Kaada | ja

Kaada has made a name for himself over the years both as a composer of film music and as a extensive touring solo artist. Kaada has recently been described as Norway's film music guru[in the newspaper Dagbladet]. In the last seven years he has made the film music for 13 Norwegian and international movies. He has toured the World, and has good distribution on his records through American IPECAC and Japanese ROMZ. His catalogue also includes a collaborative release with Mike Patton and several releases with Cloroform Albums : 2009 - Junkyard Nostalgias 2007 - KAADA/PATTON - DVD - live...

Mike Patton and fellow Ipecac resident Kaada's collaboration Romances dwells in the twilight zone where spooky and seductive meet. Both artists' work reveals a love of cinematic music: Kaada is an award-winning film music composer in his native Norway, and Patton has paid homage to great horror scores on Fantômas' Director's Cut. Romances is just as filmic as that album -- actually, the affection for the spooky, evocative and arranged is the biggest romance going on here -- but it is less noisy and intense, and more obviously melodic and playful, than Director's Cut. "Invocation"'s creepily whimsical melody and choral...