Professor Tip Top from Bergen, Norway, is a group playing fine progressive music with a retro sound greased with a lysergic touch which gives the songs a psychedelic aura. “Hybrid Hymns” is their 5th album! The songs are partly melodic with vocals, adding longer instrumental parts of guitar, analog sequencers, vintage synths and keyboards in between. Inspiration and influences are the 60’s/70’s versions of Gong, Yes, Pink Floyd, and the Canterbury scene. The band started in 2011, but the members are veterans with musical backgrounds starting in the early 70’s. The lyrics are written by the singer Svein Magnar Hansen.
The topics on “Hybrid Hymns” are contemporary issues; alienation, a world with a scientific level out of reach to the common man, a frustration to the progress in digital colonization of our everyday life, artificial intelligence as a dehumanization, political dissolution and confusion. But after all, at the bottom we are just humans, irrational, emotional and vulnerable.
“Hybrid Hymns” is scheduled for a February 22 release through Norwegian label Apollon Records Prog.
Track list:
- Black holes part I
- An akward choice
- Machine emotions
- The dogs are coming
- Data mining
- Light generator
- Turing machines
- Passion
- Hybrid Minds
- Closer
- The final night
- Black holes part II
Line-up:
Svein Magnar Hansen – Vocals
Sam Fossbakk – Guitar, EMS Synthi, VCO3, Rhodes, Arp Axxe,Minimoog, Mellotron, Vocals
Stein Høgseth – Bass
Charles Wise – Drums
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/Professor-Tip-Top-282706708456217/
https://www.facebook.com/apollonrecordsprog/
