Green Isac Orchestra Live at Victoria

Nydelige stemninger Green Isac Orchestra byr på vakker musikalsk sjelefred.  Foto: Erling Sand Et dypdykk i cd-hylla førte til at jeg fant cden "Strings and Pottery" med duoen Green Isac fra 1990. Siden har det vært dårlig med kontakt mellom oss. Det var med andre ord på høy tid at vi møttes igjen. Det betyr igjen at duoen jeg møtte for over 30 år siden, bestående av trommeslager pluss pluss Andreas Eriksen og gitarist pluss pluss Morten Lund, virkelig har vist seg å være standhaftige og fulgt sin musikalske og estetiske idé på et inderlig vis. De to er så definitivt fortsatt hjertelig til stede, men nå har duoen både fått Orchestra etter navnet sitt og blitt utvida med Frode Larsen på perkusjon, Tov Ramstad på cello og Jo Wang på allehånde tangenter. Hvordan jeg har greid å unngå å bli eksponert for musikken og universet til Green Isac kan jeg jo lure på, men noe av grunnen kan kanskje være at de på sett og vis har falt mellom flere stoler. Ikke er det jazz, ikke er det prog

  Green Isac Orchestra — Bar ( Spotted Peccary  SPM-1305, 2021, LP) by  Peter Thelen , Published 2021-03-17 The original Green Isac, the Norwegian duo of Morten Lund (keyboards, guitar) and Andreas Eriksen (keyboards, percussion) on their first two albums on Origo/Eurock  Strings and Pottery  (1990) and the follow-up  Happy Endings  (1992) had an abundance of great ideas in the area of ambient, textural, and world-music with just a hint of Nordic folk in the mix, but the problem was that they were underpowered and those ideas rarely got off the ground for long, and as such might be relegated to the role of soundtrack music at best. With the passage of nine years and a switch to Spotted Peccary’s Wanderings label, the duo began to employ some additional instrumentation (via collaborations) on some of the tunes to further enrich their sound — first wood flutes and clarinet on 2001’s  Groundrush , and three or so years later with cello, djembe and additional percussion on  Etnotronica . S

  New Music by Green Isac Orchestra Green Isac Orchestra's Emmesity Video Green Isac  is a Norwegian duo that blends acoustic instruments from around the world, but turns them into electronic landscapes that are both evocative and organic. Their name has the air of Nordic mythology but it actually comes from a song by an obscure rock group called  Prefab Sprout .  Morten Lund  and  Andreas Eriksen  are the core members of the band which now calls itself the  Green Isac Orchestra  with the addition of other musicians. Lund and Eriksen have been on the Norwegian music scene for years. Eriksen had played with the group Bel Canto when they descended into Oslo from Tromsø, north of the Arctic Circle. He and Lund got together in the 1980s and released their debut, Strings & Pottery in 1990. Their slogan is “Where ethnic percussion meets vintage synths, where bowed strings meet pottery” and they call their sound Etnotronica (as in Ethnotronica). Their music sounds like the lost sound

  A Beautiful Kaleidoscope of Electroacoustic Ambient and Tribal Sounds  Angel Romero  July 7, 2016    1 Comment     ambient electronic music featured Green Isac Orchestra Green Isac Orchestra –  Green Isac Orchestra  (Spotted Peccary, 2015) Green Isac, a fabulous progressive electronic music duo from Norway, has expanded its project to a five-man ensemble called Green Isac Orchestra. Their new album Green Isac Orchestra presents an enthralling mix of electronic sounds with acoustic instruments.  There are mesmerizing, mysterious ambient music passages along with trance-like percussive segments, soaring space guitar, enchanting cello and distant melodies, as well as world music and cinematic elements.  The current lineup of Green Isac includes multi-instrumentalist Morten Lund and percussionist Andreas Eriksen along with the three new members: Frode Larsen on percussion; Tov Ramstad on electric cello and saw; and Jo Wang on piano, mellotron, therevox, and synthesizers. Elvind aarset ap

  Green Isac Orchestra — Green Isac Orchestra ( Spotted Peccary  SPM-1304, 2015, CD) by  Peter Thelen , Published 2016-03-07 Those who have followed Green Isac from ther very beginnings – the  Strings & Pottery album from 1991 – have witnessed plenty of growth and evolution over the last 25 years, beginning as the duo of Morten Lund (guitars, bass, keyboards, flute, etc.) and Andreas Eriksen (world percussion, keyboards, electronics) with a simple concept of creating an ethnic stew fusing rhythms and electronics, later adding more ideas and instruments to that concept, along with additional guest players as needed to realize the development in progress over the course of five studio albums. Last year the group officially expanded to a five-piece, now including longtime collaborator Tov Ramstad (electric cello), and relative newcomes – since 2014 release  Passengers  – additional percussionist Frode Larsen and keyboardist Jo Wang, allowing Lund to concentrate on guitars. And with th

  Green Isac Orchestra JANUARY 15, 2016   HYPNAGOGUE LEAVE A COMMENT No matter how much music I listen to or write about, it seems that I am constantly introduced to acts and artists who’ve been turning out music for X years without my ever hearing of them. Case in point: Green Isac. From what I read on the Spotted Peccary web site, Andreas Eriksen and Morten Lund have been going strong for 25 years. And yet it’s only now, when they’ve expanded their roster and added the word “Orchestra” to their name that I get to experience this excellent blend of world styles, jazz-informed structures, and cinematic New Age sensibilities. The array of instruments brought into play here is impressively global, and the styles, although most have a bit of Middle Eastern flair, cover pretty fair ground as well. The jazz influence shows up nicely in the piano-fronted “Algebra,” accented with smooth strings and a bit of a Latin feel to the drums. “Hapi” catches me with its chugging rhythm, collection of p