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Stórsveit Nix Noltes

Royal Family - Divorce

About Me

Stórsveit Nix Noltes was founded in the fall of 2004 by nine musicians living in Reykjavik whose interests was to play folk music from Bulgaria and the Balkan regions in their own arrangements. Although most members had participated in various bands and experiments before (and continue to do so, including founding members of múm, Benni Hemm Hemm, Lost in Hildurness, rúnk, Kanada and Hestbak among others), it was actually a class in balkan music in the local art school with guitarist Hilmar Jensson that brought them together. After an intense concert period in every other venue in Reykjavik and some in New York that winter, they recorded the album Orkídeur Havaí in an old farmhouse in Borgarfjörður, Iceland. Orkídeur Havaí was released on the Icelandic 12 Tónar label in 2005 as well on Bubblecore Records the following year. After touring Europe and the US in 2005 and 2006 the group recorded their second album, now with eleven members, during the last few summerdays of the extraordinary sunny august 2006 in a small studio outside Reykjavik called The Hot Tub. Recorded live to 1" 16 track tape in an extremely small cottage with a room that paradoxically barely fitted all of the members at once, the album was mixed in various locations in Reykjavík; in rehearsal spaces and parents livingroom´s although the best mixes were definately made at Orri´s (the recording engingeer) studio called Ellingsen but mostly at the great studio, Sundlaugin.The proudly self-produced and self-released album by the band, titled Royal Family - Divorce was released in december 2007. It is distributed by 12 Tónar in Iceland and will be out on FatCat America later this year.Royal Family - Divorce, is available as a download + cd on the fabulous grapewire.net website.  To enjoy the critically acclaimed eleven piece big band´s original arrangements of ten bulgarian folk songs in a phsycadelic punkrock outfit with a twist, check this out. Good times!Storsveit Nix Noltes Royal Family-Divorce CD and Download linkStorsveit Nix Noltes on the grapewire

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Member Since: 2/28/2006
Band Members: Áki Ásgeirsson, Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson, Gestur Guðnason, Guðmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Hallvarður Ásgeirsson, Hildur I. Guðnadóttir, Ingi Garðar Erlendsson, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, Kristín Þóra Haraldsdóttir, Ólafur Björn Ólafsson, Páll Ivan Pálsson
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Record Label: LP Útgáfa/12tónar/Bubblecore Records/FatCatAmerica
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Stórsveit Nix Noltes í sjónvarpinu

Stórsveit Nix Noltes að flytja lagið Krivo Sadovsko Horo í Kastljósi í kvöld. Góða skemmtun!nix on tv...
Posted by Stórsveit Nix Noltes on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:31:00 PST

Storsveit Nix Noltes on TV

Storsveit Nix Noltes performing Krivo Sadovsko Horo on national icelandic television tonight. Have fun!nix on tv...
Posted by Stórsveit Nix Noltes on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:33:00 PST

Great news-such a cheerful event

The Stórsveit Nix Noltes new album, Royal Family - Divorce, is now available as a download + cd on the fabulous grapewire.net website nixongrapewireTo enjoy the critically acclaimed eleven piece big b...
Posted by Stórsveit Nix Noltes on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:39:00 PST

Stórsveit Nix Noltes & grapewire.is

Ný plata Stórsveitar Nix Noltes, Royal Family - Divorce er nú til sölu á netinu hjá hinni frábæru netplötubúð grapewire.is.nix on the grapewire Þar er hægt að hala plötunni niður og fá geisladiskinn s...
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Gagnrýni

Royal Family - Divorce hefur hlotið afbragðs dóma gagnrýnenda og hér er einn:Laugardaginn 5. janúar, 2008 - TónlistTÓNLIST - GeisladiskurFramúrskarandi hressileiki í tilverunaStórsveit Nix Noltes Roya...
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Nix on grapewire.net

The Stórsveit Nix Noltes new album, Royal Family - Divorce, is now available as a download + cd on the fabulous grapewire.net website. To enjoy the critically acclaimed eleven piece big band´s origina...
Posted by Stórsveit Nix Noltes on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:16:00 PST

Útgáfutónleikar á Organ 3. janúar 2007

Útgáfutónleikar Stórsveitar Nix Noltes á Organ 3. janúar 2008Stórsveit Nix Noltes fagnar nýju ári og nýútkominni plötu á Organ við Hafnarstræti fimmtudaginn 3. janúar 2008. Hljómsveitin mun leika efn...
Posted by Stórsveit Nix Noltes on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:45:00 PST

Útgáfutónleikar á Organ 3. janúar 2007

Þar sem við erum flest á landinu þesa dagana ætlar Stórsveit Nix Noltes að halda útgáfutónleika fyrir nýju plötuna Royal Family - Divorce fimmtudaginn 3. janúar næstkomandi á Organ.Munum spila nýju pl...
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Stórsveit Nix Noltes new album released in december 2007

Royal Family - Divorce and Krivo Sadovsko Horo 7" out soonThe new Stórsveit Nix Noltes album will be out in december 2007. It is called Royal Family - Divorce and is released in Iceland on LP Útgáfa. ...
Posted by Stórsveit Nix Noltes on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:25:00 PST

its studiotime again

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