Todd Rundgren Wil Nikolaisen Lindstrom Runddans Vinyl LP New
Track Listing
- B for Birth
- Liquid Joy from the Womb of Infinity
- Oppad, Over Skyene
- Solus
- Put Your Arms Around Me
- Altar of Kauaian Six String
- Out of My Head (Lone Vibes)
- Rundt Rundt Rundt
- Wave of Heavy Red (Disko-nektar)
- T.H.E. Golden Triangle (Dry Mouthed Gargoyles in a Fountain of Fluorescent Shepard Tones)
- Ravende Gal (Full Circle)
- Ohr...Um...Am...Amen (Aftermath)
One track, 39 minutes of music. Runddans is the result of the collaboration between Todd Rundgren, Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen. It's a spiritual magnusopus, that stands alongside Rundgren's most worshipped trippy albums of the seventies, fusing his blue eyed soul with Lindstrom's disco epics and Emil Nikolaisen's studio trickery into a cosmic mix of soul, synth, pop and disco. The collaboration was born after Rundgren did a stomping remix of Lindstrom's track 'Quiet Place To Live' in 2012 (Rundgren's first ever remix). The three of them met in a studio in wintery Oslo that same year, and the music slowly mushroomed from there. Ideas grew and took u-turns that lead into a violently beautiful and strange creature. The highly detailed and cacophonous sound of the album clearly conveys the international feel characteristic of Rundgren's cutting edge soul of his most studio-driven epic, 1973's A Wizard A True Star as well as his classics Todd and Initiation. The synthesizers, the restlessness, the suites, the sonic antics, the search for understanding, fulfilment and good times: it's all here. It also references his lost classic, the massively spiritual voice-only album A capella from 1985. This, combined with Lindstrom's signature extended cosmic compositions and Emil s psychedelic sound-quilting, paint the picture of three individuals on a journey towards musical bliss. 'Runddans is the record that Toddheads have been waiting 40 years for. Cosmic disco pioneer Hans-Peter Lindström and Emil Nikolaisen of Serena-Maneesh have taken Todd Rundgren back to the future, back to the mid- 70's glory days of Todd and Initiation, albums filled with spiritual longing and a desire to achieve transcendence. Dense, complex, thrillingly intricate yet sweepingly emotional, here the original laptop kid and the Norwegian electronicists capture a long-lost time while also managing to sound utterly futureperfect. It's the album of the year. And the year is 1975, via 2015. - Paul Lester (MOJO)