Moddi
Moddi is the stage name for Pal Moddi Knutsen, a progressive folk musician from Norway. Inspired equally by idiosyncratic freak-folk and urgent political protest, Moddi delivered his debut Floriography in 2010 and it garnered strong enough reviews to gain him attention in the U.K. Over the next few years, he worked steadily and built a cult following, which crested with the 2016 release of Unsongs, a collection of 12 songs that were banned from 12 different countries.
Born on February 18, 1987 in Senja, Norway, Knutsen started playing music as a child, even appearing on a local radio station singing a sea shanty when he was five. By the age of 18, he'd adopted Moddi as his stage name and decided to pursue a professional musical career. He made a self-released EP called Random Skywriting, which wound up reaching the nation via Norwegian radio. Floriography, his full-length debut, arrived in February 2010 and debuted in the Norwegian Top 10. Three years later, he put out his second album, Set the House on Fire, which was followed months later by Kæm Va Du? an album sung entirely in Norwegian; it won the Norwegian Spellemannprisen Award for Folk Album of the Year.
Throughout his career, Moddi has made a point of working on political and environmental issues -- he was a member of Young Friends of the Earth and the Socialist Youth; he canceled concerts in Israel to protest the expansion of settlements in the West Bank, for instance -- and that culminated in the 2016 release of Unsongs, an album comprising songs that had been banned throughout the world.
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Denna tida i fjor
Christmas Music - Released by Propeller Recordings on 17 Nov 2023
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Set the House on Fire
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 8 Mar 2013
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Unsongs
Alternative & Indie - Released by Propeller Recordings on 9 Sep 2016
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Floriography
Pop - Released by Impeller Recordings on 8 Feb 2010
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Kæm va du?
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 11 Oct 2013
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Bråtebrann
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 18 Mar 2022
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House by the Sea
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 11 Jan 2013
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Army Dreamers
Alternative & Indie - Released by Propeller Recordings on 26 Jun 2016
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Unsongs
Alternative & Indie - Released by Propeller Recordings on 9 Sep 2016
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Like In 1968
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 13 Sep 2019
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Live at Jakob Church of Culture, Oslo, Norway (Live)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Propeller Recordings on 22 Sep 2014
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Bråtebrann (Vinyl Edition)
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 14 Apr 2023
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Army Dreamers
Alternative & Indie - Released by Propeller Recordings on 26 Jun 2016
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Haus am Meer
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 31 Jan 2020
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Little by Little
Pop - Released by Propeller Recordings on 8 Feb 2019
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Train Song
Pop/Rock - Released by Propeller Recordings on 11 Apr 2014
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Nordnorsk julesalme
Christmas Music - Released by Propeller Recordings on 3 Nov 2023
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Nå kommer jula til alle
Christmas Music - Released by Propeller Recordings on 28 Oct 2022
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