Cloroform is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 alternative band that formed in 1998 in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

. They started out as an acoustic jazz trio

Jazz trio

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, but soon went on to sound more like a rock band. In the later years they have experimented with noise and avant-garde

Avant-garde music

Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres....

 related genres.

Other projects

The members of Cloroform are three versatile musicians. In addition to Cloroform they have several other projects on their hands.

Børge Fjordheim has been co-producer and contributed as composer on several of Norways leading pop acts. Sivert Høyem

Sivert Høyem

Sivert Høyem is a Norwegian singer, best known as the vocalist of the rock band Madrugada. After the band broke up due to the death of Robert Burås in 2007, he has enjoyed success as a solo artist and is also a member of The Volunteers with whom he released the album Exiles in 2006.-With...

, Morten Abel

Morten Abel

Morten Abel Knutsen, , better known by his stage name Morten Abel is a Norwegian pop artist, and one of Norway's best-selling domestic artists.-Career:...

, Lene Marlin

Lene Marlin

Lene Marlin is a Norwegian musician.-Playing My Game :Marlin made her Norwegian debut on 12 October 1998, with the single "Unforgivable Sinner", which proved to be a hit as it reached number one and kept that position for eight weeks...

. He has also co-composed and produced the song "Can't Beat the Feeling" on Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

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 album Aphrodite

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 released in 2010.

Øyvind Storesund

Øyvind Storesund

Øyvind Storesund is a Norwegian bassist playing in the Norwegian bands Cloroform and Kaizers Orchestra. He is also active in the free-jazz Avant-Garde scene playing with Paal Nilssen-Love, Pauline Oliveros and Frode Gjerstad among others.-External links:***...

 is one of Norways most respected free-jazz avant-garde

Avant-garde

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 bassists, and is the bassplayer of Kaizers Orchestra

Kaizers Orchestra

Kaizers Orchestra is a Norwegian alternative rock group formed on January 1, 2000. The two leading members, vocalist Janove Ottesen and guitarist Geir Zahl, had known each other for years, and first played together in a band called Blod, Snått & Juling in 1989.Kaizers Orchestra are notable for...

.

John Erik Kaada

Kaada

John Erik Kaada is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the composer of many Norwegian films...

 has released solo-albums under the name "Kaada", and is one of Norway's most renowned composers. He has scored several international motion pictures, . Kaada

Kaada

John Erik Kaada is a Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He is the composer of many Norwegian films...

 has also released soundtrack albums and solo-albums on Mike Patton

Mike Patton

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's label, Ipecac Recordings

Ipecac Recordings

Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman and Mike Patton Ipecac Recordings is an independent record label based in California. It was founded on April 1, 1999 by Greg Werckman (ex-label manager of Alternative Tentacles,...

, and in November 2004 he released an album entitled Kaada/Patton

Kaada/Patton

Kaada/Patton is a side project for two prolific musicians, Norwegian soundtrack composer Kaada and Faith No More frontman Mike Patton. Their band draws on a joint love of film music, with Patton building on his experiences with his band Fantômas, who paid an inimitable tribute to horror film scores...

 which is a collaboration between the two artists. He runs a recording studio in Oslo called the Wrongroom.

Discography

• Deconstruction (1998)
• All-Scars (1998)
• Do The Crawl (2000)
• Scrawl (2001)
• Hey You Let's Kiss (2003)
• Cracked Wide Open
  Cracked Wide Open
  The fifth studio album from the Norwegian band Cloroform. Recorded at Athletic Studio.-Tracklist:#Public Pervert#Soupgirl#Love You More#Imaginary Girlfriend#You Talk Way Too Much#The Entertainment Industry#Eat Your Face#Crush# Lifelong Tragedy...
  
   (2005)
• Clean (2007)