Fjell

The Danish/Norwegian band FJELL was founded in April 2002 by Knut E. Haavik who was born and raised north of the polar circle in the town of Narvik, Norway. He started out playing the drums in his father’s jazz band, but playing just wasn’t enough so he built his own studio and started producing local bands. In 1990, 21 years old, he moved to Denmark and joined Hotel Hunger. With them he composed, produced and played guitar on four albums. ‘Mars needs guitars’ sold 18.000 copies and was nominated to five Danish Grammies among others best rock album and best producer. Since then he has produced a variety of albums with danish artist such as Søs Fenger, TV2, Poul Krebs and Nina Forsberg – amongst others.Drummer Flemming Olsen had played with Knut in the easy listening act: ‘Elvis Ellington and his Lazy Latin Lovers’ on their first and only album “Volume 1”! Now Knut had a load of new songs in the drawer and wanted to start a new band. Flemming suggested his longtime bandmates - bassplayer Jonas Gauguin and guitarist Rasmus Schrøder.The band started recording in Copenhagen and in December 2002 they had their live debut at the venue ‘Paragraffen’ in Oslo. While in Norway they also recorded three songs for the EP that was released in 2003.The first album ‘Skateboarder’ was released in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in June 2005 on the EMI/Noiz label. The debut was very positively received with 4/6 hearts in ‘Politiken’ and 4/6 stars in ‘Gaffa’. In the spring of 2006 the band played a Danish club tour, and after a half year break the recordings for their second album began.And very soon they discovered a strange parameter for a succesful single: The more “Oh Yeah”s - the better the song. This turned out to be a dogmatic rule for the forthcoming album. Make your own count!