Bushmans Revenge - Et hån mot overklassen '2019

Tracks list

The power of three: twangy blues jam meets soaring gothic soundscape in
Bushman’s Revenge’s proggy mockery of the upper class.

The debut Hubro album by the highly regarded Norwegian power-trio
Bushman’s Revenge – cult stars of the Rune Grammofon label for a
decade – operates on several levels simultaneously. It can even sound
like the work of several different trios. After a hypnotic experimental prelude
that creates a sort of audible weather system, with the delicate, bare-wire
glissandos of Even Helte Hermansen’s soprano guitar heard against Gard
Nilssen’s Pink Floyd-ish beaten drums and the unusually reticent,
elegantly dancing measures of Rune Nergaard’s electric bass, ‘Et
Hån Mot Overklassen’ (which Google Translate renders as “A
Mockery of the Upper Class’) begins to settle into a form of strikingly
virtuosic and proggy jazz-rock; the instruments sound pretty much like guitar,
bass and drums are meant to do, and the opening numbers follow a recognisable
jazz model of theme/improv/theme. Then, as the long, riverine meanders of
guitarist Even Helte Hermansen really get into their stride, and the
effects-pedal expressionism of his chosen settings and style thicken the timbre
into a growling axe-attack, things steadily become chewier and more challenging.

By the time you get deep into the heart of the album, past rumbling
audio-sculptures, tamboura drones, found-sound samples, the twangy blues jam and
soaring gothic soundscape, it can be hard to be sure where one instrument ends
and another begins.

Gard Nilssen, drums, percussion, vibraphone, Wurlitzer and electronics
Rune Nergaard, bass, organ, toy piano, percussion and electronics
Even Helte Hermansen, soprano, baritone and additional guitars, percussion and
electronics

Tracklist:
1 01. Bushman´s Revenge - Sly Love With A Midnight Creeper (05:27)
1 02. Bushman´s Revenge - Folk Kremtar No Av Og Til Berre I Lause Lufta
Óg (04:40)
1 03. Bushman´s Revenge - Happy Hour For Mr. Sanders (05:56)
1 04. Bushman´s Revenge - A Bottle Of Pills A Day Keeps The Wolves At Bay
(07:38)
1 05. Bushman´s Revenge - The Curious Case Of The Resting Blue Steel Face
(04:42)
1 06. Bushman´s Revenge - Moves Away From The Door (04:19)
1 07. Bushman´s Revenge - Greetings To Gisle (08:02)
1 08. Bushman´s Revenge - Ladies Night At The Jazz Fusion Disco (06:11)
1 09. Bushman´s Revenge - Toten (04:39)
1 10. Bushman´s Revenge - Hei Hei Martin Skei (14:13)

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