The music from the folk music trio Vrang is delicate and powerful, carefully groomed and feral, with elements from the east, west and north of the globe. It is astounding how a trio with lyre, fiddle, harding fiddle and vocals manages to pull the listener with it to such heights and depths, surprises, idylls and drama with so few and basic instruments. On their new album,...

Hinter den Interpreten Eriksson/Myhr/Malmström verbirgt sich ein neu gegründetes schwedisch/norwegisches Trio, welches sich an Gitarre, Hardanger Fiddle und Klarinette der nordischen Folk Music verschrieben hat. Von Beginn an fand das Trio eine spannende musikalische Ausdrucksweise mit Elementen aus Improvisationen und kontrapunktartigen Harmoniewechseln. Ihr Debüt trägt den...

What’s worse? Owning a bank, or robbing a bank? To find the answer to that, Bertolt Brecht’s poetry may be a useful tool. And a good place to start maybe a brand new music album called ‘Bertolt Brecht’. Here – in the midst of a soundscape of guitar, accordion, saxophone and voices singing in German and Norwegian – Vigdis Hjorth, Norwegian author, presents some distilled...

In addition to his many book publications, the poet Oystein Wingaard Wolf also has a career as a recording artist. Now he is out with a new album he has called "Napoleon Wolf". It contains lush images from European history and contemporary times, painted with a colorful palette of words. He also travels further out into the world, and the 13 soundscapes also contain the...

In Norwegen wurde im Frühling 2020 ein Lockdown verhängt. Kreative Kräfte wurden immer wichtiger, als es darum ging, Möglichkeiten für die Kultur in dieser düsteren Situation zu finden. Christer Falck begann die Initiative, ein Streaming Festival aus dem Sentralen in der Innenstadt Oslos zu organisieren und Ketil Bjørnstad erklärte sich bereit, daran teilzunehmen, was der...