Nuart: The Grand "Landmark" Tour vers.2
Video from YouTube - this comment follows...
On september 26. 2010
200 people lay there sundaywalk through Østre Bydel in Stavanger on the grand tour of Nuart 2010 "Landmarks".
Version #2
Video by CF Salicath for Nuart
http://www.nuart.no/
http://www.cfsalicath.foto.no/
Katzenjammer - A bar in Amsterdam
Read still more about Katzenjammer...
on Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katzenjammer_(band)
Katzenjammer is a Norwegian band from Oslo which was formed in 2005.
The band members are Anne Marit Bergheim, Marianne Sveen, Solveig Heilo and Turid Jørgensen.
Their music mixes genres such as folk music, pop, rock, country and balkan music.
The four members switch instruments often and have a stated goal of playing instruments they haven't played before.
They play more than 29 different instruments, including some which are quite unusual in a band setting, such as accordion, bass balalaika, flute, ukulele and melodica.
The band collaborates with Mats Rybø who has written several of the band's songs.
In 2008 the band was chosen as one of the finalists in NRK's yearly Urørt competition for unsigned artists, and got a third place for their song A Bar in Amsterdam.
The music video of the song was made by Youtube celebrity Lasse Gjertsen.
Their debut album Le pop was released in September 2008 to favourable reviews.
The band received a nomination in the newcomer of the year category in the Norwegian Grammy equivalent, Spellemannprisen the same year.
On March 2, 2010. They released their second single for their song "Tea With Cinnamon".
Note: they also played for the Opening/Closing Concerts for ONS, I missed both of these - but did see them on NRK (channel 1 or 2) TV one morning after the ONS, by accident flipping channels, & realized what I'd missed out on?! So now only have Videos to watch & have not seen them live--another time, maybe?! But have ordered a CD, they were out of their Le Pop at the music shop in Madla Mall--am taking this one back home to treat all to the fun?!
Katzenjammer - Le Pop
Katzenjammer - Tea with Cinnamon
read more about Katzenjammer...
on http://www.ta.no/ - Telemarksavisa AS, an e-newspaper...
2006 Article translated into English with Translate Google...
Energy Bomb Katzenjammer
The light energy and joy of playing a long way when Katzenjammer drag started the concert, the audience is with you from day one.
The success is once again secured for the fresh band
(Article by) Anita Mjelland
Posted 08.07.2006 at 3:33 p.m. Updated 07/08/2006 at 3:34 p.m.
Friday night played the unknown, but talented band Katzenjammer at the little wharf pub Ferry pub.
Two days before they had played on Skåtøy café, and Tuesday 11
July will be a concert with them on the roof in Kragerø center.
The TA had a chat with the band before Friday's concert, and we did not come out how Wednesday's concert at Skåtøy had been. - Very nice! – Lots of people! - Kind of strange to play outside. - Over twice as many as expected! - Lovely place and lovely people.
It is barely holding the pen up with the enthusiastic band members.
They are clearly satisfied, and there were also many who had shown up at the ferry terminal at Stabbestad to hear the band yesterday.
Jagged character
Katzenjammer have a very special, something jagged character, to use an adjective they use.
Most of their songs are written by Mats Rybø, but all of the events, they are even. In addition, they write more and more of the songs themselves.
It is the band that makes sound.
Their style is almost impossible to describe.
The music is a mix of rock, pop, folk, bluegrass and country, or Solveig Anne Marit Bergheim said - Skranglevisepoprock.
Following Solveig Heilo comment: - And more and more country.
Turid Jørgensen thinks their music is influenced by the fact that everyone likes a lot of different music, and that they thus become a bit schizofrent band.
Bergheim says that many say they are a so-called flinkis band, since all band members playing on all instruments. - We are not flinkis, determine Heilo. - We have fun!
Jorgensen said that the starting point for the band is that everyone play instruments they have not played before.
The fact that they sing well and firstemt in addition, they avoid to get into.
Moods however, they are concerned about.
The girls explained that it is the mood they see in the song that determines how it is. - This is a little country, while this is scary, that's the way we sit when we get songs from Mats, says Heilo. - The fact that we have many different moods of the songs give us more energy, " says Marianne Sveen.
Anne Marit Bergheim said that many in the audience says, "a concert by Katzenjammer are a journey through the emotional register."
MUSIC EDUCATION
Katzenjammer has existed in one and a half years.
At the time, studied three of the four band members music at the Norwegian Institute for stage and studio (Nissa). Katzenjammer consists of Turid Jørgensen from Kragerø, Anne Marit Bergheim from Valdres and Marianne Sveen and Solveig Heilo from Bærum.
Life is mostly about the music for the four, and to play more often with the band moving Turid Jørgensen as the last year has been in Rauland and had people studying music in college, to Oslo.
There, all live the rest.
Anne Marit Bergheim studying musicology at the university, Solveig Heilo's vocal teacher at AKKS, band instructor at Kjelsås culture and in between kindergarten, while Marianne Sveen are newly qualified nurse.
– It goes from one reality to another, stating Sveen and laughs.
She plays in a band outside the Katzenjammer. - Together with Solveig, " she said. Bergheim player in the band The Fabulous Lightbulb Society next door.
SALARY LIVE SUMMER JOBS
Since Katzenjammer was a quartet, they have had six gigs, two of them have been in Norway and four in Kragerø.
More gigs are next, including Mira Oslo 9 august...August, in connection with the Island Festival. The band says that for every concert they are getting the offer of two more.
Just fit the band well, for they love to play live for the people. - It's what's fun with music, playing for people, "states Heilo. - We have a terrible fun when we play for people," says Bergheim. It marked.
Find the fun girls also on Facebook page & Twitter...
More about the American comic strip that the band mentions taking their name from...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Katzenjammer_Kids
comic strip by Rudolph Dirks
Note: I adore their mascot Akero - aka the balalaika...
from their webpage under instruments is this..."stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangular body & 3 strings...this particular contrabass balalaika has become Katzenjammer's mascot. His name is Borge & he is named after a famous, Norwegian TV host, Dan Borge Akero. Borge has recently gotten a brother, named Akero."
Go here to watch a little video of Akero getting painted his distinctive rather catlike face...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTGBB0vSnyw
