Description
Bendik Hofseth became internationally known from the renowned jazz-rock band Steps Ahead and came like a comet on the Norwegian pop sky in 1991 with the album IX - an album that was voted one of the best Norwegian albums of all time in Morgenbladet's Top 100 poll in 2011. He was launched as a mix of Sting and Peter Gabriel, with a dash of Michael Brecker. His third vocal album Planets, Rivers and...IKEA is considered by many to be his very best. The album stands with one leg in the slightly "Americanized" first album IX , and the other in the more rock, spontaneous and folk-pop Amuse Yourself . His third leg is firmly planted in the melancholic contemporary and art pop where you can also find artists like Prefab Sprout, Robert Wyatt and David Sylvian - without any comparison. This is Bendik Hofseth at its most creative. The already 51-minute album will also be made even longer, as the album will include the bonus track "Crossing the Rubicon", with Sidsel Endresen on vocals, taken from the film "Dangerous Waters".