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The lack of a digital version is a bit of a nuisance, I had to fetch the record player from the basement!
Bringing the record player to work tomorrow will be a bit more challenging though…
Gold edition vinyl arrived yesterday from stickman.
I won't have time for a dedicated listening session until the weekend. Random impressions after playing side 1:
-Loving the artwork! Reminds me of those early 70ies Hawkwind sleeves.
-Production is better than the recent albums
-Vinyl is flat and silent, apart from some tics at the beginning. Those may well be the kind that disappears after a 5-10 plays.
-No information the matrix as to where the records where pressed
Overall, it's the best since HMF.
Pre tour interview Gaffa.no
Talking about adding a fourth guitar/keyboards for the tour – to do the arrangements on the new songs justice.
Oh man, it would be great if they could get Reine Fiske back into the fold. He was a great asset to the band and a fantastic foil for Snah to build off. I thought he functioned really well within the band during the show I saw with him in 2014. He certainly has the skills.
Got the record today, now playing the downloaded wavs since my record player is broken also, but who cares. I'm quite impressed, this is the Motorpsycho I prefer, more rock – less prog. Only two songs over 10 minutes. New drummer is awesome in a more minimal way, total opposite of Kapstadt who usually just played too much (though he's also great of course).
Alain Johannes on second guitar would be nice👌But i guess he's a bit too busy with other projects😂
Motorpsycho: In a special class like rock band
Svein Andersen
Updated: 07.sep.2017 16:40
Published: 07.sep.2017 16:45
This one I did not expect – a masterpiece. A double
Motorpsycho – The Tower
As the years pass. From the start in 1989 and 28 years ahead, it has become increasingly difficult to define Motorpsycho as a band. They are constantly seeking new ways of expressing themselves, thus making it possible to blow new limits for how far they can bring the music.
The Tower is thus an adventurous, unique, epic journey into both known and at the same time new musical landscape.
Out in concert this fall? Here is the overview that tells you who plays where and when.
Simple and complex
This is a masterful epic out of any standard, equally incredibly beautiful in its ending as harsh and hypnotic in its beginning. It will take a long time to cut off its innermost secrets, understand all nuances, or seek to perceive the clues.
The whole thing is unbelievably magnificent progrock, even though the term becomes too narrow.
The trio is free of bombastic self-reliance and unnecessary staffing. They can remind you a bit about both Yes and King Crimson, but perhaps most audio-visual. Motorpsycho withstands any comparison and stands firm on its own legs.
Each of the ten tracks spread over 85 minutes deserves its well deserved place. As the music progresses, you are constantly on the toes, as if any tone, mood swap or rifle has a bad meaning. The excitement is maintained throughout the work.
New drummer, new top
After drummer Kenneth Kapstad joined the band last year, Bent Sæther and Hans Magnus Ryan had to think again. Inn comes new man, drummer Tomas Järmyr, and with one it's as if the band has hit a new creative peak.
It's heavier and harder, but also softer with great ballads and with the closing trumpet, "A Pacific Sonata", "The Cockoo" and "Ship of Fools" they bring us into the kind of dream world. Rock becomes art, and something bigger than the single songs.
For once it's hard to extract a single song, "Intrepid Explorer", "The Tower", "Stardust", "Bartok of the Universe", "ASFE" (A song for everyone) and the other songs have so much self-esteem, energy and drama that it would be sacred to highlight one at the expense of the others. There are very few discs that can be said about this.
A masterpiece
The Tower stands out as a masterful supply, a surprising new masterpiece in a catalog that surpasses most of the time before. Motorpsycho lives up to the term: Norway's most important Norwegian rock band, which never ceases to surprise.
Even in the double album format, they manage to surpass themselves. The vitality has no end and they reflect their contemporaries and its troubled times with exquisite fingertip feeling. It's more than impressive.
(G translate + some edits.)
Danke! Will we meet in November?
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