Nostalgia trip. KitFai was started in 2013 when five friends decided to make music in the same way as the music they grew up with. With inspiration from bands such as Mew, Paramore, Further Seems Forever and Matchbook Romance, it’s not hard to see that KitFai maybe wished they were a hit in 2004.

Perhaps you’re thinking that’s a bad thing? On the contrary! Studies show that the warm, nostalgic feeling you get when you reminisce about happy times is stronger and more positive than the actual feeling you had in the first place. If you think that the record you loved when you were seventeen changed your life, then just listen to KitFai, and maybe you could save some money on both therapy and stimulants.

KitFai has previously released an EP called “Grip” that received good feedback, and several of the songs, including the standalone singles “Down” and “In Every Way”, were played on the Norwegian radio channel P3, through the “Urørt” program. “Down” was also used in the Norwegian TV-series called “Unge Lovende”.

It’s onstage that KitFai are at their happiest. They have since day one had their focus on playing live, and have since 2013 played across large parts of Norway. Festivals such as Pstereo, Slottsfjell, OverOslo, Skjærvafest and by:Larm, and support for Deaf Havana, among others.

The band members are known from bands such as Leprous, Shevils, Over the Trees and Psyence Fiction.

KitFai spent parts of 2017 in the studio recording their debut album, which will be out and available during 2018.

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Norwegian singer/songwriter CONNY likes combining the warmth of soul, the playfulness of jazz and the edge of blues in her music.

LET’S BE LIGHT
Children of the 80s!
The hype around Norway’s electronic duo Let’s be Light gets bigger and bigger as they’ve been touring with their energetic live band around Norway. Let's be Light is a mix of heavy beats and harmonies, voices, sounds, songs, thoughts and lightning moods. You can easily let yourself be misled by this music, colored by synths and beats from times back. Let's be Light knows exactly how they want to put their flashbacks, while directing the attention purposefully forward in a playful musical landscape. 

The band got a lot of attention around their debut EP in November 2011. “Man” was awarded Untouched Song of the Week on Norwegian national broadcaster NRK radio in February 2012, as well as being playlisted on NRK’s radio. Since then, the electropop duo teamed with BISI Music releasing several singles. The duo was nominated for “Lutt” Award 2012 in NRK and was in 2013 picked to play at this year Blast as one of Norway's most promising bands.

DEBUT ALBUM: After spending time in an artist center in Vilnius and in the small village Rognes, Norway; Let’s be Light have managed to compose a brilliant synth pop album packed with nostalgia and light melancholia. You’ll meet yourself, life, death, nature and the city, in a mix of feelings and moods. If pop-happiness is a feeling, this is what you get!

Det lysner av flyktig og fornuftig galskap! Let’s be Light smeller videre med tunge beats blandet inn med lekre harmonier, stemmer, klanger, sanger, tanker og lette stemninger. Vi kommer inn - og vi blir DER!
Musikken kan karakteriseres som synthbastert popmusikk med klare referanser til 80- og 90-tallet. Selv om mange av låtene har et lett melankolsk preg, spenner musikken seg fra rolig elektronisk pop til fengende disco, og videre til støyklanger.
Let’s be Light dukket senhøsten 2011 opp av underflaten for å berike verden med herlig og fengende synthpop. Eksperimentering og utforsking av forskjellige musikalske uttrykk hadde resultert i en EP som raskt fikk mye positiv oppmerksomhet:

UKAS URØRT med låten "Man":
“Let’s be Light leker seg med synther og skaper et kontrastfylt univers fylt av nostalgi, kulde og varme på samme tid. Velprodusert, lekker elektronika som får blodet til å bruse lengselsfullt i årene” (www.nrk.no/urort).

FURORE I HARARE har beskrevet bandet nærmest som en skjult skatt:
“Det finnes mye godt som aldri kommer skikkelig ut. Så sant som det er sagt. I mylderet av all musikken som kommer ut er det noen band som ikke får den oppmerksomheten de fortjener. Let’s be Light er et av disse” (www.furoreiharare.com).

NORSKMUSIKK.ORG beskriver musikken til Let’s be Light som fengende med herlige musikalske krumspring som er så vakkert at frysningen er et faktum. Og ut fra slike gode ord har de gitt EPen en 5er!!! (http://www.norskmusikk.org/).


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