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KRISTOFFER NYSTRÖMS ORKESTER - Overlook Hotel

Format: LP Label & Cat.Number: Malignant Records TUMORLP50 Release Year: 2011 Note: powerful rhythmic / martial post industrial, quite massive & monumental, second album by the new project around PETER NYSTRÖM (MEGAPTERA), a must if you love stuff like DEUTSCH NEPAL! Llim. 217 copies only ! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €15.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "Overlook Hotel heralds the return of the mighty KNO, the collaborative project between Swedish industrial legend Peter Nystrom (Megaptera, Negru Voda), and Norwegian up and comer Kristoffer Oustad (V:28, Plague Machinery). 5 years after the highly acclaimed brakeHead CD, KNO welcomes you into the Overlook Hotel, where every room has a ghost, and every room has a story to tell. Travel the hallways and explore, as you venture into a more cerebral musical state than what brakeHEAD offered, where ghostly transmissions and hypnotic layers of surreal, ethereal atmospheres intersect with disembodied voices, clattering, furnace blasting percussion, and of course, healthy injections of true, old fashioned industrial noise and sweeping doom, done in the best Scandinavian style (imagine if Deutsch Nepal had continued in the same path laid bown by Benevolence and you start to get the idea). The pacing of the album is truly impeccable, flowing seamlessly from to track, as if moving from room to room in a hazy, dream state, the layering and cohesiveness on a whole nothing short of meticulous. This lmtd 217 (one for every room at the hotel) contains 10 tracks in total, 2 of which are exclusive to the record, one of which is a backwards version of what will be on the CD released later in the Winter. Don't miss a chance to grab what is unequivocally one of the most well conceived and well executed records in the history of Malignant." [label info] www.malignantrecords.com "... Perhaps because I was attracted by the title, 'Overlook Hotel', from Stephen King's 'The Shining' (but more Kubrick's brilliant movie). The Orkester is Peter Nystrom (better known as Megaptera and Negru Voda) with Kristoffer Oustad (also known as V:28 and Plague Machinery). Five years ago they did a CD called 'Brakehead' and now they return. The recent lot on Malignant showed a strong interest in deeper than deep ambient, but this is different. Like that spooky hotel, we should see this music, each track that is, as a different room of music. Ranging from hard, metallic beats, to spooky filmic pieces (including conversations from the big screen), which are not necessarily deep ambient and more deeper textures. Throughout dark music obviously, but a highly varied disc of noise, mayhem, distortion, ambient and spaciousness. All work and no play makes this no dull boy. Perhaps the noise here is not that well spend on me, but throughout I thought the balance is well kept here and its the variation that made me continue to listen." [FdW/Vital Weekly]