O Caroline

If you, for one reason or the other, have not heard the album "Matching Mole" fom 1972, please do. Right now!
On that album you will find one of the best songs to come out of Canterbury, "O Caroline", written by David Sinclair and Robert Wyatt.

Then check out the cover version sung by Brad Scott, on an album called "Garden Parti & Caroline, Yes!" (Zig-Zag Territories, 2011). Quite nice..
As you see (if you followed the link) you may buy it over at Zig-Zag, but it´s also on eMusic and iTunes.

El Doom, Motorpsycho, Bushman´s, Susanna

Rune Grammofon are keeping up a tight release schedule this year too.
They already let loose El Doom & The Born Electric, and here are their plans for the first three months of 2012:

20.01 Bushman´s Revenge - A Little Bit Of Big Bonanza (CD / LP)
20.01 Bushman´s Revenge - Never Mind The Botox (LP)
17.02 Motorpsycho with Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (2CD / 2LP)
02.03 Astrïd - High Blues (CD)
02.03 Volcano The Bear - Golden Rhythm / Ink Music (CD / LP)
16.03 Susanna - Wild Dog (CD).

Elephant9: Live at the BBC

You already have Elephant9´s albums "Dodovoodoo" (Rune 2008) and "Walk the Nile" (Rune 2010). Now it´s time to fight for the LP "Live at the BBC", also on Rune Grammofon! 500 copies made, white vinyl, no download code.
Two compositions from each of the two prevous albums ("I cover the mountain top" and "Dodovoodoo" from the first, and "Aviation" and "Habanera Rocket" from the second) were recorded for BBC´s "Jazz on 3" in November 2010. One take and no editing afterwards.

Elephant9 is Ståle Storløkken (keyb), Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen (el bass) and Torstein Lofthus (dr).

Cover (as always) by Kim Hiorthøy.

Gultskra Artikler

Gultskra Artikler - Abtu Anet (excerpts) by miasmah

Check out a couple of tracks from the next Miasmah release on Soundcloud.
Gultskra Artikler´s LP (double EP?) "Abtu Anet" will be out during February (2012). The man behind Gultskra Artikler is Alexey Devyanin, and please see if you feel wiser after visiting this site.

All Ears again

Just another reminder for you all (since the poster seems to be ready!), if you should happen to be in Oslo next week, don´t forget the All Ears Festival 12 - 15 January.

Music fans in Bergen may get a small taste in their own town Tuesday 10 January, when Kjell Bjørgeengen and Keith Rowe will play at the Landmark club. This is a double bill with the fantastic singer Stine Janvin Motland (solo) (and she has performed at All Ears).

Larache

Bukseselger by majasolveig

Maja Ratkje composed music for Kjetil Schøien´s documentary drama "Larache" (link to site in Norwegian), that was staged at the Opera in Oslo in October 2011. The texts of "Larache" were based on interviews of four Moroccan men living in Oslo, and fragments of Jean Genet´s novels and plays.

The piece "Bukseselger" (meaning "Pants seller") is uploaded to SoundCloud by Maja Ratkje herself, and in a comment there she says "It's all recorded with real and toy drums, no samples, and the "flute" is a double reed toy instrument. But no score, so in a way, yes, it's improvised".

Happy New Year! Buy more music this year!