Career
He has drawn notice to himself as the bandleader, singer and guitarist of the norwegian indie electronica band The Fjords, founded late in 2013. Vågan is a versatile and musically searching singer and guitarist based in Trondheim, where he got a performing masters degree in improvisation, at the Jazz Department at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium. In addition to his latest endeavours in popular music, he has at an earlier stage delved into various forms of improvisation and released several records as a leader and band member with an experimental style rooted somewhere between electronic music, freejazz, rock, freeimprov and noise, where heused prepared guitars and unorthodox methods to bring forth new sounds from the guitar.
He has toured extensively all over Scandinavia, Russia, United States of America, Japan, South Africa, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, and cooperated with many of the most exciting improvising musicians in Norway.