Face the bear is a trio consisting of some of the foremost folk musicians in Scandinavia, the Swedish musicians Magnus Holmström on nyckelharpa, Tomas "Limpan" Lindberg on guitar and Swedish bosoki, and the Norwegian hardanger fiddle player Britt Pernille Frøholm. 

Each one of them are unique musicians who have contributed in different ways in several different settings, both as soloists and in various groups. Together they have created a modern musical style, based on both traditional and self-composed tunes, with groovy arrangements, heavy riffs, and technical brilliance on their respective instruments.

Magnus Holmström is three times world champion on his main instrument, nyckelharpa. The summer of 2010 he also got qualified for the prestigious National Rikspelman title in Sweden. He plays in the groups Fomp, Storis & Limpan band and La Banda Europa, to name a few.

Tomas "Limpan" Lindberg is one of the most popular guitarists in the folk genre, with Roger Tallroth (known from Väsen) as his major musical role model. He plays, among other things in the groups Storis & Limpan band, Fomp, and the award-winning trio Draupner.

Britt Pernille Frøholm is a hardanger fiddle player from the west coast of Norway, and the traditional music from this area is her musical fundament. She has a MA degree in Traditional Arts from 2006 where she worked with contemporary music and researched new techniques for the hardanger fiddle, and has thus managed to create a distinctive signature in her way to perform on her instrument. She is a versatile musician who during the last few years has released several critically acclaimed cd's in multiple genres, ranging from traditional folk music to free improvisation with jazz musicians. In addition to her solo projects, she plays in the groups LuckyLoop, Friensemblet, Ensemble Epoché, arcticaEclectica, Frøholm/Tillung and Boreas (Scotland/Norway).

Performance, composition, sound installations, and programming. I work as a professor of music technology at NTNU.
I am particularly interested in the interaction of composition and improvisation, and I use various custom software solutions for improvisatory interplay between me and the computer.
Another area of special focus for me is granular synthesis (what I'd like to term "particle synthesis" when merging all known forms of the granular technique). I use Csound and Python as my main tools, and I've designed some opcodes for the Csound language.
In the past I have worked with the groups Krøyt and Motorpsycho.

Exploring the roots, shoots and fruits of Scandinavian and Nordic traditions.

Guitar tone scientist and sound artist adventurer Bernt Isak Wærstad is always on the quest for new sounds. Improvising and composing on a variety of analogue, acoustic and digital instruments - self-made or customized, Wærstad produces everything from beautiful and emotive slow-moving soundscapes to harsh and alien sonic sculptures.

Bernt Isak Wærstad is a musician, composer, sound designer, with a master in music technology. He is currently a lecturer at the Music Technology groups at NTNU and Norwegian Academy of Music, a sound designer and mix engineer at Pipa Lydbyrå and works freelance as a musician, producer and sound engineer. Bernt Isak is also a member of several musical constellations as Vingelklang, T-EMP, Lashings of the Old Ultraviolent and COSMO Collective to mention a few.

OFFICIAL WEB-PAGE  http://www.arielgchapuis.com/playing-with-nuns.html



Playing with nuns is a one man project of Ariel G. Chapuis. (Producer and experimental musician)
This project born May 03, 2009 in Argentina and soon start to provide some albums of experimental noise with some dark ambient touches.That was just the beggining, the bridge and guide to another dimmension. A raw trip among noise, harsh, primal experimentalism, ambient, concrete, minimal and power electronic style divided into splits, compilations, EP'S, singles and completes albums.
Most of their releases are for free downloads, but you can also get a tons of limited edition in DIY copies, cd-r / dvd / mini cd-r and tape format. (Some of them are hand-numbered copies)

Throughout his existence, Playing with nuns has worked with some acclaimed labels as: Industrial noise Rec and Shit noise Records (Germany), Harsh noise Propaganda Productions (Rumania), Kermesse Rec (Argentina), Dark Meadow Rec (U.K.), Coreback Records and Stockroom Rec (France), Sutekh Productions (U.S.A.), Rainbow diving Butterflies (Germany), Kopp Netlabel (Belgium), Kulturterrorismus (Germany), Amex Nori (Belgium), Dungeon of Darkness (Malaysia), Flaccid Plastic Records (U.S.A.), Smell the Stench (Australia), Torn Flesh Records (U.S.A.), Sirona Records (France), Kitty on Fire Records (U.S.A.), Sphicot Rec (Finland), Devil noise Records (Malaysia), Laptop Hooligans (U.K.), Altered state Reflections (U.S.A.), Oh Bleep Records (Australia), SkumRex Records (Holland), CPRecords (Argentina), Effluvia Records (USA), Hal Tapes (USA), Minimism Records (Malaysia), Plunk Noise Records (Finland), NomNom Tunes (U.S.A..), and many others.

Till now has released more than 250 albums, and the story just begun! Enjoy it!

Wauwatosa is a Norwegian collaborative music project, centered around core producers and songwriters Sigurd Ytre-Arne and Martin Langerød, working with a lengthy cast of friends and collaborators from around Oslo and beyond - including Natalie Sandtorv, Emilie Storaas, Jessica Sligter, Unn Lange Buer and Marianna Røe.

Their songs layer dusty samples and howling synths around a unique and strong vocal. At once melancholic and richly melodic, their take on electronically mediated pop music is classically Scandinavian. Influences range from the obvious (Burial, Massive Attack, Thom Yorke) to the more esoteric, such as Norway's thriving improvisational jazz scene which they are active members of.

In 2017 Wauwatosa got signed by the Australian label Spirit Level, started by Tim Shiel and Wally De Backer (Gotye).

Håkon Aase (violin), Sigurd Ytre-Arne (synth bass) and Tobias Ørnes Andersen (drums).

Available for booking: Live, DJ-sets, remix and soundtracks: leo@gug.no
Please comment, give advice or let us know if you want any tracks!

Brakka Soundsystem started in 2004 and is based in Bronnoysund, Norway. It has as the years has passed become a more collectivized session/workshop based group under the initiative of Leo who also produces the tracks.

Brakka aims to create a sound synthesis of ambient recordings, creative, experimental instrumentation and electronic loops and beats. In a way the aim of brakka is to capture the moment, any moment and to reflect it back onto the universe as sound vibrations in order to induce a universal phase-error, neutralizing the entire existence.

With successful live performances and quite some radio plays this underground unsigned group has managed to slowly establish itself in the Underwood of the Norwegian electronic/jazz/ambient scene.

Some videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/brakkasoundsystem



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