Tweet Sweden’s The Embassy has a new single out today, but your chances of getting your hands on a copy is very, very small. Their new single “You tend to forget” is released on a 12” vinyl single record, and there exists only 6 copies, – 3 for sale and 3 owned by the artists. Your only chance of getting one of these, is by participating in an Ebay auction, and you can follow or participate here: www.srvc.se . The … →
Tweet The Swedish piano-playing singer/songwriter Jesper Norda is a believer of giving his music away for free, and now he has done it again. Norda always delivers quality compositions, – he keeps it simple, but manages to get the most out of a few notes on his piano. Wonderful melodies, often melancholic and with some bittersweet lyric. His new EP is called “We have the guts EP” and it includes 5 really good songs, – probably the best ones I … →
Tweet Robert Post is a Norwegian artist I just like, no matter what he do and how he does it, – I just like him and his music. It has something to do with the way he writes his songs, – both intuitive, accessible and at the same time quite challenging. It also has something to do with his personality. I don’t know the man personally, but he seems very down to earth and at the same time a pure … →
Tweet I’ve had the pure pleasure of listening to Musette’s new album “Datum” for a while now, and the music is just as beautiful as the cover art. This is instrumental music, – calm and soothing. The man behind this wonderful music is the Swedish composer and pianist Joel Danell, and on his debut album “Datum” he creates amazing musical landscapes of muted pianos, acoustic guitars, melodica, violin, accordion, whistling, dobro, sounds of running water, sounds from the woods, birds … →
Tweet Human Heat is a fairly new norwegian band from Oslo. But the members have played in bands and with artists like Tommy Tokyo, Beezewax, Karen Jo Fields etc. Human Heat have allready finished their debut album before doing any live performances. Their album is produced by Kenneth Ishak (Beezewax). Their first live performances will be in April and May in Oslo. Check it out their song “Thinking Heart”, it’s quite catchy! Human Heat – Thinking Heart (from NRK)
Tweet Today, I started a new blog, – a side-blog to Eardrums, called ON THE SPOT. In the new blog, I will tell you about new and interesting albums that arrive on Spotify, – albums in the same style as I usually write about in the Eardrums blog. You will find indie pop, modern folk, melodic electronica and also some experimental music there. The On The Spot blog will not be a priority of mine, so I may sometimes only … →
Tweet Hiawata! is one of the Norwegian bands I have high hopes for in 2009. I am finally starting to be proud of the pop-music from my own country, and I can thank among others the bands who feature on this free release from the SellOut! Music label for that. ‘These boys and this band is all i know’ is the title of Hiawata!’s upcoming album, and after having the chance to pre-listen to an early version of the album, … →
Tweet If you haven’t read part one of this, go to this post and get the first recommendations. Some of these may have been released in 2008, but I don’t care. 2009 is the year I learnt to love them properly. Here are my recommendations, so start saving to get them all (some are free or cheap, so I helped you a bit there!). All of these are high class releases in my book, and 2009 have been a brilliant … →
Tweet I am not a music-podcast-loving person, – I am often too restless to sit down and listen through a 60 minute mp3-file without the possibility to skip a track if I want to. I listen a lot to other kinds of podcasts, but music podcasts are not me. Two music podcasts I just HAVE to listen to every time, are Bored to hear your heart still breaks /run by Camila from WeePop!) and Hey Hey Honeypop! (run by Marianthi … →
