Motorpsycho "Kingdom Of Oblivion"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Retro Prog, Psychedelic, Hard Rock
Label: Rune Grammofon, Stickman Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: April 16, 2021
Tracklist

1 The Waning (Pt.1 & 2)

2 Kingdom Of Oblivion

3 Lady May

4 The United Debased

5 The Watcher feat. The Crimson Eye

6 Dreamkiller

7 Atet

8 At Empire's End

9 The Hunt

10 After The Fair

11 The Transmutation Of Cosmoctopus Lurker

12 Cormoran

Line-up
Hans Magnus Ryan
Bent Sæther

Tomas Järmyr 
   With
Reine Fiske (Katatonia) 

Description/Reviews:

Kicking off with a familiar riff The Waning Parts 1 & 2 impresses on the listener their talent and ability to still create songs with a great diversity and atmosphere while also hitting you hard where it matters most, your head and your heart. Title track Kingdom Of Oblivion maintains this spontaneity with an interesting and powerful wall of sound. The balance and influence of electric and acoustic stringed instruments on the whole album were used a lot during the golden years of 1969 to 1973. The band take this on board adding light and shade to what’s on display, Lady May 1 being a great example with its folk influenced vocal and acoustic style.

Read the full review by Tim Keppie at thesleepingshaman.com

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Youtube

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Motorpsycho "The All Is One"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Eclectic
Label: Rune Grammofon, Stickman Records
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: August 28, 2020
Tracklist: 
1. The All Is One (8:50)
2. The Same Old Rock (One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy) (5:70)
3. The Magpie (5:36)
4. Delusion (The Reign Of Humbug) (2:44)
5. N.O.X. I: Circles Around The Sun Pt.1 (9:10)
6. N.O.X. II: Ouroboros (8:22)
7. N.O.X. III: Ascension (3:37)
8. N.O.X. IV: Night Of Pan (15:32)
9. N.O.X. V: Circles Around The Sun Pt.2 (5:54)
10. A Little Light (2:18)
11. Dreams Of Fancy (9:36)
12. The Dowser (2:45)
13. Like Chrome (5:04)

Total Time 85:38

Line-up: 
Hans Magnus Ryan - guitars,vocals,piano
Tomas Järmyr - drums,percussion,vocals,Mellotron
Bent Sæther - bass,vocals,guitars,Mellotron
   With
Reine Fiske (Katatonia) - guitar,Mellotron
Lars Horntveth (Jaga Jazzist, Amgala Temple) - guitar,clarinets, saxophone
Ola Kvernberg (Grand General) - violin

Description/Reviews: 

At the center of this album is a long 5 part piece featuring some of the most radical stuff the band has done on record in a while, but if the prospect of a 42minute piece for ballet inspired by paintings, alchemy and the tarot seems too daunting, there is also a handful of losely related shorter songs to get into.

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The Same Old Rock (One Must Imagine Sisyphus Happy)

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Motorpsycho "The Crucible"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Rune Grammofon - MPCD103, Stickman Records - Psychobabble 105
Format: CD, vinyl
Release date: February 15, 2019
Tracklist: 
1. Psychotzar
2. Lux Aeterna
3. The Crucible

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther — vocals, bass, sundry
Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan — guitars, vocals
Tomas Järmyr – drums

Description/Reviews: 

The Crucible starts where The Tower ended, but it soon takes on its own hue, and it is clear that it cannot be called a ‘sequel' as such: this is very much a step further out than anywhere the band ventured on The Tower. While it is broader lyrically speaking, it is even sharper focused musically and, if possible, even more idiosyncratic and insular than ever: unarguably a Motorpsycho album. There aren’t many traditional song structures or pop format platitudes on display, and there is indeed hardly any respect paid to any trad rock song conventions on the whole album, but that’s not really what one listens to Motorpsycho for anyway, is it? From the most Neanderthal of rock riffs to the most rhythmically oblique polytonal solo sections they’ve ever recorded, this album musically seems to sum up the extremes of the band’s current interests and concerns.

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Motorpsycho "The Tower"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Rune Grammofon, Stickman Records (Psychobabble 093)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: September 8, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. The Tower (8:44)
2. Bartok Of The Universe (6:08)
3. A. S. F. E. (6:53)
4. Intrepid Explorer (9:52)
5. Stardust (3:34)
6. In Every Dream Home (8:35)
7. The Maypole (3:39)
8. A Pacific Sonata (15:30)
9. The Cuckoo (7:29)
10. Ship Of Fools (14:41)

Total Time 85:05

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther — lead vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards
Hans Magnus “Snah” Ryan — lead guitars, vocals, keyboards, mandolin, violin, bass
Tomas Järmyr – drums, vocals

Description/Reviews: 

As ever stretching the boundaries of their musical understanding and looking for new ways to express themselves, this is a pretty adventurous album even by Motorpsycho standards. It is easy to hear that both the new environment and the new co-conspirators influenced the band: this sounds nothing like any previous Motorpsycho album! Musically this is in parts the hardest album Motorpsycho has perpetrated in a while, and the material runs the gamut from short and sweet to lengthy and mean – even touching on heavy or stoner rock in places. It certainly is of a rather more explosive nature than most of their last album Here Be Monsters: the sounds are gnarlier and the riffs bigger, and where the last album to some perhaps was a tad too introvert, this album reflects the period it was written and is more concerned with us than me – with changes in society rather than personal issues.  These are strange days, and the lyrics reflect this.

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Motorpsycho "Begynnelser"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Rune Grammofon (RLP2193), Stickman Records (Psychobabble 090)
Format: vinyl+CD+DVD
Release date: June 9, 2017
Tracklist: 

1. Mærrabotn (Fosen)
2. Terje's Sang (Bøla 1)
3. Jaques Tati (Kongensgate)
4. Trylleball (Sannan)
5. Dekdektiven Røker Om Natten (Figga)
6. Taterhjulets Gnaur (Majavatn)
7. Englevinger (Namskogan)
8. Sirkelpust (Jørstadbrua)
9. Satan (Namdalen)
10. Over Nyhavna (Falstadvalsen)
11. Tåke På Fjorden/Rinnan Kjæm (Sør-Beistad) Gutan I Skogen (Sol På Sunnan) Terje's Sang (Bøla 2)

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther - bass, guitar, vocals
Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan - guitar, vocals
Kenneth Kapstad - drums

Description/Reviews: 

The music on this album was written for a project Motorpsycho was invited to be a part of by Trøndelag Teater in early 2015. It eventually ended up as the play "Begynnelser". The band also wrote a lot more during preparations and rehearsals. It was a long process and most of the music was tweaked in a big way to fit the flow and feel of the play. It was also played live every night, so what you would have heard during the performances would in most instances have sounded very different from this album. The music is not sequenced in the order it was used in the play, and a lot of the music that eventually was played in the performances is missing from this album, so this is perhaps best described as 'a version of what it might have been' more than a document of what the soundtrack eventually ended up becoming.
The included DVD contains a complete 2 hour filmed performance of the play for those who want to see it and hear the final and complete music score performed in context. So all in all you get a lot of new, original Motorpsycho music. The play itself is reallly good with great visual presentation including some stunning video work. And English subtitles! The DVD also includes a fine documentary.

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Trylleball (Sannan)

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Motorpsycho "Begynnelser"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Rune Grammofon (RLP2193), Stickman Records (Psychobabble 090)
Format: vinyl+CD+DVD
Release date: June 9, 2017
Tracklist: 

1. Mærrabotn (Fosen)
2. Terje's Sang (Bøla 1)
3. Jaques Tati (Kongensgate)
4. Trylleball (Sannan)
5. Dekdektiven Røker Om Natten (Figga)
6. Taterhjulets Gnaur (Majavatn)
7. Englevinger (Namskogan)
8. Sirkelpust (Jørstadbrua)
9. Satan (Namdalen)
10. Over Nyhavna (Falstadvalsen)
11. Tåke På Fjorden/Rinnan Kjæm (Sør-Beistad) Gutan I Skogen (Sol På Sunnan) Terje's Sang (Bøla 2)

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther - bass, guitar, vocals
Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan - guitar, vocals
Kenneth Kapstad - drums

Description/Reviews: 

The music on this album was written for a project Motorpsycho was invited to be a part of by Trøndelag Teater in early 2015. It eventually ended up as the play "Begynnelser". The band also wrote a lot more during preparations and rehearsals. It was a long process and most of the music was tweaked in a big way to fit the flow and feel of the play. It was also played live every night, so what you would have heard during the performances would in most instances have sounded very different from this album. The music is not sequenced in the order it was used in the play, and a lot of the music that eventually was played in the performances is missing from this album, so this is perhaps best described as 'a version of what it might have been' more than a document of what the soundtrack eventually ended up becoming.
The included DVD contains a complete 2 hour filmed performance of the play for those who want to see it and hear the final and complete music score performed in context. So all in all you get a lot of new, original Motorpsycho music. The play itself is reallly good with great visual presentation including some stunning video work. And English subtitles! The DVD also includes a fine documentary.

Media/Samples 
Trylleball (Sannan)

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Reflections in Cosmo "Reflections in Cosmo"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Instrumental Avant Garde Jazz-Rock
Label: RareNoise Records (RNR073 / RNR073LP)
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: January 20, 2017
Tracklist: 
1. Cosmosis (4:16)
2. Ironhorse (7:17)
3. Cosmic Hymn (5:01)
4. Balklava (4:15)
5. Perpetuum Immobile (7:05)
6. Fuzzstew (6:13)
7. Reflections In Cosmo (6:36)

Total time 40:43

Line-up: 
Ståle Storløkken (Motorpsycho) - Keyboards
Kjetil Møster - Saxophones
Hans Magnus Ryan (Motorpsycho) - Guitar
Thomas Stronen - Drums

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Motorpsycho "Here Be Monsters"

Country: Norway
Genre(s): Psychedelic
Label: Rune Grammofon
Format: CD, vinyl, digital
Release date: February 12, 2016
Tracklist: 
01 Sleepwalking (0:57)
02 Lacuna/Sunrise (9:46)
03 Running With Scissors (5:39)
04 I. M. S. (7:05)
05 Spin, Spin, Spin (4:07)
06 Sleepwalking (0:56)
07 Big Black Dog (17:42)

Total length: 46:12

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther - bass, guitar, vocals
Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan - guitar, vocals
Kenneth Kapstad - drums
    With
Thomas Henriksen - keyboards

Description/Reviews: 

Musically the album has, perhaps due to its provenance, turned into a somewhat less rockist proposition than usual, but those who like their psych motorpsychodelic will most likely find much to like in this album. In addition to five of their own compositions, the band also found this the perfect occasion to record one of their favourite psych nuggets of old, and their take on H.P.Lovecraft’s version of Terry Callier’s ‘Spin Spin Spin’ fits in well with their own compositions, adding a new, slightly sinister vibe to the old folk tune and offsetting and complementing the grandiose sweep of their own songs perfectly.
Make no mistake - this is cinematic psych to the max, and while neither a double album nor exactly a brand new musical tangent in the Psychoverse, the cinematic qualities of Motorpsychodelia have never been explored this thoroughly on vinyl.

Read the full review at backstage.eu

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Spin, Spin, Spin

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Motorpsycho "Behind The Sun"

Country: Norway
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Eclectic
Label: Rune Grammofon/Stickman Records (Psychobabble 078)
Release date: March 7, 2014
Tracklist: 
01. Cloudwalker (A Darker Blue)
02. Ghost
03. On A Plate
04. The Promise
05. Kvæstor (incl. Where Greyhounds Dare)
06. Hell, part 4-6: Traitor/The Tapestry/Swiss Cheese Mountain
07. Entropy
08. The Magic & The Wonder (A Love Theme)
09. Hell, part 7: Victim Of Rock

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther - bass/guitar/vocals
Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan - guitar/vocals
Kenneth Kapstad - drums
Reine Fiske (Dungen, Paatos, Landberk, Elephant9) - guitar

Media/Samples
Teaser

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Motorpsycho "Still Life With Eggplant"

Country: Norway
Sub Genre: Psychedelic, Eclectic
Label: Rune Grammofon/Stickman Records (Psychobabble 077)
Release date: April 12, 2013
Tracklist: 
1. Hell, part 1-3
2. August
3. Barleycorn (Let It Come/Let It Be)
4. Ratcatcher
5. The Afterglow

Line-up: 
Bent Sæther (bass/guitar/vocals).
Hans Magnus "Snah" Ryan (guitar/vocals).
Kenneth Kapstad (drums)
featuring Reine Fiske (Dungen, Paatos, Landberk, Elephant9) - guitar on 2-5

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