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ORGAN THING: A rather beautiful, rather reflective, rather quiet piece of music from Stine Janvin and Morten Joh, a piece of music from Norway that just allows you a moment… wp.me/p2ScbB-wGL
ORGAN THING: A rather beautiful, rather reflective, rather quiet piece of music from Stine Janvin and Morten Joh, a piece of music from Norway that just allows you a moment…
An Organ Thing of the Day for this busy December Thursday? Well how about a rather beautiful, rather reflective, rather quiet piece of music, a piece of music from Norway that just allows you a mom…
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December 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I'm still not interested in your personalised Spotify ads, people.
December 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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'Before Aksak Maboul feels like the discovery of a residual tail, an essential part of the story that you didn’t even know existed, an extension of the label #Crammed as well'

Reissue of the Week: Before #AksakMaboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)

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November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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On ‘Minnesota’, Trond Kallevåg is joined by a crack Norwegian trio. It’s a deft, creative, and playful recording, marked by mesmerising violin, intuitive interplay, and wonderfully dynamic soundscapes performed at the highest level. It’s also a joy to listen to. klofmag.com/2025/10/tron...
Trond Kallevåg – Minnesota (Album Review)
Trond Kallevåg’s ‘Minnesota’ expertly balances jazz, folk, and ambient sounds, drawing inspiration from the Norwegian coast and the American Midwest. It’s a deft, creative, and playful recording, and ...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Allying #hardangerfiddle and jaws harp with the kind of beats found in electro-halling, disco-gangar and springar d'n'b.. familiar dance staples..flex their elegant muscles against instruments that have been around for hundreds of years and the outcome is a real ear -opener. #musicreview t.ly/F_gof
October 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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'"Too pop to be experimental? too quirky for ’80s pop?…they probably make a lot more sense now than they did then’".

R.I.P. Véronique Vincent of Aksak Maboul and The Honeymoon Killers

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October 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Norwegian guitarist & composer Trond Kallevåg unveils the first single from his upcoming album, Minnesota, a poignant piece titled “Twins of Træna,” inspired by historical black-and-white photographs discovered during an artist residency on the remote island of Træna. klofmag.com/2025/09/tron...
Trond Kallevåg shares new single/video “Twins of Træna”
Norwegian guitarist and composer Trond Kallevåg has unveiled the first single from his upcoming album Minnesota, a poignant piece titled “Twins of Træna.”
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September 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Existing in its own space, Benedicte Maurseth’s Mirra is a haunting, intense evocation of Norway’s uplands and its wildlife. Out through soundslikegold.bsky.social & @ampersandPR.bsky.social. I’ve looked at it today for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/al...
August 27, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
Benedicte Maurseth: Mirra review | Jude Rogers' folk album of the month
Rhythmic repetitions and rustling textures evoke the traditional music and ecological harmony of Maurseth’s native Norway
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August 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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ORGAN: Five Music Things – Parisian duo Lovers, Berlin's #Jasss, #DavePen, a debut piece of music from #PaperHats, new #Idles and a film soundtrack and a touch of Here and Now.... wp.me/p2ScbB-vzL #NewMusic
ORGAN: Five Music Things – Parisian duo Lovers, Berlin’s Jasss, Dave Pen, a debut piece of music from Paper Hats, new Idles and a film soundtrack and a touch of Here and Now….
Shall we write a new editorial? Who needs a damn editorial let alone a new one? No time for editorials, let the actual music do the actual walking and the actual talking. Exact same thing again, an…
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July 31, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Norwegian Hardanger fiddler, composer, and writer Benedicte Maurseth has released “Simleflokk under månen,” the new single from her upcoming album Mirra, which continues the immersive, ecosophical themes of her Nordic Music Prize-winning previous work. klofmag.com/2025/08/bene...
Benedicte Maurseth: new single “Simleflokk under månen”
Benedicte Maurseth shares her hypnotic new single “Simleflokk under månen,” evoking a female reindeer herd journeying together beneath the moonlight across the expansive, white Hardangervidda.
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August 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
More albums for the @bandcamp.com Wishlist
April 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Great to hear Bugge Wesseltoft (featuring Rohey Taalah & Martin Myhre Olsen) on New Music Fix. Big thanks to bsky.app/profile/djde... and Tom Ravenscroft

FYI I pronounce it bug-ge : boo as in book and ger as in anger. I might be wrong..

Listen to the whole show here:
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March 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Wowsers. Thanks @juderogers.bsky.social Fab seeing Malmin in The Guardian today.

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February 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
January 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I will laugh so hard if China gets this off the ground while the US plans to colonise Mars at some vague future date with technology we don't have yet www.globaltimes.cn/page/202411/...
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November 27, 2024 at 1:04 PM
rebrand : amPersaNdpr hope you like it
November 26, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.
“Disrupt” is a very Silicon Valley word. Every time I see it crop up in a business-case, my bullshit-detection hackles go up.
November 25, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Farewell Chris May. Thanks for your enthusiasm, kindness, knowledge and generosity.

Rest In Peace...

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Alice Coltrane / Part I Acknowledgement (From A Love Supreme)
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November 21, 2024 at 11:24 AM
"“...it's a bold, unique statement, that's able to roll up affecting, emotional songs ('Roll Your Eyes', 'A Thousand Ways of Falling'), with chilling noise experiments ('Metallic Machine') and wonky, field recorded electro-pop ('Spontaneous Deep Dive')”
November 20, 2024 at 9:16 AM
November 19, 2024 at 1:40 PM
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Free Jazz Blog's Guitar Week #3: Norwegian guitar hero Terje Rypdal joins elephant9 trio for a great performance, and every time he picks the guitar is pure gold: www.freejazzblog.org/2024/10/elep...
October 19, 2024 at 5:22 AM
New album alert from Glasgow's very own The Tenementals. A radical history of Glasgow in words and song. @tenementals.bsky.social @strengthinnumbers.bsky.social
Looking forward to our album launch at Òran Mór on Wed 27 November. We'll be joined by super-special guests Monica Queen and The Sorrowful Mysteries & the night will be compered by Mr Lost Glasgow himself, Norry Wilson. Tickets are free thanks to Glasgow City Heritage Trust. Get 'em while you can!
November 19, 2024 at 12:53 PM