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artist :	Thunderbear
album :	Thunderbear
Thunderbear - Thunderbear

The album is instrumental music and has been said to be somewhere between French composer Erik Satie (among other things known for his "furnite music") and Canadian group Godspeed You Black Emperor (which in some ways also resemble Sigur Ros and Mogwai a bit). But what makes Thunderbear interesting and sets the music apart from the before-mentioned artists - and makes it distinctively Thorbjørn - is the pianoplaying which the other bands don't use at all or to the same extent. Sometimes simple slow moving pieces and other times as if the keys are caught in a whirlwind over the Sea of Japan or wherever. Breathy bass clarinet fondle chugging beats and electronic noises coughing in the background - and then slip off into infinity towards miles-high guitar-structures for a climax that makes the hairs stand up on your arms. It's not Under Byen. It's a personal slice of it, so to speak. Which of course makes sense because it's a part of Under Byen doing it. Still, this is uniquely Thunderbear. And it's a very rewarding journey indeed. (source: www.morningsiderecords.dk) (Roger Rey)