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ERLAND ROPSTAD - The Magnetic Tapes
REC 90
CD // £5.99
FOLK / AMERICANA
Released: Aug 2006
Catalogue Number: RID065
Estimated time of shipping: 1-3 days

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I know very little about Erlend Ropstad other than that he’s Norwegian (well that’s what I can deduce from the wealth of Norwegian info on the feller) but what I can say is that this EP is a frankly lovely collection of singer/songwriter tracks. They’re in English, before you start getting all xenophobic, and of course being Scandinavian he has a better grasp of the English language than most of the Midlands and beyond – he might as well be from Portland Oregon as Oslo. The American connection is an important one actually, the half-heard ghosts of classic American singer/songwriter music of the 1960s (Dylan, Neils, Simon and Garfunkel etc) are present throughout this six song showcase, and the Northern chap does a great deal to achieve even a similar sound quality as we recognise from this era, and I can’t begrudge him that. There’s something so cold about modern production techniques that the tape saturated goodness of ‘classic’ recordings becomes more alluring by the minute, and Ropstad exploits this marvellously recreating the warmth we all love so much. Fans of Jose Gonzales, Kings of Convenience and good quality classic singer songwriter music will no doubt fall in love with this EP, let’s hope there’s a full album on the way.

• Tracks on ERLAND ROPSTAD - The Magnetic Tapes:
• ERLAND ROPSTAD : 01
• ERLAND ROPSTAD : 02
• ERLAND ROPSTAD : 03

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