Still Life With Eggplant

For 'Still Life With Eggplant' Motorpsycho assembled some 20 songs of what Bent Saether calls 'other music', simply songs from the last three years that didn't suit the Unicorn but refused to be ignored. In October the band entered Brygga Studio in Trondheim for the first time in many, many moons, this being the studio where they recorded a few of their first albums ('Soothe', 'Demon Box' and 'Timothy's Monster') some twenty years ago. This time the core trio was augumented by guitarist Reine Fiske. Best known for his work in Swedish psych-combos Dungen and The Amazing, Reine is an old acquaintance of the band, and his recent exploits with Elephant9 made the pairing seem like a potentially interesting one for Motorpsycho as well. The fruits of Reine's involvement, as presented on this album, speak for themselves: his fingerpicking dexterity on the acoustic guitar provides both 'Barleycorn' and the old Love chestnut 'August' with a solid organic bed for the musical escapades of the other three, and on 'The Afterglow' his tasteful guitar shadings and mellotron work adds immensly to the mood of the song.