Norwegian experimental composer Øyvind Torvund began his musical career as a rock and free improvising guitarist. He is known for his matching acoustic and electronic instruments in multimedia settings, and his eccentric manner of unorthodox pastiches, mixing sitcom jingles, robot noises, Norwegian folk, noise, classical music, improvisation, and exotica, with signature exuberance and humor. A Walk into the Future is Torvund’s first album of orchestral music and features four compositions performed by the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Olari Elts. It suggests a kind of “psychedelic Disney waltz” where sounds of past, present, and future enter Torvund’s compositional centrifuge and exit as an eternal Technicolor braid, just like the cover artwork projects.
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