As I’m sitting here on a very (considering it’s end of August) freezing afternoon, the rain quite simply won’t stop and there is dough is rising in a bowl in our kitchen. I love autumn for its schizophrenic weather, for the golden leaves and for the smell of upcoming winter; one smell I associate with [...]
July 18, 2010
After a blog post like this one, is there anything to add? Hearing my friends’ music on the radio is one of the best things ever. So maybe I’d go for one of Wintermare’s songs; possibly Halfway to a Star or Untitled, which are some of my favorites. It’s nice to know that I Have been [...]
July 5, 2010
I have many music memories of Norway; especially from the year I lived there and from my first summer in Hedmark; but no song will remind me more of the fields around Flisa than Angels and Airwaves‘ The Adventure. The video is really quite terrible, but all the nature shots seems like they could have been [...]
June 14, 2010
As I’ve mentioned countless times, I have approximately a million talented friends in / from Norway. At some point I got introduced to Marius from Jaqueline / Team Me / and god knows how many other bands, and we got a little tipsy and talked a lot about music (in fact, he reminded me of [...]
May 23, 2010
It all started on a winter’s day, February 2007. I was stranded – out of my own accord – in a Norwegian hamlet called Kjellmyra for ten days, sleeping on the floor of my friend Eirik (from Wintermare) in their lovely little apartment with a gorgeous view (huge glass window! yeah!) on snowy hills. It [...]
May 17, 2010
Well, a jolly good morning to all of you. The Lazy Acre Records Head- and Subquarters are buzzing with excitement. Uno Møller’s lovely digital single is out as of today, right on time to celebrate Norway’s birthday. You can download the whole thing for free from here (including some daydreamy artwork made by yours truly) as [...]
April 24, 2010
It was nordic film week in Vienna last week! Due to obvious lack of (leisure) time *sigh* I was forced to pick just one out of the movies that were on show. I went for a film version of Jostein Gaarder’s gorgeous book Appelsinpiken (“The Orange Girl”) that did not deceive me at all. You [...]
April 12, 2010
this song always makes me very happy. I can’t wait until SiN release their debut album, because it sounds so good. Marius’ crazy ideas ALWAYS make me laugh! God I miss norway oh so gddmn much; I can’t wait for July to arrive. July, come soon! I would love to take all of them back with [...]
April 12, 2010
State Kuban now have songs available for free download on the NRK (national Norwegian channel) website. These also include Compulsive Liar, which is their latest song. jippii!
January 27, 2010
We’re on fire with Norwegian musicians, these days! Marius Drogsås Hagen (Team Me, Jaqueline, SiN) gave me a bit of his time to answer some questions about seasons, Sufjan Stevens, and to play a nice word-association game. Read below! Happy New Year! It started super well for you – you got to play at the final [...]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a local magazine based in Englaaand and make used to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used to still have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org
August 31, 2010