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..?
moreI 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
more‘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
morePhoto: 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
moreUsually, 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
moreSo 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.
moreFirst of all, could you tell us about what ImproLAB as a concept is?
The project ImproJAM/ImproLAB/ImproSTUNT Trondheim wants to offer an open, free, and safe space for movement and sound exploration based on dance, music, and contact improvisation principles…