Live review
Fin anmeldelse i Adressa/ great review from our concert with Trondheimsolistene
On tour in Norway with my band (from left to right, Lars, Erik, Susanne, Eirik, Me, Jørun and since Kenneth isn't in it I'll add a picture of him and his buddy Stian I shot the other night on my dumb phone..)  (Kenneth Kapstad and Stian Westerhus, the bad boys of Monolithic caught in a glorious moment of reunion by me on my dumb phone...) I'm on tour this week with my band in Norway, they are all top notch players and all have their own solo careers. We become the big money orchestra on the last two gigs adding a twelve piece string section called Trondheimsolistene. The first four shows have been excellent playing the towns of Oslo, Tønsberg, Odda and Fredrikstad. On our Oslo gig we had three guests show up on stage, Susanne Sundfør helped out on the two songs she does on the I Like You album(Floating from a dream and Hanging on to Innocence) while ECM recording artist Mathias Eick helped out on Tattooed On My Eyes and Too Vain to Die. The brilliant Morten Qvenild also helped out with a synth solo on Too Vain To Die... Check out these players! Lars Horntveth my band leader, guitar, sax, piano, backing vocals(Jaga Jazzist, The National Bank, Susanne Sundfør) Kenneth Kapstad; drums(Motorpsycho, Monolythic) Jørun Bøgeberg; bass (aha-Junipher Green, Gone at Last) Erik Johannessen; Trombone, piano, triangle!, backing vocals (Jaga Jazzist, Lord Kelvin) Erik has a new album out today! Eirik Tovsrud Knutsen; Piano, organ, backing vocals (The Grand, Marit Larsen, Jim Stærk) Martin Langlie, is stepping in on drums in Elverum, he's great, I haven't played with him since we both backed Erik Bye in Bergen in 2002 Hans Petter Heggli is doing sound and tweeking the space echo and phaser.... Italia January 2012
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I've started out the year going on a solo tour of Italy. My musician friend Terje Nordgarden (soon to release a new album!) has booked the tour for me through his agency GDN. I'm hanging out with him and Sabrina in Aci Trezza near Catania on Sicilia and use their apt. as a base for my shows on the Island. I'll head up to Napoli soon, you can follow the tour here. Look here for some pictures taken on my semi crappy dumb phone..  I Like You Release I Like You has been out now for a couple of weeks here in Norway and is also available on itunes. The reviews have been great, and I've been busy with a bunch of different promotional activities. Yesterday Saturday Oct 29th I played an in store concert at the great indie record store Big Dipper and signed a pile of Lp's and a few cd's. Here's a link to one of the songs Company Oil recorded on Kai Mauseths camera, It's fun doing these orchestrated songs totally stripped. Here's a link to the albums most densly orchestrated song Thick And Thin Skin recorded by a great kid Jonas who also recorded himself torwards the end of the song. Sweet! I also visited NRK P2 Radio with Lars Horntveth, Eirik Tovsrud Knutsen and Erik Johannessen and had a long interview with Anne Bøler at Kulturhuset which was great, I got to talk for ages and we played three songs live. Last week I was at Lydverket NRK P3 radio and played a solo acoustic version of Not Now, nice interview, great people and an ok performance. I've also been by TV8 for an interview and a song Not Now, and Lars Horntveth and I got up at the middle of the night to do the breakfast show at TV2 and croak through Floating From A Dream and Not Now. I Like You and me and him and her
Yippee, the album has finally been released and the first reviews are sweet! Lars Horntveth and I celebrated in Pooka Studio along with mixer Jørgen Træen, Susanne Sundfør and Øystein Moen. They had spent the day working on Susanne's brilliant upcoming instrumental synthesizer album A Night at Salle Pleyel and I stumbled in and helped everyone loose their train of thought.. We continued late into the night listening to I Like You, LIKING IT and slapping ourselves red on our thighs...I've been around doing some promo, an early morning TV show along with Lars Horntveth you can listen and watch us here. Some radio interviews, live radio at NRK Lydverket, local TV8 spot etc. Life is good. I Like it.
   
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