Kerrs Pink

Kerrs Red enjoys a fairly important status in international progressive rock and roll circles, despite long-lasting obscurity in Norway and an unstable profession marked by numerous break-ups and lineup adjustments. The group offers documented five albums in its 1st 30 years of living. All have already been released or reissued with the French prog rock and roll label Musea. The music is normally most notable because of its mixture of Scandinavian folk components using the vintage United kingdom symphonic prog sound from the ‘70s. Kerrs Green, named following a selection of potatoes, produced in 1972 in Trømborg, a little Norwegian town. From the four primary associates, all aged 15 to 17 at that time, just Jostein Hansen would continue steadily to bring the torch. Essentially a cover music group initially, the group also utilized the brands “Thoughts” and “Money Green” in its early years, which it spent in basements and dance halls. The very first major transformation in personnel happened in 1975 when guitarist Harald Lytomt was recruited. Hansen, who previously performed guitar, too, turned to bass. This set would later type the die-hard primary of the music group and write the majority of its materials. In March 1976 the group performed its initial “true” concert and begun to focus on primary songs. It had taken another 3 years before the associates discovered the guts and the amount of money to self-produce their initial single. Released independently label, Pottittskiver, “Kong Edvardt”/”Feberlåten” seduced great press and sold-out its limited operate of one thousand copies. Galvanized, Kerrs Green entered the studio room of Höst guitarist Svein Rönning in the summertime of 1980 to record its self-titled debut LP, also self-released afterwards that calendar year. The lineup at this time included Lytomt, Hansen, Halvard Haugerud, Tore Johansen, Trond Böhn, and Terje Solaas. The instrumental monitor “Velkomst” reached the nationwide TOP in early 1981. Another LP, Mellom Oss, arrived in January 1982 and presented a fresh drummer in Tore Fundingsrud. The expense of self-production and insufficient commitment from a number of the music artists resulted in the band’s 1st breakup. Bøhn remaining during the documenting classes, Lytomt and Fundingsrud adopted soon after the LP’s launch to create the harder-edged Mantra. Hansen and Haugerud continuing for some time like a pop/rock and roll unit before stuff ground to some halt. In 1989, Musea portrayed curiosity about reissuing Kerrs Pink’s two LPs, which rekindled a fire in Hansen. He re-formed the group with previous associates Johansen, Fundingsrud, and Lytomt, plus Mantra’s keyboardist Per Øyvind Nordberg. This lineup re-recorded Mellom Oss because of its 1992 reissue, added to the Musea task Seven Days of the Lifestyle (1993), and documented the ambitious idea album A Trip of the within (also 1993). This outburst of activity was accompanied by a protracted hiatus. Sick and tired of waiting around, Lytomt began focus on a single record in 1996. He asked Hansen to supply lyrics, and in the long run, Art of Organic Simplicity arrived in 1997 under Kerrs Pink’s name, having a solid of former people and studio music artists. After another break, Hansen and Lytomt recruited a brand new lineup, including two keyboardists and man and female business lead performers, to record 2002’s Tidings.