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Mean Steel is a tough band that plays tough music by tough composers from Northern Norway. The band’s name is also tough. If there exists a borderland between punk and contemporary music, Mean Steel is sitting on that very spot having an open-air picnic.

After the release of Zwei-Mann-Orchester in 2019 with only music by tough, male composers from Northern Norway, Mean Steel decided to seek out female composer who would dare to compose something that could be even tougher. They did not have to look far. Herborg Rundberg, Rakel Nystabakk, Tine Surel Lange and Agnes Ida Pettersen rose to the challenge without hesitation. The four composers were given free reins, but under one criterion: The music had to sound tough!

With an instrumentation of one cello, two baritone saxophones, one tenor saxophone, two drum kits, assorted percussion, and stones (!) one would believe that Mean Steel is a small orchestra? The truth is that everything is played by two musicians only: Hans-Urban Andersson and Ola Asdahl Rokkones. Thanks to a total aversion against realising their own musical limitations, and an ingrained fear of saying no to risk-seeking composers, they commit to an acrobatic and sometimes almost impossible juggling between multiple instruments separately and simultaneously. The result is naturally very tough.

Sporliste

1. Indium 1
2. Indium 2
3. Indium 3
4. It Must be Fun!: Key Clicks Clan
5. It Must be Fun!: Jété Me
6. It Must be Fun!: Two Man Quartet
7. Stein I Intro
8. Stein I Gneis
9. Stein II Intro
10. Stein II Kvarts
11. Stein III Intro
12. Stein III Einangen
13. KPUN - En Misforståelse