Tusmørke – Dawn of Oberon

 

 

Tusmørke – Dawn of Oberon
Karisma Records – 2024
Rock, Folk, Psych, Prog, Seventies
Rated: ****

Personally, I identify with the Peter Pan Syndrome the members of Tusmørke admittedly suffer from. “The record is a manifestation of our Peter Pan syndrome; our aesthetics and ideals remain unchanged for the last 25 years. Never grow up, just grow old. This time we go away with the fairies all together, to the far-away land of the far-out mind.” I’m just getting older, but on many levels I’ve never grown up and that might be one of the reasons that Dawn Of Oberon whisks me away from the first moments and sends me down the rabbit hole and skipping along the yellow brick road. And there I dance like a Labyrinth firey about to lose my head on all that majestic organ and flute work. Last album they versed mostly in Norwegian, but this time the four from Oslo stay mostly in English territory, but always in a fairy tale land. Opening track Dawn Of Oberon had been lying in wait, for some thirty years, waiting to be finished at the right time. And with new drummer, Kusken, and keyboard player, Herjekongen this was the moment. It’s a wonderful, pastoral touched seventies prog and folk wandering. It travels and takes you further away with every note played. Less quirky then the Hestehoven album that came before, its still all full of love and smiles. Cause c’mon, a title like Born To Be Mild for the second track will surely make you chuckle. All of it will send a flutter down your spine and time will pass by in an entirely different speed. Something very good prog always seems to do. And then to find out that the remainder of the album is actually a five-piece suite that came natural to the boys once almost eighteen minute long Dawn of Oberon was finished, feels exhilarating. Based on jams and bits remembered from live shows, every track is bursting with life. It adds to the looseness of it all and gives the air of minds coming together and having the time of their lives. It’s lightning, captured. It’s positive energy trans morphed into wild folky prog. It’s Tusmørke, the only ones that can truly bring fairytales alive. Because they live them…

(Written by JK)

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