Spunk

Spunk surfaced over the Norwegian music picture in 1999. This quartet of youthful female improvisers strategy free of charge improv with freshness, increasing their simple instrumentation of cello, trumpet, French horn, and vocals a whole lot of toys, little percussion, and consumer electronics. By 2001, these were executing in Continental European countries and their second record arrived in Apr 2002. Spunk was produced in 1995 by four music learners with completely different backgrounds. Vocalist Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Lene Grenager, Kristin Andersen, and Hild Sofie Tafjord, when used collectively, have handled on traditional, jazz, rock and roll, techno, and nation music. They made Spunk to be able to explore areas outside their personal research and music engagements and free of charge improvisation was the selected form right away. The quartet 1st appeared in public areas on Norwegian nationwide radio in March 1996 using its 1st concert in Oct of that yr. Things went sluggish for the first 2 yrs as Ratkje and Tafjord had been completing their music levels. In 1998, Spunk continued tour for the very first time, going so far as Copenhagen (Denmark). Girls also began a romantic relationship with drummer Paal Nilssen-Love and bassist Ingebrigt Flaten, a free of charge rock tempo section that augmented them go on many occasions. In Feb 1999, Det Eneste Jeg Veterinarian, er at det Ikke er en Støvsuger (“THE THING I Know Is definitely That IT IS NOT a Vacuum Solution”) arrived on Rune Grammofon, a fresh Norwegian label that quickly founded a pursuing (the British journal The Cable quickly hailed its productions). The recording met great evaluations as well as the group offered several concerts, participated in intermedia occasions in free galleries, and formulated performances for college kids. The remix recording Filtered Through Close friends appeared in past due 2001 with efforts by many big Norwegian electronica and sound performers. Concerts in Köln (Germany) with the Taktlos Event in Switzerland paved just how for the discharge of Øverste Toppen Pa en Blamalt Flaggstang in Apr 2002, an enormous improvement on the 1st CD.