Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

One track, 39 minutes of music.

Runddans is the result of the collaboration between Todd Rundgren, Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen. It’s a spiritual magnus-opus, 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.

Tracklist

1.	B for Birth	3:09

2.	Liquid Joy from the Womb of Infinity	5:58

3.	Oppad, Over Skyene	2:16

4.	Solus	1:40

5.	Put Your Arms Around Me	3:53

6.	Altar of Kauaian Six String (Todd's Solo)	1:03

7.	Out of My Head (Lone Vibes)	1:58

8.	Rundt Rundt Rundt	5:27

9.	Wave of Heavy Red (Disko-Nektar)	5:19

10.	T.H.E Golden Triangle (Dry Mouthed Gargoyles in a Fountain of Fluorescent Shepard Tones)	1:17

11.	Ravende Gal (Full Circle)	5:10

12.	Ohr..Um..Am..Amen (Aftermath)	2:30

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released May 5, 2015

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