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Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now!

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About Me

Founded by Jonas Qvale as an art project and an open experimental environment, Hornorkesteret played their first gig on instruments made from reindeer antlers at Atalante in Gothenburg in october 1999 backed by a mic'ed up coffee percolator. Since then, we've played numerous gigs around Norway with varying line-ups, improvising and performing in museums, concert halls, galleries, campers, in the woods and on mountaintops. The music has always been about nature and physical processes, with primitive human grooves surfacing and dissolving again. Doing film music and theatrical productions has made the current line-up more structured as we've been working with cues in films, scripts and in the movements of actors and dancers.
ELEGI FOR ROALD AMUNDSEN
Free MP3 single with additional tracks commemorating 80 years since polar hero Amundsen disappeared on the 18th of June 1928.
The title track features polar hero Fridtjof Nansen on vocals. A live version of this track has is included as well as two more tracks related to Roald Amundsen.
Download all the tracks and cover art here: www.hornorkesteret.no
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Member Since: 12/13/2006
Band Website: hornorkesteret.no
Band Members: Jonas Qvale, Erlend Lien, Torbjørn Benjaminsen, Jan Krey, Tom Løberg, Thomas Oxem, Thomas Dunker, Stian Rødven Eide.Occasional members: Jens V. S. Ledaal, Rune Fredriksen, Sigvat Brustad, Magne Rudjord.Former members: Mette Torvund, Tore H. Bøe, Mona Undisdatter, Jan de Gier.
Influences: Norway, the nature of the arctic and antarctic, the free organization of sound in nature, the struggle to survive arctic climates, the warped mind of polar explorer Roald Amundsen, Fridtjof Nansen, the Fram, polar history and science. Musically, we feel related to artists in many genres and periods. Noteworthy are a few we've known and who have directly influenced us: Johannes Bergmark, Tore H. Bøe, The Four, Audun Eriksen, Michael F. Duch Alan Courtis, Roberto Conlazo and Lasse Marhaug. We've found inspiration in the works of The Residents (especially the Eskimo album), Harry Partch, Amon Düll II, Tony Conrad, John Cage, Captain Beefheart, Mari Boine, Sun Ra, Utla, Doc Boggs, Clarence "Tom" Ashley, Älgarnas Trädgård, Comus, Ym:Stammen, C. Spencer Yeh, Spunk, The Incredible String Band, When, Knut Buen, SunnO))), Sleep, Om, Nurse With Wound, Roky Erickson, 13th Floor Elevators, Alf Prøysen, Darkthrone, Edvard Grieg, Hawkwind, Elias Akselsen, Origami Arktika, György Ligeti, Erik Bye, Konono No1 and many others.
Sounds Like: Nothing else, really.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Territorial claims in the Arctic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_claims_in_the_Arcti c
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:29:00 PST

Antler heaven

I'm at loss for words - take a look!http://www.antlerman.com/beginrooomtour.html
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:25:00 PST

China’s Arctic expedition team reaches Bering Sea to conduct exploration

ABOARD XUELONG, July 19 (Xinhua) -- China's third Arctic expedition Saturday morning reached the Bering Sea where it will conduct various exploration tasks. Zhang Haisheng, chief scientist of the e...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:18:00 PST

Nature strikes back - french deer kicks hunters’ ass

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Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:04:00 PST

80 years since Amundsen disappeared - Free MP3 single from Hornorkesteret

On June 18th 2008, norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen will have been missing for 80 years. Leaving Tromsø on the 18th of June 1928 was a rescue mission to save Amundsens rival for the North pole, Umber...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:07:00 PST

Under the ice lurks a strange Arctic monster

Tom Spears , The Ottawa CitizenPublished: Tuesday, May 06, 2008Original article here: http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?i d=2779b528-f5f4-48d1-b384-f4c550260d48Canadian fish s...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:58:00 PST

Norway determined to have its share of Antarctic fisheries

Original article here: http://www.mercopress.com/vernoticia.do?id=12537&formato=HTM LIt had always been technically difficult to harvest the abundant valuable krill known to populate the ocean waters a...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:56:00 PST

Sami herders in space rocket near miss

(The Local, 19 April 2008) - By way of Circumpolar MusingsTwo Sami reindeer herders were narrowly missed by a falling space rocket launched from the Esrange space station in northern Sweden in the be...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:14:00 PST

"A further Antarctic myth" (UFO’s, Nazis etc.)

Volume 44Issue 01 - Jan 2008Polar Record (2008), 44: 83-84 Cambridge University PressPublished online by Cambridge University Press 27 Nov 2007CorrespondenceA further Antarctic mythI refer to the inte...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:33:00 PST

Thriving moose population becomes ecological problem (norwegian only)

Ut i naturen på NRK1 tirsdag 15. april kl. 19:30 NETT-TV: Smakebit fra «Elgsplosjonen» Siden forrige århundreskifte er bestanden minst trettidoblet. Kanskje er det mer enn det noensinne har vært side...
Posted by Hornorkesteret - Free MP3 single out now! on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST