I'm now on a two week tour with Ugress, making new friends. I'm keeping a daily journal in the blog.

This is a Rikskonsertene tour, early in the morning at primary schools in the foresty heart of Norway. It is a bit different from my regular shows, which are usually performed some time around midnight in a loud dark club. (Or in an empty festival tent.)

I'll be documenting the expedition as it unfolds. There's a daily tour journal with reports and photos in the blog.

The Ugress - Collectronics album is now out and available with all digital music services.

This is a compilation of previously released singles and EP tracks. There is also Nightswimming, a previously unreleased vocal track with Christine Litle.

The album is available for streaming right here on ugress.com. For hi-fi freaks, the album is available in lossless at my own store over at Bandcamp.

Others:

Amazon, iTunes, Spotify, Wimp, eMusic.

I am taking a short break from album production and playing live with Ugress this coming Friday, at electronic music festival Sommerøya, Langøyene, Oslo.

It is a nice opportunity to try out new material, and get a real life sanity check. I've been inside my head writing music for quite some time now, the fresh air and loud beats would do me good. According to the schedule I'm playing at high noon(!).

More information, tickets and practical details at the festival website.

A notice: I'll be quiet for some time ahead.

I have six weeks to make an album and I need as many of those 3 628 800 seconds as possible to survive this daring expedition. I will therefore ease up a bit on website and general social activity.

I have finished and delivered the Ugress - Collectronics album to my aggregator. It should turn up in digital stores and streaming services as soon as they ingest it. It could take anything from a week to a month, there's really no telling.

This is just a collection of singles and selected tracks from the myriads of EPs and web releases I did between 2005 and 2010. There IS an exclusive track, Nightswimming featuring Christine Litle. Because I'm a poor cynical bastard who thinks slapping an exclusive track on something increases the special snowflakability of it.

But really the point of this release is quite simply a strategic move, get more of my material into streaming services. So... that's it.

I'll update with a news item when it's out everywhere.