“…They don't know the full story," he said. "They don't have a complete sense of what motivates him, what are the biographical points of his life that have made him the person that he is today and what he wants..."

Former mastermind of the disbanded Norwegian outfit Midnight Choir, Al DeLoner releases brand new solo-album "Itchy and the girl dancing" and visits France in July.

As seen on WDR´s Rockpalast Crossroads-festival, and coming from "one of the most influencial rock outfits of the last twenty years", (ECLIPSED Magazine), Al DeLoner still knows how to attract listeners with dark, claustrophobic chamber-rock.

About Al DeLoner´s songs one could quite easily quote Tomas Kulka* and say that "...they play on basic human impulses irrespective of religious beliefs, political convictions, race or nationality".

That said, it would be almost impossible to understand the works of Al DeLoner without acknowledging the fact that, although how Americana inspired his music may be, DeLoner´s music is furthermost a result of the environment from which it stems . In his essay on Al DeLoner Texas-born singer-songwriter Terry Lee Hale writes:

"Norway is about contrasts. Shadow and light, day and night, winter and summer, the sun and moon, water and rock and the colors always green, gray and blue. Storm and wind riven and yet built and held with sinewed muscle and grip. Contained and still indomitable. Who could doubt that such a place would not shape any artist bent on standing against its melancholic silence? This and more are contained in the minor chords and reverb drenched fascinations of writer, painter, soundscapist and musician Al Deloner. For it is here, in Norway, that we find the essential truths of the man and his music and it is in those long and cold nights where we can look to find the fierce determination of DeLoner's motivations."

Both the unusual broad tempos, and the spaciousness and atmosphere have the landscape of Norway written all over it. Few others, though, have stretched the sound of loneliness and isolation to such an extent, while still operating in the field of those recognizable song structures we know today as modern pop/rock writing.

"DeLoner’s style is based on instinct as much as on an applied application of serious and self-taught technique. But his music is not about the new-age thrill word: “roots”. It IS what you would expect to be gleaned and developed in lands so distant from the centers of modern day musical “hotspots”. Filtered from American through England and always eastwards and north from the European continent, there are few places in the world so near the end of the road. But his persistence in the face of such potentially limiting weights it exactly what vitalizes and propels his music today. Yes, the first foundations are about shadow and light but it is exactly this essence which allows for an uninhibited freedom for exploration and irreverence both of which his music and voice are alive with. Country, Blues, Folk, Rockabilly, Jazz and the rest- it’s all there but mostly sounding in his songs like a faintly heard radio station picked up by a tiny, made-in-Japan transistor radio."**

Rembert Stiewe (WDR, Rockpalast) offers the following; "... his songs tell surreal stories and tend to give a deep insight into human failure, personal doubts and emotional letdowns....DeLoner is spectacular in his intensity and grandeure without offensively selling it."