RKDIA

Danish Morten Schantz (synth+vocals) and Swedish-Norwegian Anton Eger (drums) are well-known names on the jazz and fusion scenes of Europe. For a while now, both have been pushing the envelope, applying jazz logic in all sorts of unconventional shapes and places, seeking out the new. With RKDIA, they come together in a burst of color and rhythm. Armed with technical brilliance and a penchant for the epic, the duo spin up forceful and hypnotic works that inject the free kinetic of jazz into synth-based electronica and cascading power pop. With sprawling melody and syncopated beats, the sound lives intensely in its own zone, a (dare we say) completely original place. One minute it goes to the body in repetitive grooves like house music. The next, it envelops you in warm- blooded synth-pop pathos.