ALDUORKA

Once again Morten Nielsen Birkeland aka Breidablik delivers another great masterpiece of Berlin School of Electronic Music (or Bergen School as Morten calls it given where in Norway he hails from). He get a bit of help from Håkon Oftung of Jordsjø fame on guitar, and Trond Gjellem on drums. While Omicron (which released just as COVID was starting to take off and coincidentally the Omicron variant not appearing until a year later) tends to emphasize the more calm, eerie ambient nature, this one more balances the slow creepy ambient parts with the upbeat. "Alda" starts off with sequencers reminding me of Michael Hoenig's Departure from the Northern Wasteland before going into eerie ambience that makes me think of glaciers. "Orka I" and "II" are more upbeat and has a more 1980s feel, like as if they were breather pieces because of the eerie nature of a lot of music. The stuff between the two "Orka" pieces are quite eerie. Actually that's what I always enjoy about Breidablik and this doesn't disappoint. You really can't go wrong with anything Breidablik has done, and Alduorka is no exception.