Norway - Grab The Moment - JOWST

10 - 158 pts /5 - 189 pts in semi 2
Norway's Melodi Grand Prix 2017was won by JOWST and the song Grab The Moment.
JOWST is DJ Joakim With Steen and he is joined by Aleksander Walmann who takes care of the vocals.

Grab The Moment is written by Joakim With Steen himself and Jonas McDonell.
The song has been released as a digital single.
NRK have issued a 1-track promo cds. (NRK, no numbers)

NRK promo

Picture sampled from Soundcloud

The ten songs from this years Melodi Grand Prix were first available through Spotify and Tidal and later iTunes.
If you go here (at NRK) you'll get the listening links.
They have been released as separate singles rather than a MGP album.

Remix the moment
A remix contest for Grab The Moment is what we need. You can make a remix of the Norwegian Eurovision Tune, use all the samples you like (it's allowed you know). Grab the necessary soundfiles here at soundcloud (Click ...More and then download) and let us know how you're doing. Kill kill kill, kill kill, la la la.....
Update: Some of the mixes can be heard here at JOWSTs Soundcloud. Don't know if anyone won or anything.

JOWST made some friends in Kyiv. He remixed the Czech entry for Martina Bárta and also made a remix for Manel Navarro (Keep On Falling, not his Eurovision song)

Versions

Digital release image

Grab the moment - ESC/single version
- Kyiv 2CD, promo
Grab the moment - karaoke
- digital release

Charts:
Norway VG lista: 16, 15, 19, 27, 32, 39, -, 34, 6, 12, 22, 32
Sweden top 100: 56
Austria top 75: 73


Links and sources
Special thanks to Felix at NRK!
JOWST: Facebook, Website, Soundcloud
NRK MGP/Eurovision pages
More Norway entries are here: 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009

Czech Republic - My Turn - Martina Bárta

13 - 83 pts in semi 1
ČT, the Czech broadcaster, decided on jazz singer Martina Bárta as the Czech representative for the 2017 contest.
Her song is titled My Turn. It's written by Kyler Niko and DWB (Craig Watts, Paul Drew & Peter Barringer)
The song was revealed on March 7.
The official video is here at Eurovision.tv
Peter Barringer also co-wrote this years Polish entry.

promo

My Turn was released as a digital single on March 29. The karaoke version is also out now.
The promotional single is a 1-track cds in a large fold out sleeve (just over 7 inch) with lyrics, interview and bio's.

JOWST remix
Friendships were forged in Kyiv. Norwegian entrant JOWST made a remix of Martina's entry and it was released as a digital track on September 25 (CT/Universal)

JOWST remix Digital Release Image

Who is Martina Bárta?

Digital release image

Martina Bárta is an award winning Jazz singer and musician (she plays the French Horn) known from her work with the Felix Slováček Big Band and the Sinatrology project, celebrating the music of Frank Sinatra.

She also performs with her sister Kristina, who is a successful jazz pianist and composer.

Martina played the leading female role of Maid Marion in the musical Robin Hood by Ondřej Soukup and Gábina Osvaldová in Prague's Divadlo Kalich Threatre.

She won her spot in the musical through the casting show Robin Hood - Cesta ke slávě (Robin Hood - The Path to Fame)

Her star contined rising with the Scotch and Soda project in Germany where she interpreted Jazz classics with Martin Gartschock.

Karaoke DRI

Versions
My turn - single/ESC version
- Kyiv 2CD
My Turn (JOWST remix)
- digital release
My turn - karaoke
- digital releases

Links and sources

Martina Bárta: Website,  Facebook

Thanks to Martin at Ceska Televize
Czech out these Eurovision jewels: 2016 - 2015 - 2011

Gabriela Gunčíková (2016) is a national hero, she was the first singer to qualify for the Czech Republic. In the end she only finished 25th, but small steps will see the Czechs in the top 10 anytime soon, sadly it wasn't Martina's Turn.