Desire Avenue

puce wrote:

kuhn wrote:
You're right, most people in Bergen write Bokm?l and speak something similar to that. I don't what the two KoC members sound like, they may speak differently.

Here's a little gig they played for someone who won a contest to have them play to his home. It's in Oslo and they speak Norwegian between the songs.
http://straumod.nrk.no/root02/Petre/200 ... 093645.wmv

They both seem to speak the local city dialect.

But Erlend ?ye is too quiet, so it's hard to tell.

wirbel wrote:and we Frisians are pretty much like norwegians... I think it's cool that all germanic languages have so much in common, so that can understand most languages now

Hmmm, are you a Frisian too? How did you end up in the west of the Netherlands??

pgss wrote:

wirbel wrote:and we Frisians are pretty much like norwegians... I think it's cool that all germanic languages have so much in common, so that can understand most languages now

Hmmm, are you a Frisian too? How did you end up in the west of the Netherlands??

yes, i'm from Friesland too. I'm still living in the west since i'm studying architecture in Delft, but i live in Rotterdam now. I do plan to move back north some time, and maybe even further north

Ooops! I forgot about the translation thing!

Maybe this weekend!

yes please Kuhn!! whenever you can...

and the article from the swedish magazine someone??? Kuhn asked someone who knows swedish well to translate that...[help]
pls pls pls

http://www.paulsinnema.nl/forum/viewtop ... 9&start=15

Did I promise anything One should not! How patient are you?

Here it is: Please forgive and do report any errors.



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Stina Nordenstam is a successful Swedish artist, but she prefers anonymity. Her energy and impatience are her strengths.

She has made an album that is about catastrophes and a collapsing world. Stina Nordenstam named the record ?The World Is Saved?. By that she is of course referring to the time after the catastrophe. Since her 1991 debut ?Memories Of A Color?, Stina has become internationally renowned. This even though her private life is kept low key. The records speak for themselves. She had a difficult start on her life, and this has affected her relationship to the public ever since.

Claustrophobia.


Q - How is it possible to protect your privacy when you're an artist?

- It has to do with the shock I experienced when I started. It's difficult to see yourself clearly. I didn't pay enough attention to what I did back then. It wasn't fake though it wasn't exactly what I wanted it to be. It is dangerous to limit a person's freedom - It gives me a sense of claustrophobia. That's why I despise television and wear a wig, she says on the phone from Stockholm.

Q - Are you a vulnerable person?

Yes, I guess so. I'm quite galled and do not have a lot of defense.


Dream interpretation

Q - How does this affect how you write your tunes?

- I'm not conscious when I write. I'm not aware of what I?m doing. The consciousness is far behind the process itself. It's like dream interpretation. A linkage between the self biographical and fantasy.

Q - What inspires you?

- Not much. It's more of a introspective gaze of a process. Some things are intensified, while other things are not there. The lyrics and the melody often come at the same time, and then I fine tune it afterwards.

Q - Are you a melodramatic person?


- Yes, [It is a] strong attraction in that direction. When I grew up and release the first record, I was plagued with depression. In the beginning, I found comfort in my voice, even though I really did not like it. listened a lot to my records after I had been to the studio. The voice was put into the front of the mix. Self comfort is something strong and at the same time sad. I do not listed to my own records today. I'm less insecure. Today I feel impatience.

Q - What to do you do expect making music?

- When I was young I read books, but now I watch more movies and DVDs. However, Swedish films are something I have difficulties with. I watch every thriller, big American movies, Korean and Japanese movies, though not niche. That's more of a compliment. Otherwise, I'm really nearsighted, and prefer to live in the Present. My attention only lasts for a days time. I've hard to look back and see the economical and political aspects of things.

Q - Is that a problem?

- I feel like I'm behind, and have no time for reflection. I've been busy with my absolute closeness. I'm a impatient and active person. I can start watching a movie, but one hour into the film I get impatient and want to do something else. A problem? No. That's life.

Dragning = Attraction
N?rsynt = Nearsighted

daniel wrote:Dragning = Attraction
N?rsynt = Nearsighted

Tusen takk!

Excellent work Kuhn!! Thanks!!

Just bumping up this interview from 15 years ago.