Rotoscope

The genre-straddling Norwegian collective Rotoscope was originally formed in nov 1999 by composer/multi-instrumentalist Andreas Mjøs, with the purpose of combining contemporary electronica with an increase of experimental methods to songwriting and production. While in the beginning formed with the precise aim of carrying out a live display in a music event in Norway, Rotoscope is definitely mainly a studio-based clothing, one which thrives on technology a minimum of as much since it will on live interplay between your musicians. Furthermore to innovator Mjøs, Rotoscope’s lineup contains vocalist Christine Sandtorv, vibraphonist/percussionist Rob Waring, drummer/percussionist Knut Aalefjaer, consumer electronics wielder Rune Brøndbo, saxophonist/clarinetist Lars Horntveth, and maker Jørgen Traeen. Collectively, this solid brings a varied range of encounter, operating the gamut from pop and electronica to modern traditional music, jazz, and experimental sound. Mjøs and Lars Horntveth are both users from the ten-piece jazz/electronica/fusion clothing Jaga Jazzist; Aalefjaer takes on using the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra; Sandtorv sings inside a well-known Norwegian pop group known as Ephemera; and Brøndbo provides produced many albums of breakbeat-driven electronica beneath the name Sternklang. Furthermore, many of the group’s associates compose music for movies, tv shows, and/or traditional ensembles, and many are also energetic as collaborators or studio room instrumentalists with Norwegian pop and rock and roll rings of varied stripes. Rotoscope documented their first record, Great Curves, in middle-2000. It had been released the next season on Norway’s Jester Information, the label of Christopher Rygg, who’s otherwise most widely known because the frontman for the acclaimed post-metal rings Ulver and Arcturus. Due to Rygg’s pursuing among steel listeners, Rotoscope — like Jester labelmates When, Bogus Blimp, and Origami Galaktika — Rotoscope were able to draw in some interest in corners from the steel underground despite stylistically having nothing in connection with steel.