{"id":8277,"date":"2015-08-14T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2015-08-14T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T10:00:23","slug":"album-mini-review-todd-rundgrenemil-nikolaisenhans-peter-lindstrom-runddans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/album-mini-review-todd-rundgrenemil-nikolaisenhans-peter-lindstrom-runddans\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-Review: Todd Rundgren\/Emil Nikolaisen\/Hans-Peter Lindstr\u00f8m \u2013 Runddans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/runddans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nFile next to: Todd Rundgren&#8217;s Utopia, Tangerine Dream<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00U9DYC6G&amp;asins=B00U9DYC6G&amp;linkId=TZPBHN76DJBA7XBZ&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This would be noteworthy if only for the fact that Todd Rundgren rarely collaborates with other artists (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=736\"><strong>Utopia<\/strong>,<\/a> <strong>Ringo&#8217;s All-Starrs<\/strong> and that one <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?tag=residents\"><strong>Residents<\/strong><\/a> album excepted). And Rundgren rarely visits musical territory he&#8217;s explored previously. But on <em>Runddans<\/em>, he does both. Those who prefer his pop-centric side (<em>Something\/Anything<\/em> being the exemplar) might find <em>Runddans<\/em> a bit meandering. But listeners who enjoyed <em>Initiation<\/em>, <em>Healing<\/em>, and\/or the quirky <em>A Cappella<\/em> will simply delight in this. <em>Runddans<\/em> is mostly instrumental, but when Rundgren does sing \u2013 wordless vocalizing on \u201cSolus\u201d and proper singing on the \u201cPut Your Arms Around Me\u201d suite \u2013 it&#8217;s deeply soulful and redolent of 1975&#8217;s \u201cBorn to Synthesize.\u201d One can draw a straight line from <em>A Wizard\/A True Star<\/em> to the delightful yet dizzying cut-and-paste psychedelic arrangements found here. And Todd&#8217;s guitar work on this lush, warm disc will conjure memories of pyramid-themed stagecraft and ankh-shaped instruments. A triumph.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Todd Rundgren&#8217;s Utopia, Tangerine Dream This would be noteworthy if only for the fact that Todd Rundgren rarely collaborates with other artists (Utopia, Ringo&#8217;s All-Starrs and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,49,51,56,57],"tags":[2228],"class_list":["post-8277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambient","category-new-release","category-pop","category-prog","category-psych","tag-todd-rundgren","cat-5-id","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-56-id","cat-57-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}