The Opium Cartel

This Norwegian band were formed in 2006.It is a project lead by songwriter/guitarist Jacob Holm-Lupo of White Willow fame. Holm -Lupo has collaborated with a host of progressive artists to release the 2009 album Night Blooms, working alongside Mattias Olsson ( Anglagard), Rachel Haden ( Todd Rundgren) & Tim Bowness ( No-Man)
The musicbasically follows in the Scandinavian Progressive tradition with full use of analog keyboards such as Rhodes and Mellotron as well as with ethereal atmospheres interspersed with greatly inspired symphonic moments.