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This week's Friday mp3 post is kind of a guilty pleasure for me, 'cept that I don't really feel all that guilty. Why should I feel ashamed for loving great pop music? Like a lot of folks outside Norway, I first heard Kurt Nilsen when he performed at the World Idol championship in 2004. It's no wonder they saved him until the end because there's no way that anyone could follow his blockbuster showing. To paraphrase Australian Idol judge Ian Dickson: the face of a hobbit, but the voice of an angel. Tal Bachman's "She's so high" was his first single back home in Norway and it's everything a great pop song should be. The melody soars and pulls all the right heartstrings and, even if the production seems a bit much sometimes, I don't believe that anyone can find serious fault with it. Kurt's albums are pretty good too, even his early work with pre-Idol band Fenrik Lane. Obviously, it's not necessarily the sort of thing I normally seek out, but my wife adores him and I'm happy to oblige by listening politely. On a side note, what's up with the singles they gave this year's Idols? I was never much of a Katherine fan, but the song they gave her for the finale was pure shit. I'd suggest that they intentionally sabotaged her, but Taylor's song was only marginally better. Silly as it may sound, both of them are better than the material. Ridiculous!
Kurt Nilsen - She's so high
The new Flaming Sideburns album will be called "Keys to the highway". Not sure of the exact release date, but it will be sometime this fall.
The Fine Arts Showcase will support Cursive on tour in Germany for a few dates:
08/28 - Knust, Hamburg
08/29 - Knaack, Berlin
08/30 - Free & Easy Festival, munich
08/31 - Schlachthof, Wiesbaden
The Carnation has a new website to coincide with the release of their new album "Human Universals", out on August 21.
Check out Lasse marhaug's website for a bunch of new dates including quite a few in the US and the promise of a full West Coast tour for Jazkammer: marhaug.no/" target=_blank>https://www.lassemarhaug.no/
Envelopes will be doing a month-long US tour with Ratatat in September. Dates soon.
Swedish punks Venerea have announced that drummer martin has left the band to concentrate more on his duties as Danko Jones' tour manager. Rodrigo from fellow Bad Taste-labelmates Satanic Surfers will take his place. Look for the band to tour Europe this fall.
Danish electronic act Po has signed with Loadstar Records sublabel Explosive Headphones and will be releasing their debut album later this year. Listen to samples: myspace.com/pomusic" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/pomusic
Slightly OT: Digital Audio Insider talks to Jim from Parasol, a label/mailorder that some of you might know as being another purveyor of fine Scandinavian music: m/2006/08/interview-with-jim-kelly-of-parasol.html" target=_blank>https://digitalaudioinsider.blogspot.com/2006/08/interview-with-jim-kelly-of-parasol.html
The Go, Jukebox! netlabel is offering up some new tracks from Swedish electronica act Garmisch Partenkirchen aka GPK: https://www.gojukebox.net/
Swedish hip-hop artist Tank marwin (Perfect Combination) will be releasing a new 10-song net EP for free download via www.hiphop-pott.de tomorrow. The recording is entitled "Unofficial business" and features production from Skitzophrenic, Sansprofit, Word-rec, Severe, Stilnoct, C4R, Severe and mr.Orphic.
Böss, the new band from ex-Ray Wonder guitarist Ludwig Böss, has confirmed that their debut album "An iron fist in a velvet glove" will finally be released on September 4. There will be a special acoustic record release show at Pet Sounds in Stockholm on September 2.
Today's track reviews at Pitchfork are all Swedish indiepop: media.com/page/track_reviews" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/track_reviews
Both Firefox AK and Hello Saferide CDs are available from my mailorder.