Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, M.Ward, Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Ben Harper, Damien Rice, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Lou Reed, Eels, Ben Folds Five, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, The White Stripes, The Black Crowes, Elliott Smith, PJ Harvey, Antony and the Johnsons...and so on
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In 2007 Erlend Ropstads debut album was released. And that's only a couple of years after he first decided to play and record his own material. The mini-album THE MAGNETIC TAPES came out in February 2006, and during a short period of time Erlend has had several radio hits on Norwegian and European radio, he has played MANY concerts, had music on the great horror movie "Fritt Vilt", played support for artists like Big Bang, Magnet, Thomas Dybdahl and Teitur. He had his first own European tour in 2007, he has had plenty of festival gigs and basically just started what seems to be a great and very promising career in music.
REC90 (sonet/universal) released both the EP, The Magnetic Tapes(2006, produced by Øystein Greni in Grand Sport Studio) and the album Bright Late Nights (2007, produced by Davide Bertolini and recorded in Grieghallen studio in Bergen, Norway) The same guy and studio that made the great Riot On An Empty Street album by Kings Of Convenience. Davide is also the bass player in KOC, and on most songs on Erlends album.
On a more personal level: Erlend has a background as a photographer, journalist, teacher and lives in the small mountain village Oppdal, just south of Trondheim, Norway. His music is said to be inspired by the classic singer/songwriters of the Americana genre. -But it is also very melodic and sometimes just cheerfull. It's been said that his music is more melancomic, than anything else. Go figure out what that means :)
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I would love to with obviously money permiting. Hey, check out my band and let me know what you think. We could maybe look into sharing some gigs etc...We could put you up over here and you could return the favour where you are??? Anyway, i hope you enjoy. www. myspace. com/angrymanband
Cheers champ, an honour having you here, be well, and do enjoy the library/blog's contents, here's hoping that it'll inspire you, as your creative spirit has inspired mine, sweet dreams then...
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