'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.'
Tracklist
1 The Night Corridor 2:04
Written-By – Oustad
2 Cleaning Still Houses 5:53
Written-By – Oustad, Nyström
3 The Tale And The Variation 1:02
Written-By – Oustad
4 Industrial Pale Ale 7:30
Written-By – Oustad
5 Becoming The Green 5:02
Written-By – Oustad
6 Vulgalina Fever 6:16
Written-By – Oustad
7 Helvetesfallet 4:21
Written-By – Oustad, Nyström
8 It's A Test 6:57
Written-By – Oustad
9 Ned I Det Bunnløse 0:30
Written-By – Oustad
10 Astronaut 47 4:47
Written-By – Oustad
Credits
Band [Kristoffer Nyströms Orkester is] – Kristoffer Oustad, Peter Nyström
Cover – Kristoffer Oustad
Mixed By, Mastered By – Kristoffer Oustad
Photography By [Front cover photography by] – Robert Knapp
Recorded By [All sounds used in track 4 recorded by] – Kristoffer Oustad (tracks: 4)
Recorded By [Field recordings used in track 5 recorded by] – Anders Wessel Evensen (tracks: 5), Kristoffer Oustad (tracks: 5)
Recorded By [Field recordings used in track 8 recorded by] – Kristoffer Oustad (tracks: 8)
Technician [Technical Assistance] – Eivind Yggeseth, Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Lars Sørensen, Mårten Kellerman
Notes
From the inner panel:
“Recorded between 2008 and 2011 at Forbidden Frequencies and Red Carpet Livingroom Studios.”
“All sounds used in track 4 recorded by Kristoffer Oustad at Nøgne Ø - Det kompromissløse bryggeri, January 2010.
“Field recordings used in track 5 recorded by Anders Wessel Evensen and Kristoffer Oustad at Wreck Bay Sea Lab Z-14, April 2010.
“Field recordings used in track 8 recorded by Kristoffer Oustad at Reactor 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and in Pripyat, June 2011.”
