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Kieron Tyler @kierontyler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Went to the glorious Hardanger Music Festival (Hardanger Musikkfest) in Lofthus, Norway. An overwhelming cultural inundation with Benedicte Maurseth, Messiaen Quartet Copenhagen, Helsinki Chamber Choir, more. Wrote about it for @theartsdesk.bsky.social: www.theartsdesk.com/new-music/ha...

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I'm still not interested in your personalised Spotify ads, people.

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 21/11/2025

'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) buff.ly/Q3LBS0Y

Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 69-77) album cover. A collection of tapes and small instruments.

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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 31/10/2025

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...

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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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Freq @freqzine.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

Allying #hardangerfiddle and jaws harp with the kind of beats found in electro-halling, disco-gangar and springar d'n'b is still a novel idea .. familiar dance staples like the Roland TB-303 and TR-909 flex their elegant muscles against instruments that have been around for hundreds of years and the outcome is a real ear -opener. #musicreview

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 11/10/2025

'"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 buff.ly/Ko4CdLT

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Ex-Futur Album [The Unfinished Avant-Pop Album/1980-1983] cover.

The Honeymoon Killers – Les Tueurs De La Lune De Miel album cover.

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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 18/09/2025

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...

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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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Kieron Tyler @kierontyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

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...

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KLOF Mag @klofmag.com · 08/08/2025

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...

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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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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A black and white portrait of Bugge Wesseltoft sitting

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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Wowsers. Thanks @juderogers.bsky.social Fab seeing Malmin in The Guardian today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtVb...

A slightly wonky review of a music review: A new Norwegian folk label, Krets, arrives with an arresting debut release – an “anarchistic” set of songs, dances, ballads and psalms from the rugged south-western county of Rogaland.

Malmin, a duo of experimental musician Anders Hana and folk-rock and cajun-pop instrumentalist Olav Christer Rossebø, write in their album’s liner notes of the Rogaland elders whose performance style inspired them, and how “their hunt to resonate with the depth of the human soul spared no means”. Fittingly, these nine tracks largely sound like deliciously diabolical spells. Some are scraped on eight-string harding fiddles, others plucked or picked on mouth-harps, microtonal mandolins and guitars, where extra frets help the musicians play the tones between semitones. All are sourced from early-to-mid 20th-century recordings, and range from feverish dances such as Hallingkule (where repeated cyclical patterns sound ferocious between the bow’s horsehair and the strings’ steel) and the uncanny shimmer of Vinjavalsen (played on the langeleik, a zither with one string for the melody and eight for drones).

An album cover in sepia featuring a fjord and the text: MALMIN MED ÅSHILD VETRHUS

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Ben Austwick @benaustwick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

rebrand : amPersaNdpr hope you like it

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/11/2024

"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.

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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Farewell Chris May. Thanks for your enthusiasm, kindness, knowledge and generosity. Rest In Peace... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0hD...

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Alice Coltrane / Part I Acknowledgement (From A Love Supreme)

YouTube video by Observations of Deviance

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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"“...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')”

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

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...

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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Well I t’s a hard no from me

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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

....no need for guest list : FREE ADMISSION : Nils & Henrik Økland + LILJA : this Saturday at 5pm - 7pm : THE BARBICAN : London Jazz Festival www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202... maybe see you in the foyer....

Hardanger fiddle player Nils Økland and his son, the multi-instrumentalist, Henrik Økland

Composer, bandleader and guitarist LILJA (aka Oddrun Lilja).

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AmpersandPR @ampersandpr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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