FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE –
The composer and performer of
synth-based music known as Tor-Arne Riksheim has released his latest
LP record album, titled, “Shore.” The album is comprised of 12
original compositions for an approximate total listening time of 40
minutes, making for a comprehensive and round treatment of Riksheim
material. It has been released on the instants.no music record label.
Tor-Arne Riksheim's “Shore” is a
sonic dreamscape originally written as a collection of film scores.
However, Riksheim quickly came to understand that his highly
creative, uniquely colorful and smoothly elegant music created
stories in the mind without the need for visual accompaniment. The
media in Riksheim's homeland of Norway have already begun speaking
very highly of his new LP.
“Another black metal band, you say?”
jokes music critic J.A. Ramsli, referring to the deluge of “black”
heavy metal in Norway. “No. Not at all. This is electronic jazz.
Tor-Arne Riksheim [was] an old Telco engineer … now he makes music.
Excellent music. Get the CD. Really.”
The album elicits images in the mind's
eye with arresting clarity. Riksheim's chord progressions are hardly
ever predictable, and yet, always seem fitting and intuitive at the
same time. The uncanny ability of “Shore” to swoop up the
imagination and fly it away to the past, to the future, to seas
uncharted and lands beyond the edge of the world, is rooted more than
somewhat in the inspirations that guided Riksheim in composing it.
“The album is a project where I was
inspired by the traditional hard life at the Norwegian coast,” he
writes. Aquatic ebbs and flows populate the record. “Fishing,
seamen, weather, storms, beaches, life and death are keywords, even
if it’s not always obvious.”
Riksheim cites as main artistic
influences such artists as Vangelis, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel
Jarre, Ennio Morricone, Nito Rota, and Klaus Schulze, as well as the
library of classical music in general.
A lifelong music artist, Riksheim is
remarkably new to synthesized composition, though his “Shore” LP
clearly belongs on the top shelf beside well-respected records by
artists such as Vangelis and Mike Oldfield.
“Started as a 12 year old in a school
brass band on tenor horn,” he writes. “Swapped to trombone and
played for many years in brass bands, symphonic orchestras and big
bands. Started writing music at about 1982, and went into synths last
year.”
“Shore,” by Tor-Arne Riksheim is
available online worldwide.
-S. McCauley
Staff Press Release Writer
MondoTunes
The LP “Shore” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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