Release Date: August 31st, 2010 CD

It is Nils Petter Molvaer´s most angry and darkest album up to date with climaxes in the songs “Friction” and “Cruel Altitude” where he and his fellow musicians, Eivind Aarset (g) and Audun Kleive (dr), leave the paths of ambient, electronica and improvisation and get the axe out to poach in the fields of indie and 70ies-prog-rock, before they cool it down to end the album on a more conciliatory note.



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