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Power pop band, Oslo, Norway

"Family values is a sparkling, hook-driven powerpop five-piece from Oslo, Norway. Catchy melodies with one intension: Get inside your head."

Family Values are: 
Jon Martin Sjøvold (guitar, vocals)
Kjetil Torset Voldhaug (bass, keys, vocals)
Knut Steinfeld (guitar, vocals)
Mathias Mollestad (vocals)
Peder Wessel (drums, vocals)

BLÅ ia a venue in downtown Oslo. With 400+ events each year it's the leading venue/club in Norway within the 'alternative' sector of live music and nightclubs.

Brenneriveien 9c 
Oslo

I have listened to you for 40 years, which is my age. I have kept quiet, I have bided my time. Why should you listen to me? What might I contribute?
We live in an age where attention is scarce, and emotion florid. The revolution is not only broadcasted, it is tracked minute for minute. And in the meanwhile,
a creeping numbness has taken over us. I have no musical training, I navigate by ear - in some ways, listening - playing notes and sequences, syncopating,
is a lot like automatic writing for me. I have also done that, just as I have created images by kinestetic compulsion, not only freehand, but autonomous of a
conscious eye. While there are some few genres I have spent little time with, I have a particular but very eclectic taste, because what happens with music is a translation of time
into a space which is bounded by other rules than by the hands of the clock, the ticking of the seconds on a digital chronometer. While music is universal for our species, it
is also in many ways one of the most subjective thing we have, our preferences determined by experiences which sometimes evade plain language.
The untranslatable and numinous are the second half of the world I inhabit, while the other half disappoints me, this other one never cease to amaze me.
Needless to say, I´m presently on a journey.

Hey! Please check out my tracks and mixes and please follow.

"Boblebad, real name Ulf Moen Denneche, is an artist that has the essence of creativity coursing through his very being. An all-round production dynamo, the Oslo-based creator is equally adept at crafting immersive sonic textures as striking visual imagery, expertly functioning as an inspired musical producer as well as a painter and visual artist.

In the spring of 2021, the 37-year-old talent arrived on Beatservice with his label debut – the utterly compelling deep house/meta-disco hybrid, 'Vill Falafel'. His powerfully individual music has also found a home on numerous other highly-respected imprints, including Eskimo, Full Pupp, Paper Recordings, and Aquavit Beat, among others. With a stubbornly eclectic sound signature, Boblebad's genre-defying back-catalogue includes gorgeously emotive Balearic soundscapes, brooding deep house grooves, adventurous journeys into electronica, deviant contemporary disco refinement, and all things between.

On top of his prowess as a studio technician and visual artist, he also plays trombone for a cultured Afrobeat band, as well as in a rousing, jazz-inspired big band. Indeed, his musical roots run incredibly deep, and as a youngster, Ulf cut his performance teeth while playing in a marching band alongside none other than Håkon Vinnogg – better known as the one and only Vinny Villbass."

Home: https://www.facebook.com/theswitchoslo
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The Switch, an Oslo sextet (or rather a quintet with an affixed lyricist), had been writing, recording and performing music in the impossible-to-market genre "harmony- and solo-heavy 70's inspired pop/rock, I guess?" for almost five years when one of the few Norwegian music reviewers people sort of care about named their debut album "Big If" (Arch Records, 2014) "the hidden gem of the year" in his year-end roundup. This pleased The Switch to no end. They bought physical copies of the newspaper and showed it to people. They also agreed, for the most part, although this they kept to themselves. Atheists all - they were still protestants.

Now let's skip back to what is about to happen:

Late in the summer of 2013, months after having wrapped up the recording of "Big If", The Switch recorded a demo of an old tune they had written two years previously. The recording was mostly meant as a way to keep their studio-muscles fit, but they immediately found, much their delight and wonderment, that the old prog ditty they thought they were recording was actually a part of an entire album they had written without realizing it: A vast underground structure connecting disparate parts of their shelved songwriting into a whole. Songs they thought were finished turned out to be missing parts of other songs entirely, or just woefully incomplete. What they unearthed that fall (and recorded that winter) didn't sound a whole lot like their first album; the day had turned to dusk and the earth and leather gave way to asphalt and sharp edges, electric lights and echoes. A spiral chronicle of how simply wanting to better one's place in life opens up a chasm of cyclical violence of the heart, stretched to the horizon, begging you to fall into it. Hence the title.

And thus The Switch would like to present, for your consideration, their sophomore album "B for The Beast". Gem or not, they hope it doesn't stay hidden.

B for the Beast
Produced by Thomas Sagbråten and Filip Roshauw
Recorded in Oslo 2013-2014 by Thomas Sagbråten
Mixed by Christian Engfelt (1-3 og 5-7), Morten Øby (4) and Thomas Sagbråten (8)
Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

Written by Sagbråten/Vollset (1-4), Sagbråten/Roshauw/Vollset (5-8).

The Switch are:
Thomas Sagbråten (vocals, rythm guitars, misc)
Filip Roshauw (lead guitars, vocals, misc)
Arthur Kay Piene (keyboards)
Espen Kregnes (bass)
Ingrid Aarvik Berge (drums, vocals)
Peter Vollset (lyrics)

Guest musicians: Tore Flatjord (percussion), Erlend Magnus Barratt-Due Solum (clarinet), Christian Bjølseth (banjo), Mira Berggrav Refsum (vocals), Frank Michaelsen (vocals), Bjørnar E. Brandseth (pedal steel guitar), Ole Øvstedal (percussion), Øystein Hvamen Rasmussen (trumpet)


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