"Rhonda
[Harris] is not really a real woman but a project of Danish
singer and songwriter Nikolaj Nørlund known from
Copenhagen indie-heroes Trains & Boats & Planes
and his solo career."
Trains and Boats and Planes were a five
piece Danish band consisting of
Soma Hammarlund (vocals, cello, organ), who released
a solo album called Lucky Angel; Søren Kruse (bass);
Jens-Ole Lembcke (electric guitar, e-bow); Nikolaj Stig
Nielson (drums, percussion) and the songwriting talents
of Nikolaj Nørlund.
The songs somehow made it to the ear of
Kramer,
who would produce all three of their releases (one on
his own Shimmy
Disc label.)
After the bands demise sometime between
1993 and 1994, Nørlund teamed up with drummer Piet
Breinholm Bendtsen of 18th
Dye, and Mark Robinson of Unrest,
Air Miami, etc. to create the strange yet functional
indie supergroup Rhonda
Harris. Like Trains and Boats and Planes the songs
carried though the orifical and debaucherous focused love
songs.
In 1996, Nørlund would release
his first solo CD, Navnløs, which used
the poetry of the late Danish poet Michael
Strunge. Nørlund would go on to record a few
Danish language albums for Sony Denmark / Columbia.
In 2001, Nørlund returned to (mostly)
English songs with the release of The Trouble with Rhonda
Harris, a few new band members (less Mark Robinson) and
the addition of Lise
Westzynthius.
This album was remastered
and reissued, with additional tracks, in 1991. The reissue
was subject of MP3 week 56.
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