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Continental Slow is a collaboration between the members of the Norwegian
bands Continental Fruit and Slowburn.
Jon Øyvind Lærum a.k.a. Continental Fruit creates his own kind of minimal electronica. He has released the Riviera EP 7" and the Mentor Mentee CD on Smalltown Supersound, plus a CD-R called Gently Carved Into Sound on Humbug. Per Gisle Galåen and Fredrik Ness Sevendal make up the duo Slowburn and run Apartment Records. They play in the band Marmont with Herjulv Arnkværn (The Soft Rebels) and Kjell Runar "Killer" Jenssen (Motorpsycho's original drummer and the man who runs Killer Records), in the psychedelic drone rock band DEL with Killer and noise maverick Lasse Marhaug of Jazzkammer, and as occasional members of Kobi with Kai Mikalsen, who has also played live with Continental Slow. Per Gisle and Fredrik have collaborated with Acid Mothers Temple guru Makoto Kawabata and Mitsuru Tabata (Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno, Zeni Geva, Leningrad Blues Machine) on a 7" EP released on Apartment Records. To fill up his spare time Per Gisle is a member of Ranheim, as well as The Birds with Cotton Casino & billawtm. Fredrik has formed the duo Lucia with his girlfriend Inga-Lill. He has played in the band GOM and has released solo records under different aliases. Release on Synesthetic Recordings:
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