Moddi
Moddi (born February 18, 1987 in Tromsø ), whose real name is Pål Moddi Knutsen, is a Norwegian singer-songwriter .
history
Pål Moddi Knutsen grew up on the island of Senja in northern Norway . His whole family is very musical. Mother, father, grandmother, aunts and uncles played different musical instruments. Trine Knutsen, his aunt is a flutist known in Norway . At the age of five, Moddi had his first radio appearance with a sailor's song. As a teenager he played piano and trumpet in a school band, bass guitar in a rock band and also tried his hand at rapper. At the age of 15 Moddi started to write his own songs.
At the age of 18 he found his mother's old accordion in the basement of his family house, which had not been used for years, and barely two weeks later he gave his first concert. Soon after, the first songs were recorded in a friend's improvised bedroom studio. Although there were only twenty of these demos , they found their way onto the radio stations. The appearance at the festival "Rock mot rus" in Andenes in 2006, which attracted the interest of the local media, marked the beginning of his concert career as a songwriter in Norway. Appearances at the Scandinavian music congress and festival "by: Larm" and "Øyafestivalen" in 2008 brought the young artist attention and praise in the international music media.
Musical career
In August 2008, the debut was EP "rubato" on the label released Playground Music. Moddi recorded this split EP with his band colleague and Norwegian singer-songwriter Einar Stray. A short time later, Moddi moved to Oslo to work on a new album. Parallel to his musical career, he studied culture and communication at the University of Oslo .
In 2010 the debut album "Floriography" appeared, which was released on the label "Impeller Records". To record the long player, Moddi and his band went to Reykjavík for two weeks in September 2009 to see producer Valgeir Sigurdsson, who is best known for his studio work with Björk . Without a hit on the radio, the album made it to number 9 and stayed in the Norwegian charts for 4 weeks. In the same year Moddi received a prestigious scholarship worth the equivalent of 125,000 euros, which was awarded by the Norwegian pop rock band a-ha . This serves to promote and support young musicians. In 2011 he was nominated for the Norwegian Grammy, Spellemannprisen , in two categories: “Best Artist” and “Newcomer of the Year”.
Moddi gave his first concerts in Germany in May 2010 and later performed at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg. In November and December Moddi and his band could be seen in the opening act of the Australian group Angus & Julia Stone on their European tour and gave a total of 27 concerts in Germany, England , France , Switzerland , the Netherlands and Belgium .
Musical style
Moddi moves between folk and singer-songwriter style with pop elements, mainly accompanied by accordion, acoustic guitar , piano and strings . His songs with their poetic texts, performed in "sometimes fragile, sometimes energetic and haunting singing", oscillate between "brittle folk aesthetics and chamber music arrangements". The press compared him to Sigur Rós , Nick Drake , the young Björk and Soap & Skin .
Discography
- Rubato EP (Playground Music, 2008)
- Live Parkteateret (self-published live album, 2009)
- Rubbles EP (Propeller Recordings, 2010)
- Floriography (Propeller Recordings, 2010)
- Set the House on Fire (Propeller Recordings, 2013)
- Kæm va you? (Propeller Recordings, 2013)
- Unsongs (Propeller Recordings, 2016)
- Like in 1968 (Propeller Recordings, 2019)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fantastic Moddi. allaccessarea.blogspot.com, February 17, 2009, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Winther, Silvert Moe: I musikalsk eksil hos mormor. budstikka.no, March 18, 2010, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ^ Artist page (biography): Moddi. (No longer available online.) Motor.de, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 24, 2011 . ( 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.
- ↑ Håseth, Stewart: Sin egen Lykkes smed. (No longer available online.) Utropia.no, March 1, 2010, archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; Retrieved February 24, 2011 . 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.
- ^ Howe, Brian: Øya Festivalhttp. pitchfork.com, August 12, 2008, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Sanna, Karoline: Stjerneskuddet. universitas.no, February 17, 2010, accessed on February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Kottkamp, Daniel: Polarstern. tonspion.de, February 11, 2011, accessed on February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ http://lista.vg.no/
- ↑ Wirthensohn, Andreas: Moddi: Floriography. (No longer available online.) Wienerzeitung.at, February 4, 2011, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 24, 2011 . ( 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.
- ↑ Moddi: Rubbles EP. elektrolurch.com, accessed February 24, 2011 .
- ↑ Ziemer, Jürgen: "Decoupled from the World", Rolling Stone, N2,2011
- ↑ Moddi, Floriography. (No longer available online.) Sallys.net, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 24, 2011 . ( 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.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moddi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Knutsen, Pål Moddi (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Norwegian singer-songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1987 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tromso |