Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester (KNO) is a collaborative project between Peter Nyström (Megaptera/Negru Voda) and Kristoffer Oustad (V:28). A true sonic beat down, done in full Scandinavian style, with a battery of iron fisted rhythms hammering down in a thunderous downpour, and the caustic reverberations of the analog doom machine grinding and screeching in a symphony of clangorous and distressed beauty. This is an album that is as majestic as it is bleak, capturing the essence of old school Swedish industrial, but forging a new path towards a dark future.
Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester – Overlook Hotel (2011)
Label: Malignant Records – TUMORLP50 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2011 Genre: Electronic Style: Industrial, Noise
Tracklist
Ground Floor A1 The Colorado Lounge A2 The Broom Closet A3 The Restaurant A4 The Gold Ballroom A5 The Green Room First Floor B1 The Red Room B2 The Caretaker B3 The Meat Room B4 The Staircase B5 The Dormer
Overlook Hotel heralds the return of the mighty KNO, the collaborative project between Swedish industrial legend Peter Nystrom (Megaptera, Negru Voda), and Norwegian up and comer Kristoffer Oustad (V:28, Plague Machinery). 5 years after the highly acclaimed brakeHEAD CD, KNO welcomes you into the Overlook Hotel, where every room has a ghost, and every room has a story to tell. Travel the hallways and explore, as you venture into a more cerebral musical state than what brakeHEAD offered, where ghostly transmissions and hypnotic layers of surreal, ethereal atmospheres intersect with disembodied voices, clattering, furnace blasting percussion, and of course, healthy injections of true, old fashioned industrial noise and sweeping doom, done in the best Scandinavian style (imagine if Deutsch Nepal had continued in the same path laid down by Benevolence and you start to get the idea). The pacing of the album is truly impeccable, flowing seamlessly from to track, as if moving from room to room in a hazy, dream state, the layering and cohesiveness on a whole nothing short of meticulous. In 6 panel digipak.
Label: Not On Label (Kristoffer Oustad Self-released) – none Format: 2 x File, FLAC, EP Country: Worldwide Released: Feb 10, 2015 Genre: Electronic Style: Dark Ambient, Industrial
Tracklist
1 Crystal Resonance 4:01 2 Crystal Vessel 5:50
Two track EP of tracks that have been featured on different compilations.
