Sko/Torp is a Danish pop/rock duo. Their debut album from 1990, On a Long Lonely Night, drew inspiration from American acts such as the Eagles, Hall & Oates and Doobie Brothers, achieving huge commercial success with sales of more than 200,000 copies.
SKO/TORP
This is the original version of the track with plenty of headroom.
Track: On a Long Lonely Night (S. Sko/P. Torp)
Album: On a Long Lonely Night (1990)
Label: Sonet
Appears on: DALI CD Vol. 3
Søren Sko and Palle Torp released five albums before breaking up in 1997. In 2004, they reunited, writing new songs and touring again. In 2010, Sko/Torp released their sixth album, Heartland.
On a Long Lonely Night
Before listening to this track, you should turn the volume up, as this is the original version of the track with headroom left for peaks and the full dynamics of the title track from Sko/Torp's 1990 debut album.
The most immediate and paradoxical fact about this hugely successful Danish duo is that they don't sound Danish or Scandinavian at all. On A Long Lonely Night sounds like a genuine American West Coast production, but there's more to it than that.
Although the sound production by Swedish Mats Ronander is, in many respects, close to the American West Coast ideal, it also surpasses it in many ways. During the intense DALI CD Vol. 3 tracklist selection process, this 1990 recording was challenged by many alternatives, but we decided to keep the track as it best represented the genre from start to finish.
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