You have a big musical background with Hedvig Mollestad, Tord Gustavsen trio and others. Why did you decide to found your own band  – A Tonic for the Troops? And where did this touch of the British empire come from…

The festival was founded in 2005. Could you tell us a little about the history and the mission of the festival…

“The Rebound”, the first single from your upcoming album “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter” was released on September 3rd. It was released over a year after the previous single “All Kinds of Blue”. What happened to you during this long time…

Tinctures’ first studio album “Heads and Tales” was released on August 7 via Subcontinental Records. Could you tell us about how Tinctures was founded as a project? And also about the musical background of both of you..?

‘Young and Stupid’, your debut EP as a solo artist out now. But you also have a musical background from the “Company Ink” band. So what is similar and what is different between your previous band and “Daragh” as a solo project

Photo: Tinctures Tinctures is an eclectic Indian piano-guitar duo from Bangalore and Berlin. Nishad Pandey and Aman Mahajan of Tinctures have been working on the

Usually, the first single sets the mood for the whole album. Can we say this about “The Strange”?
Both yes and no, I suppose. The album as a whole has turned out quite varied, playing around with several musical moods and expressions…

I recorded an EP with some songs when I was about 18. I was quite motivated because I’d just come out of a band that broke up at a point where a big record company had shown interest and I thought that I could attract the same interest again on my own

So Sun In Sound was started as a studio-based indie project in 2006…
Sigurd:  Cabin-based indie project actually. At that time I lived in Oslo and came back to Trondheim for a while. And I had some song sketches, so I asked Magnus if we could record them and he said yes…

A new beautiful album release on Blue Spiral Records – Chapter One by Raimund Mathias Hepp. From the very first notes, the music enchants us with its elegance and delicacy so characteristic of all releases on this label. But there is something absolutely special about this particular album – Chapter One is not just beautiful instrumental music, this is a story.