Contact, by Sverre Knut Johansen

Contact

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"CONTACT" AN EPIC SOUND JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE WITH APOCALYPTIC EVENTS (IN A WORLD SURROUNDING BY ALIENS, FLYING OBJECTS AND MAN-MADE DESTRUCTIVE CAPABILITIES, GLOBAL ANNIHILATION BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS, HOPE AND REVELATION).

This Power album is pure energy and one of the few albums where I was truly surrounded by a creative force after producing "Secret Space Program" (Spotted Peccary Music).

This 4 side digipak is design by Michał Klimczak who is also the art creator for the digital front cover album. He accepted the challenge! as you can se.

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1.	Contact 04:18	buy track
2.	Hope 04:43	buy track
3.	Journey Through Space 06:44	buy track
4.	Apocalypse (Epic) 06:44	buy track
5.	Cosmonaut 05:12	buy track
6.	Sphere Alliance 07:00	buy track
7.	Ancient Civilization 03:59	buy track
8.	Apocalypse Pt. II 03:35	buy track
9.	Moonbase (Epic) 09:56	buy track
10.	Airwaves 06:17	buy track
11.	Pensive Moment 03:30	buy track

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"Contact" a epic sound journey through the universe and apocalyptic events (in a world surrounding by aliens, flying objects or man-made destructive capabilities, global annihilation by nuclear weapons, hope and revelation).

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The music will take you on a journey into different expressions that can be mighty and powerful. A world of grandeur and adventure. Sverre deals with musical motives that he builds, develops and creates bridges into the unknown. The sounds he uses influencing the direction the music will take, but often he is looking for specific sounds. The harmonies may be familiar but the sounds should be able to bring out something new, emotionally or a little intimidating. Pounding rhythms that grow large and brings forth the machines surrounded by nostalgic soundscapes with sounds of guitars and some female voices in the background in a epic journey through the universe.

sound design;
Sverre like`s and use effects in his music. Some may be similar to various aircraft and forms a bridge to the next theme or themes binding together. A engines who drop out and create a falling sound crashes. Epic emotional and nostalgic moods. Singing female voices in the background. Apocalyptic moods and doomsday depictions. But also quiet and peaceful landscapes in contact with other civilization and aliens .

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released February 3, 2017

credits;
Music composed by Sverre Knut Johansen in september-desember 2016. Sverre using soft synths, percussion, rhythmic and guitar samples.

Guitars on "contact" by Bjørn Charles Dreyer performed in Jan. 2017

Different guitar samples from Børge Petersen-Øverleir used on "Hope" and "Cosmonaut" arranged by Sverre Knut Johansen

Album art design by Michal Klimczak
Mastering by Jan Erik Kongshaug at Rainbow studio 20 jan 2017.

Copyright © 2017 origin music
Origin Music 13

Review from Synth&Sequences:

SVERRE KNUT JOHANSEN: Contact (2017)
“Contact is a story put in music and interpreted with an unusual strength of rhythms and where the delight lives with uncountable points of emotions”.
Sverre Knut Johansen Bandcamp (DDL 61:58) ****
(Upbeat and Electronica in a cinematographic vision)
Although it doesn't seem like it, Sverre Knut Johansen is a rather prolific artist. Set apart his albums produced by the American label Spotted Peccary Music, two all in all, the Norwegian architect of sounds and atmospheres keeps producing his music in an independent way via his Bandcamp site. After 3 albums in 2016, the one that we like to compare to Erik Wollo returns with a 4th opus in 12 months. That's a lot of music my friends! But the art of EM being a divinatory one, a lot of imagination and know how to transpose her into music seems easier for some than for others. Inspired by apocalyptic events, destructions of mass by invaders or by man, “Contact” is a story put in music and interpreted with an unusual strength of the rhythms which sows the swell, otherwise the tsunami in a universe where the delight lives with uncountable points of emotion which feeds it.
The title-track begins this most recent journey of Sverre Knut Johansen with a soft rhythm. Pulsations, too much spaced to create a livened up structure, pound an approach in mode suspense whereas a voice of cybernetic goddess blows an aria which fits very well to the synth veils perfumed of the mysteries of the East. Hoops go and come in their stroboscopic cocoon, insufflating more of intensity into a rhythm which will take off for a heavy and lively Electronica. Thunders of percussions set the fire to our ears while lines of synth get spin by crisscrossing themselves to trace harmonious beams in acuteness tints, like the tears of a nostalgic saxophone. In 4 minutes, Sverre Knut Johansen condenses the various phases of “Contact”. "Hope" follows with an approach as much intense. Rolling of paroxystic percussions make rage the layers and the effects of synth which inject paradoxical elements where shine these melodies which we have already heard somewhere, otherwise in the music of the musician native of Mo i Rana. Arpeggios shiver under this intense sound fauna where we can also hear sighs of astral divinities. There are points of intensity here which are pure delights for sensitive souls, especially after the short ambient passage which fed on sound effects and on lamentations of a completely unexpected guitar. "Journey Through Space" respects the musical direction of the first two titles of “Contact”. by presenting a structure as heavy, as dense of musical and sound elements, but strongly watered of beautiful orchestral effects. We doubtless enter into the most cinematographic approach of “Contact”. A very meditative title which is sculptured in Philip Glass's mold, "Apocalypse" is a small jewel of the minimalist art which hangs on constantly to the minimalist tune of the keyboard. We pass by all the ranges of emotion here while the music embraces ethereal passages, others stormier otherwise more complex with a vision of sci-fi and finally a heavy techno ideal for drunk Zombies. Most of the titles of “Contact” hold us all on the alert with constantly evolving structures. While our ears thought they could go quiet with the very honeyed intro of "Cosmonaut", the title evolves subtly towards a huge theatrical rock where will reign a guitar and its heavy riffs as well as its convoluted harmonies, if not solos.
"Sphere Alliance" makes no compromise and reveals a structure still very heavy but forged in a good electronic rock where our fingers remain more active than our feet … But one can dance over it! The heavy rhythm is sit on sober percussions and on sequences which sparkle from all sides without really wanting to lead the pace. The synth is seducing with breezes which are transformed into layers of voices but especially into a swarm of sound effects which always tease our curiosity for sounds. And this desire for tones, the sounds and their colors and is more than justified here! "Ancient Civilization" offers a very energetic tribal music. That reminds me of Element 4 in a context of African chants or yet to actin movie music by Hans Zimmer, kind of Black Hawk Down. Arpeggios glittering in a sphere of tranquility, "Apocalypse Pt. II" is one of the two quiet titles, the other one being "Pensive Moment", that we find on “Contact”. The ambiences are always very profound, giving this film vision which glides all over this last contact between Sverre Knut Johansen and the music lovers. "Moonbase" is another very intense title with percussions and heavy pulsations which plough a heathen rhythm. Effects of voices and/or of sibylline breezes feed the paradoxes of this motionless rhythm which is weaved for cinema, the kind of action movie where the tension is at its height, with its structural approach which plays on both poles, ambient and rhythmic, before offering a 2nd part and its suspense amplified which hangs on to our lobe of ear. Intense and effective! "Airwaves" offers a kind of nice fusion between Groove and Chill Out with an ambience of a quite futuristic movie. It's lively, even sensual, and a pleasant guilty pleasure! "Pensive Moment" closes this last story all in music from Sverre Knut Johansen with a beautiful melody where arpeggios hesitate to go out of a very nostalgic envelope. What of better than to end an album of disaster, of human greyness, with a thing which makes very Vangelis? Another beautiful surprise of Sverre Knut Johansen who continuous his seduction operation among the ears gourmand of electronic rhythms in a universe which is just as much.
Sylvain Lupari (April 6th, 2017)
gutsofdarkness.com & synthsequences.blogspot.ca

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Also Artist On Spotted Peccary Music. My first album was "Distant Shore" (1994).

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