Cato Salsa Experience was an
indie rock band from
Oslo,
Norway. The group formed around
jam session
A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp over tunes, drones, songs, and chord progressions. To "jam" is to improvise music without exte ...
s at lead singer Cato Thomassen's house.
[ Cato Salsa Experienceat Allmusic.com] The group began playing locally and released a vinyl EP before
Emperor Norton Records, an American label, signed them and released their 2002 full-length, ''A Good Tip for a Good Time''. Later in the 2000s, the group began recording albums with
The Thing.
Following the beginning of Cato Thomassen's full-time musical partnership with ex
Madrugada singer
Sivert Höyem in 2009, the band is seemingly now defunct.
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Members
*Cato (Salsa) Thomassen - vocals, guitar
*Christian Engfelt - bass
*Jon Magne Riise - drums
*Nina Bjorndalen - keyboards
Discography
*''Saso Calsa'' (
Garralda Records
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, 2000)
*''A Good Tip for a Good Time'' (
Emperor Norton
Joshua Abraham Norton (February 4, 1818January 8, 1880), known as Emperor Norton, was a resident of San Francisco, California who, in 1859, proclaimed himself "Norton I., Emperor of the United States". In 1863, after Napoleon III invaded Mexi ...
, 2002)
*''Sounds Like a Sandwich'', with
The Thing and
Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is m ...
(
Smalltown Supersound, 2005)
*''Fruit Is Still Fresh'' (
Sony Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is opera ...
, 2006)
*''No. 3'' (
Rogue Australia, 2006)
*''Two Bands and a Legend'', with
The Thing and
Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is m ...
(Smalltown Supersound, 2007)
*''Two Bands and a Legend: I See You Baby'', (EP) with
The Thing and
Joe McPhee
Joe McPhee (born November 3, 1939) is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist born in Miami, Florida, a player of tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone, the trumpet, flugelhorn and valve trombone. McPhee grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York, and is m ...
(Smalltown Supersound, 2007)
References
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