Pelle Parafins Missing Link - Missing Link

A CD with 12 new high-calibre and high-karat songs, from Arne Garvang

“Pelle Parafins Bøljeband was a Norwegian new-wave band featured in several television series
made for children and young people on NRK, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, in the early
1980s, featuring the mythical character, Pelle Parafin. The band was a spin off from the radical-left
free theatre group “Tramteatret”, and the members of the band were played by actors and
musicians from this group. The series about Pelle Parafins Bøljeband were Serum Serum (1980), Pelle
Parafin og automatspøkelsene [Pelle Parafin and the slot machine ghosts] (1981) and Randi and
Ronni’s restaurant (1986). They were aired on the Saturday evening show called Halvsju (6.30). The
humorous and “politically correct” series were popular entertainment for the whole family.”

This is basically what you will find about Pelle Parafin on Wikipedia, as if nothing has happened to
Pelle Parafin before or since. KKV can now inform the world that much has happened to Pelle Parafin
beyond the reaches of Tramteatret. Things that have never been discovered by the general public,
and which link today’s Pelle Parafin to the Pelle of old. We are therefore releasing the CD “Pelle
Parafin’s Missing Link”, with 12 songs mostly written by Pelle Parafin himself, the singer, guitarist,
songwriter and author Audun Garvang.

He has put together a brand new band with Steinar Larsen (guitars and keyboards), Mads Lunde
(bass and vocals), and Cato Holmen (drums, percussion and choir), in addition to Pelle Parafin
himself, Audun Garvang on guitar and vocals.

For his newly revealed missing link Garvang has written new melodies and texts that draw pictures of
our time that both entertain and encourage us to reflect  detached from the universe of the old
band, but not without roots in the sounds of the 1970s and 1980s.

The music has a rough and fairly raw calibre, but is melodious and rhythmic, and with a good drive.
With lyrics that have deep solidarity with the old political ideals, the songs have a high-karat quality.

The record was recorded and produced by Steinar Larsen, who has much experience from the
Norwegian Radio Orchestra KORK and innumerable theatre productions, in collaboration with Arne
Garvang and Ola Johansen, the producer of the old Tramteatret.