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Erlend Sellevold is the composer and electronic main man in Ralph Myerz and the Jack Herren Band (Emperor Norton/Rycodisc). Along the years with the Jack Herren Band, there where lots of material and ideas that didnt quite fit with the RM and TJHB formula. This material was the starting point for the work on the solo-album Ralphorama. But it is far from a collection of leftovers and b-priority material. Quite the opposite!
Erlend Sellevold has been working day and night with this album the last two years, breaking one deadline after another. And Ralphorama has become a tour de force of what Erlend Sellevold/Ralph Myerz stands for, a tour de force of an album with one masterpiece followed by the other!
Some of the tracks are style wise familiar with the two first albums from RM and TJHB: melancholic downbeat-oriented electronica, two of them with vocals from Christine Sandtorv (courtesy of Ephemera). However, the main difference from the RM and TJHB material is in the first part of the album, where the vocalist Erlend Sellevold steps forward: a handful of tracks topped with the great 80s white-boy-disco-rap-track All Night Long (in a duet with Caro) with tongue-in-cheek references and to bands like Indeep and Modern Romance. Then the album does a new surprising turn, when Erlend is joined with a bunch of American rappers: Devin The Dude, Kurupt, Taleb Kweli, Planet Asia, J Wells and others from the crews around Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube.
In addition we get cool guest appearances from the Jamaican rapper Lexie Lee on We Dont Play, and the Swedish Norwegian singer Karen Park on Prison Break. Add some extra spice with minimalistic dub and smoke filled beats, and you have the full picture of the Ralphorama treat!
(Quelle: Nova Media Distribution, 28.11.2008)
Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Hello!
3. Sometimes
4. Prison Break (Feat. Karin Park)
5. All Night Long (Feat. Caro)
6. The Dancer
7. Montana (Back In The Days)
8. Grey Goose
9. We Dont Give A Fuck
10. Shit Talkin
11. Summertime Heat
12. My Darling
13. Smokey
14. We Dont Play
15. Heatwave (Summersong) (Feat. Caro)
16. Out Of Reach
17. Stormy Weathers
18. Angel (Feat. Thea)
19. Sandviken (Echoes From The Past)
20. I Love You (Outro)
FORMAT: CD
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