Runddans

Runddans

Runddans is the result of the collaboration between Todd Rundgren,<br>Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen. Its a spiritual magnusopus,<br>that stands alongside Rundgren's most worshipped trippy<br>albums of the seventies, fusing his blue eyed soul with Lindstroms<br>disco epics and Emil Nikolaisens studio trickery into a cosmic mix of<br>soul, synth, pop and disco.<br>The collaboration was born after Rundgren did a stomping remix of<br>Lindstrom's track «Quiet Place To Live» in 2012 (Rundgrens first ever<br>remix). The three of them met in a studio in wintery Oslo that same<br>year, and the music slowly mushroomed from there. Ideas grew and<br>took u-turns that lead into a violently beautiful and strange creature.<br>The highly detailed and cacophonous sound of the album clearly<br>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<br>well as his classics Todd and Initiation. The synthesizers, the<br>restlessness, the suites, the sonic antics, the search for<br>understanding, fulfillment and good times: its all here. It also<br>references his lost classic, the massively spiritual voice-only album A<br>capella from 1985. This, combined with Lindstroms signature<br>extended cosmic compositions and Emils psychedelic sound-quilting,<br>paint the picture of three individuals on a journey towards musical<br>bliss.