About The Beautybag

Singer songwriter Richard Nygaard started writing songs while studying printmaking at Oslo National academy of the arts. The Beautybag is his musical playground. He has previously released several albums and singles.

Radio play
The singles “A Public Park” and “Ain’t the One You Had in Mind” from Heavy Luggage has received much radio play, and listed on NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting). The album was album of the week on Radio Ludo and Ordentlig Radio.

The album “Heavy Luggage” was well recieved by critics. “Nygård is really spoiling us with a kind of prose that we rarely get from Norwegian songwriters. And he has put together a bunch of splendid melodies to accompany them.” (Firdaposten). “The Beautybag finds its own musical expression in an exciting hybridization between a variety of genres.” (Hamar Arbeiderblad)

Netflix-sync
In the Netflix-series Virgin River the song Ain’t the One You Had in Mind is part of the soundtrack.

Press – Hamsun Street
Tonesatte og oversatte Hamsuns «feberdikt» – samtiden.no

Det absurde ved å komponere Hamsun på engelsk – Kontekst_

Press – Heavy Luggage
Heavy Luggage – firdaposten