With each successive outing -- first 2011’s Anthem followed by their raucous RareNoise Records debut 2013’s InterStatic -- the potent Norway-based trio of expatriate Brit organist Roy Powell Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young and Norwegian drummer Jarle Vespestad has upped the ante on intensity and audaciousness while arriving at a nexus where rock organically meets jazz. Now the powerhouse unit has reached a new level with 2014’s superb Arise. Arise is an album of many influences - it shifts nimbly from rockblues anthems like “Doozy Mugwump Blues” and “Alexa” to intricate numbers like “Caerbannog” to the swinging “Alpha Dog; Powell’s “Frank’ll Fix It” full of challenging stop-time phrases is dedicated to one of his major influences Frank Zappa while the dynamic “Wonderfall” carries the influence of the pioneering fusion band Lifetime featuring UK guitar hero John McLaughlin and Newark New Jersey-based organist Larry Young. It is a new step in a natural progression in the language of InterStatic: with Anthem the band mixed the repertoire of a modern jazz organ trio with no distorted sounds with some more rock sounds; Then came InterStatic which developed some of the ideas and injected a dose of psychedelia into the mix; now on Arise the gloves are off.

1. Doozy Mugwump Blues
2. Caerbannog
3. Alpha Dog
4. Iwato
5. Frankll Fix It
6. In The Beginning
7. Alexa
8. Wonderfall
9. Doozy (Reprise)