I realized I had not blogged here for a little over a year, and my good friend and recent host of my New York days Arny said I had to, because I have to tell people, one or a thousand what I am up to.

So first all the the tings of importance. My current album, "Silver lightning from a black sky" came out in the US thru Burnside distribution and Spain thru A New Label/P.I.A.S on the 18th of November.

It came out as a double album in Japan, silver lightning on one disc and my two first albums on the other. It comes with liner notes about the recording sessions etc, (I will post them here in English), and the album comes in a nice cardboard case and is out on Thistime records. The album has been out in the UK for a while on Signature tunes, I toured the UK once solo (February) and once with a backing band (July) consisting of BZWX ca 2001 (oh tahoe era). Great fun!

We toured with The All New Adventures Of Us who are about to blow up, they were super nice all nine of them and watching them each night was inspiring.

I am now in a cabin in the mountains of western Norway finishing up some music that I will be recording next week in a studio on a remote island just outside Aalesund, Norway. I will be recording with two of my favourite musicians, Bent Sæther (Motorpsycho) on bass and production/various instruments and Jugglo Wall (Whale, Fatboy, Thåstrøm) on drums and production. This is for the next album.

I just came back from a tour of the US which was the best tour I've had in a long time. The tour was set up to promote the release of the album. I got to play with San Francisco based David Torch on drums, L.A boy Jim Bowers on guitar and my friend Per Ivar Stubbrud on bass. David and Jim are and have been in many really good bands on the west coast, and I first met them eight years ago when BZWX toured with their old band Crushstory.

We played L.A twice, SF, Fresno, Reno, Portland twice and San Lois Obispo on the west coast.

All good shows but Reno and Portland were really cool. I got to meet Janet Weiss and Joanna Bolme (Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Sleater Kinney, Quasi, Elliott Smith etc) at the show in Portland, I love the last Malmus and the Jicks album and lots of Quasi so it was cool to say hello and they were very nice. I also got to meet my US manager Alex Steinenger, Bill of Burnside distribution, said he loved the album and the show- Shoko, a friend from Tokyo was there also-nice to see her again.

We had a couple of days off in California so we went up into the mountains near Grass Valley and recorded at Station to station ( http://www.myspace.com/stationtostationrecording) with Dana.

Really nice studio where we recorded one new song and Bright Time in the version we had been doing it live.

After the west coast dates David the drummer and I flew to New York to play two shows duo style at

Goodbye blue Monday in Brooklyn and Cake shop in Manhattan. Both shows were great, friendly crowds and after the show in Manhattan I met a few friends from the area and we went out to dinner.

It was great to see Alan and Tim who did Popkid records back in the day. Hadn't seen them in a few years. Chris Avello who booked the shows was super nice, so was all his friends who turned up for the shows. It was a new experience playing as a duo, David has a lot of expression in his drumming and I just fallowed him. Sometimes we were dead quiet and that could lead to a wall of sound/noise-with the songs just being the structures.

I have also been producing bands records ( Human Heat, Stina Stjern, Hiawata, The Little hands of asphalt, Death is not glamorous, The Remarkeble Rocket, The Tzars) the last year and a half full time in my new studio in downtown Oslo. It is called Oslo sound observatory.

Website and such will be up once we are done re-furbishing, expanding and building.

Our plan is to create a different studio, in sound-shape and color.

I will be touring Spain with my live band and Spanish band Muy Fellini in January, dates:

1.07.09 Miércoles 7 de enero en la Sala RockSound de Barcelona

1.08.09 Sala Art Brut, Madrid

1.09.09 Viernes 9 de enero en el Centro Cívico Basozelai de Basauri (Vizcaya)

1.10.09 Sábado 10 de enero en la Sala La Lata de Bombillas de Zaragoza

1.11.09 Domingo 11 de enero en Sant Feliu de Guixols (Girona) - *Concierto acústico*

Thanks for buying the album, coming to a show or any attention given to me and my friends music!

Happy New Year

Kenneth