Electronic music from Norway.Some good stuff here.
https://unts-untsplinksandplonks.ban...om-norway-2018
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Does one consider Atomic as a band from Norway?
With three musicians from Norway and two from Sweden one would doubt
Anyway, just heard their music for the first time on the new album "Pet Variations", which title tells the story behind it: the CD contains interpretations of music from jazz- and modern classical-composers and of the Beach Boys-track "Pet Sounds".
Looking forward to this one.
Comes out in May.
While Kanaan's Windborne side A is a killer - wild, ultra-sharp fusion/kraut reminding of bands like Embryo -, they seem to have changed the drugs for side B which sounds much less inspired. The first 2 tracks leave immense promise for this new Norwegian band.
"Music From Norway: Just how important is it, really?"
To the Norwegians, quite important. To the Swedes...Not so much.
I don't know how I had missed it, but thanks to John Kelman's end-of-year-list, I became aware of Ola Kvernberg's new album "Steamdome". It already came out in June. Since I discovered him on Motorpsycho's "Death Defying Unicorn", Kvernberg has become my favorite current violinist (and a great inspiration for my own violin playing).
The new album has been in constant rotation on my Ipod recently, I love it! Here's one of the tracks played live:
As a native from a neighbouring country I find it quite easy to hear whether a band is from Norway, Sweden, Finland (or Denmark) regardles of eventual singing - unless they just copy some anglo-american band.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Very important for me:
The 3rd and The Mortal
Atrox (as was)
Leaves Eyes
to name just three.
The Tronosonic Experience with their second release, "The Big Blow":
Jan Bang sings!
Dark Star Safari, the album by Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset and Samuel Rohrer, fits nicely between the last Scott Walker-recordings, David Sylvian and Exit North.
The slightly spacy symphonic rock from Professor TipTop is well worth to listen if you like quiet, well played music.
This video, made by Øyvind Lothe, who also designs their covers, contains three tracks from the new album Hybrid Hymns, released earlier this year: Black Holes Part 1 and 2 and inbetween those An Awkward Choice:
Bjørn Klakegg is again working on music for Needlepoint.
He has recently had a lot of succces in Norway with his mainstream band 'Local Store'.
Sadly missed, and according to Justin Pearson (of The Locust, with whom Noplacetohide went on a tour in the US bible-belt) the most menacingly violent band he ever heard.
I dunno if that's a brilliant thing or what.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Jon Balke keys, Per Jørgensen vocal & trumpet, Audun Kleive drums
Explosive progressive fusion from Krokofant, with the help of Storlokken and Ingebrigt Haker Flaten. It kills.
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