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Bel Canto

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Album Releases

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Radiant Green (2024)	Dorothy's Victory (2002)	Rush (1998)
Magic Box (1996)	Shimmering, Warm & Bright (1992)	Birds of Passage (1990)
White-Out Conditions (1988)

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2 Mixed

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7

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Tromsø, Norway

Genre
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Electronic

Style
Rock/Pop

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Born

1985

Active
1985 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks

Track	Last.FM Listens	Loves
Dewy Fields	58,401	8 users
Unicorn	670,499	8 users
A Shoulder to the Wheel	70,887	7 users
Die Geschichte einer Mutter	97,143	4 users
Shimmering, Warm & Bright	71,128	4 users
Feels Like I'm Already Flying	23,443	3 users
Summer	845,190	3 users
Le Temps dégagé		1 users

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The group's first two records were licensed to Nettwerk Records Records in Canada and its second album was licensed to IRS/MCA Records. Its style has evolved over time from a gothic, ethereal dreampop sound to synth-based pop influenced by world music. The group has won the Spellemannprisen award twice, in 1992 and 1996.
During the years from 1985 to 2009, Bel Canto occasionally took breaks in order for Anneli Drecker to pursue a solo career and to perform with other bands and artists, as well as performing in films and theater plays. Nils Johansen has composed music for film and television as well as working and performing with his other band, Vajas. Despite these hiatuses, Bel Canto is still performing together, twenty four years after the band was founded.
In 2007 Bel Canto continued to work together, both by writing new material and by doing more gigs. At the same time, both Drecker and Johansen continued on other projects, Johansen with Vajas and Drecker on her solo work. Side-Line reported in March 2007 that Bel Canto would start work on a new album.
On 6 February 2009, Side-Line reported about a planned double album package called Maskindans: Norsk synth 1980-1988 was to be released on Hommage Records. This release holds 158 minutes of music, 41 tracks, of which only one song has been released on CD before. Included is also one previously unheard Bel Canto song, "Flowerbeds", dating from 1988.