Morten HARKET

It is now confirmed that Morten's new solo album, "Letter from Egypt", will be released in Norway on May 19. There are some plans for a wider release but specific countries and dates are not yet finalized. According to an article in today's Dagbladet, a new single called 'Darkspace' will be released next week to radio. This song has been described as an uptempo, rock song.

In the article, Morten says that the album has been ready for a while but that he wanted to do some adjustments. By giving himself some distance from the songs, he was able to see possible improvements, which is the reason for the delay. Morten has used different studios in Europe, Norway and Iceland during the recording.

Source: a-ha.com

"It feels like I have been in a monastery for twelve years. Now it's time to step out into the light again and continue what I started on back then", - says Morten Harket (a-ha voice) about his new international album coming to stores in the beginning of 2008. The new CD - "Letter from Egypt" - will be his second international album since "Wild Seed" of 1995. Also Morten have two Norwegian albums: "Poetenes Evangelium" (1993) and "Vogts Villa" (1997).

Source: VG (21.10.07), Interview by Stein Østbø. Translation to English by Jakob Sekse

Nettavisen reporter was at the opening ceremony of "Carnegie Art Award 2004", which took place in Oslo on March 18. He had a short chat with Morten Harket there. Morten said that he was impressed by Magne Furuholmen solo efforts. He noticed also about his own solo work, which expected to be released around the world again, as it was with "Wild Seed" in 1995.
Morten has made another one revelation. He plans to open his own bakery chain in Europe, where he will produce his girlfriend Anne Mette’s home made bread by unique recipe. Now a-ha lead vocalist is busy in searching proper partners in Stockholm and Copenhagen. "It seems we could have the World, if our business go on!", - said proud Morten.
Anyway we [a-ha.ru] must say, that the Fools Day is the great opportunity for writing such joke about bakery chain. :) We wish Morten Harket to release his best solo album soon!

After two years of commuting between studios in London, Paris, Reykjavik and Oslo, the Mezzoforte drummer Gulli Briem has finally finished his project "Earth Affair".
"Earth Affair" is a project uniting cultures; the album is a musical journey, which takes the listeners through the different cities and countries.
Morten performs one song "Gildas prayer" on this album.
He also recorded song "Jungle of beliefs" in far 1999 for the "Culture spans the world" album which also was the musical journey through the various cultures.
Source: a-ha.com

Håvard Rem, the Norwegian writer and poet, will be in Moscow from November 25 till December 1 this year. He'll be the guest of the Fifth International Exhibiton of intellectual literature. Håvard is known as writer and co-writer of the songs from Morten Harket's solo albums.
You could get more details at www.rem.a-ha.ru (russian News section)

Morten Harket's song "Jungle of beliefs" has appeared on the new CD. This is a compilation CD with music from Ragnar Bjerkreim soundtracks. Morten's hit was recorded for the "Cultures spans the world" television series in 1999, and it became the title song for these series soundtrack.

Morten Harket sang one song with Norwegian boy choir, as long as another famous Norwegian musicians. CD "Sølvguttene" was released on Universal Music.

Morten was invited to take part in the Pakistanian band Junoon concert in Oslo on September 5th. He'll be the special guest.