Runddans is the result of the collaboration between Todd Rundgren, Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Emil Nikolaisen. It's a spiritual magnus-opus, that stands alongside Rundgren's most worshipped trippy albums of the seventies, fusing his blue eyed soul with Lindstrom's disco epics and Emil Nikolaisen's studio trickery into a cosmic mix of soul, synth, pop and disco. The collaboration was born after Rundgren did a stomping remix of Lindstrom's track «Quiet Place To Live» in 2012 (Rundgren's first ever remix). The three of them met in a studio in wintery Oslo that same year, and the music slowly mushroomed from there. Ideas grew and took u-turns that lead into a violently beautiful and strange creature. The highly detailed and cacophonous sound of the album clearly conveys the international feel characteristic of Rundgren's cutting edge soul of his most studio-driven epic, 1973's A Wizard A True Star as well as his classics Todd and Initiation. The synthesizers, the restlessness, the suites, the sonic antics, the search for understanding, fulfilment and good times: it's all here. It also references his lost classic, the massively spiritual voice-only album Acapella from 1985. This, combined with Lindstrom's signature extended cosmic compositions and Emil's psychedelic sound-quilting paint the picture of three individuals on a journey towards musical bliss. A1 B For Birth A2 Liquid Joy From The Womb Of Infinity A3 Oppad, Over Skyene B1 Solus B2 Put Your Arms Around Me B3 Altar Of Kauaian Six String (Todd's Solo) C1 Out Of My Head (Lone Vibes) C2 Rundt Rundt Rundt C3 Wave Of Heavy Red (Disko-Nektar) D1 T.H.E. Golden Triangle (Dry Mouthed Gargoyles In A Fountain Of Fluorescent Shepard Tones) D2 Ravende Gal (Full Circle) D3 Ohr.. Um..Am.. Amen (Aftermath)
