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Cleo T.(F-Paris)
Once upon a time there was a dawn without sunshine.
A young lady drifted away from 21 Love Hotel's sweet rooms & took and adventurous ride on meandering lanes.
From then on, Cleo T. swings between quarter notes & minims and the forgotten nursery rhymes of the morning birds.
In this tiny little cabaret, where the strange happens, lights are switched off and in the silence, through the looking glass, all begins anew.
Lady Cleo and her sandman with silver hands open their secret box, with broken waltzes and gloomy jingles, to steal the key of dreams.
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Nordgarden (N-Oslo)
Nordgarden is a 29-year old singer/songwriter from Hamar, a small town just north of Oslo. For seven years he has been making a living working his way through Europe playing on the streets, in cafes and in bars from Sicily down south to Trondheim up north. He lived three years in Italy where he released his first album "Terje Nordgarden” in 2003 on Stoutmusic, an Italian indie label based in Florence. The album was embraced by the critics and enabled him to tour all over the country. The same year he played at the Main Stage at Arezzo Wave and at By:larm in Norway.

A couple of years later he moves home to Norway and records his second album, ”A Brighter Kind of Blue”. He wants to give it an acoustic feel – going back to his roots with just his guitar and his voice with sparse arrangements where the trumpet of Peder Oiseth has an essential role. It is released in 2006 on the Norwegian label Blue Mood/Grappa. The Norwegian press applauds it and Stein Østbøe at VG writes: ”The closest a Norwegian singer/songwriter has come to the timeless qualities of Ryan Adams”. Rolling Stone, Italy gives it 4 out of 5 stars. Nordgarden expands and does over 200 gigs in England, Ireland, Poland, Holland, Italy and Norway.

This year Nordgardens third album ”The Path of Love” is due for release. It contains 10 songs arranged with band, strings and brass. These are stories not only of love, but also about the loss of a beloved grandfather, of a hitchhiking trip in Sardegna, of a London dressed in American colours and additionally an interpretation of "The Night”, a song by the legendary band Morphine. The first single – The Path of Love – is now to be seen and heard on YouTube and on Norwegian radio and TV.

The album was recorded at Cabin Recorders in Oslo and was produced in collaboration with Audun Borrman and Even Ormestad (Jaga Jazzist/Marit Larsen). His band consists of Lasse Weeden on bass (Big Bang), Alexander Pettersen on drums (Vidar Busk), Andreas Ulvo on keys (Shining) and Peder Øiseth on trumpet (Mira Craig).
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