Steamdome II: The Hypogean

by Ola Kvernberg

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PiTiNiNjA Beautiful music, great rhythms, I love this album and its atmosphere, very inspiring Favorite track: Carbonado.

Espen I just love this!

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	1.	Arpy 09:32
	2.	The Vault 01:41
	3.	Get Down 10:18
	4.	Carbonado 08:41
	5.	Hypogean 07:56
	6.	Devil Worm 14:10
	7.	Diamondiferous 09:19

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While every bit as physical as Steamdome, the latest album brings a newly rhapsodic melodism to the party. However eruptive the music gets, it rarely strays from the lyricism of the first two minutes of the opening track. Here the churchlike organ lays down a reverential, reflective foundation which soon develops into blazing, feeling-the-spirit, sanctified fervour. The synthesis is simultaneously carnal and beatific. As George Clinton put it, free you ass and your mind will follow.

The album’s closer, “Diamondiferous,” wraps The Mechanical Fair, Steamdome and The Hypogean together. The violin line which introduces the track evokes the Morriconeish motifs of the first and second albums and is followed by a whiplash effect which echoes the crack of Clint Eastwood’s bullwhip in the post-Sergio Leone western High Plains Drifter.

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released April 23, 2021

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Ola Kvernberg Oslo, Norway

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Kongsberg Kirke

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