COU is the solo project of Jørgen “Sissyfus” Skjulstad, the.. boss? Guru? I think I’ll go with spiritual leader, of the Oslo-based underground music collective Metronomicon Audio. After finishing an album trilogy about time and space last year, he has now released something you and I both have always wanted, a Levitating Disk!
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Monzano
By This Time Last Year Everything Will Seem Younger
Spoon Train Audio; 2010
Meet Sjur Lyseid, Oslo’s very own musical alchemist. That is, everything he touches seems to turn into gold. He’s produced about half of the good music that’s come out of this city the last few years and he’s contributed quite a bit in front of the mic as well as behind the levers. This time, the magic is created with his own band Monzano.
Now We've Got Members
Repulsive Force
Metronomicon Audio; 2009
With the conclusion that the people who didn’t end up liking them after the previous album wouldn’t change their minds with the next one anyway, Now We’ve Got Members have decided to screw those people and rather make even more obscure music.
Various artists
Oslo 2
Spoon Train Audio; 2009
Spoon Train Audio are here with another Oslo compilation, showing yet again how much great music the capital’s independent pop scene has to offer. There’s been a lot of talk about Bergen being the musical capitol of Norway, but for every time I play through Oslo 2, it gets clearer and clearer that Oslo really is the capitol of Norway, musically too.
Lama
Look What You Made Us Do
Spoon Train Audio; 2009
What started up as the solo project of Nils Martin Larsen has eventually evolved into a six-piece band, and as the debut album Guidebook To Lamaland was an introduction, this is the further path. As the first album was more experimental and electronic, this second album is more Post-rock.
Casa Murilo
The Waldemar Thranes Debacle EP
Self-released; 2009
Casa Murilo is a pretty fresh band fronted by Englishmen Chris Winfield and Dan Hesketh. They play extremely catchy indie rock and sing about things they experienced and people they met when the two lived in Brazil. Of some reason they went to Norway to form a band. Should we wonder why such talented people ended up in Norway of all places or just embrace the fact that they’re here?
Pilemil
If You Make A Lot Of Ceramics, Ceramics Will Make A Lot Of You As Well
Metronomicon Audio; 2009
Pilemil was originally a group of visionary arts and craftsmen who shared workspace, until they discovered they would rather make music. Now they’ve finally released their debut album and I’ve had a listen. I haven’t seen what they could do with ceramics, but if it was close to as great as their music, they wouldn’t have quit.