Release Date: 05 April 2024
Label: Genepool Records / Genepool
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060078523837
Genres: Rock
Description
as a member of the hugely popular (and of late critically adorned) norwegian band a-ha, he has toured the world since their first worldwide number one in 1985, selling a staggering amount of records in the process. he has contributed to the band's worldwide hits, as well as much more ecclectic collaborations, writing filmscores, and music for theatre & ballet. as a solo artist the new album titled 'a dot of black in the blue of your bliss' is his second, following the 2004 release of 'past perfect future tense'
- an album termed 'uneasy listening' by his wife. 'probably mostly referring to my unapologetic approach to vocals,' he says...tongue somewhere close to cheek.
magne f expresses himself across an almost panoramic range of medias.
his ballooning body of work in music, paintings, prints, ceramics, sculpture, text and so on
has made his signature increasingly difficult to ignore - and his cv a rather exhausting read in itself!
his artistic path is not so easily defined, full of unexpected detours and left turns as it may appear.
in fact he seems devoted to defy the idea of being categorized, constantly challenging his achievements and branching out into new areas.
'i have been too many people to defend old versions of myself' - a quote from an earlier interview, may serve as an apt introduction to this multi-faceted artist.
as a visual artist, magne f is represented in the uk by the prestigious paul stolper gallery, alongside well known english figures like damien hirst, sir peter blake, gavin turk & jeremey deller. he has held numerous solo exhibitions in galleries and museums and participated in group exhibitions across europe since 1989, and his works are represented in both public and private collections. in 1996 magne was given a guest-professorship at the shanghai college of fine arts, and in 2001 his work was featured on a stamp in his native norway as the youngest living artist ever. in 2004 he was chosen to represent norway on a royal state visit to vietnam - both as visual artist, as well as being the first western musician to perform an open air concert in downtown hanoi. among his realised work is a 5m high ceramic sculpture in the town of bergen, and
last year saw magne f given the prestigious task of making a large-scale sculture for the nobel peace center in oslo, which was ceremoniously unveiled by peace-prize winners al gore and rajendra pachauri on the 11th of december 2007. the 5-metre high house of cards titled 'climax' was made with recycled aluminium taken from ships, tanker-trucks, commercial airplanes and fighter jets - the rumour that he bought a crashed F16 fighter plane unseen apparently true.
the new album 'a dot of black in the blue of your bliss' was recorded in june and september of 2007, in the south of france. in a house originally rented by a-ha to make demos in the 80's which now serves as magnes winter residence, magne invited friends to record the album with the medieval villages of provence as a
Tracklisting
Cardiacs
Cardiacs
Various Artists
The Telescopes
Riding the Low
Ade Fenton
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Savoy
Greg Freeman
The Armory Show
Apocalypse Orchestra
The Blackbirds
Hawkwind
The War on Drugs
Hands Like Houses
Wasia Project
