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November 6th 2020 must have been a strange night to perform live, it being the day Norway’s most recent lockdown was announced. Clearly, it was a good one though as most of this live offering from Norwegian collective Wako was recorded that night. It forms a natural pair with their eponymous release from 2020; six of the nine tracks are reworkings of music which appears on that album. This is their fifth release since their 2015 debut, The Good Story. The reinterpretations on this record offer an insight into the creative process of these musicians and I guess the imperative was to get some live music out there for a severely deprived audience.
Dannii Leivers
, April 8th, 2021 08:09
Kjetil Nernes and Karin Park decided recently to take Årabrot forward into a new era. Dannii Leivers met Karin to talk about how her glittering pop career is influencing their new album, Norwegian Gothic, which is streamed here in full. Årabrot portraits by Olle Lundin
In April 2014, just days after her partner, Årabrot vocalist and guitarist, Kjetil Nernes had been diagnosed with malignant throat cancer, Karin Park watched the band perform on stage at Bristol venue, The Church of St Thomas The Martyr.
Backed by an ornate reredos and flanked from above by two carved angel statues, Norway’s noise-rock band sounded as caustic and uncompromising as ever. But, unknown to the crowd, a vulnerability had crept in, masked by the gnarliness of the music, albeit just as threatening. For Park, the scene brought the reality of the situation into sharp, grave focus. “It was such a crazy picture to look at knowing that maybe he’s going to die,