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…
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The festival was founded in 2005. Could you tell us a little about the history and the mission of the festival…
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“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…
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The word itself appeals to me: Simplicity. In it are layers of confidement. Layers, countless layers. Hidden meanings, those small details you hardly see but which makes all the difference. Simplicity, as I perceive it, is rich and complex – and magical
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Hannah Ryggen’ art is the inspiration and the basis for next year Olavsfest’ visual profile. What does her art mean to you personally?
To me, Hannah is one of the greatest artists we have in Scandinavia. It is an artist I discovered…
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..?
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I think I first became aware of the wet plate collodion process when we (Fotoimport, the place I work) printed Johanne Seines Svendsen´s exhibition for TV-aksjonen in 2013. The theme of TV-aksjonen that year was dementia, and Johanne had taken portraits of young and old people, some of them sort of fading away. I really liked the organic feeling, with fingerprints, peeling and chemical imperfections
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‘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
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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
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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…