A cute pop-funk album that I'm glad was requested just before Xmas and arrived for our listening enjoyment just following. This is their only release, according to the database. The Beatlesian harmony vocals (which reminds me not a little of Norwegian pop-prog band Difference) and admixture of funky rhythms into the otherwise somewhat generic pop give it some interest, made sustained as well by the above-average length of the whole LP.

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The band recorded a second album, Aorta 2, in a radically different style, leaning more towards country rock with Christian overtones. They finally split up shortly after its release on the Happy Tiger label in early 1970. Jim Donlinger and Michael Been, together with former Exceptions member Marty Grebb, then joined the band Lovecraft (previously H. P. Lovecraft) The original Aorta later re-formed to do promotional spots for the .

Byen is Torske's most restrained full-length yet, and less diverse than past LPs like Feil Knapp and Kokning, both of which dipped into ambient and more abstract sounds. That makes for a smooth listen, free of the "skrangle-house" elements of older tracks like 2007's "God Kveld" and 2010's "Furu. But Byen could use more of Torske's signature sense of chaos.

Aorta was a highly talented rock band from Rockford, IL that released two albums throughout 1969 and 1970. The band was originally known as the Exceptions, a popular soul rock group that played around the Chicago area and released a handful of singles. The album was housed in a beautiful, graphic sleeve that has always overshadowed the great music from within. Musically speaking, Aorta’s sound comes close to Boston band Listening or even the more psychedelic aspects of early Blood, Sweat and Tears during its Al Kooper phase. There seems to be some kind of concept that reoccurs under the Mein Vein theme.

Lovecraft), and New Colony Six.