Bel Canto spiller konsert med original besetning

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Sted: 
Valhall, Tromsø

Døgnvillfestivalen skriver:

Det helt fantastiske Tromsø-bandet Bel Canto er klar for Døgnvill i orginalbesetning!

Vi er utrolig stolt og glad for å ha fått Bel Canto på plass til årets Døgnvillfestival. Det er også veldig spesielt at bandet vil opptre i orginalbesetning, noe som ikke har skjedd på over 20 år.

Bel Canto ble startet i 1985 av Nils Johansen, Anneli Drecker, og Geir Jenssen. Gruppen dro ut av landet for å få platekontrakt, og fikk napp hos belgiske Crammed Discs. De første utgivelsene kom ut med bandnavnet Bel Kanto i Norge for å unngå sammenblanding med koret Bel Canto.

Geir Jenssen forlot bandet forut for Shimmering, Warm & Bright, og er blant annet kjent for solo-prosjektene Bleep og Biosphere.

For albumet Shimmering, Warm & Bright vant bandet Spellemannprisen 1992 i klassen pop. For Magic Box vant de klassene gruppe og dance/techno under Spellemannprisen 1996.

Dette kan bli legendarisk så møt opp Lørdag 4. September på Valhall

Side-line har også fått med seg nyheten, og skriver:

The founding members of the Norwegian act Bel Canto will reunite for a special performance at the Dognvill festival in their hometown Tromsö september 4th 2010. It will be the band's first gig in its original line-up in 20 years. Bel Canto had this to say about the reunion on their website: "We really look forward to work together with Geir Jenssen again. Where that will take us...? Nobody knows. :-) We have just started to run through the old songs again. We have come across some unreleased material, and we might even work out something new. We'll see..."

The band will be playing old stuff from the two first albums and songs from the period 1990-2002. They might also play some unreleased - and maybe even new stuff. The Dognvill festival takes place on September 2-4 and the program furthermore includes A-ha and The Prodigy. More than one reason to go to the festival that is.

And it might be a very interesting period for Bel Canto fans as Bel Canto has been asked to do some sketches for a movie soundtrack. The director is Nathilde Overrein Rapp. It is still in the pre-production phase. Check www.jellyfishprod.com for further info.

The band was started up in 1985 by singer Anneli Drecker, Nils Johansen and Geir Jenssen. Geir Jenssen left the band in 1989 after the first two albums "White-out Conditions" and "Birds of Passage" released on Crammed Discs to continue music with his Biosphere and Bleep projects.

During the years from 1985 to 2009, Bel Canto occasionally took breaks in order for Drecker to pursue a solo career and to perform with other bands and artists, as well as performing in films and theater plays. Nils Johansen has composed music for film and television as well as working and performing with his other band, Vajas. Despite these hiatuses, Bel Canto continued to perform live, without Jenssen that is.

Side-Line reported in March 2007 that Bel Canto would start work on a new album but things seemed to have slowed down since. The band's last studio album was 2002's "Dorothy's Victory". Also, a double album package called "Maskindans: Norsk synth 1980-1988" was released on Hommage Records including one previously unheard Bel Canto song, "Flowerbeds", dating from 1988.

Mer info: http://dognvill.no/?page=57&article=79

Døgnvill er årets Arvika for

Døgnvill er årets Arvika for min del (BC, Prodigy, A-ha, Susanne Sundfør og Ozzy Osbourne).
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