Norwegian jazz is as vital as ever and one can but wonder where it all comes from. With "Yonkers" Eyolf Dale (26) and André Roligheten (26) are already three albums into their career and showing a ...
Since forming in 1997 Alog have been among Norway's leading performers of experimental electronic music. They are mainstays at Rune Grammofon and have been with the label since their debut album "Red ...
"Unemployed", ALOG's fifth album, was recorded in a wide range of spaces and places. From recordings of Haugan and Eide as street musicians in San Francisco while touring, to scavenging old ...
Limited, numbered 4LP edition of 300 copies with 75 minutes of new music not available elsewhere. "Unemployed", ALOG's fifth album, was recorded in a wide range of spaces and places. From recordings ...
"Low Tide Digitals III" is the third and possibly final installment in a series of extremely fine-tuned pieces that mixes acoustic instruments and electronic elements in a subtle and unforced way. An ...
These days it's quite an unlikely event that a foreign group or artist will end up releasing a record on Rune Grammofon. With an increasing amount of excellent local Norwegian talent struggling to ...
Something of an international supergroup, the founding of this excellent ensemble is a touch of genius that remains something of a mystery. Hand-picked by writer and film-maker Philip Mullarkey to ...
It's no secret that we have a soft spot for this fabulous group and would wish nothing less than world domination for them. What they do seems to be an almost lost art when it comes to making ...
Recorded during a show at the Storyville jazz club in Molde in May 2012, this could very well be their finest recorded effort during their ten years as a band. Bringing new meaning to the concept of ...
Like great records from ELEPHANT9, SCORCH TRIO, SUPERSILENT, IN THE COUNTRY, SPUNK, FIRE! and others, "Jitterbug" was recorded in the old fashioned way, meaning the musicians playing together and ...
This is the companion to the "Bonanza" album, recorded and mixed during the same sessions in Athletic Sound in summer 2011. Here they cover some of their personal favourites, fully showing the ...
The second album from this trio of young (all are 25) musicians shows a distinct development from their slightly patchy but very promising debut "Cowboy Music" (Jazzaway, 2007). Founded by Even and ...
Third, and easily the best, album from band vaguely in the, dare we say it, Radiohead area. Great tunes all around, not a filler in sight. Mostly recorded live in the studio, quite underproduced, and ...
The title of this monumental 3CD set is relevant on several levels. Between the youngest and oldest musician there are some fifty years, they come from three continents and they cover a wide range of ...
"Imaginary Songs From Tristan Da Cunha". Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, has been a central character on the Norwegian independent scene for 20 years as a recording artist, occasional member of and ...
Helge Sten, aka Deathprod, has been a central character on the Norwegian independent scene for 20 years as a recording artist, occasional member of and producer for Motorpsycho, founder member of ...
CD in digipack. Debut album from "young veterans" of the Norwegian heavy and progressive scenes, fronted by singer, guitarist, writer and producer Ole Petter Andreassen. This is classic, heavy, ...
2LP in gatefold sleeve. Debut album from "young veterans" of the Norwegian heavy and progressive scenes, fronted by singer, guitarist, writer and producer Ole Petter Andreassen. This is classic, ...
"Dodovoodoo", the debut from this Hammond-driven powertrio, received excellent international reviews upon it_s release in 2008. Already a firm favourite on the Norwegian and European live scene due ...
On their fourth album, counting the limited vinyl only "Live At The BBC", Elephant9 join forces with Reine Fiske, the quite excellent Swedish guitarist from Dungen, The Amazing and Träd, Gräs och ...
On their fourth album, counting the limited vinyl only "Live At The BBC", Elephant9 join forces with Reine Fiske, the quite excellent Swedish guitarist from Dungen, The Amazing and Träd, Gräs och ...
Hot on the heels of her much applauded collaboration with Humcrush last year (RCD2114), here is one of the leading vocal improvisers in the world in a fantastic display of telepatic music making at ...
On their second album this most melodic trio continue in the same tradition as on their highly acclaimed debut from 2010, a tradition that implies typically Scandinavian elements such as folk music, ...
FIRE! ORCHESTRA takes the project to the next level: a sonic behemoth comprising 31 members that should be unmanageable, but turns out to possess the elegance and lucidity of the righteous free jazz ...
FIRE! ORCHESTRA takes the project to the next level: a sonic behemoth comprising 31 members that should be unmanageable, but turns out to possess the elegance and lucidity of the righteous free jazz ...
a new album, their third, from this excellent Swedish trio, something of a supergroup with members from already well known projects. And again it's a collaboration, this time with the extraordinary ...
a new album, their third, from this excellent Swedish trio, something of a supergroup with members from already well known projects. And again it's a collaboration, this time with the extraordinary ...
Fire! are developing at a rapid speed and their exhilirating gig at Oslo Jazz Festival in August simply left the audience gobsmacked. This 10" EP however, contains more music from their fruitful ...
We are delighted to present the second album from this excellent Swedish trio, something of a supergroup with members from already well known projects. This time they collaborate with the legendary ...
We are delighted to present the second album from this excellent Swedish trio, something of a supergroup with members from already well known projects. This time they collaborate with the legendary ...
Now down to the duo of Ian Ballamy and Thomas Stronen, Food looks to be more active than ever. This, their fifth album, was recorded by Jeremy Cox over a period of two years and mixed by Ashley ...
Having played a handful sensational gigs as KENNETH KAPSTAD GROUP this impressive line-up is now ready with the more fitting name GRAND GENERAL for their debut album «Grand General». Ola Kvernberg ...
Having played a handful sensational gigs as KENNETH KAPSTAD GROUP this impressive line-up is now ready with the more fitting name GRAND GENERAL for their debut album «Grand General». Ola Kvernberg ...
Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a guitar heroine for our times. Her molten, overdriven guitar sound is forged in the same fiery furnace as Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, then plunged into a steaming ...
Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen is a guitar heroine for our times. Her molten, overdriven guitar sound is forged in the same fiery furnace as Hendrix, Tony Iommi, Jimmy Page, then plunged into a steaming ...
A young trio of gifted Norwegian musicians with one foot in heavy rock and one in jazz. Hedvig (28), Ellen (26) and Ivar (29) are all from the districts but met at the music academy in Oslo. Hedvig ...
A young trio of gifted Norwegian musicians with one foot in heavy rock and one in jazz. Hedvig (28), Ellen (26) and Ivar (29) are all from the districts but met at the music academy in Oslo. Hedvig ...
It is of course very satisfying to welcome Arve Henriksen back to Rune Grammofon with such a beautiful package as this 7LP vinyl box. Arve Henriksen (44) is probably Norway's most versatile musician ...
The second album from the duo that is Thomas Str¢nen and Ståle Storl¢kken, now simply calling themselves Humcrush, after the title of their debut from 2004. "Hornswoggle" is an alltogether more ...
The third album from these two excellent musicians was recorded live at various European venues, although the high level of musicianship and focus on detail could easily lead you to think it would be ...
"Ha!" is the fourth Humcrush album, this time with the most welcome addition of singer Sidsel Endresen. Having toured together for a couple of years, they finally recorded some shows last year. This ...
Huntsville is the all-Norwegian trio of Ivar Grydeland, Tonny Kluften and Ingar Zach. Grydeland (30) and Zach (35) founded the Sofa label for impovised music in 2000 and appear together and in ...
Jenny Hval's previous, acclaimed Rune Grammofon album "Viscera" (2011), recorded with her own free rock trio, overflowed with intimate detail and surrealistic bodily imagery. "Innocence Is Kinky" - ...
Jenny Hval's previous, acclaimed Rune Grammofon album "Viscera" (2011), recorded with her own free rock trio, overflowed with intimate detail and surrealistic bodily imagery. "Innocence Is Kinky" - ...
Jenny Hval is a Norwegian artist and writer. With her background in writing and performance her music is poetic, sensual, challenging, dark and beautiful as well as melodic and spacious. "Viscera" is ...
[DEU] JENNY HVAL ist eine norwegische Künstlerin und Autorin. Mit ihrem schreiberischen Hintergrund und ihrer Performance ist auch ihre Musik poetisch, sinnlich, herausfordernd, düster und ...
Morten Qvenild (27) is probably best known for being the orchestra in Susanna and the Magical Orchestra but has plenty more to show for. He has been a member of both Shining and Jaga Jazzist and is ...
Ambitious, epic and grand in scale, In The Country's previous album "Whiteout" was an artistic triumph. Always a very powerful and exciting live act, it was only natural that a concert album should ...
Morten Qvenild (26) is already a central force in a young generation of extremely competent musicians operating with great ease between various genres. He is Susanna_s orchestra and writing partner ...
Ambitious, epic and grand in scale, IN THE COUNTRY_s third album "Whiteout" qualifies to be called their magnum opus. Most of the music was performed and written as a thank you, as is the tradition, ...
Jono El Grande is a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster and remains an outsider on the far margin of the Norwegian experimental music scene. When Frank Zappa asked "Does Humour ...
Jono El Grande is a self-taught composer, musician, conductor and prankster and remains an outsider on the far margins of the Norwegian experimental music scene. He released his debut mini album ...
"The Choko King" is Jono's third album since 2009, but the recordings are from the period between 1995 and 2008, some of which predates his first album by four years. "The Choko King" offers an open ...
Limited, numbered vinyl edition of only 300 copies with "insanely nerdy details" on each track by Jono himself. "The Choko King" is Jono's third album since 2009, but the recordings are from the ...
27 year old Norwegian singer and songwriter Hilde Marie Kjersem was born and brought up in the northwest coastal town of Ålesund, with seven brothers and sisters and a father with a passion for ...
[DEU] Dies ist das neueste Projekt von HP Gundersen; bekannter Produzent, Künstler, musikalischer Partner, kreative Energie, Lehrer, Mentor und Musikliebhaber aus dem norwegischen Bergen. Er hat über ...
[DEU] Dies ist das neueste Projekt von HP Gundersen; bekannter Produzent, Künstler, musikalischer Partner, kreative Energie, Lehrer, Mentor und Musikliebhaber aus dem norwegischen Bergen. Er hat über ...
Newcomers The Last Hurrah!! was a pleasant surprise with their much acclaimed debut album "Spiritual Non-Believers" earlier this year. On the back of this UK music mag Mojo invited them to cover a ...
From the Eastern-tinged pop flirt of "Starstruck" to the near 10 minute cosmic groove-trip that is "Solar System", the new album from this excellent group finds them on top form and taking a big leap ...
From the Eastern-tinged pop flirt of "Starstruck" to the near 10 minute cosmic groove-trip that is "Solar System", the new album from this excellent group finds them on top form and taking a big leap ...
This is probably among the most extreme solo violin music ever written, performed and recorded. Two pieces lasting 40 and 43 minutes, both pushing the performer to the edge when it comes to endurance ...
First 7" vinyl single on Rune Grammofon comes from MoHa! in the form of two brand new tracks, "Progorama" and "Teknosangen". Both tracks are made with fellow member of N-Collective, Jeff Carey. The ...
MOHA! have been called an extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz and they have elsewhere simply been proclaimed the future of Norwegian rock. Meiningslaust ...
Out of Norway's super-fertile impro scene, MoHa! are boldly leading the way with a sound that encompasses the best of rock, free jazz and electronic music. Despite the enormity and broad spectrum of ...
Out of Norway's super-fertile impro scene, MoHa! are boldly leading the way with a sound that encompasses the best of rock, free jazz and electronic music. Despite the enormity and broad spectrum of ...
Hot on the heels of their recent 7" here is the third long player from our favourite noise spastics. The Wire called the single an extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and ...
Third long player from our favourite noiseniks. The Wire called the single an extremist hybrid between free improv, gutter electronics and darkwave scuzz and they have elsewhere simply been ...
MoHa! is the latest Rune Grammofon signing and the youngest artists on the label as well. Guitarist Anders Hana turned 23 the day before he and longtime friend Morten Olsen (24) went into Athletic ...
"Commuter Anthems" is the second album, and the first for Rune Grammofon, from Eivind Opsvik and Aaron Jennings. Eivind Opsvik (33) is from Oslo, Norway, but has lived in New York since 1998. He ...
Panzerpappa is maybe new to many Rune Grammofon followers but released their debut album "Passer Gullfisk" back in 2000. Since then they have released the albums "Hulemysteriet" (2002), "Farlig ...
Panzerpappa is maybe new to many Rune Grammofon followers but released their debut album "Passer Gullfisk" back in 2000. Since then they have released the albums "Hulemysteriet" (2002), "Farlig ...
This is the truly excellent debut album from PHAEDRA, a new voice on the Norwegian music scene. In fact, Rune Grammofon has not been so taken by a debutant since the appearance of SUSANNA AND HER ...
Phonophani is multi-instrumentalist, digital electronics expert, programmer and instrument builder Espen Sommer Eide. Born in 1972 in Oslo, Sommer Eide has been playing music in one form or another ...
Originally released in 1998 as a limited edition (500 only) on Biosphere_s Biophon label. A breath of fresh air at the time, this excellent debut from Phonophani still stands as one of the very best ...
"Half Nelson Courtship" is the third album and the first on Rune Grammofon from this young trio who musically started out as the younger cousins of Supersilent. This is not the situation today and ...
Third album from a free spirited power trio that should need no long introduction by now. The hand in glove rhythm section of Nilssen-Love and Håker Flaten has graced a large number of recordings ...
RAOUL BJÖRKENHEIM, THE HIGHLY ORIGINAL FINNISH COMPOSER AND GUITARIST, IS REPRESENTING THE PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN RAW ELECTRICITY AND RESTRAINED ELEGANCE WITH NORWAY'S HOTTEST YOUNG RHYTHM SECTION ...
Fourth album from the free spirited power trio that should need no long introduction by now, apart from the significant fact that Frank Rosaly has taken over the drum stool from Paal Nilssen-Love. No ...
The press dropped many names when trying to place Shining's previous album on the musical map, from The Mars Volta and Slayer via King Crimson and Mahavishnu Orchestra to Henry Cow, This Heat, ...
SHINING IS A JAGA JAZZIST OFFSHOOT WITH TWO FORMER MEMBERS/ WRITERS IN THEIR RANKS. LEADER AND MULTI INSTRUMENTALIST J¥RGEN MUNKEBY (24) WAS A MEMBER SINCE THEIR FIRST ALBUM IN 96 (YES, HE JOINED ...
Skyphone belong to a new generation of Danish musicians that also include bands like Under Byen and Efterklang. Musically it's possible to place them somewhere between Efterklang, Sigur Ros and ...
At one minute past eight in the evening of the twentieth of January, 2001, the Norwegian quartet SPUNK began playing a drone in the key of B, inaugurating a project that would weave into their ...
Their third studio album marks the 10th anniversary of this playful and ever experimenting quartet. It also boasts yet another Pippi Longstocking related title. This free spirited and anti ...
Free collective improvising is one of the most demanding ways of making music: the pitfalls are many - self-absorption, incoherence, certain standardized "gestures" of free jazz, lack of dynamics, ...
This DVD gives a rare and unique insight into the live experience of one of Norway_s most prominent and long standing contemporary impro groups. Commisioned by the Henie Onstad Art Centre for it_s ...
It may come as a surprise, but in the history of jazz and improvisation the saxophone duet is remarkably rare. Sax players tend to lock horns with drummers, bassists, trumpeters, even cellists and ...
It may come as a surprise, but in the history of jazz and improvisation the saxophone duet is remarkably rare. Sax players tend to lock horns with drummers, bassists, trumpeters, even cellists and ...
Thomas Str¢nen (born 1972) is founder and leader of the Norwegian/British band Food, whose base line-up is now Str¢nen and British sax player Iain Ballamy and until recently bassist Mats Eilertsen ...
DEBUT RELEASE FROM FOOD DRUMMER THOMAS STRONEN AND SUPERSILENT KEYBOARDIST STALE STORLOKKEN, AND A WELCOME ADDITION TO THE RUNE GRAMMOFON CATALOGUE IT IS TOO! STRONEN IS A REGUALR MEMBER OF SEVERAL ...
In 2007 Supersilent celebrated 10 years as a groundbreaking quartet with their first studio album in almost 5 years. As with "Supersilent 6" (RCD2029), "Supersilent 8" was recorded during a 5 day ...
Supersilent celebrate 10 years as a groundbreaking quartet with their first studio album in almost 5 years. As with "Supersilent 6" (RCD2029) it was recorded during a 5 day studio session at Athletic ...
After 12 years as a quartet drummer Jarle Vespestad decided to call it a day before the start of recording sessions at Oslo_s famous Rainbow Studios. This spurred two further sessions, one taking ...
"Flower of Evil" is the second solo album from Susanna Wallumr¢d (28), mostly known from two fine albums and a number of quietly powerful concerts with SUSANNA AND THE MAGICAL ORCHESTRA. Susanna has ...
"Flower of Evil" is the second solo album from Susanna Wallumr¢d (28), mostly known from two fine albums and a number of quietly powerful concerts with SUSANNA AND THE MAGICAL ORCHESTRA. Susanna has ...
Susanna Wallumrod (27) is most known for two sublime albums and a number of quietly powerful concerts with Susanna and the Magical Orchestra. And not forgetting, for writing "Believer", the song Mojo ...
"Wild Dog" is SUSANNA's eight album, including three with SUSANNA AND THE MAGICAL ORCHESTRA, her "Norwegian" album "Jeg Vil Hjem Til Menneskene" and the recent ECM album with Giovanna Pessi. That is ...
After their successful covers album "Melody Mountain" from 2006, filled with intimate and highly personal takes on mostly well known songs, Susanna Wallumr¢d and Morten Qvenild return to their own ...
One of the undeground hits of 2004, this fantastic album got rave reviews in all papers, from MOJO to the Wire to The Guardian and Observer. The Rune Grammofon back catalogue will all soon be ...
Their excellent debut album from 2004 has aged extremely well and sounds just as fresh today, including "Jolene", "Believer" and nine other gems. This 180g audiophile edition was mastered by Helge ...
Susanna Wallumr¢d (27) has a unique way of making a song her own, and to fill the lyrics and melodies with the emotional content it requires. This was made crystal clear with her stunning ...
Per Henrik is actually playing and improvising on archaic folk instruments like the ram's horn and harpeleik, which is a Norwegian zither. He is then processing it in the computer, resulting in a ...
Ultralyd was formed in 2004 when legendary saxophonist Frode Gjerstad suggested that the trio Gjerstad/Olsen/Hana needed a distinct bass player. The very first rehearsal with Kjetil D Brandsdal (also ...
Ultralyd can be said to operate in a sonic landscape that has as much in common with modern contemporary music as wiith heavy metal. While their vinyl only release "Renditions" on The Last Record ...
The brand new studio album from VOLCANO THE BEAR. A calculated hysterical melting pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, of musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism ...
The brand new studio album from VOLCANO THE BEAR. A calculated hysterical melting pot of This Heat, Robert Wyatt, Faust and The Residents, of musique concrète and ethno-folk, all seen through a prism ...
There are, and have been, quite a few exceptional experimental guitarists around, but we can't recall an album sounding anything like "The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers". With his third ...
There are, and have been, quite a few exceptional experimental guitarists around, but we can't recall an album sounding anything like "The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers". With his third ...
A long-lasting vision has finally become reality: Cargo Records present their very own record-player 33punkt3. Strictly limited to 333 pieces the player will be available in black and white. read more