Donner: Has taken a lot of musical detours of late.

Donner is an electronica-project led by Jacob Holm-Lupo (White Willow, The Opium Cartel, Telepath) with influences from both classic EM like Tangerine Dream and John Carpenter to electro-funk/jazz-funk like George Duke or Herbie Hancock. The album Hesitant Light was released late in 2021, and here are the beautiful track Andromeda Waltz.

The original intention was for Donner to be an explorative space where fiddling with hardware synthesizers and hardware effects consisted of the actual work, while atmospheric instrumentals evoking 1980s John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream soundtracks was the hopeful outcome.

As work progressed, more people got involved, partially because of a desire to offset the mechanical rhythms of sequencers and drum machines with some organic and human elements. The motto became moods and grooves, and eventually Jacob got as much inspiration from George Duke and Herbie Hancock albums as from, say, the soundtrack to Escape from New York.

Line-up:

Georg Wadenius ( ex- Blood Sweat & Tears, Made In Sweden )  – guitar on Dance of the Swallows

Brynjar Dambo – lead synth

Keith Carlock – drums ( Steely Dan, ex-Toto )

Hedvig Mollestad -guitar on Night by Night

Marte Eberson-vocals on Night by Night

Jacob Holm-Lupo- everything else

Available on CD, regular LP (black vinyl) and limited LP on white vinyl.

While the Norwegian-Israeli multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jacob Holm-Lupo is best known as the leader of one of Scandinavia’s foremost progressive rock bands, White Willow, he has taken a lot of musical detours of late. First with the 80s-loving art-pop project The Opium Cartel, and then with a surprise collection of instrumental hard rock bangers with Telepath’s Mental Mutations.

 01. Melancholy City

02. Hesitant Light

03. Dance of the Swallows

04. Night by Night

05. Floating World

06. Street Heat

07. Andromeda Waltz

08. Escape from Plague City

09. Devil’s Highway

10. Coda:Street Haze

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