Einar Jullum
Hjerteknuser- og andre blues

And now something different: Norwegian Space Blues by Einar Jullum with Heartbreaker - and other blues. A great album which sets a high standard with just the opener. A cinematic track, backed by easy-going drums, a fluffy wind section in vein of Philipp Glass' arpeggios in Koyaanisqatsi, signals from outer-space and above all the quirky sound of norwegian lyrics.

It's a brave move to release this outside of Norway, because beside Sigur Ros with their licence to sing in gibberish and the collective of Finlandia-Freak-Folk-Fairies it may be hard to find listeners in the english speaking world who are willing to listen to lyrics other than the one that contain love, pain, heart, night, yeahyeahyeah.

But Christian Richer of Kinnta Records in Canada believes in great music and in fact he is playing great music by himself (as The Haiduks featured some weeks ago), so that's why the record cover looks- and the music sounds familiar (to you, if you follow this blog).

Einar Jullum contributed to The Haiduks album and Christian produced Einar's album in return and the result is wonderful sunny music with references to country, blues and garage pop, candied with psychedelic sugar. And since he sings in Norwegian we don't understand the lyrics about broken hearts and feeling alone and bored. So pretend it's a summer record and Oslo in the Summertime is nice, believe me. And so is this record.

Buy the CD or get the mp3 and support great music!

Here is some music by an Englishman in northern Norway...

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pictures, mine