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Harlequins Enigma Urges Fans to Visit their New Beta Page

Harlequins Enigma Urges Fans to Visit their New Beta Page

harlequins enigma owner åge riisnes has been experiencing troubles with their bandvista page from time to time with slow widgets & widgets that wont work & similar. wix.com might prove a great alternative with up to date features.

Bergen, Norway, November 11, 2013 — harlequins enigma have a beta page up now at url: http://harlequinsenigma.wix.com/home – harlequins enigma urges fans to visit & hopefully adapt to an easier site. the site will be built further upon announces åge riisnes.

the harlequins enigma name is based upon the words expectation as in dolls, their origin, & the origin vs real people. åge once had a lighter with a girl on, showing a little of her face with a yellow rose & two identical females as guardians at each side of her. in the picture also a walking creature that looks like a walking mouse, pregnant. this is part of what harlequins enigma is about: expectation. they value hope for something better, as an eternal flame. There is also a different side of harlequins enigma which åge found as an alternative in the oxford dictionary, where harlqeuins enigma could be a demon rider. thinking of that he wonders if that might be an ancient being that might
be the boss of our universe.

fl studio has dominated åge`s musical world. he sort of treated it like protracker & it has for him a nice feel. i.e. pc keyboard instead of synth via midi, which makes him able to push the buttons without looking at the keys almost. at the same time his ear is sharp & piano roll in fl studio is like a nice game of tetris. his scales & experience got even sharper in 2009 as he went back to the amiga & composed tracks there. when he came back to fl studio again, he felt as he had become a better musician, though he`d prefer to be called a composer. he forgets easily & have become clumsy at times when he try to recall a line, so he don`t perform much. it is easier for him to do an impulse line of tetris instead composing.

åge riisnes sort of speak the language of tangerine dream & jarre & vangelis in the form of arpegiator based tracking & electronical music via the amiga. it is funny that he have made coops with all of them. he cannot explain in details, but after a psychiatry treatment in 1998, he got the impression that psychiatric hospitals are experts on the brain & that they talk much in telepathy on some sort of frequency. this became common as the years passed & when he did his comeback in 2008, he got visitors mentally/spiritually from many of the corners of our globe that led to coops with tangerine dream, jean michel jarre, klaus schulze, vangelis, kitaro, kate bush, dave weckl, chick corea, jan garbarek, atjazz & many others. thanx to them he is much better now then he would have been on his own. åge loves that the music is emotional, that sets you in a mood that can be happy, mellow, sad.. he also like the other parts of the emotions like adrenalin, though he haven`t felt adrenalin in years, he says he is like an empty bottle of fine wine that needs to be refilled. he also like the complex sides of various music genres like uptempo jazz that can
entertain you on pure professionalism.

åge`s main inspiration comes from a lot of bands & artists. when he was 15 he listened to king diamond & metallica. at age 10 ultravox, abba, kiss & joan jett were his favourites. at 27 to the 30`s he enjoyed jean michel jarre, depeche mode, garbage, saint etienne, jan garbarek, anja garbarek, briskeby, yello, enya, bertine zetlitz, royksopp, vangelis, kitaro. he found tangerine dream & klaus schulze a little later.

a video news release can be found on vimeo, youtube, tubewatcher.tv & daily motion. this video is called harlequins enigma & the taboo ghost, & discusses harlequins enigma`s current situation with sales & their partnership with tangerine dream, sade & others, all under a veil of taboo & the hated law of jante.

harlequins enigma`s 20 releases in 2013 will be continued on in 2014 with albums: td sound 2, featuring tangerine dream, klaus schulze, peter baumann & christopher franke – other non tangerine dream involved artists to appear on the album will also be: anja garbarek, katie leung & vangelis. a second album called wanderer will also see the light of day in 2014. this mixed style album will see some unreleased material & features an unreleased vangelis track from 2008 & also a track featuring lenny kravitz. there is also an ep planned with releases from discord. åge says the best track on the album “summer path” has a glitch in the bass department & will need a remaster. this to make åge
sleep at night.

There are no plans as of yet to shut down harlenia.com

harlequins enigma old homepage:
http://www.harlenia.com

harlequins enigma new homepage:
http://harlequinsenigma.wix.com/home

Press & Media Contact:
Age Riisnes
harlequins enigma
Bergen, Norway
4798152524
harlequins.enigma@yahoo.com
http://harlequinsenigma.wix.com/home

harlequins enigma Releases Time Dance (Liberty Mix), Available Shortly on Major Mp3 Stores

harlequins enigma release a new professionally remastered version of their favourite dance track from octagon volume 2 – night pulse and the silhouette of dr. voodoo.

Bergen, Norway, Wednesday – December 28, 2011 — Harlequins enigma release a new professionally remastered version of their favourite dance track from octagon volume 2 – night pulse and the silhouette of dr. voodoo. It is of course “time dance.” This version goes under the name “time dance – liberty mix.” Time dance was remastered at last drop mastering by Nathan Allen at the end of November 2011. The dance track time dance was composed by åge riisnes & his brother ståle. harlequins enigma have high hopes for the single, and hope the dance scene will give it a chance.

Åge drew inspiration from early 80s/90s+ hits in his heart & had a nice period in 2009 where many of the “skyscrapers” came to life. A romance had much to do with parts of it. In his early ophidian period, he was influenced by a vast number of artists. including amiga artists atjazz, øistein j. eide – boom jinx, jesper kyd, bjørn lynne and others. In addition, he had a nice collection of audio cd’s early in his career like Jean Michel Jarre – Chronologie, Vangelis – Blade Runner, Pink Floyd – The Wall, Limp Bizkit, Korn, P.O.D., Kate Bush, Yello, Tori Amos, Depeche Mode, Røyksopp, Kitaro, tons of the best Billboard music and classical pieces from Beethoven ( http://www.harlenia.com ), Grieg, Wagner & others. They were all part of his root elements. He also had an early heavy metal period with favourites at the time: Metallica, Motley Crue, King Diamond, Ratt, Whitesnake, Rainbow, The Clash & more, plus he grew fond of Kenji Kawai’s Ghost in the Shell soundtrack among others, as his roots were made from early 1990’s to the next millennium. Night pulse & the silhouette of dr. voodoo is based on heartbeat b.p.m. – but much of it drew juice from manga metal etc.

Harlqeuins enigma informs that this single is an interruption in their holiday from music. So it is time for them to relax for some months, that will lead them to piece of mind and to the summer of 2012, until you hear from them again musically. Their homepage will hold important messages, and all stores will be open. And they would like to greet all fans of the band, and invite everyone for a close listen to their new beauty.

Album distributor: zimbalam. time dance (liberty mix)
Estimated time of arrival: shortly/in transit.
Availability: major mp3 stores

Harlequins enigma homepage: http://www.harlenia.com

Press & Media Contact:
Age Riisnes
harlequins enigma
Bergen, Norway – 5353
011-475-633-6927
harlequins.enigma@yahoo.com
twitter: http://twitter.com/h_enigma
http://www.harlenia.com