Kate Havnevik (album 1) - Melankton

Kate Havnevik's first album, released in Norway in 2006 is called Melankton and has subsequently received 3 other release dates in the world :

2006 (UK) ; 2007 (USA & Canada); and finally, 2010 (Poland)

I loved every single song on my 12 track version, and my favorites are Kaleidoscope, and New day... but, really, I love it all...with its radio friendly tunes, as well as the more original creations Kate gave form to....

Kate Havnevik (part 0)

I discovered Kate Havnevik as a guest on Schiller's Atemlos Live, the first concert that I listened to, by this German project. As I loved each of her guest songs on his albums and lives, I searched for Kate's own solo material, which seems to be difficult to come by.

Indeed, this delightfully quirky singer and songwriter was born in Oslo, Noway, and her cds don't seem to get international releases - except for her first album Melankton, released in 2006 and which has several editions, all with the same cover and mostly same track listing, give or take a song...

The Harp!

I discover lately that I love more & more the Harp with its unique sounds.

This evening I listened to the Harp Twins/ Camille & Kennerly's brillant cover of Mettalica's One ; it's actually my wife who sent me a link with these Twins interpreting another cover Ice Queen, originally Within Tempration's, and I have to say that I like both versions equally, each for their own unique features.

They have too many videos for me to share, so i'll direct you to their channel  and let you discover for yourselves this duo, in total and complete sync.

They play both electric and acoustic, and cover metal songs but also TV & Movie themes, such as Star Trek, the Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, Star Wars ; or videogames such as Final Fantasy, Mario and many more tunes old and new...

Also very talented, with, thus far a smaller repertoire (at least on youtube) is Amy Turk and my favorite of her pieces is my fav JS Bach : Tocatta & fugue, BWV 565 

How nostalgia can lead to discover old & new songs

So, recently I had thought about a few old songs that I hadn't been able to locate and in their search, have found that one of my favorite songs was sang by a singer I knew, but not associated with this song. It is called ''song to my sister'' by Avihu Medina, and after listening to it as well as many of his other songs, discovered his sister's name is Nava Medina, an actress and singer in her own right.
Whilst Avihu seems to have more oriental songs, Nava favors greek music in her songs...

However, I cannot find her discography, and I can find no website with any of her cds... only clips on youtube (well, the song with the supposed album cover as an image), and downloads, which is very odd because to my knowledge, in Israel she probably would have cds, unless she retired too early and that her albums are only available on cassettes... hum hum! very very odd that I can find almost nothing.

Wintergatan's home made musical instrument that will be your mind!

As the title suggest, I'm presenting Wintergatan's home made musical instrument that my wife shared on my wall just now. He made it with wood, metal and... 2,000 marbles ; it looks and sounds amazing and I applaud his inventiveness !

Enjoy!