Introducing: Manjolia Mountains.
June 6, 2011, 0 comments
Last year, some acquaintances of mine (most of them already with a foot inside the Norwegian underground music scene) decided to get together and form the four-piece Manjolia Mountains, and before anyone could even describe their sound, a facebook page and artwork was already up for their curious friends to have a sneak peak on their little new-bown project. After a long and cold winter of recording and jamming in their little Drammen based studio, a full-lenght was already in the making, of which is planned to see the light of day this coming fall.
Don’t let the chillwavey artwork above trick you, however. Leaning heavily towards the psychedelic genre with an influence of both krautrock and folk, Manjolia Mountains will blindfold you and leave you in the darkness to search for the light, with no guidance or whatsoever. On the other hand, the Manjolia Mountains universe is not an unpredictable one. Every composition and sound is well planned and properly crafted – even the couple of tracks they’ve put up on their bandpage under the name Jam #1 (below) and Jam #2, which both sound less like a jamming session and more in the veins of the Norwegian indie-krautrockers Lovecult, or even like an instrumental piece of Tame Impala …gone dark.
Indeed, we are rather excited to hear how these guys will evolve in the future, and even more excited for the forthcoming, still untitled full-lenght which they have so kindly promised to their local fanbase. Stay tuned.
Manjolia Mountains – Jam #1 (Seeing is Being)
