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MODDI



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My name is Pål Moddi Knutsen, 27 years old as I write this. I come from a small fishing village on the tip of the island Senja in Northern Norway. My first encounter with music was singing a sea shanty on the local radio station as a five-year-old. I played the piano for a while, tried trumpeteering in the school's marching band and bass guitar in a rock band until I started rapping at fourteen. When I left home, fifteen years old, I started writing my own songs.



I have always been writing in the middle of the night, often without even seeing my own hands. The first songs came to life in the school dormitory's showers, the only place I could hide away after everyone else had gone to sleep. When I was 18, I found my mother's accordion standing unused and forgotten in the cellar at home. I brought it with me, and fourteen days later, I held my first real concert.



Since then, things have grown little by little. In 2006, a friend of mine invited me to record a demo in his bedroom studio. The demo, although printed in only 20 copies, found its way to radio stations and festivals. I spent all 2009 writing songs, meeting people, rehearsing and thinking. In September, I brought my band to Reykjavik, where we started recording what would become my debut album, together with producer Valgeir Sigurdsson.



After having gathered ideas for more than five years, fourteen days in his Greenhouse was too little, and we kept on working on the album at home in Oslo for many months. February the 8th 2010, my debut album 'Floriography' was released in Norway on Propeller Recordings. It was nominated for two Norwegian Grammies (Spellemannsprisen) the year after. I received a large money grant from a-ha, toured as support for Angus and Julia Stone and played in places I had only dreamt about when I was younger.



We played more than 250 concerts, among those the Reeperbahn Festival (GE), Iceland Airwaves, The Great Escape (UK), Green Man Festival (UK), Haldernpop (GE), Spot Festival (DK) and The End of The Road (UK), as well as by:larm, Øya, Hove and the Træna Festival at home.



The music I make lives a life of its own. Sometimes, you can find it as a huge band session, with noise and loudness, and sometimes you'll find it so fragile and discreet that you might want to sing along in order to help it continue. And as I said, the songs grow a little with every winter that passes by.