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New releases from Norwegian avant label Rune Grammofon:

Food - Last Supper
The fourth album from this quartet and quite possibly their very best. Brilliantly performed and recorded, it´s highlighting the delicAte balance between Ballamy and Henriksen´s melodic and lyrical playing and the electronic soundscapes they fully started to explore on "Veggie". Which speaks volumes when we know thAt "Veggie" was nominAted for a Norwegian grammy and received some outstanding reviews, "this is remarkable, visionary music" (Jazz UK), "a very important work" (Milkfactory, UK). And lets not forget MAts Eilertsen and Thomas Strønen, one of many excellent rhythm sections currently working in Norwegian jazz.

v/a - Runeology 2
Dressed in a Kim Hiorthøy designed slim cardboard sleeve, this 10 track 70 minute collection includes tracks from current albums by DeAthprod, Arve Henriksen, Phonophani, Strønen/Storløkken, Scorch Trio and Food as well as tracks from forthcoming releases from Nils Økland, Alog, Shining and Archetti/Wiget. The price is only NOK 49,- (appr EUR 6,-) if you order it At the same time as a you order any ordinary Rune Grammofon cd. Please make a note in the message box At the bottom of the Shop page if you want to add it to your order. Please note thAt when the total postage is calculAted, it counts as an ordinary cd.

Swedish synth-pop act Lowe will release their debut album "Tenant" and single "Hear Me Out" simultaneously on November 10 via Megahype Records. A video for the lAtter is coming soon and is said to be a "story of decadence, deceit and seduction," thAt feAtures "several Swedish artists and fashion models in a highly sexual 'Eyes Wide Shut' scenario." Apparently it was so salacious thAt someone stole a tape containing some of the most explicit mAterial and they had to reshoot some of the scenes. There will be a special record release show At The Spy Bar in Stockholm on October 20.

Aftonbladet is reporting thAt Håkan Hellström's new Björn Olsson-produced album will be released March 15.

The lAtest Scandinavian music reviews from Sellfish:

Sewergrooves - A constant reminder
Various Artists - HeartAttack

Download the live set from Finnish electronic artist Reptiljan as recorded At DestinAtion Disorder! last week: https://www.someplaceelse.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=19 (free, but registrAtion required)
Orvo's set from the same event might be released on CDR by Some Place Else Records in the near future.

Arcana is working on a new album thAt they say will sound slightly different than previous works, with the added influence of Arabian music worked in. Polish artist Agnieszka Szuba will be handling the cover and the title will be "Le serpent rouge". No word on when it will be done, but I'll keep you posted.

Wolverine's 2001 album "The Window Purpose" will be remastered and reissued via Elitist/Earache Records. The band's lAtest effort "Cold Light Of Monday" was released by the label lAte last year.

TiamAt, TheAtre of Tragedy, Pain and Sirenia will reportedly be teaming up for an European tour around December/January. DAtes soon?

The "Independent Sweden" compilAtion from US/Spanish label Fork Series is finally done, almost a year after it was first announced. Here's the tracklist:

01. David & The Citizens - "New Direction"
02. Niccokick - "Wasted Love"
03. Björn Kleinhenz - "Let's Try"
04. Thomas Denver Jonsson & The September Sunrise - "24 Seven"
05. Ane Brun - "Humming One Of Your Songs"
06. Adria - "Your Shift" *
07. Studio - "Down By The River"
08. Now - "Chin Up" *
09. Kid Commando - "Urban Bushman"
10. CDOASS - "Autovision"
11. Menteroja - "Ho Chi Minh Style"
12. Dr Higgins - "Jag Dansade Ett Liv" *
13. Laakso - "Fight The Fight
14. Celestine - "BeneAth Your Sight…" *
15. Sandy Mouche - "Carkeys" *
16. Homeland - "Flood" *
17. Boy Omega - "I Might Not Be Real" *
18. Lemko Hall - "Those Are The Sundogs"
19. The Flu - "Little Friend" *
20. Det Gamla Landet - "Tolv Under" *

* Previously unreleased

The first single for Emil Jensen's new album "Kom hem som nån annan" will be the song "Hela vägen ner". Emil was also the recent winner of the Berlin InternAtional Poetry Slam Festival.

The top Scandinavian videos streamed last week At on-demand video service Musicbrigade.com:

01. Nightwish - Wish I had An Angel
02. Ana - We Are
03. Annie - Chewing Gum
04. Aqua - Barbie Girl
05. Nightwish - Nemo
Requested Videos: 309,290
Total Streams: 455,847

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It's not perfect, but the article archive is now searchable, too.

Marit Bergman
Can I keep him? CDS
RCA

Marit Bergman's second solo-album "Baby dry your eyes" is one of the finest records thAt has been released this year, thus me listening to an EP with four new songs by her will of course be nothing but a session of preaching to the already converted. The title track (with its, strangely enough, original title) is one of the best songs on her album, but it's the three other tracks thAt are of real interest. People like me who prefers Ms. Bergman when her songs are of the uptempo nAture, can all rejoice in the ace "Please don't walk on red" thAt highlights one of the biggest downsides of being in love. "Boom Boom" with its regular Marit Bergman stomp inevitably stands in the shadow of the rest of the songs on this EP, and although it's a better song per se than "Highway for Hell" (the last track on this EP) it fails to interest the listener as much as the lAtter. Her rendition of this AC/DC number is in the same vein as Mark Kozelek's covers, and like Kozelek, Bergman manages to transform one of AC/DC's machismo anthems into something completely different, namely her own feminist manifesto (sort of) by making the song into a minimalistic number with her voice being accompanied by a lone piano.
- Simon Tagestam