This week's Norwegian top 20 album chart:

01. Jan Werner - Stronger
02. Bjørn Eidsvåg - Nåde
03. Vamp - I full symfoni (med KORK)
04. Odd Nordstoga - Heim te mor
05. Åge Aleksandersen - Snöharpan
06. Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes & Askil Holm - Hallelujah - Live
07. Øystein Sunde - Sundes verden
08. Kristin Asbjørnsen - Wayfaring Stranger - A Spiritual Songbook
09. Ole Ivars - Ole Ivars så klart
10. Thomas Dybdahl - Science
11. Aleksander With - Coming Home
12. Marit Larsen - Under The Surface
13. Maj Britt Andersen - Onger er rare
14. Knut Reiersrud/Iver Kleive - Nåde over nåde
15. Leif Ove Andsnes - Horizons
16. 120 Days - 120 Days
17. Hellbillies - Røta - Hellbillies' beste
18. Ole Paus - Hellige jul - Jul i Skippergata
19. Per Asplin - Putti Plutti Pott
20. I - Between Two Worlds

Flying Edward, the Norwegian band founded by ex-Bogus Blimp members Hilmar Bergendahl Larsen and Kyrre Bjørkås, have been reborn as Det är Jag som är Döden. Listen to a new song at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/detarjagsomardoden

Marit Larsen won Best Norwegian act at the MTV Europe Music Awards and comments to MIC Norway about it: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2006110610494177470817

Grizzly Twister leaves to tour France tomorrow with their friends Nesseria:

10/25 - Lilo, Tours
10/26 - Astrolabe, Orléans
10/27 - Escapade, Clermont Ferrand
10/28 - Locaux Larsen, Chambéry
10/29 - Molodoi, Strassburg
10/30 - Babylon Café, Amiens
11/01 - Chez Steve "Halloween Party!", La Rochelle
11/02 - El Inca, Bordeaux w/Smackdown
11/03 - Camji, Niort
11/04 - Mondo Bizarro, Rennes

Norwegian doom act Octavia Sperati will begin recording their new album next weekend with Herbrand Larsen (Enslaved, ex-Audrey Horne) and Arve Isdal (Enslaved, Audrey Horne). Expect an April 2007 release.

Larsen & Furious Jane's very first four-song CDR "I wouldn't sit at home and take it" is now available as a free download: https://morningsiderecords.dk/features/lfj_ep.asp

Check out Republic, a new Norwegian band featuring Erlend Mokkelbost (JR Ewing, Killl) and Anders Tjore (The Turns, The Pop): https://www.myspace.com/republicproject
The band is rounded out by Even Ormestad (Jaga Jazzist, Marit Larsen) on bass and Andreas Bye (Bugge Wesseltoft's New Conceptions Of Jazz) and drums. The sound? White-boy funk. I'm not so sure about it.

Fluxblog posts another track from Norwegian singer/songwriter Marit Larsen: https://www.fluxblog.org/2006/09/we-dive-into-devotion.html

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Rune Grammofon has announced that the label retrospective "Until human voices wake us and we drown" 5x10" vinyl box-set is just about done and should be available for mailorder. The set includes a 16-page booklet illustrated, as always, by Kim Hiorthøy and will be limited to 1000 copies. A definite collectors item. Also on the way is a new 10" from Deathprod featuring remixes he's done for Nils Petter Molvær (2), Murcof, Larsen and Cloroform as well as the track "Deerstalker" from the "Money will ruin everything" comp. And lastly, RG will also be doing a vinyl edition of "Come up for air", the latest album from Norway's The White Birch. The record was produced by Deathprod/Helge Sten and features guest vocals from Susanna Wallumrød (Susanna and the Magical Orchestra), so it's only natural that RG get involved. They'll be doing a CD version for the US and Asia, too. Exact release dates and more details soon.

Head to the Morningside Records site for new mp3s from recent signees Thunderbear and Oceano da Cruz as well as a new video from Larsen & Furious Jane: https://www.morningsiderecords.dk/

Dark Dose posts on Loveless, the band founded by Kim Larsen after he left Saturnus: https://darkdose.com/?p=93

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Their new album "Tourist with a typewriter" comes out October 17 via Morningside Records.

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