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Erlend Ropstad

About Me


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-In 2007 Erlend Ropstads debut album was released. And that's only a couple of years after he first decided to play and record his own material. The mini-album THE MAGNETIC TAPES came out in February 2006, and during a short period of time Erlend has had several radio hits on Norwegian and European radio, he has played MANY concerts, had music on the great horror movie "Fritt Vilt", played support for artists like Big Bang, Magnet, Thomas Dybdahl and Teitur. He had his first own European tour in 2007, he has had plenty of festival gigs and basically just started what seems to be a great and very promising career in music.REC90 (sonet/universal) released both the EP, The Magnetic Tapes(2006, produced by Øystein Greni in Grand Sport Studio) and the album Bright Late Nights (2007, produced by Davide Bertolini and recorded in Grieghallen studio in Bergen, Norway) The same guy and studio that made the great Riot On An Empty Street album by Kings Of Convenience. Davide is also the bass player in KOC, and on most songs on Erlends album.On a more personal level: Erlend has a background as a photographer, journalist, teacher and lives in the small mountain village Oppdal, just south of Trondheim, Norway. His music is said to be inspired by the classic singer/songwriters of the Americana genre. -But it is also very melodic and sometimes just cheerfull. It's been said that his music is more melancomic, than anything else. Go figure out what that means :)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 02/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.erlendropstad.com
Band Members:
Influences: Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, M.Ward, Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Ben Harper, Damien Rice, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Lou Reed, Eels, Ben Folds Five, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, The White Stripes, The Black Crowes, Elliott Smith, PJ Harvey, Antony and the Johnsons...and so on
Sounds Like:
Record Label: REC 90
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New studio session

In April and May I will spend many hours in the great studio in Grieghallen Bergen. The new album will be released later this year. Stay tuned. 
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:49:00 GMT

Free downloads this summer!

Every other week this summer, a new song will be available for free download at erlendropstad.com, Myspace and Ilike. All songs were recorded in Desmet Studios in Amsterdam for the brilliant radio sho...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:20:00 GMT

Live In Lavo @ Eikerapen

So 15 tickets are out for my concert at Eikerapen Rootsfestival this summer! It's the most intimate venue I've ever played, so hurry up to get tickets!http://www.eikerapen.com/index.php?option=com_con...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:33:00 GMT

new material!

Hi there!   In case anybody is wondering what I'm up to these days. The answer is this: new songs, recoding and writing. I will do some more gigs this winter and spring, but for now...new materia...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:47:00 GMT

Germany, PopKomm, Radio...

Hi again In a few days I'm off to Germany. I'll play at Popkomm in Berlin, Reeperbahn festival Hamburg, and a support gigs for Menomena in Münster, My Brightest Diamond in geneva and Zürich. The recep...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:31:00 GMT

Quart, Reviews, life

Yup   Things are going great with the music and all that stuf. The Album is recieving great reviews all over, and I just got confirmed that I'll be playing at the Quart festival this summer. &nb...
Posted by on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:22:00 GMT

release day

Hi! To everybody that showed up at my hotel room gig last weekend, thanks for comming, keep in touch.  The release of my debut album, Bright Late Nights, will be on April 2. in Norway. Stay tune...
Posted by on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:00:00 GMT

Album -done.

Hi everybody The soontobereleased album by Erlend Ropstad is done in the mix. We are currently working on stuf like album cover and finding a good release date. We will probably let out a pr...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:24:00 GMT

the dybdahl tour ended a great year

Hi folksNew year, and though 2006 was great, i belive the next one will be even better. -With the album coming out and all. The great support tour I did this fall for Thomas Dybdahl was just brilliant...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:44:00 GMT

Fritt Vilt

Hi   As you have probably  noticed, there's two songs from my Mini-Album The Magnetic Tapes on the soundtrack of the great norwegian horror movie Fritt Vilt. If you haven't seen it yet, do ...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 03:27:00 GMT