A Boat and a Bout Of Flu

Sorry we have been so quiet over the past few weeks. Gigs, illness and visits from abroad have been the main reasons for this. We shall improve....

Talking of gigs, our busy schedule which involved six gigs in ten days went very well, thanks to everyone who came out to see us,, we had a great time. The show we arranged for Kirkens Bymisjon on MS Innvik was probably my personal favourite, a good crowd turned out for the evening and everything about the show was perfect. A big thank you is owed to Innvik, Bård, Lisa, the lighting guy (sorry, I forget your name) and Vegard, our sound guy and of course producer on the EP. All of you who came along can also take much of the credit for the 10,000kr that we raised for Kirkerns Bymisjon, amazing job.

We have also played 3 gigs for OD recently, two of which were at Revolver, Oslo. There is a video on our Myspace from one of these if you are interested. We really appreciate being asked to help out OD and all the guys that organized the events did an absolutely awesome job, congratulations.

So next on the list for Casa Murilo is a gig at Samfunnet, Bislett on 20th November. That´s a Friday. Party? Ja.

See you soon.
CM

Peer Gynt

Casa Murilo drummer Fredrik "So good they named him twice" Baden is a very busy man these days. When he isn´t providing the beats on stage for us he is working at the Nye Teater on a production of Henrik Ibsen´s play Peer Gynt. Freddy controls the music for most of the show and does a very good job indeed.

I went to see the show last Saturday and, despite the slight language barrier, have to say that I was completely blown away. Svein Sturla Hungnes´adaptation is very entertaining, moving and funny and really involves the audience.

I cannot recommend this play enough and you should do your best to go and see it before its run finishes on 7th November.

Good job Freddy...

CM

A Busy Week Ahead..

Good Dag!

Next week is shaping up to be quite an adventure. We have five gigs in the space of ten days. I better start drinking my fish oil by the pint.

The who, what, where and when is as follows....

19/10 - MS Innvik, Oslo - 19:30
20/10 - Fairtrade Konsert på Egertorget - 18:00
21/10 - Revolver - 20:30
24/10 - OD Festivalen, St. Croix Huset, Fredrikstad - 18:00
29/10 - Revolver (OD Dagen) - 23:30



The gig on Monday is for Kirkens Bymisjon, we are charging 100kr for entry with all of the money raised being donated to the aforementioned charity. Friends of the band Bård Watn and Lisa Smith Walaas will also be playing and the schedule of events is something like this...


20:00 - 20:20 - Lisa Smith Walaas

20:25 - 20:40 - Presentation from Kirkens Bymisjon

21:00 - 21:30 - HRH Bård Watn med band

21:45 - 22:15 - Casa Murilo


Invite all your friends via the Facebook group and let´s make sure we all have a good time.

In case you haven´t done so yet, you can download our EP from out Urørt page. Enjoy.

See you soon ladies and gentlemen.

CM. x

Our First Review.

How lovely. Our EP has had its first thorough going over by an outside party and its come out the other end relatively unscathed. The excellent music blog Birds Sometimes Dance and its mastermind André Lersveen have written their thoughts here.

For UK based friends, you might be interested to hear that we are also featured in this months edition of Clash Music Magazine. We are on some kind of essentials list. Are we essential? Like an umbrella on a rainy day? You decide.

I have been listening to the Fanfarlo record `Reservoir´for the past few days. Its fantastic. I urge you to go and listen now. Unless your busy.

And thats about it for now. We are currently finalizing the details for the charity event of the year on MS Innvik with Bård and Lisa, so stay posted for more info. Its going to be on the 19th October. Diaries out.

Have it good

CM

Casa Murilo Loves Kasper......

There are some great photos from Monday´s gig at Cafe Mono thanks to our favourite blogger/photographer/friend Kasper Landmark. You can look at them here.

We are spending a few hours sorting out our acoustic set for Sunday´s gig at Cafe Sør this evening and putting the finishing touches to our EP package which may very well be available at Sundays show. Bring loads of money.

Have fun

CM

Cafe Mono, Haribo and a King

Well that went well didn´t it? If you were not able to make it to Cafe Mono on Monday to watch our first gig as a mighty six piece then you will have to take our word for it. I didn´t forget my lines, Dan remembered his dance moves and Freddy, well Freddy is always spot on.

Monday saw the debut of our fantastic new bass player Sturla Hinze (pictured), who is now sitting comfortably on board the Casa Murilo bullet train. We also played our newest song, `Button Up´which seemed to go down very well with the crowd who were on top form as always. Thanks a lot to all of you.

I feel the need to give a special mention to the two very cool guys from LA that were in the crowd. I guess you are among the first Americans to catch our live show so cheers, we love you! Feel free to arrange an American tour for us, I´m free all week.....

So the next show we have is on Sunday at Cafe Sør where we are playing with Bård Watn. Its an acoustic show but we will all be there banging various drums and what have you.

See you there? Hope so.

Tada.

xx

A first listen to the new EP

Friday was the last day in the studio. It took us a little longer than we expected, but not a minute of the time we spent in the studio was wasted and, thinking back to our initial expectations of what we would get down on tape, we are very satisfied with what we came out with. To be honest, it´s a little disorienting to be finished. We spent a long time thinking about it as an organic thing that could be influenced as we went along and now it is unchangeable. Finished. Anyway, we really like it and we hope you do too.

So, we´ve put 3 tracks up on myspace for you to listen to. Click here to listen. Feel free to let us know what you think.

As usual, lots of good things are also happening right now. We´re putting together an EP package for people to buy at our concerts. We´re still not sure of whether to do a big release and get it distributed. We could do it ourselves but it would take a lot of administrative time and effort that would perhaps be better spent on developing as a band. This experience in the studio has been huge for us. We have a really exciting vision for the music we want to make and the band we want to be and, although we really like what we do now, we know that we have some serious work ahead of us. To do the work that we think the record justifies in terms of all the business end of stuff - the printing, distribution, promotion, legal stuff - might be counter productive for us at this point if we do it ourselves. Strange times. There are tons of options to get online distribution very quickly and easily, mind. We´ll sort something out I´m sure.

Big news this week is the tram gig on Saturday 19th. We´re playing on a tram with The Little Hands Of Asphalt here in Oslo from 19.00 til 21.00 ish. I know. In addition, a gig on Monday 21st September at Mono. They say it´s a big deal. Woooh! Check them out as well, they are great.

Freddy has done us an Urørt site. Check it.

In the meantime, we have a new member, Sturla, on bass. That´s a damn fine Norwegian name if I ever heard one. Remember to pronounce the u as in "WOOOHH!". That takes us to Fredrik, Rudi, Håkon and Sturla. A quite frankly preposterous selection of names.

Follow us on twitter to keep up with gig info,there´s a good girl.

Stay cool and remember to always celebrate good times. Ahthankingyooou.