New Nordic: Volume 5
Aurora, RebMoe, Nothing Personal, Tamara, Girl in Red and Sol Strøm, Moyka and Paolo Nutini among those featured in this week's Norwegian focused newsletter
▶️ Tonight’s the night for fans of Aurora to tune into the video premiere for her latest release ‘Some Type of Skin’ which she has been teasing with lyric drops on social media in recent weeks. The film, directed by Kaveh Nabatian, will be screened on YouTube at 18:45.
🛌 New music too from RebMoe who after humbly releasing her new track Bedroom soon found herself making headlines in the respected Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. The 2min15sec long pop bop has already been streamed more than 30,000 times in just five days.
🌊Sol Strøm is following up her February release Ocean with a new track this Friday called ‘Should Have Been’, with pre-saves available at this link.
📔 Indie trio Nothing Personal are using their appearance at Parktearet on March 24 to release their new album ‘The Diary of Nothing Personal’ into the world on Oslo based Braveheart Records. Featuring Dorothea Økland, Thea Wang and Solveig Wang the new sounds have alreayd been described as “overflowing” with creativity.
🎤 Gospel singer turned electropop performer Gabrielle (Gabrielle Leithaug) drops the first single from her forthcoming album this Friday. Operahuset is available for pre-save at this link.
🎪 A huge deal for artist Tamara who is now confirmed as part of the massive Roskilde Festival on July 1. She will join around 170 acts over eight days for the event that attracts some 130,000 festival goers.
🔴 A collaboration coming too between Girl In Red and Sabrina Carpenter for a new track ‘You Need Me Now’ coming this Friday. The April edition of Dork magazine has all the details in an interview out now.
A great read here about Moyka in Atwood Magazine on her latest album Movies, Cars and Heartbreak and also fresh from her track As Long As You’re Here also being used in the hit Netflix series Young Royals.
🎸 Can’t wait for Paolo Nutini’s end of year gigs in Glasgow? Then rejoice in news that he will be playing a date at Oslo’s excellent Sentrum Scene on Wednesday 12 June.
⭐️ Meanwhile voting is almost over for the Norwegian song of the year, with the Spellemann vote closing tomorrow.
