When the Norwegian folk musician Moddi cancelled a concert in Tel Aviv two years ago, he had no inkling of the impact it would have on his life. Pressured by fans to turn the performance into a

2016年9月16日 · We asked Moddi to unpack each track of Unsongs, which resulted in a compelling trek across 12 different countries and several decades of political unrest. “June Fourth 1989: From The Shattered Pieces Of A Stone It Begins”

In his talk at TEDxArendal 2021, singer/songwriter Pål Moddi Knutsen gives an important talk on censorship and the freedom of music. The talk is based on Moddi's project “Unsongs” where he travelled to countries all over the world to find and document censored, banned …

In this project, photographer Jørgen Nordby and musician Pål Moddi Knutsen set out to trace the footsteps of songs that have, at one stage, been banned, censored or silenced. In countries as far apart as Mexico and Vietnam, we met musicians who have little in common except their tireless struggle for the right to sing.

2016年9月15日 · Norwegian Folk-Pop Artist Moddi Tackles Banned Songs from 12 Countries on 'Unsongs' From Pussy Riot's "Punk Prayer" to Mexican narcocorridos, the Norwegian folk-pop act reinterprets revolution....

When the Norwegian folk musician Moddi began collecting songs that had been banned or censored, he had no idea how much source material he would have to work with.

2018年11月7日 · Born on the island Senja, Norway on 18 February 1987, Pål Moddi Knutsen is a singer, songwriter and author. He debuted when he was 5 years old on the local radio station Draugen, singing a traditional sea shanty. During his early youth, he played classical piano, the cornet in the school's marching band, bass guitar

2018年8月26日 · Vlog from Trænafestivalen in Norway, where Moddi performed one of his last concerts of the Unsongs project in July 2018.www.unsongs.comwww.moddi.no

2016年9月30日 · Narrowed down from an initial long list of 400 songs and poems (we're looking forward to Volumes 2-40 of 'Unsongs' over the next 40 years...), Moddi settled on an interesting mix of 12 track that reflects different types of censorship, and clearly it's the stories behind the songs, as well as Moddi's interpretation and arrangement of each of ...

Born in 1987 on the island of Senja in the northern part of Norway, Knutsen adopted the stage name Moddi at 18, although he had been playing music since childhood. His 2010 album Floriography debuted in the Norwegian Top 10, and three years later he won the Spellemannprisen Award (the Norwegian Grammy) for his album Kæm va du? in the category ...