Punkt

Punkt is not only a project of Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, it´s also a festival in Kristiansand. The Punkt CD "Crime Scenes" featuring guests like David Sylvian, Nils Petter Molvær, Sidsel Endresen, Arve Henriksen, Audun Kleive and Eivind Aarset is now available in record shops in Norway. The music is experimental, ambient and a blast for the ear.

Jan Bang: Musician, producer from Kristiansand, Norway. Main instruments: Live sampling, programming. Permanent member of Nils Petter Molvær's band, Arve Henriksen trio, duo project with Sidsel Endresen. Has played with a range of improvisational artists including Jan Garbarek, Bugge Wesseltoft, Audun Kleive. Four Norwegian Grammys as producer.

Erik Honoré: Musician, producer, author from Kristiansand, lives in Oslo. Main instruments: Programming, synthesizers, studio tools. Produced albums by Velvet Belly, Elsewhere, Claudia Scott in addition to the Punkt projects. Norwegian Grammy for Velvet Belly's "Lucia". Toured with Nils Petter Molvær. Stage music for the Norwegian National Theatre and Riksteatret. Published 3 novels, most recently: "Kaprersanger" (Gyldendal 2005).

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra

Susanna Wallumrød (vocals) and Morten Qvenild (keyboards, harmonium and autoharp) are Susanna & The Magical Orchestra. Hailing from the small Norwegian town of Konsgberg, home of a renowned jazz festival, the pair came to the attention of Rune Grammofon’s boss Rune Kristofersen after he got hold of a demo featuring their own version of Dolly Parton’s classic Jolene and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. While twenty-four year old Susanna was until now totally unknown, Morten spent the last few years as a member of Norwegian experimental jazz outfit Jaga Jazzist. Produced by another of Jaga Jazzist’s members, and Rotoscope founder, Andreas Mjøs and Deathprod’s Helge Sten, List Of Lights & Buoys is a stunning piece of work. Delicate in its melodies and arrangements, the essence of this album is to be found somewhere between the crystalline ambiences of Björk’s Vespertine and the acoustic structures of Carole King’s Tapestry.

Xploding Plastix

Xploding Plastix is the child of Jens Petter Nilsen and Hallvard Hagen and one of Norways most innovative bands today. The Oslo based band started making music early in 98. They make experimental jazzy electronica, which sometimes reminds me of the good old Brian Eno feeling, just with new wrapping. You should defenetly check out their webpage which is an amazing flash site. The music on their site is not downloadable mp3´s, but they have a great flash music player so you can have a good impression of who they are. This is Norwegian electronica at the best.

Xploding Plastix at myspace, with mp3 download
Xploding Plasitx at iTunes music store

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