Whole generations of musicians grew up with the music of Mezzoforte and countless radio and TV programs were backed by their subjects, from the BBC up to the weather forecast for the Russian Pacific Fleet, as the band found out recently at a festival appearance in Vladivostok in 2006 extended the three founding members Eythor Gunnarsson, Johann Asmundsson and Gulli Briem the band around the saxophonist Oskar Gudjonsson, guitarist Bruno Mueller and the trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky what the sound of the group adds a new color. This mix of band history, and creates tensions fresh blood and new energy through this countless club and festival appearances between Oslo and Tokyo, Cape Town and Moscow-knit collective.