The debut album from this one-man-band from Norway.
Bitu is Anders Bitustoyl on bass, guitars, synths, programming, backing vocals and narrations.
He had help from two guests who provided drums, percussion and female vocals.
Anders has worked with a lot of local musicians in the Telemark area before he went his own way with Bitu and this album. A project which is a side project from his dayjob as a musician and song-writer for other artists.
The record label Appollon Records has described the music on this album as instrumental pop. I am not sure what they mean here...
The music here comes across as a mix of folk music, jazz, cinematic rock and electronica.
The music is instrumental with some wailing female vocals and a speach, a piece of narration, at the end of this forty minutes long album. There are some flutes and guitars who sounds very folk music and jazz.
The music sounds like scetches and drawings more than the music sounds like finished pieces of music. There are a lot of ideas here who could have been developed into some far better pieces of music. And I guess Anders will later on go back to some of the music here and develop them into proper songs and/or pieces of music.
These forty minutes is decent enough, barely decent enough but nothing more than that. If this sounds great to you, this album is available as CD, LP and Bandcamp/Amazon download.
2 points
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