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Green Isac Orchestra's Emmesity Video

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  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