Runddans

Todd Rundgren / Emil Nikolaisen / Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

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Runddans is the result of the collaboration between Todd Rundgren, Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen. It’s a spiritual magnusopus, that stands alongside Rundgren’s most worshipped trippy albums of the seventies, fusing his blue eyed soul with Lindstrom’s disco epics and Emil Nikolaisen’s studio trickery into a cosmic mix of soul, synth, pop and disco.

The collaboration was born after Rundgren did a stomping remix of Lindstrom’s track «Quiet Place To Live» in 2012 (Rundgren’s first ever remix). The three of them met in a studio in wintery Oslo that same year, and the music slowly mushroomed from there. Ideas grew and took u-turns that lead into a violently beautiful and strange creature. The highly detailed and cacophonous sound of the album clearly conveys the international feel characteristic of Rundgren’s cutting edge soul of his most studio-driven epic, 1973’s A Wizard A True Star as well as his classics Todd and Initiation. The synthesizers, the restlessness, the suites, the sonic antics, the search for understanding, fulfilment and good times: it’s all here. It also references his lost classic, the massively spiritual voice-only album A capella from 1985. This, combined with Lindstrom’s signature extended cosmic compositions and Emil’s psychedelic sound-quilting, paint the picture of three individuals on a journey towards musical bliss.

“Runddans is the record that Toddheads have been waiting 40 years for. Cosmic disco pioneer Hans-Peter Lindström and Emil Nikolaisen of Serena-Maneesh have taken Todd Rundgren back to the future, back to the mid-‘70s glory days of Todd and Initiation, albums filled with spiritual longing and a desire to achieve transcendence. Dense, complex, thrillingly intricate yet sweepingly emotional, here the original laptop kid and the Norwegian electronicists capture a long-lost time while also managing to sound utterly futureperfect. It’s the album of the year. And the year is 1975, via 2015.“ – Paul Lester (MOJO)

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Track Listings

Side A
1. B for Birth
2. Liquid Joy from the Womb of Infinity
3. Oppad, Over Skyene.

Side B
1. Solus
2. Put Your Arms Around Me
3. Altar of Kauaian Six String (Todd's Solo)

Side C
1. Out of My Head (Lone Vibes)
2. Rundt Rundt Rundt
3. Wave of Heavy Red (Disko-Nektar)

Side D
1. T.H.E. Golden Triangle (Dry Mouthed Gargoyles in a Fountain of Fluorescent Shepard Tones)
2. Ravende Gal (Full Circle)
3. Ohr.. Um.. Am.. Amen (Aftermath).

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