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Eivind Opsvik: Overseas IV
Echi di guerra, rullio di tamburi, luccichio di armi si scontrano con metal-blues alla Led Zeppelin e neo-romanticismo alla Emerson Lake & Palmer in una battaglia cha a tratti si fa epica. Opsvik è abile nell'allestire arrangiamenti in grado di coniugare momenti di grande intensità con altri più raccolti, intimisti, deliri visionari (da urlo il sax tenore di Malaby in "1786") con inquietanti, ossessive iterazioni. La presenza dell'harpsichord di Jacob Sacks contribuisce a creare contrasti stimolanti tra sequenze che sembrano pensate per allietare la corte di un virtuale Re Sole e scudisciate cariche di elettricità provenienti dalla chitarra di Brandon Seabrook, vero e proprio guastatore sonoro dell'incisione.
Intrigante.
Track Listing
01. They Will Hear the Drums - and They Will Answer; 02. White Amour; 03. 1786; 04. Silkweavers'Song; 05. Men on Horses; 06. Robbers and Fairground Folk; 07. Michelle Marie; 08. Nineteen to the Dozen; 09. Det Kalde Havet; 10. Youth Hopeth All Things, Believeth All Things. Tutte le composizioni sono di Eivind Opsvik.
Personnel
Kenny Wollesen
drumsKenny Wollesen (batteria, piatti, timpani, vibrafono, marching machine); Jacob Sacks (harpsicord, organo farfisa, piano); Tony Malaby (sax tenore); Brandon Seabrock 8chitarra elettrica, mandolino); Eivind Opsvik (contrabbasso).
Album information
Title: Overseas IV | Year Released: 2012
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