The Death Defying Unicorn

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The Death Defying Unicorn
Studio album by Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken

Publication
(s)

February 10, 2012

admission

2011

Label (s) Rune gramophone

Title (number)

13

running time

83:44

occupation
  • Hans Magnus Ryan
  • Bent Sæther
  • Kenneth Kapstad

production

Kåre Christoffer Vestrheim and Bent Sæther

Studio (s)

Propeller Music Division, Oslo Øra Studio, Trondheim

chronology
Heavy Metal Fruit
(2010) 		The Death Defying Unicorn Still Life with Eggplant
(2013)

The Death Defying Unicorn (subtitle: A Fanciful and Fairly Far-Out Musical Fable ) is a double album by the Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho in collaboration with Ståle Storløkken . It was released by Rune Grammofon in 2012 .

Creation and publication

Ståle Storløkken was commissioned with a work for the fortieth Molde Jazz Festival that he developed with Motorpsycho and performed in 2010 with the band, a jazz combo and a string ensemble . In the following year it was revised and given a concept by Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken for CD and LP release . The double album was recorded in 2011 in Oslo and Trondheim with Ola Kvernberg, the Trondheimsolistene and the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra. It was released in 2012 under the title The Death Defying Unicorn - A Fanciful and Fairly Far-Out Musical Fable .

Track list

CD 1

  1. Out of the Woods - 2:40
  2. The Hollow Lands - 7:36
  3. Through the Veil - 16:01
  4. Doldrums - 3:06
  5. Into the Gyre - 10:22
  6. Flotsam - 1:33

CD 2

  1. Oh, Proteus - A Prayer - 7:35
  2. Sculls in Limbo - 2:21
  3. La Lethe - 7:53
  4. Oh, Proteus - A Lament - 1:04
  5. Sharks - 7:56
  6. Mutiny! - 8:33
  7. Into the Mystic - 7:04

style

The concept album tells the psychedelic-metaphysical story of a shipwrecked man. Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken play varied rock music with a variety of influences from psychedelic rock , progressive rock , alternative rock , hard rock , rock opera , jazz and new music . The compositions move between "calm and escalation, [...] light melodies and excessive chaos".

reception

The press reacted positively to the album. Jens Bauszus from Focus Online described The Death Defying Unicorn as the "craziest rock opera of all time", Michael Rensen from Rock Hard as the "most demanding music highlight of the year". On the baby blue pages , the album is referred to as a "musical big bang", it is "independent and an expression of an individual artistic will". The eclipsed magazine took the death defying unicorn in its list of the 150 most important prog albums and chose it for album of the year 2012th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Baby Blue Prog Reviews: Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken: The Death Defying Unicorn , Baby Blue Pages , accessed on November 23, 2012.
  2. ^ A b Jens Bauszus: Record review: Motorpsycho - "The Death Defying Unicorn": The most insane rock opera of all time , Focus Online , accessed on November 23, 2012.
  3. ↑ Michael Rensen: Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken: The Death Defying Unicorn , Rock Hard No. 298, accessed on November 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ eclipsed No. 144, p. 33.
  5. ↑ eclipsed No. 147, p. 37.