Motorpsycho aren’t accustomed to sitting still. When they’re not releasing albums at an alarming rate of knots, the Norwegian trio are invariably out on the road. So when the pandemic hit, they suddenly found themselves in forced limbo alongside many other artists. That’s when the creative juices started pumping. The latest fruit of their labour is Ancient Astronauts, initially a multimedia fancy that eventually morphed, almost by accident rather than design, into a remarkable new album.
“The whole ‘corona’ thing kind of stopped the usual way of doing things,” explains singer/multi-instrumentalist Bent Sæther. “So one of the things that we agreed to do was provide music for this solo dance performance by Hooman Sharifi, who used to be the artistic head of Carte Blanche, the national modern dance ensemble of Norway. We said yes because it was something new, a different challenge.”
