Madrugada

Madrugada
Frode Jacobsen (left) and Sivert Høyem
General information
Genre (s)	Indie rock , dark rock
founding	1995, 2018
resolution	2008
Website	http://www.madrugada.no
Founding members
singing	Sivert Høyem
guitar	Robert S. Burås (* 1975– † 2007)
bass	Frode Jacobsen
Drums	Jon Lauvland Pettersen (1995–2002, 2018–)
Live members
Drums	Erland Dahlen (2005-2008)
Guitar, backing vocals	Alexander Kloster-Jensen (2008)
Guitar, keyboards, backing vocals	Cato Salsa Thomassen (2008, 2019)
Guitar, keyboards, backing vocals	Christer Knutsen (2019)

Madrugada ( Spanish / Portuguese : Dawn ) is an indie rock band from Stokmarknes , Norway . The band's sound can be described as melancholy and powerful, a style that they consolidated over time on five studio albums.

Band history

Sivert Høyem

Madrugada emerged in 1995 from the band Abbey's Adoption . After initial success in Norway, their first album Industrial Silence (released in 2000) achieved a high level of recognition throughout Europe and beyond.

In 2002 drummer Jon Lauvland Pettersen left the band and was replaced by Simen Vangen, who drummed on the third album Grit and on the following concerts. He left the band two years later for other projects. On the fourth album, The Deep End , he played drums on seven out of twelve songs, but the album's booklet no longer identifies a drummer as a member of the band. The band continued as a trio. Live they were now supported by Erland Dahlen, who played drums on the remaining five songs of The Deep End .

The live qualities of the group, valued by fans, were first recorded in 2005 on the album Live at Tralfamadore . The Tralfamadore in the title is not an actual (event) location, but a reference to the fictional extraterrestrial world that Kurt Vonnegut described in his novel Schlachthof 5 or the Children's Crusade .

Robert Burås

In May 2007 the band began to record a new studio album. Unexpectedly, guitarist and founding member Robert Burås was found dead in his apartment on July 12, 2007. Until a few days before his death he was busy writing new songs for both Madrugada and his own side project My Midnight Creeps . Burås was 31 years old. No information was given on the cause of death.

Vocalist Sivert Høyem and bassist Frode Jacobsen finally decided to stick to the original time frame and met with John Agnello , their producer and sound engineer, in autumn 2007 to continue the recordings at Grammofon Studio in Gothenburg and to finish and mix in November in New York. The single Look Away Lucifer was released on December 10, 2007 , the album Madrugada was initially only released in Norway on January 21, 2008, and since May 9, 2008 it has also been available in Germany.

In August 2008, Madrugada announced that they would be retiring indefinitely after Christmas 2008. However, work is underway to release previously unpublished material. In 2010 the new edition of the debut Industrial Silence was released as a deluxe edition , remastered and with a second CD containing B-sides and unreleased pieces from the time the album was made. In Scandinavia, a double CD was also released with the programmatic title The Best of Madrugada among 28 songs, an unpublished piece called All this wanting to be free , which was created during the production of the last studio album.

In June 2018 the band announced on Facebook on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Industrial Silence album two concerts in Oslo for February 2019, followed by an extensive comeback tour through Europe. For the 75 shows, the remaining members of the original line-up were reinforced by Cato Salsa and Christer Knutsen. In March 2019, Half-Life, the band's first new song since 2008, was released.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		NO
1999	Industrial silence	NO1 platinum (52 weeks)NO	After re-publication in 2010 again place 4
2001	The Nightly Disease	NO1 gold (19 weeks)NO	After re-publication in 2011 again in 16th place
2002	Grit	NO4 (34 weeks) NO
2005	The deep end	NO1 (41 weeks) NO
	Live At Tralfamadore	NO1 (33 weeks) NO
2008	Madrugada	NO1 (37 weeks) NO
2011	Best Of Madrugada	NO- platinum NO

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		NO
1999	New depression	NO2 (15 weeks) NO	EP
2000	Electric industrial silence	NO13 (5 weeks) NO
2001	Hands Up - I Love You The Nightly Disease	NO1 gold (4 weeks)NO
	A Deadend Mind The Nightly Disease	NO6 (2 weeks) NO	EP
2002	Ready grit	NO3 (3 weeks) NO
2005	Lift Me	NO1 (22 weeks) NO	feat. Ane Brun
2007	Look Away Lucifer Madrugada	NO4 (9 weeks) NO
2008	Whatever Happened To You? Madrugada	NO20 (1 week) NO
	What's On Your Mind? Madrugada	NO10 (5 weeks) NO
2019	Half-Light Amundsen Soundtrack	NO- NO

Web links

Commons : Madrugada  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^ "Madrugada, The Deep End of Norway". Nordic Reach (via Highbeam Research (subscription required)). September 30, 2005. Retrieved May 5, 2012. "The dark rock brings to mind musicians such as Nick Cave and Iggy Pop."
2. ↑ ^ "Artists :: MADRUGADA". MusicMight. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
3. ↑ Han viet sitt liv til musikken ( memento of July 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), kjendis.no, July 13, 2007.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Emi. (No longer available online.) In: emi.no. Archived from the original on April 16, 2010 ; Retrieved February 8, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Review on triggerfish.de with release date
6. ↑ fvn.no: Madrugada legger opp  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ oslopuls.no: Se Madrugada for de gir seg
8. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: NO
9. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: NO