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[Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho@ifi.uio.no>]

Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
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From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
Subject: Re: Bel Canto
In-Reply-To: farrellj@aqua.pc.ocunix.on.ca's message of 17 May 92 05:16:25 GMT
Message-ID: <KJETILHO.92May19112004@gondle.ifi.uio.no>
Sender: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme)
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
References: <67231@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1992 10:20:04 GMT
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In article <67231@apple.Apple.COM> farrellj@aqua.pc.ocunix.on.ca (Farrel McGovern) writes:
> tessi!john@nosun.West.Sun.COM (John Zimmer) writes:
> > They are to me.  I have _White Out Conditions_ and _Birds of 
> > Passage_.  A rather haunting blend of electronics and (I refuse 
> > to say 'ethereal'!) female vocals.

Bel Canto's newest, "Shimmering Warm and Bright" is a must buy :)

> Then, of course, there is Dolly Deluxe, a duo of Swedish female
> singers who put out Rock vs Opera, which is a strange mix
> (litterally!) of Opera music, and Rock music.

In fact it's Dollie de Luxe, and they're Norwegian (like Bel Canto :)

> They are definitely on topic here, since they are extreamly
> influcenced by Kate Bush, and won a local radio station competition
> with a tape of 13 Kate Bush covers, and one original.

When they were discovered, there were no such thing as local radio
stations in Norway, just the national NRK :) They were featured in a
programme devoted to demo tapes, and a recording company got
interested. They were called just "Dollie" then. I've never heard
about Kate covers before, it would be very interesting to hear...

Dollie's albums are;
F|rste akt (Norwegian)
Dollie's dagbok (Norwegian)
Rampelys (Norwegian)
Rock vs. Opera (really a maxi-single, I think) (English)
Which Witch (English)
Which Witch p} Kongsfjellet (double-album with additional material, live)

I doubt if their Norwegian records have been released outside Norway :)

They've been trying to get Which Witch on stage in London's West End,
and it looks like they have succeeded in getting a premiere in the
autumn. Fay Weldon has written the libretto.


Kjetil T.