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Olav

aka Windhawk, Hawkwind or Haukevind on the net

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

My friends George and Krista in Pennsylvania. People I have learned to like and love over the 5 years or so I have been listening in and chatting with them during George's Friday Night prog rock and good time party show at various net radios; nowadays at www.progcafe.com. Met them this year at ROSfest 2008, and can't wait to meet them again. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ The other people involved in www.progcafe.com; although we chat a lot it is online only. It's a great pleasure being involved in this project, involving a diversified group of very interesting people. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ A special mention to Richard and Mary Pat - thanks for letting us stay with you guys while me and my wife were in the US. We had a great time, and miss you guys a lot. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Several artists of which albums I've reviewed would have been fun meeting for a chat and a beer as well. Great artists all of them from what I can tell - even if all of the music may not have been to my personal liking. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Shawn Gordon at progrock records. Our personalities are vastly different; but we share some common ground when it comes to values which are rather rare these days. ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ ¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨ Joel at progrock.com; great guy and a great radio DJ. Got to see him at ROSfest 2008, but don't think he recognized me then. There's always a next time though, eh?

My Blog

Forthcoming CD reviews

As reviews is the main reason for me creating this side in the first place, I thought I might as well blog my current "to do" list - releases I'll review in the forthcoming future.Promo CDs I have rec...
Posted by Olav on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:32:00 PST

CD reviews written in 2008

This is a list of reviews I've finished writing for various places (as well as some for pure fun). With links to the actual review added, as soon as the review has been published. Be aware that for so...
Posted by Olav on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:56:00 PST

If you’d like me to review your music...

With the danger of coming across as pretentious or otherwise with an ego blown out of proportion....I do occassionally get contacted by artists that would like me to review their music.I'll gladly acc...
Posted by Olav on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:05:00 PST

CD reviews written in 2007

December 2007:- Ayreon: 01011001 (2008) - 83/100- Dol Ammad: Ocean Dynamics (2006) - 82/100- Alex Masi: Late Nights at Desert's Rimrock (2006) - 82/100- Redemption: The Origins of Ruin (2007) - 78/100...
Posted by Olav on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:51:00 PST

CD reviews written in 2006

December 2006:- First Band From Outer Space: Impressionable Sounds of the Subsonic (2006) - 85/100- Henning Pauly: Credit Where Credit Is Due (2005) - 85/100- Shakary: Shakary 2006 (2006) - 81/100- Ro...
Posted by Olav on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:55:00 PST

The big piracy issue

Oh well, time to be slightly controversial now; handing out my 10 cents worth of thoughts on the issue of downloading and what has been branded as piracy. Written as I think here, so expect a few miss...
Posted by Olav on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 02:57:00 PST