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Torgeir Bitnes Dammen

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About Me

22 years old, from a small valley in Norway. Grow up with rock music, and later on I turned in to jazz and improvisation. Have study jazz at Agder folkhighschool in two years, and now I am working at a high school outside of Trondheim. I play in a band called Pheromone, and I have played in some other ensembles.

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Music:

Member Since: 2/29/2008
Band Members: PHEROMONE: Jim Juliussen- gitar og effekter, Torgeir Bitnes Dammen- trommer, MAGNI..S COMBO: Magni Wada- bratsj, bass, piano og vokal Paul Brobakken- gitarer og piano Knut Arne Mørreaunet- vokal Torgeir Bitnes Dammen- trommer OTHER PEOPLE I HAVE PLAYED WITH: Bjørn Marius Hegge, Yazek Manzano with band, Per Gunnar, And alot of great musicians from Agder folkhighschool
Influences: Coltrane, Davis, Coleman, Ayler, Shorter, The Thing, Scorch trio, Paal Nilssen Love, the Core, Atomic, IHF quintet, Elvin Jones, Tony Williams, King Crimson, Yes, Led Zeppelin, osv...
Sounds Like: Pheromone - live 2008 part III

Legg til på min profil | Flere videoerPheromone - live 2008 part II

Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New bassplayer

Sondre Munthe Haagensli Kaas, has joined my jazztrio "pheromone", With me, and Jim Juliussen. I have played with him in a session called "watermusic", and he is a really great bassplayer. You will hea...
Posted by Torgeir Bitnes Dammen on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:11:00 PST

Back to the hardrock forrest

I am going back to the hardrock forrest, gonna try to play with a hardrock band in Trondheim. They play music like guano apes, in flames, Animal Alpha,  Lacuna coil and skunk anasie.
Posted by Torgeir Bitnes Dammen on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:53:00 PST

Review from the first concert with pheromone

Here is a link to a review from Under Dusken, a student paper in Trondheim. The band was named "the pond" back then. also including a bassplayer, with the name Per Gunnar, a great bassplayer from Merå...
Posted by Torgeir Bitnes Dammen on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:39:00 PST

My gear

5 x 14 Snare Drum;8 x 12 Tom Tom;14 x 14 Floor Tom;16 x 18 Bass Drum Tama or Gibraltar hardware, maybe pearl and meinl Paiste 602 and 2002 crashes, ride and hihat, Wuhan chinas and sabian splash Remo ...
Posted by Torgeir Bitnes Dammen on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:47:00 PST

Jam session in Havana

In april 2007, I get the chance to play with the great Yazek Manzano and his group. We played "oleo", and it was great. Yazek Manzano played at the jazzclub "la zorra y el cuervo" (the fox and the rav...
Posted by Torgeir Bitnes Dammen on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:29:00 PST

New myspace profile

I have updated my myspace profile.
Posted by Torgeir Bitnes Dammen on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:14:00 PST