Brodlos

Description

A fascinating space where everything seems possible: the film Paris, Texas meets Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, Ennio Morricone mingles with Brian Eno, and David Bowie crosses paths with John Coltrane. Here is Brødløs, the third solo album by Norwegian composer and multi-instrumentalist Geir Sundstøl. A swirling tumbleweed traverses the desert panorama of a strange Nordic western landscape; the melancholic sound of a metal bar on raw steel wire is set to the relatively slow equestrian rhythm of the "walk"... Although familiar at first listen, the musical textures drawn from ambient, country rock, or jazz, juxtaposed with curious sound elements imbued with different, even opposing registers, are transformed: Indian tabla paired with Mini-Moog, the clattering and spitting sounds typical of drums used in 80s power ballads combined with avant-garde electronic shimmer or Sneaky Pete's pedal steel.