This is the first vocal based record from Rumpistol. He has previously collaborated with singers on a few singles and remixes, but this is the first collection of songs where people actually sing.
All the songs are based on instrumentals from his critically acclaimed ISOLA album from 2022. Except one which is based on a song from the previous LP After The Flood.
A little bit of background:
Rumpistol had a stress breakdown in 2018 which rendered him unable to operate the computer, which had been his primary instrument throughout his long career as a musician. As a tool of recovery he used the piano and started composing music of a quite different nature than before. This lead to his two neo-classical LPs mentioned above.
He started out very minimal and completely acoustic and through the course of these records he developed on to quite complex orchestral arrangements and finally also began incorporating the computer again.
And now with this EP he has developed even further to also use the one element that is central to almost all pop music: singing.
The focus track is the opener featuring Swedish-Danish Jullie Hjetland with a haunting mysterious slow-jazz winter warmer. In an atmosphere reminiscent of both Angelo Badalamenti and the post-Portishead works of Beth Gibbons she contemplates the visitors we receive here on Earth from UFOs. Well fitting to an EP generally dealing with inner and outer journeys.
The singers on this record are from all over Scandinavia and all well established top tier artists, yet not all well known in the mainstream landscape. All of them female.