"Here he is in NME at the dawn of the new millennium, fronting folk duo Kings of Convenience and spearheading the new acoustic movement. There he is strumming his guitar in the vanguard of Norway's Bergen wave. Then he's off spinning records in Berlin nightclubs during the city's poor but sexy post-millennial years. By the 2010s, he's driving a renaissance of Italian chamber pop as part of La Comitiva, his bandmates hailing from the southern tip of Sicily."
"No wonder his debut solo album, with 10 tracks recorded in 10 different cities, was called Unrest. Of all his reincarnations, though, the one that has best endured (if you go by Spotify) is his four-piece, The Whitest Boy Alive. And this spring and summer, they're reuniting for a tour of South America and Europe to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dreams, their debut album."
"Eirik was never into music as a way of living, says ye, via video call from a beach cabin on Mexico's Pacific coast, his sun-kissed hair and peach shorts announcing how far he has come from rainy Norway. He was just into it as a nice thing to be doing. I was into making it a career. And so, at the start of the millennium, ye moved to Berlin."
Erlend Øye has appeared across European music scenes from mid-1990s London to Bergen, Berlin and southern Italy. He fronted early acts such as Peachfuzz and Kings of Convenience and later led The Whitest Boy Alive and La Comitiva. His solo debut Unrest comprised ten tracks recorded in ten different cities. The Whitest Boy Alive remain a durable project and are reuniting for a South American and European tour to mark the 20th anniversary of Dreams. Eirik Glambek Be chose to leave touring life and study psychology, while Øye relocated to Berlin to pursue music as a career.
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