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Album Review: Storsveit Nix Noltes - Royal Family-Divorce

  • Written by  Kenny McMurtrie

I love the concept behind Storsveit Nix Noltes (the name of which roughly translates as The Nick Noltes Big Band) - nine Icelandic guys (now actually 11) get together in Reykjavik to perform their own arrangements of Bulgarian and Balkan folk tunes. Could you make it up if it wasn't true?

Having nothing other than an appreciation of such tunes in their original intended renditions, I'm clearly unable to comment on any updating or whatever the band put the songs through, although the more psychedelic aspects are, I imagine, all their doing. Suffice to say that as you'd expect there are a lot of foot-stompingly raucous moments throughout the ten tracks, so seeing them live will be a great experience. Think of Soft Machine doing Gogol Bordello instrumentals and you'll have a fair approximation of the sound on offer.

This is the band's second album and it originally came out in Iceland in 2007 but is finally getting a long overdue release here in April 2009 on Fat Cat. No tour dates in evidence at the moment but I, for one, will be keeping an eye out for some.

Cheers to Hannes for the translation.

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