De Musikalske Dvergene

Rock/pop band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 1980. De Musikalske Dvergene's (The Musical Dwarfs!) original credo was something like "guaranteed non-ambitious rock", and they claim to have kept this promise to this day. This local cult band is still playing a catchy sixties-inspired version of pop/rock, while singing their idiosyncratic, everyday observations in heavy Bergen accent. Both the humor and the sometimes serious underpinnings of the band's lyrics are very connected to their hometown, thus the band seldom plays anywere else.

De Musikalske Dvergene's (The Musical Dwarfs!) original credo was something like "guaranteed non-ambitious rock", and they claim to have kept this promise to this day.

This local cult band is still playing a catchy sixties-inspired version of pop/rock, while singing their idiosyncratic, everyday observations in heavy Bergen accent. Both the humor and the sometimes serious underpinnings of the band's lyrics are very connected to their hometown, thus the band seldom plays anywere else.

DMD's musical influences are most of all the Kinks, and it's also easy to hear traces of Grateful Dead, Beatles and the Rolling Stones, together with seventies-bands like Edgar Broughton Band and Steve Harley in their music.

Records:

Marianne (Tempo Corvette)? - 7" - 1985
En klase bananer & en enkel seng - LP - MC - CD - 1989
Dvergenes andre - LP, MC, CD - 1990
Ned Abels Alle - 7" and book - 1991
Arbeid for trygd - CD - 1993
Veldig respektable menn - (with Frode Aln?s) - CD - 2004
25 ?r med slark i strengene - CD single - 2005
Om poteter f?r du snakke med min far - CD (collection) - 2006
Om De Musikalske Dvergene (.. uten store ord..) - CD - 2008