Motorpsycho and Ståle Storløkken

The Profile

Motorpsycho is a Norwegian rock band formed in Trondheim in 1989. Ståle Storløkken is a Norwegian keyboardist known for work with Supersilent and Elephant9; the two have collaborated on The Death Defying Unicorn with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

The Death Defying Unicorn is presented as a two-disc concept album blending Motorpsycho's progressive/psychedelic rock and Storløkken's jazz/experimental arrangements with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra.

Two DeBaser reviews cover Motorpsycho's collaboration with Ståle Storløkken. The album is described as a two-disc, orchestral, jazz-infused progressive concept. One review is highly laudatory and poetic; the other admires the ambition but is more mixed about the orchestral sections.