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This was only supposed to be a solo project and one EP, in 2007 it turned into something you can only dream about in your wildest rock 'n' roll dreams.
K-JELL
K-JELL is the punk rock'n'roll project of Kjell Engelsen Moberg from Os in Bjørnafjorden, just south of Bergen. In 2007 came the single Struggle and Break Through / The KKK Took My Baby Away, and it all went wild, 15,000 CD singles took off and changed the solo project into a band, and the EP project into 2 singles, 4 albums, a lot of compilation albums around the world, and 3 great tours in China. Catchy punk rock'n'roll with a real nerve and good melodies: quality rock'n'roll from a band that got to do it all.
Punk rock'n'rollBergen / OsChina chapter2009–2011 trilogyOctober Party Records
Featured clip K-Jell – You Always Owe Me
Listen
K-JELL albums and singles on Spotify.
The studio albums, cover singles, and the 2013-2014 singles that later fed into Attacked By Fish, Punx, Rain & Rats.
Catalogue
2009–2016: three studio albums, one single, one red-vinyl compilation.
The studio trilogy and the 2016 vinyl finale, released on October Party Records. The 2007–2008 China CD singles, the 2013–2014 digital singles run, and the Bandcamp-uploaded covers are archived separately below.
01Album 2009
Refreshing Power
The debut full-length, recorded at Duper Studio in Bergen with Jostein Steinsland-Hauge producing. Launched first in China in March 2009 with a first pressing of around 10,000 copies, then carried by a two-and-a-half-week tour through China's central rock cities and clubs that April. Pulls in the 2007–2008 China promo singles ("Struggle and Break Through", "1-2-3 I'm Dead") and opens with a Stooges-rebuttal title in "I Don't Wanna Be Your Dog."
View release 02Album 2010
You Can't Kill Rock 'N' Roll
A title that says the job out loud: direct, stubborn, and built around a chorus that keeps pushing. The second album, released April 2010 on October Party Records, eleven tracks across roughly thirty-four minutes of fast, economical punk rock'n'roll.
View release 03Album 2011
People Like Us in a Pretty Pink World
Third album, April 2011 on October Party Records. Melodic and bruised in equal measure, pretty language up front, something harsher grinding underneath. Backed by a career-defining slot at the Beijing Midi Music Festival on 2 May 2010 and an expanded Chinese CD pressing of around 10,000 copies. Closes with the Norwegian-language anthem "Produkt Av 70 Åra".
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04Single 2014
You Always Owe Me
Stand-alone single from March 2014 with an accompanying video, fast, hook-forward, and shot with the same DIY energy as the rest of the K-JELL catalogue. Later resurfaced as Side A track 1 of the 2016 Attacked By Fish, Punx, Rain & Rats LP.
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05LP 2016
Attacked By Fish, Punx, Rain & Rats
The final K-JELL release: a limited 500-copy red-vinyl LP that compiles the 2013–2014 digital singles run, split bilingually, Side A in English (You Always Owe Me, Actually Too Old, Cardboard Box Life, Sometimes), Side B in Norwegian (Galt Et Sted, Produkt Av 70 Åra, Narvesen, Samfunnsrotter). Announced on release day by Musikk fra Norge; the one record from the K-JELL run not distributed in China.
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The early CD run, from China singles to the 2011 album.
Source document archive with the extracted pressing notes kept beside it for quick reading.
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Struggle and Break Through / The KKK Took My Baby Away
15,000 copies
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1,2,3 I'm Dead / Kiss Kiss Kiss
10,000 copies
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Refreshing Power
10,000 copies
Last track on the CD: S27. Wait and you will get more hidden tracks.
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You Can't Kill Rock 'N' Roll
7,000 copies
Last track on the CD: S26. Wait and you will get more hidden tracks.
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People Like Us In A Pretty Pink World
10,000 copies
Lineup & Press
The people on the records, and where it's been written about.
Kjell Moberg has been touring Europe since 1992 (with Punishment Park and JEF) and China since 2006. The K-JELL studio band brings together long-running Bergen / Os players, with Jostein Steinsland-Hauge producing at Duper Studio in Bergen.
Lineup & credits
Kjell Engelsen Moberg
Vocals, guitar, songs
Founder. Earlier bands include Korslutning (Os Rockeklubb, 1982), SPY, Psycho Killers and the Blockheads, Rasputinene, Sound Of Confusion, Punishment Park, JEF, and Teenage Kicks. Runs October Party Records.
Bjørn Tore "BT" Kronen Taranger
Drums
Also active in NINTH and Goldenboy. Outside the band, an elite Norwegian ultramarathon runner, Norway's first 24-hour National Champion in 2012, and the same year set the Bergen Ultra (63.3 km) course record by more than fourteen minutes.
Roar "Roaren" Ruus Finsås
Bass
Also active in Origikulene, Radiofantomene, John Holms band, Teenage Kicks, and as the solo artist Roaren.
Jostein Steinsland-Hauge
Guitar, backing vocals, producer
Producer at Duper Studio in Bergen. Also McDolly and Goldenboy. Engineered and produced the 2009–2011 album trilogy.
Trond "Tronna" Bergsvik
Additional musician
Former Punishment Park roadie and a fanatical friend of the band.
Steinar Hjelmbrekke
Guitar
Also played guitar in the studio band. Vocalist in NINTH, and has gone on to a successful career as a Norwegian visesanger (folk-singer in the Norwegian song tradition).
Press & references
- demo | K-Jell
Background piece on K-Jell's solo-project origins, lineup, China strategy, and the recording of Refreshing Power at Duper Studio.
- Slipper platen i Kina
News piece on K-Jell launching the debut album in China before anywhere else, tied to Moberg's Beijing rock-scene work and the upcoming China tour.
- Kjell melder alt vel
Travel report from the April 2009 China tour.
- Meir straff i parken
Punishment Park comeback context, relevant K-JELL background, since Kjell led that band in the 1990s.
- Brev frå Kina
Letter from China, written by Kjell during the K-Jell 2009 tour.
- Julerock på heimebane
Os Rockeklubb Christmas show coverage with K-Jell on the bill.
- Os Rock City feirar 30 år
Os Rock City 30-year anniversary lineup, K-Jell included.
- K-jell med nytt album i dag
Release-day announcement for Attacked By Fish, Punx, Rain & Rats, confirms the limited 500-copy red-vinyl pressing and the bilingual side structure.
- K-jell med ny kontrakt i Kina
2017 China relaunch / new contract after a multi-year pause around the Nobel Peace Prize period.
- Åpensindig, engasjert idealist med hjerte for punkrock, del 1
Jan-Olav Glette's two-part interview, part one walks through Moberg's path into Norwegian punk and the early bands that fed into K-Jell.
- Åpensindig, engasjert idealist med hjerte for punkrock, del 2
Part two covers the DIY work, the vinyl thinking, and several K-Jell releases including What More, Narvesen, and Attacked By Fish.
- Punishment Park med reunion - 22 år etter at dei la opp
Punishment Park reunion in 2022, context for the broader Kjell Moberg catalogue.
- Kjell Moberg debuterer med Rockedrømmen
Press release for Rockedrømmen, a personal account of four decades in the underground, with touring, releases, and a DIY ethos at the centre.
- Skulle laga eit hefte til sonen. Det enda med ei bok på over 600 sider.
Profile around the release of Rockedrømmen, Kjell's 600+ page book.
- Os Rock City 4: Rebell for alltid
Os Rock City music podcast episode with Kjell, career retrospective, Rockedrømmen, and the local rock scene.
- K-Jell, topic page
Aggregated K-Jell coverage on the Os local newspaper.
Archive
2007–2008 China CD singles, 2009–2014 standalone tracks, and 2016-side covers.
Releases that sit outside the studio trilogy: the 2007–2008 promo CDs that opened the China chapter, the 2009–2010 cover singles, and the 2013–2014 digital singles run. Several of these later resurfaced on the 2016 Attacked By Fish, Punx, Rain & Rats LP.
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Archive
Photos, posters, and source material from the K-JELL archive.
Client-supplied K-JELL material: live photos, posters, album artwork, and China-era archive pieces.
