Prins Thomas
Prins Thomas
Full Pupp
Album CDFPCD004
Out: 05-04-2010
Holed up in his Oslo studio, “with HP next door and Terje across the hall,” this album showcases Thomas's myriad musical gifts over seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body
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Holed up in his Oslo studio, “with HP next door and Terje across the hall,” this album showcases Thomas's myriad musical gifts over seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body-moving, mind-mushing tracks perfectly assembled for an hour-long trip, almost all of it played by the man himself. But much like Ringo sang, Thomas gets by with a little help from his friends: Lindstrøm lends keyboards to “Wendy Not Walter” and in conjunction with Terje (on trumpet!) a funky bit of clavinet on “Sauerkraut.”
From the shimmering Neu!-like guitar lines of opener “Ørkenvandring,” we know we're in for a kosmiche treat. Handclaps and a battery of percussion propel “Uggebugg” right into the groovy synth-slithers of “Slangemusikk,” which fittingly translates as “snake music.” More double-digit delights lie just beyond the opening tracks (including a shout-out to the mighty Wendy Carlos), but why ruin the funky and sumptuous space party that awaits your head with so many of these words?
Okay, so just a few more: was Thomas nervous to finally finish his album and put it out there? “I had a brief nerve-wrecking moment as I did the final mix, but I've always ended up going with my gut feeling. The scary thing now is how inspiring it is to finally put out a bunch of my own stuff. Now I've got tons of new stuff in the pipeline plus a couple of more dance singles lined up, too!” So, in the words of the Winners, get ready for the future.
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