Artist: Silje Nes

Just a short entry about norwegian multiinstrumentalist Silje Nes, which I layed my ears on today. Silje grew up on a tiny town called Leikanger, in Sognefjord, the largest fjord in Norway. Then she was studying and now she is signed at the cool label FatCat Records - the label from which Sigur Rós took off to EMI. She is one of these girls exploring all kind of instruments, mixing and matching acoutic instruments with electronic sounds, making the result both organic and very human and fragile. It sounds very nice and [...]

• Silje Nes - Ames Room

Silje Nes is a unique and wonderful Norwegian artist who so far has not made a name for herself neither in her native country nor abroad, but she will, believe me! In November this year, Silje will release her debut-album on one of Eardrums' favourite labels, Fat Cat Records , home of bands like The Twilight Sad, Mice Parade, Panda Bear, Vetiver, Tom Brosseau and Múm to name a few. This is an artist that I think will fit well in on FatCat, and I'm waiting in excitement for her [...]

• Silje Nes - Ames Room