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Lorentzen — Leave Nobody Behind
(Apollon Records AP, 2025, CD / LP / DL)

by Henry Schneider, Published 2025-09-01

Leave Nobody Behind is an odd album. It sounds like a mash up of two different albums, one a set of eight poems written by Rainer Maria Rilke and recited by Brian Talgo, sometimes with a musical backdrop and the other a set of five minimal instrumentals ostensibly related to the poetry, but lost on me.  The album was produced and mixed by Norwegian musician Eivind Lorentzen who enlisted a number of other musicians for this project:  Atle Pakusch Gundersen (Wintherstormer, The Cut), Trond Gjellum (Panzerpappa), Jácome Guerrero Kiko (Superkabras), Paulin Skoglund-Voss (cellist), Markus Reuter (Stick Men), Davide Rossi (violin for Coldplay, Verve and many others) and Charlotte Valstad Nilsen (ex Gentle Knife).  The music is safe middle of the road simplistic progressive rock.  Each instrumental is based on a simple and short phrase traded back and forth between musicians and transposed up and down as chords change with crescendos to a climax.  For some reason, the title track reminds me of Pachebel’s Canon.  I do detect some Frippian influences on the subdued electric guitar on “Dimensions of Hope 1.”  The introspective nature of the instrumentals is soothing, but wears a bit thin due to the short repeated musical phrases.  The poetry recitations are by far the highlights of the album.

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Filed under: New releases, 2025 releases

Related artist(s): Markus Reuter, Eivind Lorentzen

More info
http://apollonrecords.no/products/lorentzen-leave-nobody-behind-cd

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