Molvær interviews

Here is Fiona Talkington interviewing the Nils petetr Molvær in pretty cold surroundings, and then David Sylvian Net stopping him at the Kristiansand airport for Punkt 2011.

Nils Petter Molvær just released his new album "Baboon Moon".

June Tabor & Oysterband

June Tabor and Oysterband are ready with their new album "Ragged Kingdom" (Topic 2011), more than twenty years after their previous record "Freedom and Rain" (Cooking Vinyl 1990).

Watch them do "Mississippi" at the Shrewsbury Folk Festival in August 2011.

On the bridge with 1982

The new album from the folk improv trio1982 (Sigbjørn Apeland, Nils Økland and Øyvind Skarbø) will be released by Hubro in October. Yesterday they had a pre release concert and -stunt in Bergen.

15 copies of the album are released on memory sticks, complete with information on envelopes designed by YokoLand, and put into bottles. Yesterday's release party started with a beautiful short café concert (geography lesson by drummer Skarbø included), before all of us walked to the highest bridge in Bergen, and watched one bottle being thrown into the fjord. The band then served cocoa and buns. These guys know how to party.
The other 14 bottles are being thrown into the sea in (among other places) Cuba, South Africa, Australia and other places in Norway, making it pretty hard to be a record collector.

Make sure you buy their 2009 album on NORCD, before you head towards the nearest beach.

The Unthanks to tour with Antony H. and Robert W.

The Unthanks are going on tour in December, doing songs by Antony & The Johnsons and Robert Wyatt. Check out the tour dates, and see if you are lucky to live close by one of the venues.
A live album with the same material, recorded in December 2010, is also on it's way.

And so I have an excuse to post The Unthanks' version of "Lullaby for Hamza" once more!

Lean Left Live

Lean Left @ Night of the Unexpected 2011 from Martijn ter Haar on Vimeo.

Check out the video of Lean Left live at the Paradiso 9 September 2011!
Terrie Hessels and Andy Moor of The Ex, with Ken Vandermark and Paal Nilssen-Love are heading towards Norway, and will play in Oslo 18 September and Bergen 19 September (and I´m not in town! Aaargh!).

Seek out the two albums "The Ex Guitars Meet Nilssen-Love / Vandermark Duo Vol 1" (2010) and "The Ex Guitars Meet Nilssen-Love / Vandermark Duo Vol 2" (2011) on Smalltown. Strongly recommended!

Street Art Norway 2nd ed.

A new and updated "Deluxe Softcover Edition" of "Street Art Norway" (KONTUR 2011) was recently released, and presented this weekend at the Raptus cartoon festival in Bergen. This version has 32 new pages, with lots of pictures from Bergen (some taken by yours truly). Not for sale on Amazon yet, but check out Robot later, if you should happen to be desperate for some Norwegian street art.

Alifib cover

The Australian prog folk artistWyatt Moss-Wellington does a cover of Robert Wyatt´s "Alifib" on his album "Gen Y Irony Stole My Heart" (2010). A tough choice for a cover song, since this is so much Robert Wyatt´s song, but thumbs up for trying!

And not only "Alifib", but Moss-Wellington covers one more of my favorite songs ever! He does a nice version of The Roches´ "Hammond Song". Listen to the original on MySpace, with Robert Fripp playing guitar.

I downloaded the tracks from eMusic, but you will find them on iTunes too.
Thanks to "Une Discographie de Robert Wyatt" for the news!