Tuesday, August 17, 2004  

Oslo, you had me at Hyggelig a treffe deg.

Back from a whirlwind trip to happenin' Oslo, which played host to three big and simultaneous music festivals: Oslo Jazz Festival, Oyafestivalen, and the Oslo Hip-Hop Festival.

Report to come as soon as I catch my breath, along with a deluge of Norwegian music, from pop to electronica to jazz---the Vikings know how to bring the noise.

In the meantime, quick Norge primer:

Wibutee (Way excellent jazztronica group)
Hakon Kornstad (Reedist in Wibutee and awesome graphic designer)
Sternklang (Knob-twiddler in Wibutee)
Tord Gustavsen (Incredible pianist)
Music Information Centre of Norway (From classical to pop to noise)
Poor Rich Ones (Defunct, but great)
William Hut (Poor Rich Ones' singer)
Smalltown Supersound (Great electronica/jazz/noise/pop label)
Rune Grammofon (Another fab electronica/jazz/noise label)
Jaga Jazzist (More excellent jazztronica)
Jazzland (House-y jazz label, run by Bugge Wesseltoft)
Kim Hiorthoy (Amazing graphic designer + good electronica CDs)
Kings of Convenience (Soft focus, baby)
Sondre Lerche (The singer, the song)
Turbonegro (Get yer trash on)
Euroboys (Turbonegro guitarist goes 1970s California pop)
Terje Rypdal (Norse guitar god)
Eivind Aarset (Norse guitar god mach 2)
NorCD (world, jazz, folk label)
Supersilent (Improvtronica, with Deathprod/Helge Sten, Arve Henriksen)
Biosphere (Spacetronica)
A-Ha (Take on me? No, take on you.)
Nils Petter-Molvaer (Trumpetronica)
Royksopp (Electro-on-ikaaa)
St. Thomas (So solid songs)
Madrugada (Rawks)

Plenty more to come, and I didn't even have time to get into the Black Metal scene (yet).

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