
When I compiled my original Best Of 2008 list last December, it was a snow day. The sky dropped about a foot, maybe a foot and a half of fluffy white stuff and we lowly sub-compact drivers could go nowhere. Between ranking albums and locating album art, I took a stroll around town with my camera. The above image comes from that trek. Overall, I was pretty happy with last year's list but, in revisiting all the albums from 2008, I now see quite a few that I left out. [...]
matinée records verschenkt zwei songs zur woche, also, flink zugreifen, im übrigen bands mit einem großartigen output: Tender Trap - Ampersand The Windmills - Summer Snow mein hinweis auf eleven records , einige vortreffliche acts sind hier zuhause und es soll für heute die musik für sich sprechen: jherek bichoff - 3:53.353 Jason and Jay - Eleven Saints [...]
![Haakon Ellingsen [Feature Band]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1556598_lg.jpg)
It’s about 50 in the office and I had the brilliant idea of wearing flip-flops and a short-sleeve dress shirt today. Damn appendages are freezing off. I can think of a few cures to remove the chill. Sometimes all you need is a little folk-pop; today, I turned to Haakon Ellingsen . This Norwegian crafts his songs with soft instrumentation—the volume may be light but the use of strings, keys and flute are heavy. The softer side of The Beatles comes through in “Bounty.” But there’s a [...]
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Written by Fense Like Sweden, Norway churns out some pretty great pop bands and one of those is Haakon Ellingsen . Ellingsen's music is a mixture of pop and folk that is occasionally reminiscent of The Beatles, but not in an distracting or negatively impacting, overtly-influenced manner; maybe a hint of The Polyphonic Spree's epic nature, as well. Ellingsen is not your typical self-indulgent, self-named artist. Certainly, he surrounds himself with great musicians, but he's not the focal force behind the songs he creates. Each [...]
Termo Records will be releasing the new Haakon Ellingsen disc "The plum album" on October 27. It was produced by Brynjar Dambo ( Okasa , White Willow ) and some preview tracks can be heard here: http://www.myspace.com/haakone llingsen