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
Erlend Ropstad’s career in music started in 2004 when recording his first ep with Big Bangs Øystein Greni as producer and drummer. The year after he participated in the Norwegian festival and musical confernce bylarm and got in touch with the label REC90.
The ep ”the magnetic tapes” from the Greni recordings was released the year after, with great reviews in Norway, England, Germany and other countries. Two of the songs made it in to the soundtrack of a very successful norwegian film, Fritt Vilt (Cold Prey).
During 2006, Erlend recorded his debut album in Grieghallen Studios, famous for it’s black metal recordings and The Kings Of Convenience (!)Davide Bertolini, who also produces the Kings Of Convenience joined Erlends band and recorded Bright Late Nights with him. That Album was released in 2007 and was voted among the best 10 Norwegian releases regardless of genre that year in 5 of the major newspapers in Norway.
The reception in Germany was even better then in Norway. In 2008 the german music magazine INTRO with a distribution of 300 000 copies claimed Erlend Ropstad was the number one act from Norway to look out for in the future, topping the list above way more established artists like Ane Brun and Eivind Aarseth.
Erlend has played more then 100 concerts since Bright Late Nights, as support for artists like The National Bank (NO), Thomas Dybdahl (NO), Teitur (FO) and Cracker (US), but also with his own band at festivals like The Quart festival (NO), Øya festival (NO), Eurosonic (NE), Rotterdam International Poetry Festival (NE) and Popkomm (DE). He has also made several gigs and tours by him self in Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain and Norway. His music has been playlisted on major radiochannels in Belgium, Germany and Norway, he has made several radio and tv performances in Norway and Holland, and some songs appears on movie soundtracks and compilation cd’s across Europe, such as on the Spanish award winning movie ”8 citas”.
After Eurosonic 2008, the Dutch newspaper AD wrote: ”The Norwegian singer Erlend Ropstad is a tremendous talent. He’s sighing like Damien Rice, snarling like Tom Waits and tearing as Eddie Vedder, shows Ropstad his one of the greates singers in Europe. And also his songs, about the resurrection of Winona Ryder, about womens lack of respect for the alphabetical order of a cd ceollection, hould be heard!”
His next album is due to be released in February 2010.
This month we mostly have Catie Curtis (with a Richard Thompson cover), Lindsay Fuller and The Cheap Dates (and who amongst us isn't?), Josh Fix with a track from the well-titled album This Town Is Starting To Make Me Angry and the rather lovely Red Rooster.
We are proud to announce the release of our debut album "Neon".
From the 1st of September it will be available exclusively on iTunes store. Click on the link below or visit us at www.matna.de for further information, pictures and free download of our track "I miss you".
Da jeg var liten var jeg ofte ute i båten sammen med en de kalte John, og han fisket. Det var min bestefar, fra Tromøya. Egentlig het han Johannes. Lurer på om det var dengang jeg fant ut jeg ikke ville spise fisk. Jeg syntes så synd på de blodige fiskene og langsomt ble kvalt ihjel. Psykosomatisk?
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Four more little sonic gems for your August pleasure are now available on the site. Blitzen Trapper, Boulder Acoustic Society, Jay Brannan and The Wiyos. Yet another fine quartet even though we say so ourselves as picked them out.
Auch wenn man sich nicht sieht bedeutet das nicht dass man sich
vergessen sollte. Ich hoffe dir gelingt das was du dir vornimmst und du bist
gesund und munter!
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