16 August 2009
Buthcher Red review
20/08/09 14:46 Filed in: CCAPknirk
Butcher Red review in
Vital Weekly:
EGG3 - BUTCHER RED (CD by CCAP KNIRK)
From the norwegian label CCAP KNIRK comes this
release by the british-norwegian trio EGG3. Vidar Schanche wrote all the compositions and plays guitar. Simon Kaylor plays baritone sax, Stale Birkeland drums. As a member of the Leeds_based music collective LIMA, Schanche got an idea for a trio that he now realized with Egg3. It is a powertrio with an explosive mixture of jazz and rock that has similarities with bands like Mr.Bungle, Fantomas, Naked City, a.o..
All three players participate and engage on the same high energy level. In the opening title track "Butcher Red" however they seem not really awake, as the piece moves forward in a plumb and sluggish way. But with the second piece "Revenge of the Chicken" they pick up speed and the music becomes more aggressive and powerful. But this speed metal jazz is only one face of the trio. In "Easteregg" they show themselves from their lyrical and friendly side with what sounds almost as an traditional folkdance. A very surprising combination. And it works. Another contrast is reached with the closing piece "The Chickens are not what they seem", a short but superfluous Tom Waits-like ballad. Egg3 do a well crafted job with some very convincing tunes ("Dr Bucket") and an original concept. (DM)
EGG3 - BUTCHER RED (CD by CCAP KNIRK)
From the norwegian label CCAP KNIRK comes this
release by the british-norwegian trio EGG3. Vidar Schanche wrote all the compositions and plays guitar. Simon Kaylor plays baritone sax, Stale Birkeland drums. As a member of the Leeds_based music collective LIMA, Schanche got an idea for a trio that he now realized with Egg3. It is a powertrio with an explosive mixture of jazz and rock that has similarities with bands like Mr.Bungle, Fantomas, Naked City, a.o..
All three players participate and engage on the same high energy level. In the opening title track "Butcher Red" however they seem not really awake, as the piece moves forward in a plumb and sluggish way. But with the second piece "Revenge of the Chicken" they pick up speed and the music becomes more aggressive and powerful. But this speed metal jazz is only one face of the trio. In "Easteregg" they show themselves from their lyrical and friendly side with what sounds almost as an traditional folkdance. A very surprising combination. And it works. Another contrast is reached with the closing piece "The Chickens are not what they seem", a short but superfluous Tom Waits-like ballad. Egg3 do a well crafted job with some very convincing tunes ("Dr Bucket") and an original concept. (DM)
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Sebastian Waldejer debut album
19/08/09 21:36 Filed in: New release
Sebastian Waldejer is releasing his debut longplayer
«Rise Of The Urban Child» on CCAP Monday 24. August
Get a taste of his music, check out the new video and add him to your Facebook friends. All this and more via his website
Sebastian Waldejer is an Indie-pop artist hailing from Stavanger who has been attracting a lot of attention in the last couple of years after his 2006 EP release ..Porcelain Baby... 2008, the culture year of Stavanger, Norway, was dedicated to the making of his much anticipated debut album collaborating with various artists such as Morten Abel and Børge Fjorheim (Cloroform and Morten Abel), and US producer Ashley Stubbert. This fantastic artistic rendering of his pop sensibility will be released August 24th, on Checkpoint Charlie Audio Productions. "Rise of the urban child" is Sebastian Waldejer..s first full length album, after the critically acclaimed releases "Porcelain baby EP" (2006) and "France EP" (2008). -- "Very talented young songwriter from Stavanger with an ear for catchy melodies and interesting arrangements. One to watch." - Thomas Dybdahl to Q-Magazine July 2009 on his ten favorite Scandinavian tracks... (referring to the song "On a wednesday" from Sebastian Waldejer..s first album")
Get a taste of his music, check out the new video and add him to your Facebook friends. All this and more via his website
Sebastian Waldejer is an Indie-pop artist hailing from Stavanger who has been attracting a lot of attention in the last couple of years after his 2006 EP release ..Porcelain Baby... 2008, the culture year of Stavanger, Norway, was dedicated to the making of his much anticipated debut album collaborating with various artists such as Morten Abel and Børge Fjorheim (Cloroform and Morten Abel), and US producer Ashley Stubbert. This fantastic artistic rendering of his pop sensibility will be released August 24th, on Checkpoint Charlie Audio Productions. "Rise of the urban child" is Sebastian Waldejer..s first full length album, after the critically acclaimed releases "Porcelain baby EP" (2006) and "France EP" (2008). -- "Very talented young songwriter from Stavanger with an ear for catchy melodies and interesting arrangements. One to watch." - Thomas Dybdahl to Q-Magazine July 2009 on his ten favorite Scandinavian tracks... (referring to the song "On a wednesday" from Sebastian Waldejer..s first album")
Christer Wulff debut EP
19/08/09 21:26 Filed in: New release
Christer Wulff is releasing his debut EP
«Until We Meet Again» on Friday 21. August on the new
CCAPlokal label
This is a digital only release, but the artist have printed a few physical copies of the EP to sell at gigs
He performs at Revolver in Oslo Friday 21. August, and will be performing in Tromsø, Bergen and Stavanger the coming week.
Full schedule, music, bio and more at his website
Christer Wulff is a singer/songwriter from Tromsø, a small city at the northernmost tip of Norway. And perhaps the long dark winters or bright short summers have inspired him to lure out the contrast and nerve in each song. Maybe the early fondness for Elvis or the childhood days with Traveling Wilburys' Vol. 1 has shaped his sound into what PopMatters refer to as “A soul-bearing balladeer with booming vocal bravado”. Or it could simply be that his nomadic past of living in Berlin, New York or Central Asia have formed his eclectic songwriting.
Live he varies his shows by bringing his trumpet player, the upright bass, an organ, drums, a backing vocalist or just his acoustic. Regardless, the songs are always upfront, honest and heartfelt.
This is a digital only release, but the artist have printed a few physical copies of the EP to sell at gigs
He performs at Revolver in Oslo Friday 21. August, and will be performing in Tromsø, Bergen and Stavanger the coming week.
Full schedule, music, bio and more at his website
Christer Wulff is a singer/songwriter from Tromsø, a small city at the northernmost tip of Norway. And perhaps the long dark winters or bright short summers have inspired him to lure out the contrast and nerve in each song. Maybe the early fondness for Elvis or the childhood days with Traveling Wilburys' Vol. 1 has shaped his sound into what PopMatters refer to as “A soul-bearing balladeer with booming vocal bravado”. Or it could simply be that his nomadic past of living in Berlin, New York or Central Asia have formed his eclectic songwriting.
Live he varies his shows by bringing his trumpet player, the upright bass, an organ, drums, a backing vocalist or just his acoustic. Regardless, the songs are always upfront, honest and heartfelt.