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Artist
The Island Band
12+ albums
experimentaljazzambientAvant-Gardenorwegian
about
The Island Band is an orchestra led by musician, composer and producer Lars Myrvoll. With the album “Like Swimming” he has constructed a highly unusual and emotionally charged stream of music together with a stunning bouquet of versatile Norwegian musicians from bands such as Ultralyd, Splashgirl, MoHa, Kråkesølv, Sheriffs of Nothingness, Møster! and Datarock. In other words, a long list of the Norwegian music community’s innovative “usual suspects”. The album has a floating, dreamlike atmosphere, and moves between evocative, detailed instrumentals and imposingly produced pop tunes featuring vocals. Some of the combinations of instruments look totally absurd on paper, but sound entirely natural when they emanate from the loudspeakers. A radio edit of the song “Swimming”, with a guest vocal by Maria Due, was released as a single this past summer, and serves as a good example. How often do you hear catchy, lushly orchestrated pop duets with Auto-Tune vocals, a sax solo and a theorbo? Lars Myrvoll’s LP debut “The Island”, released on the long-discontinued label Safe as Milk in 2009, garnered glowing reviews, but has been unavailable for a while. The album was the result of a six-year process, and the result was described as both deeply moving and original. The format of Myrvoll’s new album is substantially larger than that of his debut. This time, too, the process has been a protracted one. The basic tracks were laid down in August 2013, and Myrvoll has invested considerab
