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(50:35; Apollon Records [2022 Edition] ) Track list: 1. Budbringere 3:54 2. (Vi Blir) Fisk 4:38 3. Atland 4:40 4. Min Brud 3:51 5. Ulv! Ulv! 3:41 6. Det Springende Punkt 4:12 7. På Taket 2:10 8. Spøk 4:12 9. Hevner-Kvadet 9:44 10. Endelig 4:26 11. Solbeven 5:07 LIne-up: Andreas Eriksen - percussion, Berimbau Jo C. Langeland - guitars, percussion, vocals Trygve Mathiesen - vocals Tarjei Rønnow - bass, lute, clarinet, vocals Torstein Kvenås - flute Kai Lundewall - drums, spoons, vocals Øyvind Rauset - violin, keyboards, vocals with: Bernhard Seland - saxophone Kåre K. Westrheim - organ Are Hofstad - saxophone Geir Lysne - saxophone Marit Nord - vocals Per Platou - vocals Trude Eick - vocals, French Horn Norwegian band Ym-Stammen were active from sometime in the early 1980's and until the tail end of the 1990's, releasing six studio albums along the way and being a fairly attractive live band at home as well as abroad from what I understand. Their albums have long been out of prin...

(39:43; Apollon Records) Track list: 1. Las Dos Fridas 6:29 2. ¿Nada? ¡Nunca! 6:31 3. The Lucha Libra Lullaby 7:11 4. Einar 4:21 5. Beta Batá Beat 6:33 6. El Gran Gotzilla 8:38 Line-up: Gaute Storsve - guitars Petter Barg - bass Henning Carlsen - drums with: Ingrid Berg Mehus - violin Jørgen Mathisen - saxophone Angel Terry Domech - percussion Norwegian band Gaute Storsve Trio has a history that goes back to 2017 or thereabouts, and released their debut album in 2018. They are now ready with their second album "El Gran Gotzilla", which is out through Norwegian label Apollon Records. This is a band that proudly exclaims their jazz orientation on their Facebook homepage, and jazz is what we are treated to as well. Instrumental jazz at that, and a variety of this style where the guitar is a central instrument. We pretty much get three different variations of the style presented to us here. One is a low key excursion where wandering plucked guitars backed by careful but playful r...

(52:53; Avi Rosenfeld) Track list: 1. Bataclan 4:37 2. Rise 6:00 3. Rainbow Far Away 4:33 4. By the Power of My Sword 5:07 5. Hear the Devil 5:03 6. Birds of Metal 5:25 7. Song of Honor 5:30 8. Out of the Clouds 4:25 9. Big Bad Waves 5:05 10. Underwater 7:08 Line-up: Avi Rosenfeld - guitars, backing vocals Tasos Lazaris - vocals with: Miguel Angel Seiz - bass, drums Claudio Acampora - guitars Dionysis Maniatakos - keyboards Neil o Neil - bass Vesa Haapanen - drums Daniel Swain - bass Mattia Hagge - Hammond Patrick Davies - guitars Milan Pecanac - bass Daniel Lizotte - bass Michael Berry - Hammond Marco Palazzi - Hammond Giovanni Maucieri - drums David E. Moreno - keyboards Aage Halleland - drums Cedric Camus - bass Victor Hugo Santafe Ossa - Hammond Jon Garcia - bass Tymoteusz Milowanow - guitars Mateusz Przystal - bass The album "Very Classic Very Metal" is the first full length album collaboration between singer and instrumentalist Tasos Lazaris and composer and instrumenta...

(42:28; Avi Rosenfeld) Track list: 1. Never Never Give Up 5:24 2. Ice Skating Woman 4:47 3. He Left Too Early 4:39 4. Waiting on the Road 4:15 5. Listen Honey 3:58 6. When You Sit Alone in Silence 3:51 7. In the Rain 3:35 8. Together Till the End of Time 4:32 9. Happy Birthday 3:20 10. Autumn Days Will Come 4:07 Line-up: Avi Rosenfeld - guitars Marco Buono - vocals with: Dean Wuksta - drums Chris Branch - bass Nick Foley - Hammond Martin Landolf Lobemeier - Rhodes Alex Zulaika - drums Daniel Swain - bass Koray Onur Alarslan - keyboards Yoann Palacio - drums, percussion Tom Corea - drums Patrick Davies - guitars Geoffrey Cook - Hammond Alex Tobin - piano Saul Di Palo - bass George Schiessl - bass Stefan West - bass Scott Cochrane - bass Robert Cudmore- drums Robert Gilmore - guitars George Junior - uke Dino Mangafic - guitars Philippe Pansard - bass Tommaso Monopoli - drums Carlos Barrios - guitars, keyboards Israeli composer and musician Avi Rosenfeld and German vocalist Marco Buono ha...