From: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org (velvet-station-digest) To: velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Subject: velvet-station-digest V4 #13 Reply-To: velvet-station@smoe.org Sender: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk velvet-station-digest Wednesday, April 4 2001 Volume 04 : Number 013 Today's Subjects: ----------------- SV: [VS] Norwegian music [Stefan Granbom ] Re: SV: [VS] Norwegian music [Yngve Hauge ] RE: SV: [VS] Norwegian music [Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk] Re: SV: [VS] Norwegian music [Stefan Granbom Subject: SV: [VS] Norwegian music I did find some good Norwegian music during my short spell in Norway, i bought the 2 first albums with Anja Garbarek, the 2 albums with Bertine Zetlitz, the 2 first albums with Velvet Belly, the compilation with Bel Canto and Kari Rueslatten - Spindelsinn. It is quite expensive in Norway so i didn't buy records that i know for sure that i could get in Sweden. At first I didn't find the two first albums with Velvet Belly anywhere, looked in second hand stores and big record stores, asked a guy who worked at Plattekompaniet at Byporten, he said that the records were no longer available. He recommended some second hand stores, which i had already visited except for one at Carl Berner Plass, but i didn't find them there either when i went to this shop. Then it was time to go to the busstation, had only 15 minutes left before the bus went and stormed in at Plattekompaniet at Gronland, and to my suprise i find them there and also got on the bus! :) I didn't like the two Velvet Belly-cd's much, but i have only listen to them once. All the other records were good. BTW, what exactly does "Spindelsinn" means? Kari Rueslatten sounded a bit like the danish group Sorten Muld, the song "hor min sang" was very good! Yngve, thanks for your recommendations on good cd's! Elin and Thomas R, thanks again for your tip on record shops! Philippa, i downloaded some songs from Napster of the groups that you recommended, but it was not my type of music. Thanks anyway! I wrote some things about Norwegian music on the Bel Canto-list "dewy fields", maybe it's interesting for you also!? The day after the concert i was in town of Oslo looking for records, and on almost every big record stores they played the compilation with Bel Canto almost non-stop, made me think that the compilation will hit the list in Norway, maybe climb up to spot no. 1!? It struck me how popular Bel Canto is in Norway compared to the neighbouring country Sweden, where i come from. On my way back to Sweden on the bus i thought more about this, came to think that i got a friend who is the boss at Warner Music in Stockholm, i happen to know this guy because we are both hard core-fans to the same football team, GIF Sundsvall. I mailed him today and asked some questions to him, he said unsuprisingly to me that Swedes have a bit problem with Norwegian music, we Swedes pay more attention to American and Brittish music and not so much to Norwegian music. He also said that the "type" of music, like Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil in the same genre, don't sell much in Sweden. He also said that he likes many Norwegian artists and that the record company isn't anti-Norwegian, it is the people who buys records that have problems with Norwegian music. He said that in the mid-nineties they tried hard to marketing Bel Canto in Sweden, with little success (it must have been at the release of Magic Box, which was no success). I wrote down every argument i could get from the top of my head for them to marketing Bel Canto much now, so at least he is aware of them and i have tried to do something! /Stefan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:14:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: SV: [VS] Norwegian music This is from Tine Just a reminder that any html-tags or anything else in the email will bounce it back to me. Believe me, Stefan, the 2 first Velvet Belly cd's will grow on you, and you won't regret for a second that you bought them. About Spindelsinn: Spindel is what spiders use to make cobwebs (spindelvev is the norwegian word for cobweb), sinn is like your mind, your thoughts. So my intepretation of the word/title is "someone who has a lot of thoughts on their mind that's all bound together and /or messed up like a cobweb." Heh..Not sure that is what Kari means by it, tho. :oD ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:08:36 +0200 From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk Subject: RE: SV: [VS] Norwegian music Check out 'But' or the 2nd to last track on the 'Colours' album Still sounds good after all this time - -----Original Message----- From: Yngve Hauge [mailto:onealien@mo.himolde.no] Sent: 03 April 2001 15:15 To: Velvet Station Subject: Re: SV: [VS] Norwegian music This is from Tine Just a reminder that any html-tags or anything else in the email will bounce it back to me. Believe me, Stefan, the 2 first Velvet Belly cd's will grow on you, and you won't regret for a second that you bought them. About Spindelsinn: Spindel is what spiders use to make cobwebs (spindelvev is the norwegian word for cobweb), sinn is like your mind, your thoughts. So my intepretation of the word/title is "someone who has a lot of thoughts on their mind that's all bound together and /or messed up like a cobweb." Heh..Not sure that is what Kari means by it, tho. :oD ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 18:54:39 +0200 From: Stefan Granbom Subject: Re: SV: [VS] Norwegian music >About Spindelsinn: >Spindel is what spiders use to make cobwebs (spindelvev is the norwegian word >for cobweb), sinn is like your mind, your thoughts. So my intepretation of >the word/title is "someone who has a lot of thoughts on their mind that's all >bound together and /or messed up like a cobweb." I like the name, i guess it meant something like this but i wasn't sure. Maybe it's just a more poetical name of the brain! If you are an artist and write lyrics to a CD, then you have a lot of thoughts on your mind which you want all to bound together so it makes an unit, so "Spindelsinn" is a good name! /Stefan w1.318.telia.com/~u31808880/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 15:20:26 EDT From: Wmvrrvrrmm@aol.com Subject: Re: SV: [VS] Norwegian music In a message dated 03/04/2001 13:33:11, stefan.granbom@socmed.gu.se writes: >I didn't like the two Velvet Belly-cd's much, but i have only listen to >them once. It took me a while to get into these two Cds myself. They appear to be less ethereal, maybe they sound less crisp, they seem to evoke something a little different. Anne-Marie sings some of the songs with a slightly harsher voice. My Gold in the Little Lies album seems to be the one that I hum to myself when I'm in an empty large room or in the underground train station platforms. I think that the two first albums have to be given time to open up to reveal their treasures. I see them taking place in a world that's less lit, maybe in a place like the Camden Monarch that's dimly lit and smallish, maybe it's as if they sound a bit like live recordings. The later albums seem to take place in a non real world much more space out and syntheticly pulled together, creating a problem for those who are trying to measure time as it passes.... - is that confusing enough - yours sincerely Dominic The Wmmvrrvrrmm Place ! http://members.aol.com/wmvrrvrrmm The art and writings of myself, Dominic (wmmvrrvrrmm) Kulcsar The Velvet Belly Page http://www.geocities.com/velvet_belly_uk My unofficial fansite dedicated to the Norwegian band Velvet Belly ------------------------------ End of velvet-station-digest V4 #13 ***********************************