UPCOMING SHOWS:
Date format: yyyy - dd-mm
No logic...
2008 - 02/10
NOTCH'08 Festival
Beijing, China
Venue info: Yugongyishan (6404 2711): West courtyard of Duan Qirui Government Former Site, Zhang Zizhong Road 3-2, Beijing
2008 - 03/10
NOTCH'08 Festival
Guangzhou, China
Venue info: Sapphire Art Space (8776 8558): 2F Holiday Inn City Center, 28 Guangming Road, Huanshi Road E., Guangzhou
2008 - 04/10
NOTCH'08 Festival
Shanghai, China
Venue info: 669 Greenhouse (6485 5356): 669 Gui Guo Road, near Tian Lin Road, Shanghai
2008 - 06/10
Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Tsuki-miru Kimi-omou
Venue phone number: +81 3-5474-8115
Ticket office: Office Ohsawa, info@bigstream.co.jp, +81 3-3728-5690
2008 - 09/10
Blå, Oslo, Norway
2008 - 10/10
Motstøy Festival, Notodden, Norway
2008 - 11/10
Samfundet, Trondheim, Norway
2008 - 24/10
IMPOSE RECORDS Latenight CMJ Party, Cake Shop, New York City, USA
Show starts at 01:30 AM in the night (NEW TIME!)
2008 - 25/10
OFFICIAL CMJ Music Week Concert, The Knitting Factory (Tap Bar), New York City, USA
Show starts at 09:00 PM
2008 - 08/11
Nordic Music Week, Cementen, Stavanger, Norway
2008 - 27/12
Union Scene, Drammen, Norway
2009 - 22/04
Nasjonal Jazzscene - Victoria, Oslo, Norway
2009 - 23/04
Hulen, Bergen, Norway
More shows coming up, but don't hold your breath...
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PREVIOUS SHOWS:
2008 - 15/09
ZXZW Independent Culture
Batcave, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2008 - 05/08
Klubb Øya: Garage, Oslo, Norway
2008 - 19/07
OBS: CORRECTED DATE!
Molde International Jazz Festival, Norway
SHINING and ENSLAVED performing their newly composed 90-minutes concerto:
Nine Nights in Nothingness
- Glimpses of Downfall -
Probably your only chance to see this performed live!
2008 - 02/07
Quart Festival, Kristiansand, Norway
CANCELLED!
2008 - 04/06
Trondheim Jazzfestival, Trondheim, Norway
2008 - 10/05
Skanu Mezs Festival, Riga, Latvia
2008 - 16/04
Babylon, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 - 16/03
Relax Bar, Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
2008 - 15/03 11:00PM
Emo's Jr. - South By South West, Austin, Texas, USA
2008 - 13/03 03:00PM
End Of An Ear (record store, at 3 PM), Austin, Texas, USA
2008 - 11/03
The Empty Bottle, Chicago, USA
2008 - 10/03 10:00PM
Knitting Factory, New York City, USA
2008 - 23/02
by:Larm, DogA, Oslo, Norway
2008 - 21/02
by:Larm, Sentrum Scene, Oslo, Norway
2008 - 12/01
VK, Brussels, Belgium
2008 - 11/01
Eurosonic, Groningen, The Netherlands
2007 - 14/12
State-X New Forms Festival, Der Haag, The Netherlands
2007 - 30/11
Club Maiden, Oslo, Norway
Grindstone Over Europe - Part I: (Support for Enslaved)
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2007-27/10
Saarbrücken - Roxy (DE)
2007-26/10
Munich - Backstage (DE)
2007-25/10
Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL)
2007-24/10
Biebob, Vosselaar (B)
2007-23/10
Mezz, Breda (NL)
2007-22/10
Nottingham - Junktion7 (UK)
2007-21/10
London - Mean Fiddler (UK)
2007-20/10
Rennes - Ubu (FR)
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2007-21/08
Hole In The Sky, Garage, Bergen
[2007-11/08
Varangerfestivalen, Vadsø, Norway
2007-10/08
Mono, Oslo, Norway
2007-08/08
Øyafestivalen, Main Stage, Oslo, Norway
2007-19/07
Århus Jazz Festival, VoxHall, Denmark
2007-25/05
Blå, Oslo, Norway
2007-25/04
Live på NRK P3 - Lydverket / Hør og lær, NRK Radio
2007-31/03
Vossajazz, Park Hotel, Voss, Norway
2007-17/03
Samfundet, Tronheim, Norway
2007-15/03
Checkpoint Charlie, Stavanger, Norway
2007-10/03
Kvarteret, Bergen, Norway
2007-26/02
Mono, Oslo, Norway
2006-18.01 Samfundet
Trondheim, Norway
2005-05.11 Kvarteret
Bergen, Norway
2005-02.11 John Dee
Oslo, Norway
2005-22.10 Nefertiti
Göteborg, Sweden
2005-21.10 Kafé K
Porsgrunn, Norway
2005-06.10 Rumorfestival
Utrecht, Netherlands
2005-05.10 Kab de L'usine
Geneva, Switzerland
2005-13.08 Øya-festivalen
Oslo, Norway
2005-04.08 Lost Weekend
Bergen, Norway
2005-29.07 Canal Street
Arendal, Norway
2005-08.07 Kongsberg Jazzfestival
Kongsberg, Norway
2005-17.06 Hultsfredfestivalen
Hultsfred, Sweden
2005-11.06 Månefestivalen
Fredrikstad, Norway
2005-01.06 Mean Fiddler
London, UK
2005-28.05 Nattjazz
Bergen, Norway
2005-27.05 Garage
Oslo, Norway
2005-10.04 Ancienne Belgique
Brussel, Belgium
2005-09.04 CC Luchtbal
Antwerpen, Belgium
2005-08.04 OC Kreun
Kortrijkt, Belgium
2005-07.04 De Doos
Hasselt, Belgium
2005-06.04 De Warande
Turnhout, Belgium
2005-12.02 by:Larm - Hall Toll
Stavanger, Norway
2005-10.02 Kvarteret
Bergen, Norway
2005-09.02 Driv
Tromsø, Norway
2005-29.01 Samfundet
Trondheim, Norway
2005-28.01 Blå
Oslo, Norway
2004-17/12
KillYrEgo, Oslo, Norway
2004-27/03
Mod, Hasselt, Belgium
2004-26/03
De Kreun, Kortrijk, Belgium
2004-25/03
Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
2004-24/03
Ab Club, Brussel, Belgium
2004-11/01
Last Train, Oslo, Norway
2003-13/10
Ab Club, Brussel, Belgium
2003-05/05
Release Sweet Shanghai Devil
Kunstindustrimuseet, Oslo, Norway
2002 December
China tour, 6 concerts, Shanghai, Harbin and Jiang Xing | |
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Back from Asia - New York City next! | Oct. 20th 2008
We've just come home from a fantastic tour in China and Japan, and wish to send a warm thank you to all the many wonderful people whom we worked with on the tour (venues, stage crew, merch sales persons, journalists, designers, light designer etc. etc.): We'd especially like to mention Yang Lei at Notch (NO+CH) in China and Tom Ohsawa and Shinske in Tokyo!
Also a huge thank you goes out to the incredible audience in China! You really made the long flights worth it! We really hope to be back soon!
Thanks also to the artists we toured with; Nils Petter Molvaer and Diskjokke for a great time on the road (in the air)!
In just a few days we'll be heading to New York City to do two exclusive shows at CMJ Music Festival. Friday will be at Cake Shop, and Saturday will be at The Knitting Factory. This will be the only two shows on American soil for a long time!
The show times are as follows:
Cake Shop: Friday night at 01:30 AM (NEW TIME!) (that means Saturday morning...)
The Knitting Factory: Saturday evening at 09:00 PM
Hope to see you there!
PS: TO ALL OUR FANS THAT HAVE CONTACTED US WITH CONCERNS ABOUT MISSING INFO ON THE VENUES' WEBSITES:
If you don't find these concerts listed on the venues' websites it only means that the venues haven't had time to update their websites (CMJ are pretty slow on deciding the details regarding their shows). We ARE going to play! You can bet your taxi fare on that!
Download full resolution flyer here.
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RARE ARMAGEDDON CONCERTO BROADCAST! | 25th Aug 2008
The now famous SHINING+ENSLAVED Armageddon Concerto "Nine Nights in Nothingness - Glimpses of Downfall" was recorded by Norwegian radio NRK during the live performance in Molde this summer. We're proud to announce that this dark gem of a recording will now reveal itself to the public for the first time ever. It will be broadcast in three different ways: 1) On Norwegian radio NRK P2 ("Jazzklubben"), 2) on internet broadcast, and 3) on DAB radio.
The main broadcast of the concert will be launched Sunday 31st of August at 22:05 Norwegian time (I'm sure you'll manage to figure out what local time this corresponds to - if not, try http://www.worldtimezone.com/ or something similar. Norwegian time is GMT +1, and we're on summertime right now). There will also be a small interview with Shining's Jørgen Munkeby explaining some elements of the concerto.
For all our international fans, I guess the internet option is the only option possible. You will find the correct website on this link: http://nettradio.nrk.no/default.php?kanal=jazz. If you're having problems with this link, try going to http://www.nrk.no/, holding your arrow over the downward arrow to the right of the sign called "NRK NETTRADIO" (located in the upper right portion of the page). When the pop-up menu appears, click on "NRK Jazz" and a pop-up window with the radio transmission will appear. (If you plan on catching the transmission, I suggest you try out this manuever on beforehand. You'll never know how this page will funtion in your country without trying first.)
Since the concerto is over 90 minutes long, it won't all fit into one single radioshow. But after the original radio air wave broadcast is over, the internet and DAB transmissions will continue to broadcast so you can hear the rest of the complete concerto here. Of course if you want to follow it all on internet, you won't have to change medium in the middle of the show.
There will also be several repeat transmissions:
NRK P2 (radio air wave only): Wednesday 3 Sept at 19:30 Norwegian time.
DAB and internet: Tuesday 2 Sept 09:03, 15:03 and 21:03.
If you missed the concerto when it happened, this is your chance to make things (almost) right!
Enjoy!
MAIN BROADCAST - NRK P2, DAB and internet: Sunday 31 Aug 22:05, Norwegian time
REPEAT #1 - DAB and internet only: Tuesday 2 Sept 09:03, Norwegian time
REPEAT #2 - DAB and internet only: Tuesday 2 Sept 15:03, Norwegian time
REPEAT #3 - DAB and internet only: Tuesday 2 Sept 21:03, Norwegian time
REPEAT #4 - NRK P2 radio only: Wednesday 3 Sept 19:30, Norwegian time
PS: NRK interview done during the last preproduction of the concert to be found here (in Norwegian - sorry):
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/klipp/403683
A small NRK article about the forthcoming concerto broadcast to be found here (in Norwegian - sorry again):
http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_jazz/1.6194361
PPS: For those of you with an external word clock that runs the soundcard, please beware that the broadcast might be in 48kHz sampling rate. I have to manually switch my Apogee Rosetta 800 ADC from 44,1 to 48. To make sure you're in the right realm: The first drone in guitar and bass are supposed to slide between the tones B and C. Wrong sample rate gives wrong pitch... |
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Mini Asia tour announced! | 24th Aug 2008
Hi there again. We're proud to announce that we're finally going back to Asia. China will get three concerts and Japan will get only one. Sorry for the limited amount of shows this time! Hopefully we'll be able do more next time, especially in Japan!
The dates are as follows:
02/10-2008
Beijing, China
Venue info: Yugongyishan (6404 2711): West courtyard of Duan Qirui Government Former Site, Zhang Zizhong Road 3-2, Beijing
03/10-2008
Shanghai, China
Venue info: 669 Greenhouse (6485 5356): 669 Gui Guo Road, near Tian Lin Road, Shanghai
04/10-2008
Guangzhou, China
Venue info: Sapphire Art Space (8776 8558): 2F Holiday Inn City Center, 28 Guangming Road, Huanshi Road E., Guangzhou
06/10-2008
Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Venue: Tsuki-miru Kimi-omou
Venue phone number: +81 3-5474-8115
Ticket office: Office Ohsawa, info@bigstream.co.jp, +81 3-3728-5690
The China dates are a part of a fabolous festival called NOTCH.
More info on NOTCH to be found here: http://www.ballade.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2008092311370843857633 |
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Norway's best band - right now. (In Norwegian, of course.) | 6th Aug 2008
Hey, dudes. A Norwegian review here for you all from our small club concert last night. Rated 6 out of 6 and announced as "Norway's best band right now" (my emphasis...).
Thanks!
But for how long?
Link: http://www.nrk.no/lydverket/uimotstaelig-brutalitet/
For those who don't know how to read Norwegian yet (about time to learn!), try one of the cool (/weird) automatic translation pages on the net. Should be fun!
- 5 minutes -
Errr, after a quick search for a site that offered automatic translation from Norwegian, it dawned on me that the Norwegian language isn't as important to the rest of the world as it is to us... No sites, sorry. For Norwegian eyes only this time. |
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Back from Molde! Pics and update. | July 22nd
We want to thank all our wonderful fans that showed up for our Armageddon Concerto in Molde Saturday! Thanks for making the night a real special one!
SHINING is really happy about how it all turned out.
We'll be away for some time now, but until we post more info you can check out some pictures from the concerto on these links:
www.flickr.com/groups/shining
www.flickr.com/photos/makarellos/
iconmusic.webs.com/apps/photos/album.jsp?albumID=1730622
The first one of these pages (www.flickr.com/groups/shining) is a brand new SHINING Flickr group. Here we'll try to collect all SHINING pictures in the future. It's created and managed by the wonderful HeadOvMetal (Head Øv Metal) from Austin, Texas. Thanks for your help!
Also a huge thank you to the impeccable ENSLAVED for wonderful music, great compositions, super musicianship and last but not least: A hell of a good time!
The concert was partly funded by Norsk Kulturråd. Thanks a lot! |
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SHINING and ENSLAVED's brand new 90-minutes Armageddon concerto for a rare performance! | 9th July 2008
Nine Nights in Nothingness
- Glimpses of Downfall -
We're proud to announce that SHINING and ENSLAVED will give their first and probably only live performance of their brand new 90-minutes Armageddon concerto on Saturday 19 July in Molde, Norway. The newly hatched piece of musical art describes the process from the present state to the inevitable downfall of this world - through Ragnarok and a following period of vacuum and nothingness, a brief and painful post-apocalyptic era, and finally through the rise from ashes to a new beginning in a distant time and space. The work draws inspiration from Old Norse apocalyptic sagas, along with prophesies from more modern doomsday prophets and cults.
SHINING and ENSLAVED are headlining this years Molde International Jazz Festival. The festival writes on their website that SHINING and ENSLAVED are two of Norway's undisputably most hard-hitting and progressive bands, in the word's truest meaning. The bands have shocked, impressed and pushed boundaries each band on their own: Now they gather their power and unite for a blasting, dark and mindbending experience that will be hard to forget.
The two bands performed together for the first time during their European tour in October 2007. The concerto is composed by Ivar Bjørnson (ENSLAVED) and Jørgen Munkeby (SHINING) and arranged together with the band members.
“This will be an experience of a life-time. Prog, doom, jazz, extreme metal, northern mythology, science fiction – this is going to be massive”, comments Enslaved guitarist Ivar Bjørnson.
You can see pictures both bands' MySpace pages from the bands' rehearsals in Bergen:
www.myspace.com/gninihs
www.myspace.com/enslaved
July 19th will be a unique chance to experience this work performed live!
www.shining.no
www.enslaved.no
www.moldejazz.no
www.myspace.com/gninihs
www.myspace.com/enslaved |
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Another really cool fan-made video! | 9th July 2009
Please check out a great video that was sent to us recently. You'll find it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au7InLaMksE
This is the second super video that has been made by our wonderful fans. This one's made by Magnus flaato & Astrid A. Thank you so much!
And please keep'em coming! |
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Cool video interview from SXSW, Texas, USA. | 9th July 2008
www.palestra.net/music/videos/13377
The SHINING interview is currently number 1 on the list. As new interviews are posted, you'll probably have to search down on the list to find it. |
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Back from Istanbul! | 19th April 2008
We want to thank all our lovely fans in Istanbul for making last weeks concert at Babylon a great experience for us! Also a huge thank you goes out to Hakan, Aylin and Ekin for taking so good care of us; showing us the beautiful city of Istanbul and making the whole journey a memorable experience.
We really hope to be back in Istanbul soon!
PS: You can check out pictures from the concert here: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/lastfm%3Aevent%3D508296/show/ |
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USA tour completed - hope to be back soon | 4th april 2008
We´re just finished sorting through the aftermath of our successful US tour. It´s been a pleasure to visit the US, and we´ll make sure that we´ll be back asap.
A big thank you goes out to the wonderful venues, promoters and the other bands we played with in all the cities! We really hope to see you again soon!
We also humbly want to thank the Øya Festival, Norsk Kulturråd, UD/MIC, Njf and Mfo for making the tour possible. |
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New limited edition double LP vinyl for sale | 29th March 2008
Our first and only vinyl pressing is just out for sale: A stricly limited 2LP edition in only 500 copies, with the extremely elegant black cover by Kim Hiorthøy (which is in fact the original version intended to be the Grindstone cover).
This vinyl includes two albums, both "Grindstone" and "In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster" and comes in a beautiful gatefold sleeve.
Only 500 pressed and counting down fast, so be quick and grab this rare vinyl before it's gone!
Order from www.runegrammofon.com here. |
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ENSLAVED and SHINING together at Molde in July! | 24th March 2008
While in Austin, ENSLAVED and SHINING confirmed that the two bands are doing a show together at this year's Molde International Jazz Festival in Norway.
The ceremony will be held in Bjørnsonhuset at the last day of the festival (July 19th). It will be a 90 minutes long piece.
In an interview in the Texas newspaper The Austinist Jørgen describes his thoughts on the still unborn symphony: "Right now I'm thinking Ligeti meets Dillinger meets SunnO))) meets Pharoah Sanders at the day of Ragnarok."
More on the ENSLAVED / SHINING collaboration:
http://austinist.com/2008/03/10/norway_heads_to.php
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/03/14/529751.html
http://www.moldejazz.no/ |
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New York Times on Knitting Factory gig | 14th March 2008
The New York Times visited our gig in New York last Monday. They bring this statement:
"On the whole the performance, which drew from the band’s audacious recent album, “Grindstone”, was a study in coordinated whiplash." |
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Chicago Reader on upcoming US tour | 8th March 2008
Chicago Reader on 6 March:
"Critic's ChoiceSHINING In just nine years this Norwegian five-piece has transformed itself from a post-Coltrane jazz combo into a sort of cyborg prog band, playing a jumpy, elaborate patchwork genre that sounds like the first thing it assimilated was symphonic metal. On last year’s Grindstone (Rune Grammofon) bandleader Jorgen Munkeby has all but totally supplanted his agile saxophone with crunchy electric guitar, and Shining are clearly interested first and foremost in rock—the music is brutally no-nonsense, unmarred by turgid epic structures or drawn-out solos, despite the worrying presence of “classical” interludes, including fuguelike passages on ersatz harpsichord and faux arias by guest vocalist Ashild Skiri Refsdal. Producer Kare Vestrheim plays a crucial role, keeping the profusion of layers comprehensible by playing up contrasts—between distorted guitar and operatic vocals, between thunderous riffs and ambient keyboards, etc. At times the songs seem deliberately inorganic, more like intellectual exercises than emotional statements, but the music’s rich surfaces and breathtaking power make it hard to complain. If the band can replicate the studio detail of their records onstage, this ought to be an incredible set. Loop 2.4.3 and Male open. Arrow 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 866-468-3401, $8. —Peter Margasak" |
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USA Tour #1 finally confirmed! | March 1st 2008
Finally SHINING is going to visit USA. We know it's a bit late, but here are the final dates:
March 10:
Knitting Factory, New York City
March 11:
The Empty Bottle, Chicago
March 13:
End Of An Ear (record store) (03:00 PM), Austin, Texas
March 15:
Emo's Jr. - South By South West, Austin, Texas
March 16:
Relax Bar, Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hope to see you there!
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The black t-shirts are back | Feb 14th 2008
Back by popular demand, the fabulous black t-shirts designed by the New York cult designer Seldon Hunt, are now for sale again.
Click here to see details:
FRONT // BACK
Can be ordered through Rune Grammofon:
www.runegrammofon.com |
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SHINING nominated for 100'000 EUR StatoilHydro Grant! | 5th February 2008
Norway is a crazy country!
Today SHINING was nominated for a 100'000 EURO grant from StatoilHydro!
StatoilHydro is the biggest offshore oil and gas company in the world, and is a merger between the partly government owned Staoil and the private Norsk Hydro. Today's Norway is basically built on oil money, and it's a great pleasure to see that StatoilHydro wants to help build our future music and art exports.
StatoilHydro has a history of supporting Norwegian classical musical talents (among them the trumpet virtuoso Tine Thing Helseth), and this year they are delving into the realm of rhythmical pop/rock-music for the first time. Hopefully not for the last.
The grant is to be used for exporting the band to the rest of the world.
StatoilHydro has put together a jury which will decide which band/artist is most deserving, on basis of quality and export potential. The jury is led by Magne Furuholmen (musician and visual artist) and will announce their decision Saturday 23 February.
In addition to Shining, the other 9 nominees are:
Madcon
Lukestar
The Lionheart Brothers
Susanna Wallumrød
Ida Maria
Ungdomskulen
Charlotte & The Co-stars
Superfamily
Serena Maneesh
All nominated bands are playing at this year's by:Larm festival in Oslo from 21-23 Feb, and the grant is a collaboration between StatoilHydro and by:Larm.
Only in Norway... |
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Danish big band plays SHINING - on cd | Jan 18th 2008
The Danish Big Band Extravaganza "Blood Sweat Drum'n Bass" is releasing a live recording from last years Roskilde Festival and Århus Jazz Festival. Jørgen visited this Danish group last Summer and joined them on a small tour, among them these two concerts.
Next week Jørgen will be playing SHINING compositions with them again at the following concerts:
21 Jan: Musikhuset Århus, Rytmisk Sal BSDnB Feat. Jørgen Munkeby, CD-release
22 Jan: Klejtrup Musikefterskole BSDnB feat. Jørgen Munkeby
23 Jan: Tobakken, Esbjerg BSDnB feat. Jørgen Munkeby
24 Jan: Holstebro. BSDnB feat. Jørgen Munkeby
Also check out their MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/bloodsweatdrumnbass
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Grindstone nominated for the 2nd Norwegian Grammy | Jan. 10th 2008
Our latest album is nominated for the other Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannprisen! The outcome will be announced during the live tv show Feb. 2nd. Good luck to music!
In October we won the Alarm Prize for Grindstone. |
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Grindstone #4 on US online Best Of 2007 list! | Jan 2nd 2007
On place #4:
"4). Shining - Grindstone
If recognition can be readily granted to the easily defined, it should also be granted to those that defy classification. Grindstone, amazingly conceived album from Norwegian band Shining, is as much of a talent showcase as it is a confused masterpiece. Unafraid to stand outside the safety of categorization, Grindstone stands as one of the year's most original and potentially groundbreaking albums."
http://letters-from-a-tapehead.blogspot.com/2008/01/oh-2007where-have-you-gone.html |
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GRINDTONE best of the year, also in UK! | Dec 17th 2007
The UK Magazine Rock-A-Rolla has listed Grindstone on their Top 30 Records Of 2007.
Here is the Rock-A-Rolla staff and contributors' pick of 2007, as seen in Issue 12:
1.Oxbow 'The Narcotic Story'
2.Neurosis 'Given To The Rising'
3.Tomahawk 'Anonymous'
4.Dillinger Escape Plan 'Ire Works'
5.Big Business 'Here Come The Waterworks'
6.Dälek 'Abandoned Language'
7.John Zorn 'Six Litanies For Heliogabalus'
8.Om 'Pilgrimage'
9.Jesu 'Conqueror'
10.Sleepytime Gorilla Museum 'In Glorious Times'
11.The Locust 'New Erections'
12.Angels Of Light 'We Are Him'
13.High On Fire 'Death Is This Communion'
14.Unsane 'Visqueen'
15.Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Paraiso UFO 'Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under The Stars'
16.KTL '2'
17.Pig Destroyer 'Phantom Limb'
18.Fog 'Ditherer'
19.Qui 'Love's Miracle'
20.Pelican 'City Of Echoes'
21.Orthodox 'Amanecer En Puerta Oscura
22.Thurston Moore 'Trees Outside The Academy'
23.Sunburned Hand Of The Man 'Fire Escape'
24.Shining 'Grindstone'
25.Magik Markers 'Boss'
26.Battles 'Mirrored'
27.Caina 'Mourner'
28.Merzbow 'Coma Berenices'
29.Pissed Jeans 'Hope For Men'
30.Liars 'Liars'
Click here for .jpg
We're also listed on place number 6 on the list of best Norwegian albums of the year in the Norwegian newspaper Adresseavisa. Thanks! |
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SHINING+ENSLAVED+KEEP OF KALESSIN = SCHIZOID! | Nov 2nd 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdNsnQYKKA
SHINING and guests from Enlaved (Ivar, Grutle, Herband) and Keep Of Kalessin (Thebon) teams up at Backstage in Münich, Germany, for the ultimate version of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man". Date of destruction: 26.10.2007
Grimm! |
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SHINING on LastFm.com - soon including our first albums! | Nov 2nd 2007
Now you can listen to SHINING's two latest albums on LastFm. Grindstone is open for listening to the whole tracks.
Check it out here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Shining?q=shining
There also seems to be some controversy about which SHINING band is the most liked one; Swedish or Norwegian. Join the fight if you want.
PS: I will soon try to post our two first albums there also. ACOUSTIC JAZZ! GRIMM! Check back in a couple of days...
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Back from European tour... | Oct 31st 2007
We're finally back from the tour with Enslaved and Keep Of Kalessin. It was hard work, but definitely worth it!
A big hail goes out to Enslaved and Keep Of Kalessin for making this tour a super cozy experience. (The Shining-Enslaved-Keep Of Kalessin-version of 21st Century Schizoid Man in Holland and Germany was a killer!)
We'd also like to thank our driver Guido for perfect driving and Enslaved's manager Tonje for babysitting drunk guys. Last but not least thanks to all the people who attended the concerts and bought cds and merch!
We're coming back soon. Promise.
Also thanks to FFUK, Norsk Kulturråd, NJF, MFO and MIC/UD for economical support.
Pictures from the tour online:
www.shutterblast.net
www.hotel666.ge
http://www.doornroosje.nl/ (Subs,Pics & sounds,25-10'07) |
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SHINING won the Alarm Award! | Oct 30th 2007
SHINING won the Alarm Award (Alarmprisen) for best jazz album of the year! Thanks so much to the 60 music journalists in the jury and the people who voted for us!
UPDATE Dec 6th 2007:
Check out the clip from the award:
http://www1.nrk.no/nett-tv/indeks/111515 |
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SHINING nominated for music award! | 27th Sept. 2007
Grindstone has been nominated for this year's Alarmprisen award. The hammer falls on 27 October, while we're out playing with Keep Of Kalessin (also nominated - congrats!), and Enslaved (not nomiated?).
As yearlier years, the prize is based on both a populistic internet voting, and a jury.
You can vote for SHINING and Keep Of Kalessin at www.alarmprisen.no. You'll find Keep Of Kalessin under the METAL category, and SHINING under JAZZ.
Either: 1)
Check the box (circle) for your favorite band, and then click on the grey button "Legg igjen din stemme" below.
Or: 2)
Click on the button that says "Legg igjen din stemme", and then click on the best band.
Thanks!
PS: Last years it seemed like you could vote a second time after waiting for some days after your first vote. Don't know how things are this year, but be sure to check in after a while to see if the gate is opened again. |
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European Tour 2007 - SHINING Puts Europe To The Grindstone - Support for Enslaved | Sept. 20th 2007
SHINING Puts Europe To The Grindstone:
We're proud to announce the "Grindstone Over Europe" tour. (This will only be the first part.) We will play support for the legendary Norwegian metal band Enslaved. Joining us on tour will also be the Norwegian Extreme Metal act Keep of Kalessin. This will be a line-up that will freeze your heart, boil your blood, and make your brain shake hands with your soul.
20th Oct 2007: Rennes - Ubu (FR)
21st Oct 2007: London - Mean Fiddler (UK)
22nd Oct 2007: Nottingham - Junktion7 (UK)
23rd Oct 2007: Mezz, Breda (NL)
24th Oct 2007: Biebob, Vosselaar (B)
25th Oct 2007: Doornroosje, Nijmegen (NL)
26th Oct 2007: Munich - Backstage (DE) (w/ Secrets of the Moon)
27th Oct 2007: Saarbrücken - Roxy (DE)
See you there!
The tour is supported by FFUK, Norsk Kulturråd and UD / MIC. |
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Seldon Hunt SHINING artwork for t-shirt and hood |  |
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SHINING guitarist prized jazz soloist | Last week our wonderful (vicious) guitar player Even Helte Hermansen won the prize for best soloist in the annual Young Nordic Jazz Comets competition! We congratulates!
On YNJC' MySpace page they write:
"Even Helte Hermansen - Best soloist
We chose Even because we feel he is original. In sound, line and expression, he seems very much his own man. He plays like a master, with great natural confidence, and much obvious pleasure. An extremely promising musician."
We agree.
After the fericious show he was finally called by his rightful names:
"Vibrato-man"
"Vibrato-boy"
"Vibrato-Kalle"
"Man-what-a-vibrato"
"Man-what-kin-da-strings-do-you-use"
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Watch the whole Øya concert on the web! | Aug. 9th 2007
You can now see the whole SHINING concert from our wednesday gig at the Øya Festival again - or for your first time. Click here.
Setlist:
Goretex Weather Report
Stalemate Longan Runner
The Red Room
In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster
21st Century Schizoid Man
Winterreise
Fight Dusk With Dawn
Sound mixed by NRK.
NB: THE PAGE DOES SEEM TO POSE HUGE PROBLEMS FOR MAC USERS. YOU MIGHT END UP WATCHING "BARE EGIL BAND" INSTEAD. TRY SEARCHING ABOUT 5 MINUTES INTO THE FILE IF YOU'RE SEEING A BAND WITH MORE OR LESS THAN FIVE PERSONS. |
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Amateur video now official | Aug. 7th 2007
The previously mentioned amatuer music video sent to us by a fan is now our official music video for the song Winterreise. Thanks so much to "- / - Virtual Y3K - / -" for this great video!
Fans: If you want to make a music video with our music, please send it to us, and we'll post a link on our website.
EDIT 9th Aug. 2007:
Both Winterreise videos and the "21st Century Schizoid Man" cover from NRK radio studio is discussed on Pitchfork Media. |
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New SHINING video? | Aug. 1st 2007
We've registered that there is a new SHINING video out on YouTube.com. Although we really dig this video, we can't take credit for making it. It seems like the guy on the screen is the one who's made it. We don't know who he is, but really appreciate his effort to help bring out our music. We also share his disappointment with how the transition to new millennium has turned out.
IN OTHER WORDS - THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL SHINING VIDEO, BUT DO CHECK IT OUT AT THESE URLS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OscUv3Y86d4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA94N-xC2f8
He also has a (pretty weird) MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/cs1000master
We welcome all other fans of our music to also make their own music videos to our music and post them on YouTube.com. Send us a message or an e-mail, and we'll post a link or even embed them on our page.
Jørgen
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SHINING is looking for a new booking agent in Europe | June 28th 2007
SHINING is currently looking for a new booking agent in Europe. Please contact us if you're interested in being our European agent.
For inquiries and offers in Europe, please contact the band at e-mail address mad@monk.tc until further notice. |
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SHINING goes big band! | June 23rd 2007
The Danish big band exellence Blood Sweat Drum'n'Bass Big Band is playing big band versions of at least 5 SHINING compositions at three major festivals this summer! They have also invited Jørgen to rehearse and play with them. This will hopefully be the hardest kicking big band on this side of Mars.
The lucky places are these:
Roskilde Festival - DENMARK - July 8th
Århus International Jazz Festival - DENMARK - July 14th
Copenhagen Jazz Festival - DENMARK - July 15th
Århus International Jazz Festival - DENMARK - July 17th
Go to Denmark this summer... |
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SHINING on Prog Archives | May 30th 2007
Prog Archives (www.progarchives.com) have made a page dedicated to SHINING where you can get facts and information, read reviews and maybe even post your own reviews of our albums.
Feel free to visit! |
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Rare album Sweet Shanghai Devil found on eBay. | Apr. 24th 2007
Our album # 2, "Sweet Shanghai Devil", has been unavailable for a long time. The record label has no more of them in stock, and there will be no more pressings. The first two editions was pressed in a total of 1500 copies only.
But today I found this new copy for sale on eBay, item location: Canada, ships worldwide.
If you want it, this is a rare chance. Even we, the band, don't have any more of these. |
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SHINING plays King Crimson | Apr. 20th 2007
If you live in Norway, or can somehow manage to get the radio channel NRK P3 in on your computer, be sure not to miss SHINING playing King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" live on the air, next wednesday (25th) somehwere between 18:00 and 19:00.
The show is called Lydverket - Hør og Lær.
FOLLOWUP:
Apr. 26th 2007
You can listen to it here.
"21st Century Schizoid Man" is about 3/4 out in the program. Skip the boring talk, like I would do. |
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VG-lista for three weeks | Feb. 27th 2007
After being on the previously mentioned sales list VG-lista for three weeks (!), we're now back on our own ten feet. |
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New booking agency in Norway! | Feb. 19th 2007
Today Pilot Management is taking over our booking in Norway:
Pilot Management AS
Postboks 8910, Youngstorget
0028 Oslo
Phone: +47 22 40 10 70
Fax: +47 22 40 10 71
E-mail: mail@pilotman.no |
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VG-lista - Strange week... | Feb. 11th 2007
This has been a strange week, indeed! The "official" (and heavily debated, due to it's Berlusconi methods) music sales chart in Norway is called VG-lista. (It's actually named after Norway's biggest and most selling newspaper, which is the same newspaper that prints the list in question - weird, huh?).
Well anyway, after this newspaper assured us all that SHINING's music definately was not meant for every one, we actually sold enough records to go to the number 33 most selling albums in that week (week nr. 6, international list), and number 19 of the Norwegian albums! How weird is that?!
And it gets even better! A few minutes ago I wanted to post a link to this list, and realized that Norways most selling "danseband" (definately not music for the few!) had suddenly taken our place! After a second look I also discovered that the same band also was sitting on place number 28 on the same list - with the same album! I didn't know that was possible? Or even legal?
For sure, the VG-lista is not exactly famous for it's credibility, and has been under heavy pressure the last year after several discoveries about their mafia like methods of being their own judge and jury. Also, it should be mentioned, the VG-lista is controlled by the organization running the four major record labels in this country (Universal, EMI, Warner and Sony BMG).
Here's the links to the two lists in question; one right and one wrong. Check out place 28 and 33 in the international one:
Top 40 International Albums, week 6 - WRONG
Top 30 Norwegian Albums, week 6 - Actually right
Here's PDFs of the same lists, in case they decide to try to act (yes, act...) lawful (and righteous) again.
International List - PDF
Norwegian List - PDF |
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Grindstone released - new songs posted | Today, monday the 29th of January 2007, Grindstone is in the stores in Norway. We've posted three songs from the new album on our MySpace page www.myspace.com/gninihs.
PS: The posted reviews are moved to DISCOGRAPHY. and the right collumn. |
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Shining at Øya-festivalen 2007 | Shining has been confirmed to play at Øya-festivalen 2007 (8th of August to the 11th of August).
Taken from the festival's MySpace page:
"Shining delivered a handful of musical kicks in the groin on their previous album, "In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster" (2005). [...] In 2007 Shining will be striking down so hard that we simply didn't dare not to book them. Get ready for a powerful band that'll pack your head with new impressions."
We're also playing at Vossa-jazz the 31st of March.
More concerts to be announced shortly! |
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New album in early march - Grindstone | | The new SHINING album Grindstone will be released in Europe (excluding Norway) in early March. The release time in Norway and other territories (USA, Japan etc.) may vary. |
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The Personal SHINING MySpace Page | It took some time, but SHINING has finally created a SHINING MySpace page.
www.myspace.com/gninihs
This MySpace page is managed by Jørgen, and we would like to stress that any views expressed here (except comments by other users of course) are solely Jørgen's personal views, and not other band members' views (as Jørgen's often tend towards the extreme). This is important as the members of the band are very different individuals with very different views and beliefs. From now on www.shining.no will take care of the official side of SHINING, while www.myspace.com/gninihs will only be Jørgen's personal page, updated at his whim.
Feel free to visit, I will be updating the page at whim.
Sincerely,
Jørgen |
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KHLYST - Chaos Is My Name | Witchcraft whips the world to shreds.
Rasputin and Baba Yaga teams up.
James Plotkin (Khanate (do not R.I.P.), Atomsmasher, Phantomsmasher & c )
Runhild Gammelsæter (Thorr's Hammer)
www.hydrahead.com
www.plotkinworks.com/currentactions/index.html
Hydrahead Records describes this awesome free metal record like this:
"Chaos Is My Name’ is like waking up in the basement hospital of Jacob’s Ladder only to realize that the permanently disfiguring abuse you’re about to endure has already taken place. The rest of your brief, excruciating life will be spent as a hideously deformed flesh puppet, flailing helplessly under the high-pitched whine of various torture devices and experimental dental equipment, while Seraphim sing in the distance, never once offering you their hand."
The only possibility of hearing this rare phenomenon live is during the CMJ Music Festival in NYC, USA, at Sin-E November the 2nd. Be sure to be there! |
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MySpace??? | We recently discovered that someone has registered a Shining page at MySpace.com (www.myspace.com/kingdomofkitsch).
We kindly ask the person who registered this page please get in touch with us. We're happy that someone did this, but would like to know who this person is.
Kind regards,
Shining |
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Entombed - still the best after all these years | I just have to tell you all about the greatest concert I've seen in a long time:
Entombed played in Oslo last night (02/06/06). Although I've been an Entombed fan since their very first album, this was my first Entombed concert ever. It was awesome! I never heard them harder and more to-the-point. I never for one moment missed the second guitar (Cederlund just quit the band), and the new drummer Olle Dahlstedt is the best thing that's ever happened to the band. With his un-metalish, but extremely groovy swing and his perfect fills, he glued the music together and pushed the band forward like a steam engine on steroids. Wow! I'm a fan once again.
Their new album "SERPENT SAINTS" is out the 06/06/06 (aren't they sweet?). Hope Olle is on it...
Jørgen |
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Shhh/Peaceful | New release date for brand new album: January 2007
No concerts before that.
lufecaeP/hhhS |
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MONSTER jazz | MONSTER is being listed in Jazztimes´ list of the 50 best jazz albums of the year 2005 (the list is published in the new January/February 2006-issue). We got number 50. So let´s hope there were released MORE than 50 jazz albums in 2005 - if not we´re the worst jazz album...
We´re glad to have listeners among both prog-rockers (see the Gagliardi award below) and jazzers!
This is what they say about how they worked out the list:
"Our top 50 CD's of the year are compiled from our individual critic's picks. If a critic chose a CD as her top album of the year, it was s given a score of 10. If a CD was picked as number ten on a critic's top ten list, it was given a score of 1. The scores from all of JazzTimes' contributors were then tallied and the 50 CDs which scored highest are listed below. Note that many CDs received the same combined score. CD's with the same combined score are listed alphabetically within their ranking."
We haven´t seen the issue yet, and don´t have the score... Maybe we´re lucky our album wasn´t named From The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster?
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Shining won the Alarm Award 2006 | | Shining won the Alarm Award 2006. Thanks to all those who voted for us! |
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SPELLEMANNSPRISEN | GNINIHS is nominated to Spellemannsprisen in the category "åpen klasse" (where all the rest go). Spellemann is the commercial award in Norway. I´m sorry to disappoint you; but this time there´s nothing to vote on. The final decision is made public Jan 28th.
PS: The videos I promised are coming soon... |
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Michael Brecker is still seriously ill! | The greatest sax player alive is seriously ill and needs a bone marrow or blood stem cell transplant. His family has been looking for a matching donor for a long time, but still hasn't found one. Please help him find a matching donor! His condition is critical.
Click here to go to his website to learn how you can help. |
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MONSTER on GAGLIARCHIVES´ top 100 Radio Internet Poll! | In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be
A Monster is voted #36 of 100 (there vere over 1000 albums nominated!), and will be featured Sunday at 1:20AM EST as part ofthe 10th Annual Global Progressive Rock
Top 100 Discs of 2005 Listener poll at Gagliarchives. This program is their most listened to every year and is rerun several times throughout the following year. A big thanks to the GAGLIARCHIVES and to the people who voted! (Sorry about what I wrote earlier about the vote of the people...)
Click here for the GAGLIARCHIVES.
Here´s their press-release:
"Join the GAGLIARCHIVES Saturday Night 12/03/05, 10pm Eastern Time, for program 929...PART 2 of the 3 part Globalprogressive Rock Network's Top 100 CDs Of 2005! Numbers 65-33 will be Featured tonight. The program
begins Saturday at 10pm Eastern Time. Like 2004's Top 100, voter turn out was strong. There were over 1000 plus progressive rock related discs this year…some of which cover different sides of progressive rock and it's genres."
As a thanks we will soon post a series of live video clips from our latest concerts in Oslo and Bergen! Stay tuned! |
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Alarm Award 2006 | Monster is nominated for best jazz (!) record of the year in the Norwegian Alarm-prisen award. It is journalists in Norway that has worked out the nominations, and we´re glad to be on the list! The more sorry part is that now it´s up to the people to vote on their favorite, just like on tv... And anyone that has ever read a history book knows that the vote of the people and art do not mix well. But we´re happy to get your vote! Click here to go to Alarm-prisen´s webpage, where you´ll find us under the jazz category. "Stem!" means vote... Thanks! (And don't forget to also vote for our brothers in arms in Jaga Jazzist! They're under the category "frimusikk/electronica".)
Alarm-prisen is supposed to be an alternative award, especially compared to it´s more commercially oriented brother Spellemannsprisen. Unfortunately these two brothers have become more and more like twin brothers the last couple of years, but we hope that Alarm is again going to take a stand for quality music. Real music needs powerful friends. |
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Christmas, studio. . . | Well, this is it for 2005! No more concerts. Thanks to all the nice people who came to our concerts and made it a nice evening for us!
We're now working on a new album, and will be recording in studio in the very beginning on 2006.
We'll also do some selective touring in spring 2006, so stay tuned for info...
Hope to see you all again with a new Shining album!
Kind regards,
Jørgen |
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Big Outside of Norway? | Pitchforkmedia sent Nick Sylvester on a pilgrimage mission to Øya-festivalen in Oslo this summer to get dazzled by Norway's divine music, but went back home dissappointed after finding almost only "Christian hardcore bands, black metal, and mainstream acts who all sound like Dave Matthews"! Well, no one living in Norway ever said we had only good music. It's just like he says in his article, too much bad and too little good... Read it and have a good time!
We must thank him, though, for his kind words about our band:
"Bridging free-jazz to metal, Shining argued the two genres are technically the same. I wrote elsewhere that "this is a marriage of dueling technical proficiencies, where destruction of musical space via improvisation ends up ='ing destruction of musical space via complete organization, where free is fast is rigid is slow." You knew that though. Shining are free-jazz covered in metal's honey, sugar on the cup rim for Norway's hardcore and metal fiends-- a Tull fan's dream."
He also speaks kindly of our friends in Kill, Navyelectre and Jaga Jazzist. In Part 2 he composes a list of his favorite Norwegian modern tracks, among them Shining's Jaga-remake and Navyelectre's Marvellous Day.
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NEW BASS PLAYER!!! | Shining has got a new bass player. After Aslak quit the band, Morten Strøm has grabbed the axe and is whipping the music into shape like it´s never been before! We´ve just finished off five rehearsals with him, he´s just the right man for the task! Shining´s back, this time heavier and meaner than before!
Check out the new live dates: Geneve, Utrecht, Porsgrunn, Gøteborg, Oslo and Bergen.
PS: We´re also working on a new album. Studio is booked in January and February. Estimated release in september 2006. |
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Shining plays Shakespeare´s Hamlet | The Norwegian theater group Teater Ibsen, in collaboration with Vestfoldfestspillene, is putting up Shakespeare´s Hamlet these days. Jørgen has written and recorded new music for this piece, along with Torstein and Kåre. (They also use a piece of Goretex for a dance suite.) We saw the premiere on Thursday, and it was great! If you happen to be in Norway these days, we greatly recommend that you check this out!
(We also just heard rumors that the Norwegian legend Arne Nordheim watched the show yesterday, and said that he loved the music. Thank you very much!!!) (We believe in rumors, don´t we? At least when they´re good...) |
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Thanks to Hultsfred... | | ...for a great festival! We just got home from our concert there, and it was great! Nice weather and a beautiful landscape! Thanks to Slayer for another great concert! (We saw you in Oslo, too.) |
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Finally sound on web | | We finally managed to put out some sound samples from MONSTER. Check it out under our submenu SOUND. |
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Shining at BBC radio + UK tour | | We're planning a short UK tour in the summer (dates coming up soon), and therefore it's great to see that there's interest for Shining in UK: BBC has put Goretex on their PMS playlist. Thanks! We hope to see some crazy Brits in the summer! |
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Shining at Hultsfred | | Shining is playing at Swedens best rock-festival in Hultsfred friday June 17th at 21:30. We're very much looking forward to it! They're great program includes artists as Slayer, the Mars Volta, Mastodon, Snoop Dogg and Nine Inch Nails among many, many other great bands. Check out their website www.rockparty.se. |
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BELGIUM TOUR COMING UP! | Wednesday we're leaving our country for a small tour in Belgium. We're doing five support shows for our favorite band Jaga. You'll find the tourdates on the left side of our website.
Hope to see many of our Belgian friends again! (For info about MONSTER and an enormous and monstrous interview, go to www.kwadratuur.be/ |
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Listen to Shining online | I've been receiving several mails in the last weeks, especially from the US, from people who wonder where they can listen to some of the MONSTER-tracks. I'm sorry that we haven't been able to present some samples on our page yet, it will be taken care of in a couple of days. (We'll also fix a whole lot of other features...)
Until then, please log into www.musiconline.no
to listen to our songs. Infortunately these are just small samples. The only place you can find a whole song on the net is here: http://www.kwadratuur.be/audio.php?id=168#
(For those of you from the US: please contact www.forcedexposure.com
to buy, or go to good record stores...) |
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Shining in the Sunday New York Times! | It´s not everyday a small band from the north pole is in the Sunday New York Times - one of the word´s biggest! But yesterday it happened. We´re honored.
Sunday March 20th:
"A band from Norway whose members have jumped from jazz to something much
bigger - not the millionth dopey, clinical fusion of jazz and rock, but a
mushrooming that's harder to figure out. Through brilliant use of the
recording studio, "In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster" (Rune
Grammofon) crisscrosses between acoustic and electric, small band and large
band, vocal choir and instruments, a close-miked sound and a distant,
reverbed-up one, clanking drums and careful snare-brushing, soft woodwinds
and dirty, overdriven synthesizers, quiet and penetratingly loud,
live-in-the-studio and and musique concrète. There's an auteurish producer
behind it, Kare Vestrheim, who's not part of the band but clearly functions
here as the sixth member of Shining. (Available through
www.forcedexposure.com.)" |
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Great reviews in important american press!! | Pitchforkmedia.com, one of America's most important forums for music, has put MONSTER on their BEST NEW MUSIC list, rated 8.3!
"Strikingly original Norwegian art-rock combo makes its debut [...] Colossal."
Almost Cool is also deeply impressed and writes a great review, rating KINGDOM a good 8.
"Occasionally mindblowing, and very entertaining."
Even the jazz people seems to like the crazy shit we make: www.allaboutjazz.com writes "[...] the record is so extreme, so outside, that it would likely send most King Crimson fans running for the hills." Hi hi! |
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MONSTER on American Radio | | The underground radio staion the GAGLIARCHIVES - http://auralmoon.com - is presenting MONSTER on air and on the net March 5. at 10pm EST and Tuesday March 8. at 11am EST. This is long before scheduled release of the album in USA. But it seems like some people both hav eyes and ears... Tune in, log on! |
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Funny Norwegian Multimedia-Review | Check out www.dongery.no->internettforum->anmeldelser/anbefalinger->musikk->Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be Da Monso.
Better than most professional reveiwers... |
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MONSTER rated TOP 10 in Metal Maniacs! | We're proud to see that the legendary Stephen O'Malley from the allmighty SUNN (O))) and KHANATE is rating our album in his top 10-listing on the Metal Maniacs website! For an old metal-fan like me, it warms my heart to see that metal-heads can appreciate our music. Thanks!
www.metalmaniacs.com/content.cfm?ID=48 |
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MONSTER A-listed and album of the week | After our small tour in Norway, our album has been A-listed on studentradion i Trondheim and rated "album of the week" in Bergen. Listen for Shinings Monster on your local radio!
Studentradion i Bergen quote:
"Et av Bylarms høydepunkt i år kom fra et band som ikke kan sies å være helt nytt,
men som har en originalitet og kraft få kan etterfølge. Fra å være et dristig jazzband kan man muliens nå hinte til at bandet er et dristig jazzrockprogband. Et annet jazzelektroband som tar progbussen denne våren er Jaga Jazzist. Det vil bli vanskelig for dem å etterfølge Shinings
brilliante lydlek og dynamikk. hjelp! Progtrollet!"
Men vi som er så heldige å ha fått prøvehørt den nye Jaga-plata "What We Must" veit at det ikke blir noe problem!! |
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SHINING AT ØYA-FESTIVALEN !!! | We're proud to announce that we're playing at the best festival in Norway this summer, the Øya festival. The concert will be held saturday August 13th in Oslo.
For more info, and a great review, see the Øya website at www.oyafestivalen.no.
"Shining - This is a giant monster art rock band that doesn't hesitate to expand the already extreme idea of how far you can take jazz and still call it jazz, an idea other Norwegian bands already have taken quite far. With their brand new album In the Kingdom of Kitsch You will Be a Monster, Shining has had their cake and eaten it, too. Not only are we quite possibly talking about the album of the year, though within a rather indefinable genre, but the band has also come up with the best album title of the year." |
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