![]() ![]() īrun spent much of the next couple of years touring the world in many different stage arrangements. The collaboration with the band Madrugada on the single "Lift Me" gained her another Norwegian Grammy. This album was released in November 2005 and besides another recording with Ron Sexsmith, it also included songs with artists such as Syd Matters and Teitur. ![]() Īfter enjoying the collaboration on the previous few duets she had recorded, Brun was inspired to ask some artists whom she adored to sing with her on a full album called Duets. She received award nominations from all over Europe too, and that year took home the Spellemannpris, the Norwegian equivalent of the Grammies, for Best Female Artist. Ī Temporary Dive was well received all over the world, picking up good reviews in magazines and newspapers from Time magazine to The Independent. This album took the darker themes of Spending Time With Morgan further, through songs like "The Fight Song" and title track "A Temporary Dive", but there was also space for the lighter "Song No. A Temporary Dive was again produced by Katharina Nuttall and was released in 2005 throughout Europe, followed by the UK and the US in 2006, and in Japan in 2007. After a six-month breather, she started touring around Europe again and within the next year had her second album ready. She had been working intensively for two years and felt somewhat burnt out and in need of a break. Īfter releasing her first album, Brun toured around Europe but soon took some time out. She spent the next few years moving between Barcelona, Oslo, and Bergen while making a living working in record shops and bars. In Bergen, she began writing her own material. In 1995, she moved to study at the University of Bergen, jumping between courses in Spanish, law, and music. Her older brother is photographer Bjørn Brunvoll (b. Her younger sister is singer Mari Kvien Brunvoll (b. She grew up in a musical family in Molde, Norway. 1945) and jazz singer and pianist Inger Johanne Brunvoll (b. Early life and education Īne Brunvoll is the daughter of lawyer Knut Anker Brunvoll (b. She has lived in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2001, where she writes, records, and runs her own label (Balloon Ranger Recordings). Since 2003, she has recorded eleven albums, eight of which are studio albums of original material (including a collection of duets), an acoustic album, and two covers albums she has also released three live albums, two compilations, one live DVD, and four EPs. He wrote it with his band mates, Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens.Īnd the track was produced by two of their regular collaborators, Colin Pearson and Wolfgang Loos.Ane Brun ( Norwegian pronunciation: born Ane Brunvoll on 10 March 1976) is a Norwegian songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist of Sami origin. “Big in Japan” was written by Alphaville’s lead singer Marian Gold. Moreover, “Big in Japan” was also moderately successful when it was covered by a German rock band called the Guano Apes in 2000. Ironically it seems “Big in Japan” didn’t chart in the Land of the Rising Sun itself (Japan). However, the song did top the Eurochart Hot 100, the Official German Chart (where it was also certified Gold), the Sverigetopplistan (Sweden), the Schweizer Hitparade (Switzerland) and Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play list (USA). This is in addition to charting in 11 other countries. And in most of those nations “Big in Japan” also made it onto the top 10. Warner Music released “Big in Japan” in January of 1984. It was the lead single from Alphaville’s first album, “Forever Young”. In fact this track was an unexpected success that blew up before the band had even finished writing the rest of the songs that were eventually featured on that project.Īlphaville also dropped some remixes of this track in 1992. And “the Zoo” is actually the colloquial name of a popular drug den in Berlin. And if they are to actually do so they would be “big in Japan”, as in being able to conquer their addiction in a foreign environment. But this is just a probable interpretation as once again the intended relationship between the title and the storyline of the track is not made abundantly clear. So all of this considered, perhaps what the singer is suggesting is that he and his romantic should perhaps flee “the Zoo”. It points to the idea of someone becoming a popular success in a foreign country while remaining relatively-irrelevant in their own homeland. And this type of phrase is commonly used in reference to entertainers, especially the likes of musicians. But stripped down to its most basic form, it means that a person is able to achieve something great away from home that they aren’t able to do in their familiar environs. And such would likely be the case in which Alphaville has applied that saying to the aforementioned narrative. Now as for the title, “big is Japan”, simply put it is more or less an idiom. ![]()
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