Roadwork Vol. 4 - Intrepid Skronk

Psychodelia / Experimental Rock
premiera polska: 2012-09-15,
Wydawnicto Audiofilskie
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Norwegia
opakowanie: kartonowe etui
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Editor's info:
This is the latest installment in Motorpsycho's ongoing series of live documents "Roadwork". "Roadwork vol 4: Intrepid Skronk" is a collection of moments from the several tours Motorpsycho have undertaken in Europe since Kenneth Kapstad joined on drums in 2007, and it features material from all phases of their career.
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.

allmusic.com:
The fourth volume in Motorpsycho's (very) intermittent Roadwork series (the first installment appeared in 1999) is subtitled Intrepid Skronk for a reason. While it contains music from various European tours since Kenneth Kapstad joined on drums in 2007, the music does indeed reach backwards and forwards to virtually all aspects of their career. While the band uses a disclaimer on the sleeve that the equipment employed to record their music live is often inferior to what's used in the studio, there are no problems with fidelity on possibly the finest volume in this series. The set kicks off with a sprawling, 21-minute, "The Bomb-Proof Rock & Roll Beyond," from Heavy Metal Fruit. This version is virtually suite-like in its construction, wildly different -- as are all these cuts -- from its studio incarnation. It starts the same, but the sheer free-falling improvisation makes this band sound more like Finland's Circle at their most ambitious. Quickly shifting dynamics, textures, tempos, and even song forms enter and disappear seemingly on cue. The original melody only returns in the last three minutes, but where it takes the listener in the meantime is somewhere far beyond it. This is followed by an 18-and-a-half minute version of "All Is Loneliness," from 1993's Demon Box. It begins in a cosmic sprawl and goes even further without losing any of its heaviness or focus. Kapstad's drumming is well suited to such flights of creative ambition, because he can push the other players very hard, helping to move a tune completely outside its architecture but still stay firmly in the pocket, providing a guiding light by which to return. While "Wishing Well" (Starmelt EP), "Landslide," (Phanerothyme), and "Kill Devil Hills" (Black Hole/ Blank Canvas), are more conventionally ordered rock songs, even they move off their original centers considerably, with "Landslide" coming off as a trippy, nine-minute, jazzed-out, slightly noodling ballad. Motorpsycho don't get completely unhinged again until closer "The Alchemyst" (off Little Lucid Moments), where the verse/chorus/verse frame holds just long enough for the guitars and Kapstad to derail the entire proceeding into instrumental overdrive. For longtime fans of Motorpsycho, Roadwork 4: Intrepid Skronk is an essential purchase, for those who are just getting acquainted, prepare to have your brain turned inside-out.
by Thom Jurek

muzycy:
Bent Sather: Bass, Vocals, Synthesizer [Taurus III], Sounds [Various Foot-Triggered Mellotronic Sounds]
Kenneth Kapstad: Drums, Vocals, Sounds [Various Stick & Finger Triggered Mellotronic Sounds]
Hans Magnus Ryan: Guitar, Vocals, Piano [Pianette], Synthesizer [Taurus II]

utwory:
1. The Bomb Proof Roll & Beyond: Arne Hassle - Qajaasaaeneq - The Sea Of Diamonds - Ooops, Fusion... - Arne Hassle (Slight Return)
2. All Is Loneliness
3. Visions From A Possible Cornucopic Future...
4. Wishing Well
5. Landslide
6. Kill Devil Hills
7. The Alchemyst

total time - 01:19:54
wydano: 2012
nagrano: Recorded at various venues 2008-2010, during Leipziger, Bremer, Milanese, Dresdner, Haaarlemser & Kölner Motorpsychos

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