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The Death Defying Unicorn
''The Death Defying Unicorn'' is the fifteenth full-length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho (band), Motorpsycho, released on 10 February 2012 via Rune Grammofon and Stickman Records. It was released on double CD and double 12" vinyl. It is a collaboration with Ståle Storløkken, and also features Ola Kvernberg, Trondheimsolistene and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. Track listing Compact disc Disc one: # Out of the Woods (''Storløkken'') – 2:40 # The Hollow Lands (''Sæther'') – 7:36 # Through the Veil (parts I & II) (''Ryan/Sæther/Storløkken'') – 16:01 # Doldrums (''Storløkken'') – 3:06 # Into the Gyre (''Ryan/Sæther'') – 10:22 # Flotsam (''Storløkken'') – 1:33 Disc two: # Oh, Proteus - A Prayer (''Ryan/Sæther/Storløkken'') – 7:35 # Sculls in Limbo (''Ryan'') – 2:21 # La Lethe (''Storløkken/Sæther'') – 7:53 # Oh, Proteus - A Lament (''Ryan/Sæther/Storløkken'') – 1:04 # Sharks (''Ryan/Sæther/Storløkken'') – 7:56 # Mutiny! (''Ryan/S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motorpsycho (band)
Motorpsycho is a Norwegian rock band from Trondheim. Their music can generally be defined as progressive or psychedelic rock, but they also mix in elements from alternative, jazz, post-rock, pop, country and many other musical styles. The members of the band are Bent Sæther (born 18 February 1969, bass/vocals), Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan (born 31 December 1969, guitar/vocals) and Tomas Järmyr (drums). Until March 2005, Håkon Gebhardt (born 21 June 1969) was the band's drummer. From December 2007 to May 2016 Kenneth Kapstad was the drummer of the band, being replaced by Tomas Järmyr, who joined in early 2017. Biography Formed in the late 1980s as an alternative metal band (they picked their name after seeing the Russ Meyer film of the same name as part of a Russ Meyer triple bill – there was already a band named after ''Mudhoney'' and a band named after ''Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!'' – the other two films on the bill), Motorpsycho soon developed a unique blend of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ståle Storløkken
Ståle Storløkken (born 22 February 1969 in Dombås, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (keyboards, organ and piano) and composer, known for collaborations with artists like Terje Rypdal, BigBang, Supersilent and Motorpsycho. Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) He is married to the Norwegian singer Tone Åse. (in Norwegian) Career Storløkken was educated on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1988–90), and subsequently did his postgraduate there too. During the studies he started the band Veslefrekk together with fellow students Arve Henriksen and Jarle Vespestad (Helge Sten joined the band at a later stage). In 1997 the name of the band changed to Supersilent. They have released six critically acclaimed albums on the label Rune Grammofon. From 1995 he played in the trio BOL along with his wife Tone Åse and Tor Haugerud. Dagbladet.no (in Norwegian) Storløkken has been active in many contexts, both as a band leader and member, for example ''The Stoken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Initially termed "progressive pop", the style was an outgrowth of psychedelic bands who abandoned standard pop traditions in favour of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz, folk, or classical music. Additional elements contributed to its "progressive" label: lyrics were more poetic, technology was harnessed for new sounds, music approached the condition of " art", and the studio, rather than the stage, became the focus of musical activity, which often involved creating music for listening rather than dancing. Progressive rock is based on fusions of styles, approaches and genres, involving a continuous move between formalism and eclecticism. Due to its historical reception, the scope of progre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stickman Records (indie Rock)
Stickman Records is a Montreal-based Canadian house music record label of Premier Muzik International Corporation. History It began as a Toronto-based independent electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ... record label.Billboard - 23 June 2001 p.78 "... groundbreaking, early-'90s club-style compilation series like "Techno Trip," "X-Tendamixx," "Electric Dance Floor," and "Dance Mix," ... Stickman Records co-owner Greg Zwarich agrees: "What kid today wants a guitar or a set of drums?" Compilations *''Stickman - Musica'' (1996) References External linksOfficial website* Canadian independent record labels Quebec record labels {{Canada-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rune Grammofon
Rune Grammofon is a Norwegian record label founded in 1998 by Rune Kristoffersen. Rune Grammofon's reputation for lovingly issued experimental electronic music, jazz, and improvised music by Norwegian artists has grown over the years with its artists being featured heavily in magazines such as ''The Wire'' and '' Plan B''. The label is home to the widely respected improvisational group Supersilent as well as the solo work of its members including Deathprod and Arve Henriksen. Other notable releases are by Shining, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Jono El Grande, Skyphone, Alog, Phonophani and Food. In 2000, the label signed a distribution deal with ECM, which increased the label's audience considerably. This deal came to an end early 2005. In November 2003 the label celebrated its 30th release by issuing a set that included a two-CD compilation and a book that displayed each of Kim Hiorthøy's highly praised digipak Optical disc packaging is the packaging that acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim
Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim (born 1969) is a Norwegian record producer, musician and composer from Sarpsborg, Norway. He plays guitar and keyboards. He is also the co-founder of Propeller Recordings, which has released albums for the artists Hanne Hukkelberg, Superfamily, Katzenjammer, Moddi, Team Me and Highasakite. He has also composed film scores for Norwegian pictures. He studied at Norges MusikkhøgskoleNorwegian State Academy of Music, and co-founded the band Locomotives with Georg Buljo in 1991; he was in the band until it dissolved in 2001. He then began producing records, and has from his studio Propeller Music Division produced several primarily Norwegian artists' albums, including Odd Nordstoga ('' Luring'' (2004)), Gåte ('' Iselilja'' (2004)), Marit Larsen (''Under the Surface'', (2006), '' The Chase'' (2008) and '' Spark'', (2011)), Motorpsycho (''Heavy Metal Fruit'' (2009)), Åge Aleksandersen ('' Furet værbitt'' (2011)), Ida Jenshus ('' Someone to Love'' (2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Metal Fruit
''Heavy Metal Fruit'' is the fourteenth full-length studio album by the Norwegian band Motorpsycho, released on January 18, 2010, via Rune Grammofon and Stickman Records. It was released on CD and vinyl and is their third album over the course of the last two years. Track listing # Starhammer (feat. The Electric Psalmon) (12:57) # X-3 (Knuckleheads In Space) / The Getaway Special (9:03) # The Bomb-Proof Roll and Beyond (for Arnie Hassle) (6:01) # Close Your Eyes (3:39) # W.B.A.T. (9:43) # Gullible's Travails (pt. I - IV) (20:42) ::I. Eye All-Seeing ::II. The Elementhaler ::III. Circle ::IV. Phoot's Flower (a Burly Return) Tracks 1, 3 & 6 by Ryan/Sæther Tracks 4 & 5 by Sæther Track 2 by Kapstad/Ryan/Sæther Personnel *Bent Sæther – vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards *Hans Magnus Ryan – vocals, guitars, keyboards *Kenneth Kapstad – drums with: Mathias Eick – trumpet on track 2 Hanne Hukkelberg – vocals on tracks 2/4/5/6 Kåre Vestrheim Kåre or Kaare is a given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ola Kvernberg
Ola Kvernberg (born 16 June 1981) is a Norwegian jazz musician known for his virtuosic string swing violin playing and his international performances. He is the son of traditional musicians Liv Rypdal Kvernberg and Torbjørn Kvernberg, and the brother of traditional musicians Kari Kvernberg Dajani and fiddler Jorun Marie Kvernberg, and grandson of the fiddler and traditional music composer Peter L. Rypdal. Kvernberg studied classical violin from the age of nine, and won 3rd prize in a great classical violin competition in Italy when he was fourteen. Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian) String swing with ''Hot Club de Norvège'' Kvernberg was born in Fræna. He began to play folk music at an early age and was classically trained through the municipal music school. His first record release was with the band ''Fear of flying'' in 1995. Two years later, when he was 16, he began playing jazz, and was educated on the Jazz program at '' Trondheim musikkonservatorium'' (2001–03). Kv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra
Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (TJO) (established 1999 in Trondheim, Norway) is an orchestral project based in Trondheim, and closely related to both the Midtnorsk Jazzsenter (MNJ - Mid Norwegian Jazz Center) and Jazz Line at the Trøndelag Conservatory of Music ( NTNU). Biography During the 1990s the orchestra was a plain conservatory-band (Konsen Big Band). In 2000 the name of the band was changed to TJO. An important feature with Trondheim Jazz Orchestra is the band's flexible and varying size crew. The orchestra works on a project basis and performs mainly commissioned works of selected composers. TJO has collaborated with Norwegian composers such as Erlend Skomsvoll, Eirik Hegdal, Vigleik Storaas, Jon Balke, Knut Kristiansen, Geir Lysne, Terje Rypdal and Bendik Hofseth, as well as with international soloists such as Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, New York Voices, Birger Sulsbruck and Joshua Redman. In 2001 TJO toured Norway extensively with Chick Corea, a cooperation based on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2012. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information for deaths of musicians and for links to other music lists, see 2012 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date Albums 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
