Reading time: 11 minutes Nordic Music Central welcomes, to the first interview session we’ve had in quite a while, the highly talented and dynamic young Swede Johanna Brun, who …
Reading time: 2 minutes I like intelligent, thought-provoking pop. That’s why I featured GLIMTVIS’ previous single back in June and why they’re here again now. Last time out GLIMTVIS …
Reading time: < 1 minutes I rambled on last time, when they released their debut single, about the secrecy surrounding the ‘Norwegian/German producer collective’, Mildfire, likening them to a team …
Reading time: 3 minutes Cripes! As Billy Bunter used to say, we haven’t had a Spotify Playlist since May. Playing catch-up, here is one covering songs reviewed between June …
Reading time: 2 minutes It’s Saturday night and time for a touch of class, allied to nostalgia. We’ve featured the Nordic Source project previously, a collaboration between the music …
Reading time: 3 minutes After running the rule over Tiergarten’s second album ‘Bluemass’ last year I reached the conclusion that musically they are one of Norway’s best-kept secrets. I …
Reading time: 3 minutes Naming themselves partly after the drum machine from one of their favourite bands, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo Ladies have been on the scene since …
Reading time: 2 minutes Birds are Better (Stian Fjelldal) is dropping one song a month from his forthcoming album ‘The Island – Part II’ and while we won’t be …
Reading time: 3 minutes Hm. A very topical band name, what with the Webb telescope doing its thing, Moon shots left, right and centre, solar storms, evil aliens threatening …
Reading time: 2 minutes I had intended to feature some EBM tonight (Electronic Body Music), a genre that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with dance music. But …
Reading time: 2 minutes An unusual title and one that marks ELBA’s (Ellen Bathum) statement of intent that she will not be held down or back, that she believes …
Reading time: 3 minutes It was in May of last year that Marte Eberson released her first solo single for six years, ‘This will blow’, which is also the …
Reading time: 2 minutes Since they are unashamed practitioners of what they call ‘Death Disco’ one is tempted to conclude that someone just flatlined after a night of non-stop …
Reading time: 2 minutes The latest in the weird and wonderful series of ‘reasons why I selected this artist/band’ takes us into the jazz world of Alf Carlsson. We’ve …
Reading time: 2 minutes PIKES (Christopher Ling) is, as we’ve reported previously, influenced by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Frank Zappa and Kate Bush but none of them feature …
Reading time: 3 minutes Gunnar Ingi as he prefers to be known is an Icelandic film composer. I see he studied Music Composition for Film and TV at Berklee …
Reading time: 2 minutes It is rare for any artist or band to appear twice in this occasional weekend series but the more I listen to Dirty Slippers the …
Reading time: 3 minutes I have to admire the boldness of young Vincent Ryder. Some people can get away with what at face value appears to be a direct …
Reading time: 3 minutes No, eee gee, not the Bee Gees, although the vocal range is similar. She’s Danish, real name Emma Grankvist, and she inhabits, according to previous …
Reading time: 2 minutes MYRKUR (Amalie Bruun) translates weirdly as ‘Dark Current’ in Mr Google. Perhaps it should be ‘blackcurrant’ as she’s possibly the first artist I’ve come who …
Reading time: 3 minutes How time flies. It must be seven years ago now since I saw Tonbruket performing live, at the Ruby Lounge in Manchester. They opened for …
