Nicklas is
the guitar player in the all instrumental Danish band, Papir. He is a very
talented musician. It seems that Nicklas had a lot of musical ideas that he
wanted to explore outside of the limits of Papir. All the members of Papir play
on the record as well as Jonas Munk (Causa Sui), who played various keyboards
and synthesizers on all the tracks except Solo2 as well as mixed and mastered
the record. The record features 6 track, 3 per side and starts off with Solo1
and it features some nice melodic guitar over a steady Christian/Christoffer
groove. Jonas layers in some organ as well filling in the bottom of the sound
but still allowing the guitar parts to lead. Nice track with some repeated themes. In the
end it builds up a lot like a Papir track but with out the intense lead guitar.
The spacey keyboard part sort of increases instead for a real dreamy feel. Solo
2 is a quite slow piece with drums and bass and a slow gliding guitar line.
This is a very peaceful piece of music. Solo3 starts with a really cool looped
guitar and then Nicklas comes in with another melodic line over the top. You
can just hear the high hat (I think) but no other drums yet. Eventually a bass
line joins the track and then a repetitive keyboard line. The track grows as a
new looped guitar is started but the keyboards grow to dominate this track with
Nicklas almost disappearing for a while.
There are no real drums per se. Lots of looped Krauty stuff. Side B starts with Solo4. I bet you guessed
that? The tracks on side A were all between 6 and 7 mins and now the new tracks
are two 7min tracks and a long 12min one that seals the side. Solo4 starts with
some melodic guitar lines, a few sound manipulations (a bit like a short note
of backwards guitar and you hear it repeated here and there) and floating
keyboards and a simple beat (bass, bass drum or synthesizer??). The track
nearly fades out and then a new guitar line starts and another one on top. Very
beautiful stuff that runs to the end. Solo5 sees the return of the Papir band
with a simple sort of groove and guitar line (like the effects he uses), some
hand drums kick in as the keyboards also become more important to the sound as
well. A nice guitar solo is slowly building up which is one of the first. The
track enters into a transition phase after the solo before Nicklas returns with
some more delays and the guitar is panned from side to side and plays off the
keyboard parts in a really cool way and psychedelic way. Cool piece of music! Solo6
ends this pretty cool record. This one is a slow long journey again, with some repeated
themes and many layers.
If you are a fan of Papir, Neu, Harmonia, then you will for
sure enjoy this record as you will already know the guitar playing, production
sound, etc.. but not the songs.
From SouthAmerica: great work, beatiful music. Go on Nick!
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