thumb|Olaf Bull|rightOlaf Jacob Martin Luther Breda Bull or Olaf Bull was a Norwegian poet. He was born on November 10, 1883 in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway, and died on June 29, 1933.

His life

Olaf Bull's parents were author Jacob Breda Bull and his second wife Maria Augusta Berglöf. Bull grew up and was mostly raised in Kristiania. At the age of 13, he lived for some time in Hurum in Buskerud, where his father worked as a writer.

He started gymnasium in 1899, and the same year he published his first poem in the school newspaper. After he finished gymnasium, he lived with his family in Rome before returning to Kristiania in 1903 to begin his studies at the university. Olaf Bull could be considered a polymath because in addition to both modern and classical literature, he mastered philosophy, history, politics, art and science. He was known as the “Oslo-poet,” but he lived for extended periods in both France where his son, the poet Jan Bull, was born, and in Italy. He spent several years as a journalist for ''Posten'' and ''Dagbladet ''.

Olaf Bull is buried at Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo.

His poetry

Bull's poetry collection ‘‘Digte’’ (= Poems) (1909) formed the foundation upon which he came to be recognized as Norway’s foremost poet. Olaf Bull composed his poetry using what is called in Norwegian ''sentrallyrikk'' — poems about “central themes” such as love, sorrow and death. He used fixed stanza patterns and was known for his strong and emotional depictions. His poetry and work conveys a melancholy sense that all is transitory. In spite of this disconsolate tone, his recurring and powerful use of mood, faultless form and expressive voice communicate his belief that, although evanescent, art and beauty are important.

Giovanni Bach described his work in this way: :"His poems reveal a masculine power and a forceful affirmation of his own individuality, notwithstanding the extreme pessimism that often envelopes them in a voluminous thick black veil. His poetry is deeply felt, rich in imaginative and intellectual quality."

Bull utilized his extensive knowledge and artistic strength, but showed an underlying fear and depression. He inherited a nervous disposition from his father and abused alcohol. Olaf Bull was known to be anti-authority and was regarded an “outsider” in society, but his poetry demonstrated that he never totally broke with traditional form and structure. Much of his poetry showed a powerful longing for the eternal and persistent. This longing was most apparent when he wrote about classical motifs.

Bull and Joyce

While James Joyce was working on ''Finnegans Wake'', he wanted to insert references to Scandinavian languages and literature, hiring five teachers of Norwegian. Bull was the first one. Joyce wanted to read Norwegian works in the original language, including Peter Andreas Munch's ''Norrøne Gude- og Heltesagn'' (= Norse tales of gods and heroes). He was looking for puns and weird associations across the barriers of language, which was something Bull well understood. Lines from Bull's poems echo through "this spider's web of words", as Joyce himself called ''Finnegans Wake'', and Bull himself materializes under the name "Olaph the Oxman", a pun on his surname.

In his letters home, Bull mentioned nothing about Joyce, most likely because he often asked his family for money, which would sound unconvincing with him at the same time being a teacher for a world-famous author. It is not known how Joyce got in contact with Bull, but both frequented the bookstore Shakespeare and Company in Paris which was run by Sylvia Beach, who may have brought them in contact with each other. In 1926 ''Ulysses'' was issued as a pirate copy in the USA, meaning that Joyce would receive no money for it. Together with Beach he wrote a protest letter, intending it to be signed by well-known writers from the whole of Europe. Beach mentions in her memoirs that Joyce was particularly eager to have Bull sign it. Beach tracked Bull, who had left Paris to live in the French countryside. On behalf of Joyce she sent a man there to have the protest signed. Bull's wife Suzanne provided him with a copy of Bull's signature.

Bibliography

Works published during his lifetime

''Digte'' (= Poems), Gyldendal, 1909.

''Nye Digte'' (= New Poems), Gyldendal, 1913.

''Mitt navn er Knoph'' (= My Name is Knoph), Narveson, 1914 - the first Norwegian book to be translated to Danish; see Norwegian language struggle.

''Digte og noveller'' (= Poems and Short Stories), Gyldendal, 1916

''Samlede digte 1909–1919'' (= Collected Poems), Gyldendal, 1919.

''Stjernerne'' (= The Stars), Gyldendal, 1924.

''Metope'', Gyldendal, 1927.

''De hundrede aar'' (= The Hundred Years), Gyldendal, 1928.

''Kjærlighet'' (= Love), Gyldendal, 1929.

''Oinos og Eros'' (= Oinos and Eros), Gyldendal, 1930.

''Ignis ardens'', Gyldendal, 1932.

Play

''Kjærlighetens farse:tre akter'' (Love’s Farce: Three Acts), Aschehoug, 1919, published 1948. Written together with Helge Krog.

Posthumously published works

''Ekko og regnbue: notater fra en dikters verksted'' (Echo and Rainbow: Notes From a Poet’s Workplace), Gyldendal, 1987. Edited by Frans Lasson.

''Olaf Bull: brev fra en dikters liv'' (Olaf Bull: Letters from a Poets Life), 2 vols., Gyldendal, 1989. Edited by Frans Lasson.

''Ild og skygger: spredte notater fra et dikterliv'' (= Fire and Shadows: Scattered Notes from a Poet's Life), Nørhaven, Viborg, 1991. Edited by Frans Lasson.

Literature about Bull

Suzanne Bull, ''Ni år: mitt liv med Olaf Bull'' (Nine years: My Life with Olaf Bull), Aschehoug, 1974.

Petter Næss, "Olaf Bull, a wretched giant of Scandinavian literature'' (unpublished article, 1990)

Nete Smith, Olaf Bull, in: Twentieth Century Norwegian Writers, vol. 297, Gale Dictionary of Literary Biography, 2004

Fredrik Wandrup, ''En uro som aldri dør. Olaf Bull og hans samtid'' (A Restlessness That Never Dies. Olaf Bull and His Time), Gyldendal, 1995.

References

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Arve Tellefsen (born 14 December 1936) is a Norwegian violinist.

He was born and raised in Trondheim, Norway. When he was 6 years old, he began playing the violin in 'Trondheims musikkskole' (the music school in Trondheim). In 1955, he began his studies at the Music Conservatory of Copenhagen and, in 1959, he had his debut in Universitetets Aula, Oslo.

In his long career as a soloist, he has played with many of the world's greatest orchestras and conductors. He has made many recordings and received many awards, including the Harriet Cohen International Music Award.

In August 2009 he received an honorary degree at the Norwegian Academy of Music. There is a statue of him in Trondheim.

References

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Name	Ole Bull
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Ole Bornemann Bull
Birth date	February 05, 1810
Death date	August 17, 1880
Origin	Bergen, Norway
Instrument	Violin
Genre	Classical
Occupation	Musician }}

Ole Bornemann Bull (5 February 181017 August 1880) was a Norwegian violinist and composer.

Biography

Background

Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull (1787–1838) and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden (1789–1875). His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect. He was also the uncle of Edvard Hagerup Bull, Norwegian judge and politician.

His father wished for him to become a minister, but he desired a musical career. At the age of four or five, he could play all of the songs he had heard his mother play on the violin. At age nine, he played first violin in the orchestra of Bergen's theatre and was a soloist with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. At eighteen, he was sent to the University of Christiania, but failed his examinations. He joined the Musical Lyceum, a musical society, and after its director Waldemar Thane took ill, Bull became the director of Musical Lyceum and the Theater Orchestra in 1828. He also became friends with Henrik Wergeland, who later wrote a biography of Bull.

Career

After living for a while in Germany, where he pretended to study law, he went to Paris but fared badly for a year or two. In 1832 in Paris he shared rooms with the Moravian violin virtuoso Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, who introduced Bull to the style of Paganini. He was eventually successful in becoming a high-level virtuoso, giving thousands of concerts. In England alone these included 274 in 1837, during which visit he also travelled to some of the more remote parts of Britain. Bull became very famous and made a huge fortune. He is believed to have composed more than 70 works, but only about 10 are known today. Best known is ''Sæterjentens søndag'' (''The dairymaid's Sunday''). He also was a clever luthier, after studies in Paris with Vuillaume. He collected many beautiful violins and violas of Amati, Gasparo da Salò, Guarneri, Stradivari and others. He was the owner of one of the finest violins of the world, made by Gasparo da Salò about 1574 for Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria. He played a Guarneri del Gesù. The violin, a gift of his widow to Bull's birthplace, is now in the Bergen Vestlandske Kustindustrimuseum. A commercial signature line of Ole Bull violins was manufactured in Germany.

Bull was caught up in the rising tide of Norwegian romantic nationalism and acclaimed the idea of Norway as a sovereign state, separate from Sweden, an idea which would become reality in 1905. In 1850, he co-founded the first theater in which the actors spoke the Norwegian language, rather than Danish, namely Det Norske Theater in Bergen, which later became Den Nationale Scene.

In the summer of 1858, Bull met the 15-year-old Edvard Grieg. Bull was a friend of the Grieg family, since Ole Bull's brother was married to the sister of Grieg's mother. Bull noticed Edvard's talent and persuaded his parents to send him to further develop his talents at the Leipzig Conservatory.

Robert Schumann once wrote that Bull was among "the greatest of all," and that he was on a level with Niccolò Paganini for the speed and clarity of his playing. Bull was also a friend of Franz Liszt and played with him on several occasions.

Ole Bull Colony

Bull visited the United States several times and was met with great success. In 1852, he obtained a large tract of land in Pennsylvania and founded a colony, which was called New Norway but which is commonly referred to as Ole Bull Colony. On 24 May 1852, he formally purchased for $10,388. The land consisted of four communities: New Bergen, now known as Carter Camp; Oleana, named after him and his mother, six miles (10 km) south of New Bergen; New Norway, one mile south of New Bergen; and Valhalla.

Bull called the highest point in Valhalla, Nordjenskald, which became the location of his unfinished castle. This venture was soon given up, as there was scarcely any land to till, and Bull went back to giving concerts.

Family life

In 1836 Bull married Alexandrine Félicie Villeminot. They had six children, only two of whom survived him. Alexandrine died in 1862. Their children were:

Ole Storm Felix Bull (1837-9)

Alexander Ole Felix Etienne Bull (1839–1914)

Thorvald Bull (1841–1862)

Eleonore Felicie Bull (1843–1923)

Ernst Bornemann Bull (1844; lived only 5 days)

Lucie Edvardine Bull (1846–1868)

In 1868 Bull met Sara Chapman Thorp (1850–1911), the daughter of a prosperous lumber merchant, after a concert in Madison, Wisconsin. On a return visit in 1870 (and despite their age difference; he was 60, she was 20), Bull began a courtship, and the couple was secretly married in Norway in June 1870, with a formal wedding in Madison later that year. They had one daughter, Olea (1871–1913).

In 1871, he bought a summer home on a rise in West Lebanon, Maine. Extolling the purity and health benefits of its well water, he named the property ''Ironwell''.

Sara traveled with Bull for the remainder of his career, sometimes accompanying him on the piano. After Bull's death, the family lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Sara became a figure in local intellectual life. She translated two of the works of Jonas Lie into English. In 1883 she published a memoir of Bull's life. In her later life she became interested in Indian religious thought and helped sponsor early visits to the United States by gurus.

Later years

Ole Bull bought the island of Lysøen in Os, south of Bergen, in 1872. He hired architect Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe to design a residence on the island. Bull died from cancer in his home on Lysøen on 17 August 1880. He had held his last concert in Chicago the same year, despite his illness. A testament to his fame was his funeral procession, perhaps the most spectacular in Norway's history. The ship transporting his body was guided by 15 steamers and a large number of smaller vessels.

Legacy

Ole Bull's villa on the island of Lysøen was donated to the Association of Norwegian Ancient Monuments Conservation. Museet Lysøen consists of violinist Ole Bull's Villa, an old farm from the 17th century.

Oleona, in Potter County, Pennsylvania, is situated in the mountains of northern Pennsylvania at the intersection of Pennsylvania routes 44 and 144 (Ole Bull Road).

Ole Bull State Park in the Susquehannock State Forest is on the original site chosen for Bull's colony. The unfinished Ole Bull Castle is maintained by the park and can be visited by hikers. A monument to honor Ole Bull was placed in the park on the 150th anniversary of New Norway in 2002.

Mammoth Cave in Kentucky has a room called Ole Bull's Concert Hall where he once gave performances.

Loring Park in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the site of a bronze statue memorializing Ole Bull.

Ole Bull Cottage, originally purchased to be a school for music by Ole Bull and his wife, is at Green Acre Baha'i School in Eliot, Maine. Erected in 1896, the Ole Bull Cottage currently serves as the school library building.

Ole Bull Academy (''Ole Bull Akademiet'') in Voss, Norway is a music education institution founded in 1977.

Ole Bull Scene is a stage for cabaret, music and theater at the Ole Bull Plass in Bergen, Norway.

Ole Bull - Gasparo da Salò violin, a wonderful decorated masterpiece of the famous italian maker that the virtuoso used for 40 years of world tournee. Now is in the Vestlandske Kustindustrimuseum in Bergen.

In 2006, director Aslak Aarhus released a motion picture titled ''Ole Bull—The Titan'', the story of Bull's exploits and the impact it had on his French wife and children, who remained neglected in Bergen.

In 2010 the Norwegian record label 2L released world premiere recordings of Ole Bull's violin concertos and his Spanish fantasy ''La Verbena de San Juan'' and a previously unknown version for violin and strings of ''A Sæterbesøg''. The performers on the disc are Annar Follesø, violin, and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra conducted by Ole Kristian Ruud.

Media

References

Further reading

Bull, Sara C. (1883) ''Ole Bull: a memoir by Sara C. Bull''; with Ole Bull's "Violin notes," and Dr. A. B. Crosby's ''Anatomy of the violinist'' (Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1886 ed. reissued by Da Capo Press, New York, 1981) ISBN 0306761203

*Other editions: London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886 / Boston: Longwood Press, 1978 / ''Ole Bull, der Geigerkönig. Ein Künstlerleben'' (German version by L. Ottman. Stuttgart, 1886)

Indahl, Trond ''Ole Bull’s Villa '' (Bodoni forlag. 2010)

Linge, Ola ''Ole Bull : livshistoria, mannen, kunstnaren'' (1953)

Hendriksen, Knut: ''Ole Bull'' (2000)

Bjørnstad, Ketil: ''Flammeslukeren Ole Bull - en livshistorie'' (dokumentarroman, 2005)

External links

Ole Bull statue

Google Earth placemark of Lysoen

Lysoen Museum located in Lysefjorden, outside Bergen

Ole Bull pictures on flickr commons by Bergen Public Library

Official Ole Bull 200 year anniversary page

List of compositions by Ole Bull

Ole Bull's melodie La mélancolie arranged for violin and piano by Hurstinen Score from Sibley Music Library Digital Scores Collection

Family Genealogy (vestraat.net)

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Christian Horner (born in Leamington Spa, United Kingdom on 16 November 1973) is the team manager of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team, a position he has held since 2005. His motorsport career started as a race car driver, before switching roles to become team principal of GP2 Series team Arden Motorsport in 1999.

Driving career

Horner's career in motorsport started after winning a Formula Renault scholarship in 1991. He competed in the 1992 British Formula Renault Championship with Manor Motorsport, finishing that season as a race winner and the highest placed rookie. He then moved up to British Formula Three, making his 1994 debut with the Fortec team. He moved to the ADR team in 1995, and moved again in 1996 to the TOM'S team. In 1996 he also raced in British Formula Two.

Horner moved up to Formula 3000 in 1997, founding the Arden team. He stayed in F3000 for 1998, joined at Arden by Kurt Mollekens. However, he decided that running a team was more for him than driving for one due to his lack of budget and talent, and he retired from active racing at the end of the season.

Team management

At the age of 25, Horner decided to continue with the team in F3000 as the owner, signing Viktor Maslov and Marc Goossens for the 1999 season. Success in the sport proved hard to find, with the team not finding a win in any of its first three seasons, Darren Manning not even being able to get one in his two seasons with the team.

A new driver line-up changed the situation for 2002, with Tomáš Enge and Björn Wirdheim brought in to replace Manning and Maslov. Enge won the title that year, but was demoted to third after a failed drug test handed the title to Sébastien Bourdais.

Wirdheim stayed in 2003, with Enge replaced by Townsend Bell. Björn Wirdheim won the title by a 35-point margin to second-placed Ricardo Sperafico.

The final season of F3000, 2004, was dominated by Arden's lead driver Vitantonio Liuzzi; the support of Robert Doornbos helped to secure both the drivers and constructors championship titles by a large margin. At this time Horner based his Arden International Team at Prodrive premises in Banbury, before relocating them to the former 22 Motorsport facility close by.

In 2005, the Red Bull Racing team brought Horner to Formula One, where he was the youngest of the team principals at the time. In 2006, he jumped into a swimming pool wearing nothing but a ''Superman'' cape to celebrate the team's first podium finish at the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix. The team finished a strong second in the 2009 constructors' championship with drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber finishing second and fourth respectively in the drivers' title race. In 2010, the team won their first constructors' championship with one race to spare, and Sebastian Vettel won the drivers' championship at the final race of the season.

Personal life

Horner was educated at Arnold Lodge School in Leamington and then Warwick School. He has two brothers, Jamie and Guy. He has an 'unofficial' fan club called 'The Christian Horner Fan Club', known collectively as The Hornettes.

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References

Christian Horner Profile Red Bull Racing

External links

Christian Horner Twitter

The Christian Horner Fanclub

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Øystein Olaf Sunde (born 24 January 1947 in Oslo) is a Norwegian folk singer and guitarist. He is known for his high-speed guitar and banjo style and his satirical lyrics. Although often regarded as a comedian, Sunde is a versatile jazz guitarist who has played with several Dixieland bands and jazz combos over the years.

Early years

He was born January 24, 1947 in Oslo, but his family moved to Skarnes in 1954 where Sunde went to school. In 1955, the family moved back to Lambertseter in Oslo and Sunde continued school there. The same year he started playing piano, but he did not like this because he was forced to rehearse scales and partially because his teacher could play boogiewoogie and Sunde was not allowed to do so by his teacher. Despite protests form his parents he ended his piano playing career at the age of 7.

The next instrument Sunde played was a recorder but he started to cry after one hour, so he got a big grapefruit to comfort him, but after eating it he started to cry again. It was at this point his mother realized that he was not fit for playing this kind of instrument and later he started to play a B-Cornet. Even though Sunde did not quite find this instrument comfortable he played it for a few years mainly because he had failed so many times earlier.

When Sunde attended 6th grade his woodwork teacher made him make a mandolinlaika without any drawings. When finished, the instrument was too big but sounded magnificent. This was what caused Sunde to find music fun mainly because he was not forced to practice this instrument. Later Sunde bought a used guitar, and the mandolin was never used again.

In 1960 Sunde heard the song "Apache" played by The Shadows and he was "hooked". Later, at his confirmation, he got his first electric guitar. He dreamed of a Fender but it would take Sunde 11 years to get one. He also met one of his 'heroes' Chet Atkins in late 1971 who taught him some valuable lessons for 45 minutes.

Sunde attended the obligatory military service in the Norwegian Air Force base at Kolsås after basic training at Gardermoen. During his military training he wrote one of his hits "Fire melk og dagbla' for i går" on a boring night shift. After a while Sunde was allowed to postpone his military training to attend to "Schous Tekniske Institutt" for education. In 1969 he had to serve the remainder of his military training at Kolsås.

At the end of the sixties Sunde was working on an education as engineer. However during a Norwegian class Sunde was bored and instead of paying attention he wrote one of his greatest hits, named "Jaktprat." "Jaktprat" is one of Øystein Sunde's most famous songs ever. Due to many positive responses to this song it was at this point in his life that Sunde realized that he was "on track" of something that he should continue doing.

After a successful cooperation with Mikel Aas in late 1970 after releasing the LP "1001 Fnatt", who sold over 25000 copies, Sunde decided to drop education and work full time as an entertainer.

The start of a career

In 1976, Øystein Sunde moved back to Skarnes with his wife Gudrun, where he could pursue his hobbies, like model airplanes and garden golf.

Øystein Sunde became a part of the musician social environment in the capital, and he could often be found at the singer's club Dolphins with talented people like Kari Svendsen, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Ole Paus, Finn Kalvik and Hege Tunaal. He has played in bands like Hitch-Hikers, Hi-Five, Christiania Fusel & Blaagress and Gitarkameratene (with fellow guitarists Lillebjørn Nilsen, Halvdan Sivertsen and Jan Eggum), and he has participated in matinées, but he gained most fame as a solo artist. His lyrics are often about everyday situations from his own life, like nappy changing and model airplanes. He has said that he cannot write a song that contains no comic element. Expressions like "kjekt å ha" ("nice to have") have entered the Norwegian everyday language.

His recordings also include several instrumentals, like the folk tune Fanitullen or the high-speed, technical Ned Vøringsfossen (Down the Vøringsfossen Waterfall) and Lynavleder'n and the challenging Kulingbarsel.

Andreas Diesen once described Sunde as "a master with words and a great musical talent". "When describing Øystein Sunde, I can quote André Bjerke, who once said about himself that he 'was into words'. Sunde sings about the Danish caravan on Norwegian roads or about artisans at their worst - all with a lot of irony."

Recognition

Øystein Sunde was the first Scandinavian to receive a signature model series from C. F. Martin & Company.

Sunde is by many considered one of Norway's finest guitarists. This has led to several myths about Sunde's skill. The most common is that Eric Clapton and/or Mark Knopfler is supposed to have said that Sunde is the world's best guitar player. Evidence of this myth is non-existent and it is similar to another myth involving Phil Keaggy and Jimi Hendrix.

Covers

Many of Øystein's songs are covers of other artists.

! Songname	! Original Artist	! Original Songname
Fordommens År	Jerry Reed	Alabame Jubilee
Sett deg i Armkroken min	Flatt & Scruggs	Roll in my sweet baby's arms
Du kan ikke stikker kjepper i romhjula	Roger Miller	You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd
Det ække lett å være kul	Shel Silverstein	It does not pay to be hip
Klå	Jerry Reed	The Claw
Lynavlederen	Jerry Reed	The Lightning rod
På kne over fisketorget	Jerry Reed	Jerry's breakdown
Flyvern	Jerry Reed	Swinging 69
Jentelei	Jerry Reed	Woman Shy
127 Vannrett	Jerry Reed	Stump Water
Hei, Henry Ford	Jerry Reed	Lord, Mr Ford
De Hebraiske Alper	Unknown	Black mountain rag
60 om dagen (inspired by)	Jerry Reed	Another puff
Jaktprat (melody inspirated by)	Jerry Reed	Another puff

Publications

Music

''1001 Fnatt'' (1970)

''Det året det var så bratt'' (1971)

''Som varmt hvetebrød i tørt gress'' (1972)

''Sunderfundigheter'' (1973)

''Ikke bare tyll'' (1974)

''Klå'' (1974)

''Hurtbuller i hvit saus'' (1975)

''På sangens vinger'' (1976)

''Øystein Sundes beste'' (1977)

''Hærtata hørt'' (1979)

''Barkebille Boogie'' (1981)

''I husbukkens tegn'' (1984)

''Overbuljongterningpakkmesterassistent'' (1986)

''Kjekt å ha'' (featuring Béla Fleck, recorded in Nashville) (1989)

''Øystein Sundes 40 beste'' (1990)

''Du må'kke komme her og komme her'' (1994)

''Nå er begeret nådd'' (1999)

''Sånn er'e bare'' (2005)

''Sundes Verden'' (2006)

''Meget i sløyd'' (2008)

Books with lyrics and musical notes for his own songs

''Viser uten slips'' (1972)

''Kjekt å ha–1'' (1990)

''Kjekkere å ha–2'' (1992)

''Du må'kke komme her og komme her'' (1997)

''Sånn Er'e Bare'' (2005)

References

External links

Spinner Records and Øystein Sundes official web page

Fan-site with information about songs and discographies

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