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Moshi Moshi Records started off as a hobby in 1998. Set up by three friends who had jobs working for major record labels. It was intended as a way of working with the bands that they loved but which didn’t fit in with the agenda of the day-job taskmasters. Early single releases from Zan Lyons, Kathryn Williams & Pedro and J Xaverre earned the label some plaudits. And sold a few records. Over the next five years Moshi Moshi slowly started to build a reputation for interesting, slightly leftfield, low-key releases. Then in 2004 things changed. For a start Moshi stopped being a hobby and became a fulltime job. Very soon after, Hot Chip and Bloc Party arrived and Moshi Moshi quickly became a name known to more than a few. Chart success followed with Yeti and The Rakes and higher-profile album releases from Architecture In Helsinki and Au Revoir Simone helped lift the label onto a new level. Then from 2006 onwards came artists such as Hot Club De Paris, Tilly And The Wall, The Wave Pictures, Slow Club, James Yuill, The Drums, Summer Camp, the list goes on.

In late 2006 the two remaining Moshi Moshi founders decided they wanted to get back to their one-off 7” release roots and the Moshi Moshi Singles Club was born. The intention was to try and release one 7” each month by a new up-and-coming artist. It would be limited to 1000 and only be available in a select group of indie stores. The artwork would be restricted to one colour and be designed by the bands themselves. Now some 40+ releases later the singles club’s roster makes an impressive list – (including) Kate Nash, Late of The Pier, Friendly Fires, Lykke Li, Florence and The Machine, Kindness, Dananananayckroyd. Disclosure. In 2011 Moshi Moshi expanded its remit by partnering up with some very talented young A&R folk to set up the imprints Tender Age, Not Even, Apricot and Dream Beach. Working under the Moshi Moshi umbrella these new labels have already yielded a clutch of exciting releases by artists from as far afield as Kenya and Seattle.

At the same time as running the record label Moshi Moshi Management has been quietly guiding the career of Metronomy and Slow Club as well as producers Ash Workman and Ollie Bayston. From 2012 this side of the business started to expand dramatically and now features a sizeable roster of emerging artists.

Looking back on the Moshi Moshi roster (particularly since the label ‘went fulltime’ in 2004) it’s a collection that bears comparison with any of its peers. For a label run by two people with no financial backing, it’s nothing short of an inspiration.

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Since 1995 Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned vast critical praise, 14 Canadian Juno Awards, 7 Grammy® Awards (with an additional 14 nominations), a Golden Globe nomination and sales of over 60 million albums worldwide. Morissette’s 1995 debut, “JAGGED LITTLE PILL,” was followed by such eclectic and acclaimed albums as “SUPPOSED FORMER INFATUATION JUNKIE” (1998), “MTV UNPLUGGED” (1999), “UNDER RUG SWEPT” (2002), “SO-CALLED CHAOS” (2004), “JAGGED LITTLE PILL ACOUSTIC” (2005), her greatest hits album, “THE COLLECTION” (2005), “FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT”(2008), HAVOC AND BRIGHT LIGHTS (2012), and “JAGGED LITTLE PILL: COLLECTOR’S EDITION” (2015), released in honor of the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking debut, as well as musical contributions to theatrical releases, some of which include “The Chronicles of Narnia,” “Prince of Persia,” and “City of Angels.” Alanis has acted on the big and small screen with roles in “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Dogma,” “Sex and the City,” “Weeds” and “Up All Night,” and has appeared as a celebrity guest mentor on the 2nd season of “The Voice.” In 2015, Alanis was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Outside of entertainment, she is an avid supporter of female empowerment, as well as spiritual, psychological and physical wellness. She has contributed her writing to a variety of outlets and forums, and participates in worships, special speaking engagements and keynote speaking worldwide. Alanis has also donated her time to a number of causes that help raise awareness and funding on a number of issues including Equality Now which benefits international human rights, Music for Relief, UN Global Tolerance for which she was honored for her contributions for promoting tolerance through the arts, “Every Mother Counts” CD for which she contributed her song “Magical Child” to help prevent needless maternal deaths, and P.S Arts which has worked tirelessly to provide access to the arts through in-school programs to thousands of children in some of the most under-served neighborhoods in California. Alanis has also been outspoken on the issue of home child birth, its benefits and challenges for mothers across the world. Currently she is working on new music as well as a book, which will be released in late 2016. For more information see www.alanis.com.


"Oh, dear Harriet, music high school is only for talented pupils…"

Despite a teacher’s consternation and warning, a young Harriet Ohlsson didn’t listen; went on and was accepted into music high school and thankfully so as we are rewarded by her stunning debut album “Arena Rock” performing as OH, HARRY.

OH, HARRY’s music distils an extraordinarily independent life that Harriet has lived. A restless creative spirit possessing a magical voice and lyrical depth exposing the emotions of her Bohemian youth cultivating new relationships quite early, a teenage backward embrace of religion upon learning of her family’s heritage only to quickly reject it except for the musical soundtrack of it, University days of theatre and gender studies, working in far flung places such as India and America, only to land in a complete circle.

Born in Gothenburg to academic parents, Harriet was left mainly on her own to discover. 

“My parents were working a lot on their different doctorate papers. Our home was a loving home, but way to quiet for me. So I learnt to stay out of the apartment and to create my own routines. They gave me a lot of tools to be independent quickly.”

As a fourteen year old Harriet Ohlsson realized she wanted to be a storyteller. Not exactly sure of how this would happen, she tried theatre, learnt to play the oboe, the flute, the double bass and for a long time the saxophone was her main instrument.

For several years she dallied in photography making art projects. “I went out to different punk scenes and took portraits of people and sometimes I dragged them to a squatted house and used it as my studio. I collected old windows and put my pictures in them and I had exhibitions in small coffee shops.” Restless as ever she grew weary of the photo lab atmosphere and music came calling.

“I lived one hour from school so I rode my bike every morning through Gothenburg City constantly making all these songs up. I had a couple of punk bands and I played the oboe (mostly because it was free lessons at the music academy and you got to eat dessert if you had done your homework.)

“Music always seemed to be just another way of expressing myself. I hated the oboe, but I didn’t know there were other instruments until I found out about this circus that was touring and came to Gothenburg. There I fell in love with the soprano saxophone and the cool woman playing it became my teacher and role model.”

Harriet joined and toured all over Sweden with the Klezmer band called Chutzpah, started a couple of different bands and ended up at the Academy of Music studying Balkan music. Outside of school she began to sing and eventually that turned out to be her greatest joy.



Until 2009, Harriet was the lead singer and one of the founders of highly acclaimed Hellsongs performing stripped down heavy metal classics as “lounge” in a unique special way. An epic rendition of Iron Maiden’s “Run To The Hills” launched them to the forefront of Swedish media while building upon an already impressive live reputation touring across Scandinavia.

In 2008, Hellsong’s full length debut "Hymns in the key of 666" entered the Swedish charts at #9 and has been released in the Scandinavia, UK, France, GSA, Benelux, Spain, Japan, Australia/NZ and Russia. The album was nominated for a German Critics Award as well as a Swedish Grammy Award, A hugely successful tour in the GSA countries followed.
After five years of releasing several EPs, the album and touring, Harriet decided it was time to start listening to her own voice and musical longings and left Hellsongs to work on her solo album

For the past year she has been dragging a baby carriage all around Gothenburg and Berlin filled with instruments and recording equipment, stubbornly convincing herself that she actually is making a solo album.

ARENA ROCK was born in the kitchen, on a jetty, in between tears, during cooking, laughing while in Berlin, on a bike, and always straight from the heart. The songs are about the pastimes of life with a direct poignancy formed in what can only be called OH, HARRY world.  Emotional songs of dashed hopes “He Is Not The One”, resignation “Too Bad” “Shift Happens”, rebellion “I Reclaim My Streets” “Hey Mr”, remorse “Avoid Notes (That Make You Cry” and love “Stay In My Heart” a stunning cover of the O’Jays “Now That We Found Love”.

The title of the album originates from the guitar effect Arena Rock in GarageBand, which has been used as her recording tool. However it is also about the “big-time-once-in-a-life-time-arena-rock-heroes-and-heroines emotions” that the album is all about. 

The name OH, HARRY stems from a period in her childhood when she used to call herself Harry and that ringing of a teacher’s words. Simple.

All songs are written by Harriet Ohlsson (except for “Now That We Found Love”, by The O´Jays). 

Harriet sings, plays the piano and synthesizers, accordion, harmonica, saxophone, percussion and a bit of guitar and ukulele and a love of elephants.

Petter Eriksson provided postproduction and mixed the album at Studio Singh, Göteborg.

“Arena Rock” is available from Lovely Records.

Patrik Larsson / Headlock Management  patrik@headlockmanagement.se
Steve Lee  / World Lee Consulting Ltd. Steve@worldlee.co.uk



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