Toad of Light, by The Holy Mountain

Toad of Light

by The Holy Mountain

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	1.	Adoration Of The Moon 10:54
	2.	They Live 07:39
	3.	Celestial City 07:24
	4.	Night Toad Palace 13:20

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If you like the colorful atmospheres of the North European music of today, be it folk, pop, jazz or experimental, here is something special for you. And special because you can’t label it in any way: the music combines aspects of all those tendencies, but goes somewhere else. The Holy Mountain is a Norwegian duo with two instruments we don’t usually find together, accordion (played by Andreas Angell) and drums (with acoustic and electronic parts played by Aleksander Tidemann, who also uses a vintage synthesizer). With a cinematic character and minimalist structures, the four pieces reunited in “Toad of Light” have the drone-like static particularities of electronic exploratory music, but also of the pulsating waves of psychedelic and kosmische rock. As the two musicians themselves state, this debut LP is the result of a contemplation of the «eternal universe and the isolated man», inspired by the «dystopian sci-fi visions of John Carpenter, Philip Glass and Daft Punk». If your references concerning Angell are his interpretations of works written by Scandinavian classical contemporary composers and his studies of Sofia Gubaidulina’s timbral, textural and spiritual symbolism, prepare yourself to be surprised. You’ve never heard an accordion doing this (and neither a drumkit)…

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released June 1, 2018

Andreas Angell Accordion Aleksander
Tidemann Drums & Synthesizer

All music composed and performed by THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

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