Take It From Here

John Derek Bishop (alias Tortusa) is a Norwegian-American electronic musician and producer from Stavanger, Norway. He has released five albums on Jazzland Recordings and was nominated for the Spellemann Prize (Norwegian Grammy) for his solo album «I Know This Place». The albums har received good critics in the magazines Mojo, Prog Magazine, og Future Music. Bishop has collaborated with artist Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang, Erland Dahlen, and more.

A cornerstone in Bishop´s production is the texture and timbre of sound. He searches for sounds that are out of the ordinary and places the listener in different emotional states. For compositional processes, he utilises both hardware and software equipment including retro tape recorders, modular synthesizers, samplers and a diverse array of other tools. His music is influenced by ambient, electronica and experimental jazz. 

On stage Bishop live-samples the musicians he plays with and uses this as his sound pallet to improvise with. Theses recordings are used to create chords, textures, melodies and rhythm. This way of improvising has been pioneered by Jan Bang. Bishop utilises modern sampling equipment to push the boundaries of this new instrument in improvised music. 

For several years, Bishop has been composing and performing for modern dance and performance art shows in Norway, England and France. He has made music for several short films including «Limerence», «Hyperspace» and «Across the dreams». Aside from making music he works with photography and has made the cover art for his albums.

I make music with clarinets and saxophones and electronics and people. Full information at www.seanmacerlaine.com

Vibration is only what we can make, and that is how we can spread around the Universe... Vibration is also how we are finding our soul mates, we are just tuned in into similar frequencies. 

Let's share our vibrations, let's share love...



Channelling the elemental grandeur of nature and the existential enigma of the human experience, perceived with a dark romanticism. Evoking the majestic and awe-inspiring as well as the ominous and threatening sides of the forces of nature.

New album "Erwuchs":
https://formatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/erwuchs

[Darker side of Marina Wants]           
Más Allá de Orión...

 ➷ The Darker Mixtapes:

▷▶︎⇝Placed Under The Black Shadow⇝▶︎▷ 
SC https://soundcloud.com/user-361729464/placed-under-the-black-shadow 

MC https://www.mixcloud.com/marina-lopez-hernandez/placed-under-the-black-shadow-2019/

➢ 𝗧𝐇𝐄 𝕯𝐄𝐌O𝗡𝓢 𝑨𝓡𝐄 𝑨𝗪𝑨𝗞𝐄 {Acorralada} ➢  🔗
https://www.mixcloud.com/marina-lopez-hernandez/the-demons-are-awake-acorralada-by-malvada-wants-2020/

warp: poems, ableton, monome, keys. samples, microtuning, kyms, soundplane, eurorack, koala sampler, aum ios

Worlds in Music

Majority of my work can be found on Bandcamp.

Take It From Here

John Derek Bishop (aka Tortusa)