This is a different cup of tea. This is a living, breathing muscle-car of a rock band in full flight, stretching the limits of their imaginations (and sometimes the patience of their audience!) by going some place new as often as possible – creating a new collective identity for themselves and the reimagening the material in the process.
The focus of the two volumes – and the series as a whole – is the same though: the improvising rock band. The versions of the songs contained herein all have one thing in common: they are all really different from the studio incarnations of themselves. “All is Lonelinessâ€Â, an acoustic five minute hymn in its original state on “Demon Box†(1993), is here an eighteen minute electric behemoth sloutching towards …eh, Haarlem (?) to be born anew. The somewhat stilted orchestral psych version of “Landslide†from the 2002 “Phanerothyme†album, has become something altogether more organic and jazzy here, and “Arnie Hassleâ€Â's kozmic kayaking escapades from last years' “Heavy Metal Fruit†had grown into epic proportions by the time it hit Leipzig last summer. It's this kind of reinvention that is the focus of everything going on here, and although the adrenalin wins out in places and the kinetic energy the boys amass sometimes becomes almost too much for them to handle, the power trios' antics makes for an exciting listen. Riding the tiger indeed, the band sometimes tethers on the brink of fusion, jazzrock, and other 'unentartete' forms, but mostly manages to rein in the beast on the right side of taste. Mostly.
“Intrepid Skronk†is therefore an apt description of this music, and if that doesn't scare you off and you keep your ears open, you might discover something in these grooves that you never thought a rock record would provide.
Oh, and the Dutch are just great most of the time!
Bob LeBad
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[Thanks to C. K. J.]
So it is the Leipzig version of Bombproof-roll. Great. I've listened to it a lot last year.
And that's an interesting and somewhat mysterious statement from Bob, about the Dutch…
Harry (looking forward as always and hoping for a mail-delivery this friday)
The songs of rw4 are recorded in Leipzig, Bremen, Milano, Dresden, Haarlem and Cologne.
I am so happy to have "my" Kill Devil Hills and Alchemyst combination from Cologne 09 on it!
That doesn't make sense. If both Kill Devil Hills & The Alchemyst are from Cologne 09, then there's one city too many in that list. Unless one of the songs is a combo of 2 different performances…
I hold it in my hands. Sometimes it´s great to spend some time as a non-professional music-journalist.
It doesn´t say which song was recorded in which city. But it says
"featuring various leipziger, bremer, milanese, dresdner, haarlemser & koelner"
I somehow knew they would feature a song from Dresden! I attended Bremen, Leipzig, Haarlem and Köln (if it's the 2009 concert). Cool!
i doubt that, bob wrote: "It was recorded across Europe over a three-year period spanning 2008-2010, and is the first live record released featuring the Snah/Bent/Kenneth line-up of the band."
Hmmm – if our notes above are correct, both AIL and LANDSLIDE must be recorded in Dresden. That doesn't fit – besides KDH / ALCHEMYST are from Bremen AND Cologne). Looking forward to having the album and some "private time" at hand soon
Well,
– Bombproof is from Leipzig '10.
– Loneliness is Haarlem '09(on the Haarlem bootleg it segues into Cornucopia, a long segue though. They kept that segue).
– Wishing Well is from Milan '09 (there actually is an audience vid of this one).
– Landslide is from Dresden '08.
– KDH is from Cologne '09 (compared the bootleg version)
– So The Alchemyst must be Bremen '08 (simple elimination method :lol: )
Does that look sensible? :lol:
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