The debut album from this co-operation between these two bands from Norway.
This cooperation is a sextet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, kraviklyre, harp, fiddle, kantele, mouth harp, electronics and vocals.
Kanaan is a well known psych rock band who has released seven albums so far. All of them reviewed here. Ævestaden is a folk music trio who has released three albums so far.
So those two bands decided to merge for this album.
The result is........ Weird.
We get a mix of pastoral psalms, hard psych rock and basic folk music here.
Thankfully, the music does not sound forced or comes across as a carcrash, a crash between widely diverse music styles and genres. Each genres get their space to breathe and where there is synergies, the music is merging the genres.
There is a lot of musical synergies on this three quarters of an hour long album.
There is also a lot of very good vocals, male and female, and guitars here. And the pieces of music is good too. So much that I have been turned around from being negative to this album after the first listening session to really liking this album some hours later.
There is something remarkable about this album.... how the two bands avoid stepping on each other toes and how they manages to create a coherent piece of music.... this album which really is one piece of music and not a collection of songs/pieces of music.
I am actually impressed.
Not everything here is great. Nevertheless, this is a very good album and one to check out. It is probably the most eclectic and genre defying album from Norway this year.
3.5 points
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