Erik Wøllo, Emotional Landscapes - 53m 37s

Tracks & Durations

1. In the Picture	2:52
2. Metaphor	4:44
3. Prism	4:17
4. Second Totem	5:27
5. Sounds of the Seen, Pt. 1	8:08
6. Valley	3:04
7. Virtual World	5:56
8. Mountain Beach	5:22
9. Sounds of the Seen, Pt. 2	3:09
10. Satellite	4:22
11. Echo of NightCadence	6:08

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Review

The title is underwhelming, but the music is an ecstatic journey traversing aurora borealis spacescapes and quiet ambient moods. Erik Wollo is a Norwegian guitarist and synthesist out of the Mike Oldfield tradition, building a 21st century orchestra layering acoustic, electric, and synthesized guitars. A musician with a delicate touch, Wollo sometimes builds quiet lines out of violin-like sustains that echo in space soliloquies. While his rhythms rarely get above a slow-chill, Wollo's solos often burn with a dark intensity. Tracks like "Second Totem" have a quiet heroism about them, the sound of impending adventure. "Sounds of the Seen, Pt.1," one of the more dynamic tracks, begins as a haunting adagio for cello, before launching into a crushing electronica assault that ends in the sound of humanity moving, with location recordings Wollo made under the World Trade Center a few days prior to 9-11. It's a dose of grounding reality in a music that seems to constantly hover just above the firmament, rooted in imagination. --John Diliberto

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