Avalanche (band)

For the Australian band, see The Avalanches.
Avalanche
OriginNorway
GenresDisco, dance
Years active1984-2008
LabelsMetronome, Teldec
MembersKjetil Røsnes
Kirsti Johansen

Avalanche were a Norwegian disco and dance duo group founded in 1984. The group is composed of Kjetil Røsnes (born 30 March 1960) and Kirsti Johansen (born 22 September 1963). From the late 1980s and during the 1990s the couple lived and worked in Germany and France. They currently live in Aurskog-Høland, Norway[1][2] with their two children.

Kjetil Røsnes is owner of Planet Orange Production,[3] a music production company based in Aurskog.

In 1989 the duo had their biggest hit with the song "Johnny, Johnny Come Home," written one year earlier, in France, where it was the number-one single for eight weeks (sold ~700,000). It was also successful in their home country of Norway.

Kjetil Røsnes and Kirsti Johansen wrote "Santa Maria" a successful song both for Dutch singer Tatjana and singer Samantha Fox.

They later launched a side-project called K + K.

In 2007 the Blue Moon Band participated in Melodi Grand Prix (MGP) with "Goodbye to yesterday", written by Kjetil + Kirsti.[4]

A year later Avalanche were in MGP with the song "Two Monkeys (On The Roof)". The song was written in 1997 when the couple lived near Cannes, France. However, they could not be at the MGP 2008 together because Kirsti was ill. She was replaced by Camilla Alvestad[5] (formerly a member of band Reset).

Neither composition reached the MGP-finals in these two years.

Singles

  • "Heaven Tonight" (1984)[6]
  • "Wheel Of Fortune" (1986)
  • "Bird of Paradise" (1987) - with No Time To Lose on the B-side
  • "Johnny, Johnny Come Home" (1988) - #1 in France, Gold disc ; #3 in Norway[7]
  • "All blame on love" (1989) as Bluebeat[8]
  • "I Will Wait" (1989) - #43 in France
  • "Blue Train" (1990)
  • "Riding on a Storm" (1990)
  • "Love Me, Please Love Me" (1991) (cover of Michel Polnareff's song)
  • "Young Guns" (1991)
  • "When the Cowboys Come" (1992)
  • "Cosmic Philosophy" (1999) as K + K[9]

Albums

  • Avalanche (1989)
  • Westbound (1992)
  • K + K (2002) promo only, as K + K[10]

References

  1. ^ "Stem på oss, Romerike!" (in Norwegian Bokmål). rb.no. 19 January 2007. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  2. ^ "Avalanche Official Web Site". P-o-p.no. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  3. ^ "Planet Orange Production Norway". P-o-p.no. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  4. ^ "NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling". Nrk.no. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  5. ^ "NRK Nett-TV - hastighetsmåling". Nrk.no. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
  6. ^ www.discogs.com
  7. ^ "Johnny Johnny Come Home", French and Norwegian Singles Chart Lescharts.com Archived September 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine (retrieved February 17, 2008)
  8. ^ "[mp3] Avalanche (8) - All Blame On Love listen to all release completely in mp3 impossible, download release album mp3 impossible too". audiobeat.ru. Retrieved 2020-03-15.
  9. ^ "K + K - Cosmic Philosophy". Discogs (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-22.
  10. ^ "K + K - K + K". Discogs (in German). Retrieved 2019-12-22.