[Thor Joachim Haga]

Overlooked and underrated prog rock album from 1978 (with a special connection to Norwegians, since the opening song contains a fragment that was used as the theme of an 80s comedy adventure show called BRØDRENE DAL [THE DAL BROTHERS] over here).

[Sigbjørn]

Interesting, I didn’t know that was the origin of the Dal theme.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

I was always impressed by how skilled those people were, who tracked obscure music into TV shows at the time. No internet or digital archives to search through, it was all manual.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

When this came out in 2017, it felt like a refreshing throwback to the kind of consonant orchestral writing I loved in the 90s, with bold, sweeping, perhaps slightly dark Americana. It’s good to know that there is still room for the Shaimans of this world, even though he isn’t as active as he used to, and that he gets to do more serious stuff, not only comedies and musicals.

[Thor Joachim Haga]

Sorry for the small photo, it’s the only one I could find. A Beltrami promo from 2000, which I once had on CD-R, but then gave away (but kept the files). I miss the Beltrami of yesteryear. In the last 10 years or so, I haven’t found anything to latch on to (the last one in my collection is THE HOMESMAN from 2014). He was so good at merging melody with darker textures.

[Forfatter]

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