Wobbler keyboard player Lars Fredrik Frøislie spent much of the pandemic tinkering with the array of instruments he keeps in the basement of his house in Oslo. “For a lot of the time, my family had to endure the noise that was coming up from there,” he tells Prog, apologetically.
The outcome of these explorations is Frøislie’s debut solo album, Fire Fortellinger (‘Four Stories’). Released by Karisma on June 2, it’s inspired by Norse myth, history and nature, the album is a quartet of evocative, keyboard-centred songs, each telling a different tale.
“The song Rytter Av Dommedag is based on the legend of King Rakne,” says Frøislie, “who is supposedly buried in the largest burial mound in Northern Europe, surrounded by two white horses and treasure. I mixed in the…
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