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Trold – Once Upon A Time [Apoxina]
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Nov 16, 2003 02:16
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Tracklist :
1. Slice Of Pizza
2. So Many Tables
3. Practical Joke
4. ….So Below
5. Space Attack ! ! !
6. Missing Link
7. Tail Of Huldra
8. Nanocosmos
Total running time: 72:54
Trold – Once Upon A Time is the 1st album released on Apoxina. Trold are 3 guys from Norway : Bjorn Opheim, Stein Skojdal & Leif Askeland.
This album was mastered by the well known Tim Schuldt (4Carry Nuts).
Slice Of Pizza is like a long , deep & solitary walk through an unknown norvegian forest, by this way you progressively explorate the soundscape of Trold composed of psychedelic melodies. The atmosphere could be perceived as oppressing, wet & cold at first Yes, the edge of this norvegian forest isn‘t very welcoming …
However, be courageous and let’s try to go deeper inside the wood.
Things don’t seem to turn out all right, light becomes weaker and wasn’t already very powerfull !
Scrutinizing more carefully all around in order to discover some reassuring signs, you’ll only notice more & more strange phenomenons. Between 3’35 to 4’50, you hear unexplicable sounds, branchs break themselves alone or invisible horses galloping. After 4’50, you’re now confront with illusions of view, suddenly myriad of luciols coming from the sky light the forest like if they would like to indicate you the good way to follow, helped by some little balls of fire appearing when you’re takin a wrong direction.
You feel appeased from the situation but start to get tired after hours of walk, your feet are so heavy now. That’s when, at 7‘05, an internal voice tells you ‘There are personns who’are asleep & who’had to wake up’.
An encouragement probably you think, the core of the hood musn’t be very far from now…
Without premises, your heartbeat sharply decrease.
It’s done! You’ve reached it (So Many Tables), you’re looking with your sparlin’ eyes at the hidden part of the magical Norvegian forest. It’s a great & confused feeling between your heart & mind, your heart is now palpipating. All over, several little differents creatures are dancing, drinking or laughing like gnomes,elfs, trolls, fairies and some else. Even if by moment (around 5’15), a glacial wind reminds you’re probably lost somewhere in the middle of a huge area, you don’t know why but you keep smiling & happy. A short instant (from 6:30 to 7’07), all people around you little by little stop their activities, you’ll understand a bit later they were praying the spirit of the forest to thanks him for this rave as you meet the white hair & beard giant of the hood which is his reincarnation.
It seems that you’re participating to an infinite party, unfortunatly suddenly (8’50) an acid rain starts which irremediably means that the party is over.
In order to protect you from the acid rain, a troll smoking a pipe invites you with a wave of the hand to climb on an immense tree (over 50 meters) where he has built his hut (Pratical Joke). At first the ascension is quite arduous seeing that the trunk is sleek therefore slipery (from 0’00 to 0’18). Taking a rapid rythm in your scaling due to the presence of pic-vert giving you the good tempo ( starting at 0’56), you won’t take too much time to achieve the gnome’s den. (2’02-2’16) You make your first steps on a woody cracking floor.
After being sheltered, the troll becomes very talkative but not always understandable (2’32 & 3’30). Sometimes it’s cracking so strong that you’ve got the impress the roof will fall on your head (3’24). The troll is facetious and doesn’t stop flooding you ears of words which totally hypnotise your brain. You remain in a half conscious state, dreaming awake up to 7’30 when the troll succeeds after several attempts to wake you up with a ‘hello-hello… you understand ?’
After a quite long back to normal brain activity while you were having a meal, then (8’55 to 10’04) you immediatly recognize this cracking wood, your eyes are heavy. You’re entereing the bed offered by the troll with the last perception of a glacial wind blowing all over the forest just before being ready to drop.
Some birds sing to wish you a good day (…So Below). After some discussion with the troll, you’ve got the firm intention to explore this mysterious underground civilization of the forest he discribed you. You come down from the tree after having said good bye to the troll & thanked him for his hospitality. Remembering the troll indications, you follow the snails up to 2 huge fly agaric where 2 women all dressed of white stand. At 4’08, those 2 women magically proceed to a mutation into a pair of worms. They now hollow a gallery lo let you penetrate so below… The 2 worms are very active & energic but never stop their effort ; strangely the tunnel they ‘re building is very winding, you just learn that straight doesn’t exist in worms vocabulary.
More & more you go below and more numerous the worms get in order to draw you the way.
(5’57) There are so much worms now that they got to rub each other for advance which causes metallic twisted shrill melody.
You’ve not arrived yet to the mysterious underground civilization that already you’re hearing guardian saying ‘Just a minute ladys & gentleman, i think something is hapenning’(Space Attack ! ! !), this got the property of make the worms escaping the place. But the alert is given , immediatly this is an ant invasion running toward you. They all take the direction of your eardrums (from 0’40 upto5’50).
5’50 to 6’50, the ants have put a special acid onto your eardrums so effective that you feel giddy. The ants are now happy you’re now under their control.
(Missing Link) During their powertime, the ants make you travel to a place swarming with little human beings at red eyes covered of black fur having a gloomy & melancholic party. ‘ positive state of mind’ they claim (0’50). The music is cycling up and the melody could emanate from a mutant accordion.
(Tail Of Huldra) Decided to see all part of this hood, you walk to the north when you meet Huldra , the nude queen of the area. You make a quite long way together. she tries to bewitch you & make you remaining here for the rest of your life. But Huldra is fairplay and always let go away someone without aggressive behaivior, by the way she shows you the way where you’ll can drink water like you asked her.
Discovering ‘Nanocosmos’ the nothern part of this norvegian forest near from a river, this zone also includes the dragoon’s & unicorn ‘s den, you’re starting to feel how calm are the natural elements, you get frequenter with them. But there’s still something you can’t explain yourself however beautiful, deep, twisted, tripping or morning like in Nanocosmos was the sound, as you just see you’re simply sitting in front of your cd player within Trold – Once Upon A Time…Was all this just an illusion, who knows…
Favorites : 2,8,1,5
Then :3,6,4
7,5/10
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DiMiTry
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Posted : Nov 16, 2003 12:12
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hahaha
Great Review. I just have to buy this now.  |
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Munchie
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Posted : Nov 18, 2003 00:32
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i gave this one a listen, and although it's very refreshing, nightish & forest oriented, i have one problem with this album: the melodies [and believe me, there's lot's of them], have a slight Nitzhonot style touch... don't get me wrong, this release is far from being a Nitzhonot album, but the melodies just sound a little bit "holymen" influenced... pick it up, judge for yourselves
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Posted : Nov 18, 2003 23:16
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Posted : Nov 19, 2003 00:58
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Try www.saikosounds.com , they'll get iit in stock soon, and you can listen a 2.5 min sample og each track there!
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Le Lotus Bleu
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Posted : Nov 19, 2003 12:58
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Anak
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Posted : Nov 19, 2003 19:42
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fullom
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Posted : Nov 20, 2003 11:30
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Yeah it's not bad, some of the tracks go nowhere but reminds me a lot of the last Frequency Surfer (that was a good cd).
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andrejcid
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Posted : Nov 24, 2003 14:45
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its excellent cd, just beautiful!!
i love this type of music--very twisted, well layered but yet very open and melodic. it is intense and dark at moments, but again very relaxing in the same time.
and Munchie, i can't reALLy agree with the holyman thingy.....this album has nothing to do with holymen sound!maybe u should give it another listen!
i recomand it to everybody that likes experiencing the forest misterises...
take care all
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Psysnoo
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Posted : Apr 27, 2004 15:41
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Ok...i was kind of disappointed with this release (considering i bought it and all), but hey, such inspirated review from Lotus Bleu (WAY TO GO!:)) will make me give it some more listenings  |
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FullCrash(Gadi)
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Posted : Apr 27, 2004 20:27
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Who They R Trold ???
I Heard Some Tunse By Them ...
Who They R \From Where ?? |
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medir
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Posted : Apr 27, 2004 21:49
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http://trold.trance.net/
...really wicked stuff ! 
experiment !
make it your motto day and night.
experiment,
and it will lead you to the light.
the apple on the top of the tree
is never too high to achieve,
so take an example from eve...
experiment ! |
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Alek
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Posted : May 2, 2004 18:09
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Amazing album! Very original and different from anything else... Melodic and dark... album of 2003. for me.
How am I supposed to hallucinate with all these swirling colors distracting me! |
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Narc
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Posted : Jun 20, 2004 13:47
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for me as well. non of the albums has such wibe that can take U deep into the wood and mystery of nature with such amazing songos that U just cannot put in words. And this is exacly what I am looking for. |
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FrodOhm
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Posted : Jun 21, 2004 04:17
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This is just perfect for forrest parties!! Go Trold!:)
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