Norway
Say Psych: Album Review, Different Sun by Electric Eye
Norwegian quartet Electric Eye are one of those bands who have been on my radar for some time. I very much enjoyed the band’s debut album ‘Pick-up, Lift-up, Space, Time’ from 2013, especially ‘Tangerine’ which has made it onto countless playlists of mine. The band is now very much back and centre of my thoughts …
See: Line Bøgh reveals new video for “Fix Me”
Danish singer-songwriter Line Bøgh released her debut album ‘Something else and something else and something else again’ back in March, which showcased her beguiling vocals and alternative pop credentials, while dropping in subjects such as an apparent rejection of the speed and priorities of the modern world. She’s just released a video for the track …
Film Review: The Wave (Bølgen; Norway)
What is a stereotypical Norwegian landscape if not a mountain above a fjord? And if a mountain fell into a fjord, would that not signify the end of a Norwegian world as we know it? This is exactly the premise for the first ever Norwegian disaster film that has taken domestic audiences by tsunami and …
Track: Nations of the Soul – To the Loved Ones
Born in France, but now resident in Norway, brothers Mikael and Lucas Roussel – aka Nations of the Soul, have supported the likes of Hudson Taylor after scoring second place at Eggstock Festival. Their first single, Dancing Spirit, was picked up and cherished by the press and radio stations in their adopted home, and they’ve …
See: Siv Jakobsen unveils video for “Caroline”
Following on from the release of her EP, The Lingering in May, Norwegian singer songwriter Siv Jakobsen has released the video for the track Caroline. Siv herself explains about the video: “The following song is a fictional story about a transgender male. We have chosen to visualize it through the eyes of our trans-feminine friend …
News: Light in the attic to release Karin Krog collection
She was a new one on us, Norwegian jazz singer Karin Krog. Over the last five decades she’s been treating, and educating, and thrilling jazz fans across Scandanavia to her way out post-bop spiritual jazz, bringing together the experimental worlds of electronics and jazz to create something rather special, but maybe hidden (or is that …
From an old record box: a-ha – Stay On These Roads
It’s a tough call, trying to work out which of Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig is my favourite Bond. Craig has definitely got the better movies and the benefit of being the vehicle for post-Bourne rejuvenation of the franchise. But that can’t be enough. Dalton only got two movies, and he tends to get dismissed …
Track: Röyksopp – something in my heart
There always one of those iconic dance records that comes along envy so often, that’s so good, it gets people who aren’t, or weren’t into that sort of music to take it on board, to give it another chance, to allow themselves to be converted, if you like. Your me, it was A Guy Called …