Thorbjørn Risager Homepage

- The "Alles Ist Gut" tour was a great success thanks to Die Schöne Leute in Hildesheim, Freudenburg and Stuttgart.
We are now looking forward to the "Alles Ist Sehr Gut" tour in may.

2010-03-16

Check out Henriks blog. Nice photos and summary from our last trip to Århus (Danish) Link here

2010-03-13

Positive reviews of Track Record from Denmark, Italy and Hungary. Read more in the Reviews section

2010-03-09

-Nr.1 on the february playlist for blues radios in France.

-Track Reckord is CD-TIPP DES MONATS on Bluesnews.de

2010-02-23

-Track Record review from Bluesnews.de
"Für Freunde intelligenter handgemachter Musik in den Traditionen von Blues, R&B und Soul definitiv ein Must-have."

-Pictures from the Live At Victoria concert here. Thanks to Calle_jr

2010-02-23

Only 3 weeks after the release, Track Record has been played by at least 30 radiostations (11 in France, 7 in Germany, 3 in Spain, 3 in the US and by DR P4, Denmark)
There will be reviews published soon in several music magazines, and we also have requests for interviews from several international radio stations and magazines

2010-02-09

Track Record Review from NordJyske
"Så ruller bluestoget"

Track Record Review from Diskant.dk

2010-02-07

Track Record Review from Fyens Stiftstidene 5/6 stars
"Uforfalsket dansk bluesbrag"

Track Record Review from Gaffa. 4/6 stars.
"Svedig soul og blues fra stærk stemme"

2010-01-29

Read about Thorbjørn and Annika in this article at DR.dk (danish)

2010-01-27

Thorbjørn will be interviewed at DR P2 today between 15:30-16.
Repeat at DR P1 18:50

2010-01-17

Releasetour in Denmark:

4/2 - København - Amager Bio
6/2 - Røgen - Røgen Forsamlingshus
13/2 -Århus - Kulturgyngen
19/2 -Odense - Dexter
20/2 -Haderslev - Månen
26/2 -Hillerød - Støberihallen
27/2 -Grenå - Pavillionen

2009-10-03

New reviews:

*From our concert at Östersund Bluesfestival (Swedish)

*Review of "Live At Victoria", Sydsvenskan (Swedish)

*Review in Italian "Il Blues". Unfortunatly not on the web

2009-10-01

* Concert Tonight - Pumpehuset Copenhagen Bluesfestival w/Eddy Clearwater

* New Reviews: RootZone, Rootsville, Diskant.dk and Concerto

* 10th, and 36th place in REAL BLUES CURRENT TOP 100 CDs CHART

* We will start recording our next album next week, with the brilliant producer Lars Skærbæk.

2009-06-25
Check out the reviews section for reviews and comments on our latest album.

2009-05-09
Live At Victoria is out now. Listen to some of the songs at our MySpace.

Buy it here

2009-04-16
The new album "Live At Victoria" is out soon

There will be a releaseparty at our favourite blues-bar:
Mojo in Copenhagen April the 30th at 6:30 PM
We will play a short concert at 8:30

2009-01-12
Happy New Year!
We are looking forward to release our new live album during this spring. We are also proud to announce that Risager and Band are proud fathers of 13 children. One complete Soccerteam and two Cheer-leaders.

Our reviews page is updated with an interview and one review of From
The Heart (Blues On Stage)

2008-10-02
We are recording our two concerts at Victoria teatern in Malmö. Hopefully it will come out as a live album during 2009.

2008-08-03
The band members are now proud fathers of 11 children; 10 sons and one daughter. We are expecting two more within the end of the year. The mojo is working!

2008-07-18
It has been a while since the last news update, but that does not mean that nothing happens. For the last six months we have been playing at clubs and festivals in Denmark, Norway, Sweeden, France, England, Belgium and Germany. We have also spent a lot of quality time in our rehersal facility, making new songs and plans for our next album.

The Drummer and Sales Manager of the band Martin Seidelin has written a nice essay, telling about the last six months from the drummers view.
Read and enjoy here. (Danish only)

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2008-02-4
"Here I Am" have now been nominated for a Danish Music Award , in the category best blues album. WOW!!!

"From The Heart" Is number 14 in Blues Critic's
Top 30 Contemporary Blues Albums Of 2007 WOW!!!!

2008-01-15
Help us by voting for Best New Artist Debut at bluescritic.com

2007-12-16
You can help us by voting for our album at blueswebben.se

2007-12-06
Christian Graf is playing our record on Deutschlandradio

2007-11-28
Our performance on Swedish TV4 can be seen here:
> Se interviewet (3:22)
> Se 'Here I Am' live (3:07)
> Se 'Hold On' live (3:56)

2007-11-28
14 days of touring in Sweeden has come to an end. We had a great time thanks to the wonderful people of:
Norrköping, Västerås, Enköping, Avesta, Stockholm, Borlänge, Karlskoga, Östersund, Härnösand, Örnsköldsvik, Kälarne and Sundsvall

2007-10-27
Releaseparty is set to the 7th of november 2007, 8PM, at LAB, Vesterbrogade 107B, Copenhagen. Everybody is welcome!
Read the invitation here

2007-10-22
Listen to an interview with Thorbjørn on DR P2 Plus 25th of october 13:00

2007-10-20
"Here I Am" is CD of the week(43) on Danish radio P4
You can win a cd here monday to friday (week 43)

You can also win a cd from Kultunaut untill the 10th of november

Here I Am receives 4 stars in the danish newspaper BT

Here I Am is this weeks new album in the spotlight selection on
Blue Ears radio, (NL)

2007-10-15
New Cd Out Today!

2007-10-14
Release Party willl not be on the 1.st of November. New Information
will Follow

2007-10-11
We will celebrate the new cd with a release party the 1.st of November. Everybody's welcome. More information will follow

2007-10-11
Our new cd can now be heard in the jukebox

2007-10-01
Listen some of the songs from the new album and an interview with Thorbjørn on NRK - Eldorado from 29/9-07
A norwegian blues radio show hosted by the legendary Geir Hovig

2007-10-01
Svein is looking forward to play in Norway!

2007-10-01
Some new reviews in the review section from Hässleholm Kulturhus and Musenblätter

2007-09-12
The new cd is beeing mastered and final adjustments are made to the cover.

2007-09-10
A new cd is on it's way and release date is set to october the 15th.
We have recorded ten new songs, all originals, in collaboration with the belgian producer Marc Tee. We promise that the new cd will make you want to "Shake your ass, baby child"!
We will upload a few teasers as soon as we have something ready.

2007-09-09
Thorbjørn will be opening this years Copenhagen Bluesfestival at Amager Bio 26th of september. It will be a double concert with Coco Montoya.
Looking forward to it!

2007-08-12

Lots of new photos have been added to the site, check it out here!

2007-05-24

Thanks everobody who saw us at Victoria, Malmö!
You made it an unforgettable night!
Especialy thanks to Lasse who filmed the whole show.
You kan see some of it on Youtube

Thanks to the wonderful people at Baden Bluesfestival. What a Night!

The interview with Thorbjørn from Jazz Special can be downloaded here (Danish)

2007-05-18

"From The Heart" got a great review from Blues Wax
Read it here

2007-05-16

BLUES HERITAGE CONTEST
is an international blues song writing contest.
Thorbjørn is in the Final with his song "Hold On"
He will participate in the live Finals in Järvenpää, Finland on the 29th of June, 2007 in conjuction with the 30th anniversary of the The Lakeside Blues Festival.

Thanks to the nice people in Asker Bluesklubb!
Review and Pictures from our show (Norwegian)
Let The Good Times Roll!

New CD!
Release date for our new CD is set to October the 1.st
Precisely one Year after we released "From The Heart"

2007-04-18
"From The Heart" is available for download on itunes

2007-04-16
Today, Radio Jönköping (P4) will air the first part of a live recording made at "Värnamo Rock- och Bluesförening" the 10th of march. Part 2 will be aired the 23rd of april.
The program called Stereo can be heard here for 30 days

2007-04-16
The RMR airplay charts reflect album airplay on more than 1000 radio stations!
Thorbjørn Risager is nr.35 this week!
Link

2007-03-11
"From The Heart" Is reviewed in Rootsy.nu (Se)

2007-02-19

Our CD got a great review from Bluescritic.com

2007-02-19

Nr.1 in France!
Thorbjørn Risager has been rated nr.1 by French blues Dj's
See the chart here

2007-01-16

Happy New Year!
"From The Heart" has now been played on 32 radiostations in 15 different countries.
Hopefully the list will keep getting longer in 2007.

2006-12-01

"From The Heart" will be "CD of the week" wk. 49 in True Blues, Euron Griffith's blues program on BBC Radio Wales. The live broadcast is Wednesday, 6 Dec but it can also be accessed online.
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/trueblues/

2006-11-27

FROM THE HEART is now being played on radio in the following countries:

USA
Canada
Argentina
France
Belgium
Germany
Poland
Macedonia
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Finland

In several of these countries, it has been played on more than one station (national and/or blues stations). In France, it has been played on at least five stations.

Reviews:
BluesNews (Germany) and Concerto (Austria) mong the music magazines that have published reviews of FROM THE HEART.
Read some cuts from reviews here

2006-09-19

Blues In The Night, Art Dwyer's blues program on the US radio station KDHX in St Louis, Missouri, has played a few tracks from "From The Heart", on 8 Sept and 15 Sept.

Some tracks have also been played in "Casino", a radio program on P4 on the national Swedish radio. Several listeners e-mailed and phoned the radio afterwards with entusiastic reactions.

And it has also been played in a German blues program, We Love The Music.

2006-09-12

“Heart Of The Night”, one of the tracks from the new CD “From The Heart” is now on the playlist on DR P4 , a national Danish radio station.

2006-09-10

As we are sending out the new CD “From The Heart” to blues magazines round the world, we are getting very enthusiastic reactions, through
e-mails from the editors, such as

“It´s absolutely marvellous !!! What a great voice!”
or
“ Hervorragend !” (German - it means “Outstanding!”)

We will publish some of these upcoming reviews here, as soon as the magazines are out (most of them are due in October).

2006-09-09

Radio interview with Thorbjørn in the legendary Geir Hovig 's program Eldorado in Norwegian national radio (P1), including 3 tracks from “From The Heart”

2006-09-01

In Norway, “From The Heart” will be included in the catalogue and newsletter of Blues Music Club Notodden in October.

In Sweden, both “From The Heart” and “Live 2004” can be bought in the record shop Smokestack Records in Stockholm. They also sell records on mailorder: records@smokestackblues.com